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- August Kleinzahler's ugly gifts - Times Online
The monstrous “Semitrailers strain[ing] their axles” as they “take the long curve / Over warehouses and lofts” to pour their guts into Manhattan, clog “the city’s shimmering membrane” with “tons of dead lamb / Bone and flesh and offal ...
- Music of Remembrance: Remembering creators of beauty in times of ... - Seattle Times
Music of Remembrance: Remembering creators of beauty in times of ...Seattle Times, United States - 6 hours agoDavid Stock's new arrangement of an Israeli song by Chava Alberstein, "Mayn Shvester Chaya" (a world premiere) began where the poetry of the first half left ...Remembrance season ends on a superb note Seattle Post Intelligencerall 2 news articles
- Cumming dares, bares in lively "Bacchae" revamp (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
He is a rock star, an exhibitionist and a vengeful god. He is Dionysus as played by stage and film star Alan Cumming in a vibrant production of Euripides' "The Bacchae," courtesy of the National Theatre of Scotland.
- Critics' picks - classical music - Boston Globe
On its own downtownish terms, this edgy amplified string quartet has carved out a similar niche to the one once dominated by Kronos. For its keenly anticipated Boston debut, presented by Celebrity Series of Boston, Ethel will play music by Don Byron ...
- Longest-living Gold Star wife helps remember fallen (El Paso Times)
When the young doctor at Beaumont Army Medical Center asked 106-year-old Celina Balquin if she had made funeral arrangements, she told him she planned to outlive him.
- Juneteenth Planning Committee prepares for Big Event - Birmingham Times
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Staff and sponsors for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s (BCRI) 13th Annual Juneteenth Celebration are hard at work planning for a successful event. On Saturday, June 7, the Institute will host its free daylong street ...
- Charles Moskos, 74 Passed Away - Greek News
Charles Moskos, 74 Passed AwayGreek News, New York - 18 hours agoThat sentence is a kind of poetry, evoking whole aspects of his life in a few words. ‘Formerly of Evanston’ recalls his four decades as a popular and ...
- Food, rides and games all part of Raisin Festival (Selma Enterprise)
For five days, Lincoln Park was filled with colorful rides both big and small, the sound of children laughing, and the smell of delicious food wafting through the air as Selma hosted the 29th annual Raisin Festival.
- DVD: If you didn't like 'Friends,' maybe you'll like 'Spaced' - Cleveland Plain Dealer
It's easy to get lost in "Spaced." The addictive British sitcom invades these shores Tuesday on DVD, offering welcome relief from the usual cookie-cutter TV comedy. Quick-witted co-creators Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson) star as ...
- Nirvana at the Newberry Book Fair - Chicago Tribune
The best way to spend a summer day? Glad you asked: Let us suggest the 24th annual Newberry Book Fair, held within the blessedly air-conditioned confines of one of the most austerely beautiful buildings in Chicago, the Newberry Library at 60 W ...
- White Mountains Roundup show shines with talent - WMI Central
Dave Stamey of Nipomo, Calif., is the headliner at the 2008 White Mountains Roundup. He is one of the most popular cowboy entertainers in the country with a large repertoire of classic and original music. He’ll be singing his songs during “Chris ...
- 'Breath' by Tim Winton - Los Angeles Times
'Breath' by Tim WintonLos Angeles Times, CA - 47 minutes agoIt achieves that essential quality of a short novel: Its poetry becomes its imperative, its motivating and most risky venture. "Breath" is a coming-of-age ...
- El-P: "When I run out of my magic pills, I’ll lose my sh*t" - Drowned In Sound
El-P is sat beside the Grand Union Canal in Camden; in a couple of hours he will send a packed Dingwalls into ripples of rapturous hands-aloft ecstasy, delivering a set so powerful that even stay-away rap haters would, had they taken the chance ...
- Robert Fisk: Horrors we have no choice but to forget (Independent)
I have a clear memory of a terrible crime that was committed in southern Lebanon in 1978. Israeli soldiers, landing at night on the beach near Sarafand – the city of Sarepta in antiquity – were looking for "terrorists" and opened fire on a car load of female Palestinian refugees.
- Celebrating creativity: Skyview students share their love of writing - Billings Gazette
A handful of Skyview High students worked diligently this semester to compile the literary works of their fellow students into the annual literary magazine. The work is tedious. Each student had to read and decide, based on a set of guidelines, if ...
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