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- World's a stage at Hilton Festival - Tonight South Africa
When a play produces such emotion that it metaphorically kicks you in the gut, it's a pretty obvious sign the writer and performers have perfectly pinned the subject matter to the wall. With this in mind, one of the obvious picks of this year's ...
- Drowning death is second for family (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIA - Samantha Dillon is living through a mother's worst nightmare - for the second time. Her 18-year-old son, Jared Healea, drowned Thursday in Stephens Lake. "I've done this before," she said Friday at her home on Jefferson Street where family had gathered. Eleven years ago, she lost her 4-year-old son, Stephen, when he and his cousin Fred Gordon fell in Bear Creek and drowned ...
- Ronnie Drew: Lead singer of the Dubliners - The Independent
With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the Dubliners, whose charismatic stage presence and ...
- New Arab poetry award in memory of Palestine's Darwish (New Kerala)
Dubai, Aug 15 : A new Arabic poetry competition has been launched in the memory of departed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
- "The Lucky Ones": When soldiers return home (Seattle Times)
"The Lucky Ones": This attempt to create an Iraq-war home-front classic like "The Best Years of Our Lives" has its moments, but the story line about three returning veterans (played by Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Michael Peña) is predictable.
- Is e-literature just one big anti-climax? - guardian.co.uk
Is e-literature just one big anti-climax?guardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoGenerative poetry simply adds a technological twist to Tzara's hat trick, the surrealists' automatic writing or Burroughs' cut-ups. ...
- Local musician releases CD with concert on Thursday - Summit Daily News
Jeremy Dion will release his new CD with a concert on Thursday at the Silverthorne Pavilion. Special to the Daily SUMMIT COUNTY — Local singer and songwriter Jeremy Dion said he grew up singing and playing the piano, but it wasn’t until he picked ...
- Celebrating a heritage of the arts - Desert Valley Times
Celebrating a heritage of the artsDesert Valley Times, UT - 17 hours agoFor example if you're looking for something to do on Oct. 3 you can take in a piano recital, a poetry and fiction reading, a "Dancing at Lughnasa" ...
- Bulletin Board: A listing of Broward County events - Sun-Sentinel.com
Bulletin Board: A listing of Broward County eventsSun-Sentinel.com, FL - 2 hours agoFree. Call 954-467-4856. Memory, Poetry and Prose Writing Class, 10:30 am-noon at the Northeast Focal Point Senior Center, 227 NW Second St., ...
- Oregon Authors Speak on Central Coast - Beach Connection
Beach ConnectionOregon Authors Speak on Central CoastBeach Connection, OR - 2 hours agoThe Nye Beach Writers' Series showcases authors of diverse writing genres including fiction, nonfiction, plays, lyrics, Oregon history, memoir, poetry, ...
- How To Generate 3000 Angry "Contributors" - mediabistro.com
How To Generate 3000 Angry "Contributors"mediabistro.com, NY - 6 hours agoThe website for godot recently released a 3785-page pdf "book" that contained thousands of pages of apparently computer-generated poetry, ...
- Local poets win awards - Asheville Citizen-Times
Local poets win awardsAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 15 hours ago... High School in Asheville, won the first-place Sherry Pruitt Award in the 2008 student contests at a recent meeting of the North Carolina Poetry Society. ...
- Laureate post is 'quite a ride' - BBC News
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has said reports he had writers block because of "bad communication" with the Queen were "patently ridiculous". Motion told the BBC that comments he made at a London arts festival earlier this week had been crudely ...
- Rose Theatre adds cafe - Kingston Guardian
The Rose Theatre looks set to become a cultural hub of free events and activities with the launch of its Culture Café. The theatre has been busy revamping the café space with comfy chairs and an extended fair trade menu and the idea is to provide a ...
- History vs. Nature - The Weekly Standard
History vs. NatureThe Weekly Standard - 38 minutes agoSpanning the decades from Victorian to modern, his poems took on every question: love, sexuality, transience, age, death, local place and legend, ...
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