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- Sahara gets set for 'Raw Talent' (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The new owners of the Sahara hotel-casino are close to announcing a new show set to open in August. "Raw Talent Live" is being described as a high-energy dance show built around high-tech video illusions.
- Joan Osborne Feeling Poetic on New Album - antiMUSIC.com
Joan Osborne Feeling Poetic on New AlbumantiMUSIC.com, CA - 26 minutes ago"This idea comes up in Walt Whitman's and Alan Ginsberg's poetry, the concept that the shared bond of humanity of all the citizens, all their interactions, ...
- Connellsville author is showcased at law library - Connellsville Daily Courier
Connellsville author is showcased at law libraryConnellsville Daily Courier, PA - 49 minutes agoShe also has written mystery novels, numerous short stories and touched on poetry. O'Hanlon-Lincoln is winner of an Editor's Choice Award for her poetry. ...
- 'William Cullen Bryant: Author of America' - Wall Street Journal
Relieved of mundane responsibilities at the Evening Post, free now to focus only on lead editorials, Bryant returned to the familiar routines of city life. He informed his brother Cyrus in February, "We are all now in town. I have bought a house for ...
- My Fair Lady will open at QPAC's Lyric Theatre - News.com.au
LERNER and Loewe's masterpiece My Fair Lady , the story of Eliza Doolittle's transformation from street urchin to lady, has a glorious new staging by Opera Australia. It's an irresistible theme, littered everywhere in our pop culture. Australian ...
- Moving Into Dance turns 30 - Joburg
Moving Into Dance turns 30Joburg, South Africa - 2 hours agoIt deals with gender relationships, culture and identity in South African society through poetry and dance. Threads will be the main performance of the ...
- Local students, staff compete in National Poetry Slam Festival - University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications
Local students, staff compete in National Poetry Slam FestivalUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications, WI - 8 hours ago3-9 for National Poetry Slam 2008. The poet-performers are members of some 75 teams that will compete at several downtown venues for a chance to advance to ...
- Science fiction's Thomas Disch ends his life - Gay.com
Science fiction's Thomas Disch ends his lifeGay.com, CA - Jul 7, 2008Following the 2004 death of his partner, poet Charles Naylor, Disch reportedly began suffering from depression. (The Advocate)
- Days full of light and wonders - Mail Tribune
Days full of light and wondersMail Tribune, OR - 4 hours agoMark, of Trails End Horse Adventures (he of no Web site, heck, no indoor toilet), entertained us with his dilapidated pickup truck, his poetry and songs, ...
- Petty provides the power, nature adds to the flash (The Buffalo News)
Being original is overrated. Just ask Tom Petty. For the past 30 years, he's been making music that has the earthy swagger of the Stones, the shimmering jangle of the Byrds, the bluesy poetry of Dylan and the palpable energy of Springsteen. From his self-titled debut in 1976 to 2006's understated, bittersweet “Highway Companion,” Petty has worn his influences proudly and prominently -- so much ...
- Book Review - Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by Herb Boyd (Blogcritics.org)
Boyd pulls at the Baldwin self-doubt scab -- born black, gay, poor and ugly, not the most auspicious start in life. James Baldwin fascinates and is fascinated with Harlem. The confluence of writer and city meet in Baldwin novels, but not in the majority of them, as most readers might expect. That is the subject of the new book by Herb Boyd. The author knows Baldwin, knows Harlem and knows ...
- The art of creating a Champagne moment - Birmingham Post
The art of creating a Champagne momentBirmingham Post, UK - 7 hours agoAfter a blissful morning tasting Champagne, humdrum narrative discourse is redundant. Poetry, dear boy is the only thing that makes sense.
- New faces, energy at Mills Lawn - Yellow Springs News
Yellow Springs NewsNew faces, energy at Mills LawnYellow Springs News, OH - 31 minutes agoFor his summer vacation, Mays enrolled in a two-week intensive graduate class in writing and teaching poetry. “I don’t think I’m much of a poet,” he laughed ...
- ART CALENDAR - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
ART CALENDARThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 5 hours ago12 opening event Poetry Storm, will feature local poets and an open reading beginning at 7:30 pm and feature the poetic side of political satirist and comic ...
- The many peaks of mountains in literature - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe many peaks of mountains in literatureguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours agoBut I'm personally more interested in books inspired by (rather than about hanging off) mountains, whether it is the poetry of Chinese masters like Li Bai ...
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