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- Kylie, SECC, Glasgow Black Kids, Concorde 2, Brighton (Independent)
People ask the silliest questions. For example, why is a grown man of 40 wasting his intellect writing about something as trivial as pop music? The answer I always give is that pop is the highest of the arts, because it encompasses all the others.
- Church has heart for art (The Greenville News)
When he was growing up on a farm in the African nation of Namibia, Johann Vanderbijl felt that he was a misfit.
- Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport Team Up with ... - Yahoo Finance
Six top-ranked OurStage bands selected to play BOSTON, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- OurStage ( http://www.OurStage.com ), a music discovery destination providing professional opportunities for up-and-coming talent, has partnered with Festival Network's ...
- Poets find new venue for verse - Daily News Tribune
Poets find new venue for verseDaily News Tribune, MA - 2 hours ago“We are actually hoping to make it our permanent venue,” said Bob Gill, co-organizer of The Poets’ Asylum, which has sponsored poetry readings and other ...
- Death of 'a humble man' - Gil Prewett - Chichester Today
Death of 'a humble man' - Gil PrewettChichester Today, UK - Jul 14, 2008He was an accomplished pianist, and his wife also helped instil in him a passion for poetry, art and drama, which became more central to his life as time ...
- Authors get rock-star treatment at Brazil festival (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
By Stuart Grudgings
- 'Vintage Black Cinema' Movie Poster Stamps Highlight African ... - MarketWatch
'Vintage Black Cinema' Movie Poster Stamps Highlight African ...MarketWatch - 4 hours agoAt the turn of the 20th century, he was one of the most widely read American poets and one of the first popular African-American writers. ...
- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare - Reuters UK
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare. Meirelles this ...
- Parallel Lives - Weekly Standard
Born a little over 150 years apart, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) both had the experience, on the threshold of adulthood--he was 20, she 22--of fleeing the culture they'd grown up in and entering another. For both, it ...
- Gov. Willie Blount - Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
Gov. Willie BlountClarksville Leaf Chronicle, TN - 1 hour agoHe won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and two for poetry, and was the first person called America's "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry" in 1986. ...
- Rhythm of language - The National
Rhythm of languageThe National, United Arab Emirates - 2 hours agoThe results can reference Quranic verses, secular poetry or more simply, clusters of random letters into pictorial forms that thunder across the surfaces of ...
- Palestinians mourn poet who gave them identity - The Herald
Palestinians mourn poet who gave them identityThe Herald, UK - Aug 10, 2008His poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages and he won numerous international awards. The Palestinian National Theatre is staging an ...
- UT grad's poem lands in a top magazine (The Toledo Blade)
Marcus Jackson couldn't wait to get his hands on last month's controversial issue of the New Yorker, the one whose cover caricature of Barack and Michelle Obama set the political world abuzz. It wasn't the cover that interested the Toledo native, though; it was a piece of poetry - his poetry. Tucked within the distinguished magazine's pages in its July 21 edition was a narrow sliver of verse ...
- UA Democratic delegates return fired up - Arizona Daily Wildcat
UA Democratic delegates return fired upArizona Daily Wildcat, AZ - 8 hours ago"(The best moment) was really the poetry and maneuvering on Wednesday," Campas said. "Normally the nominee's home state nominates them … and when the voting ...
- Author Spotlight: David Tilley of Fairport - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Author Spotlight: David Tilley of FairportRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 5 hours ago... rather than dueling poems. What I'm reading: If you like poetry and don't know about Jacket Magazine, an online poetry magazine (www.jacketmagazine.com) ...
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