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- Rochester, Brighton students grasp power of words - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester, Brighton students grasp power of wordsRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 55 minutes agoThe winners in each poetry and prose divisions receives $200; second and third place winners receive $100 and $75, respectively. ...
- Leaping Puffballs, Floating Demons and Lots of Gyrating Whatsits (New York Times)
?Passion,? a 75-minute show presented by Momix, strikes me as sensationalist trash so brightly harmless that I wish I could fall in line with those who enjoy it as sheer sensation.
- EDUCATION: Upson students win essay contest (Lockport Union-Sun & Journal)
Sometimes kids will say “when I grow up...” followed by what they want to be or what they want to do when they’re an adult.Charles Upson Elementary students in Lockport had to put those thoughts into writing for the annual essay contest of the Orleans/Niagara Teacher Resource and Computer Training Center.
- B-52s refuel, get back in action with Lauper tour - Tacoma News Tribune
The rejuvenated B-52s – Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson – are still dancing this mess around 30 years after their deliriously wacko hit “Rock Lobster” shook up common notions of what rock ’n’ roll should ...
- No, it's apparently not That '70s Show with wife-swapping thrown in - Globe and Mail
NEW YORK -- Relax, everybody. Despite its racy come-on, the new CBS drama Swingtown isn't pushing recreational drugs and mate swapping, any more than it endorses smoking on airplanes or drinking Harvey Wallbangers, which are also part of the 1970s ...
- Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi Wins a Peabody Award! - Payvand
PayvandSpeaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi Wins a Peabody Award!Payvand, Iran - 1 hour agoShe is author of four previous books, including Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal Al-Din Rumi and a volume of poetry. ...
- Astros bring out veteran for Spanish TV (w/ video) (Houston Chronicle)
Fifty years after he broke into the big leagues as one of Major League Baseball's first Spanish-language radio announcers, Rene Cardenas makes his U.S. television play-by-play debut today with the Astros.
- Milpitas students, parent noted by black educators - Milpitas Post
Several Milpitas students were honored at the 19th annual Spring Recognition Ceremony of the Santa Clara County Alliance of Black Educators on April 27. Kianna Ezel, Good Xavier, Darrien Hamberry, Tanika Hampton and Shanika Hampton, all from Thomas ...
- Falling Into A Musical Wonderland - Washington Post
David Del Tredici's groundbreaking 1976 work "Final Alice" will be performed at the Kennedy Center tonight through Saturday. (By Paula Court) It was the most outrageous thing the music establishment could have imagined. Here was Sir Georg Solti ...
- Vandals Prepare To Face The Road Less Traveled By - MSNBC
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost’s former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using “The ...
- COMMUNITY ARTS EVENTS FOR JULY-SEPTEMBER - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
COMMUNITY ARTS EVENTS FOR JULY-SEPTEMBERKalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com, MI - 5 hours agoWriting Workshop for Teens -- Creative writing and poetry workshops led by local writers, 1-4 pm July 7, 14 and 21, Kalamazoo Public Library, ...
- Boston Globe: 'Raisin in the Sun' adaptation translates well on screen (San Jose Mercury News)
This adaptation of the knockout 2004 stage revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" (originally shown on ABC) is a model of how the screen can bring us up close to great stage acting without deadening it. Browse our event listings Movie listings | Movie theaters
- Guest column: Inspirational lives of two poets - News-Enterprise
Kathleen Driskell is often kidded as being the “death poet” around Spalding University’s English department. Driskell says, however, that she agrees with Wallace Stevens in his poem “Sunday Morning” when he expresses the sentiment that ...
- New Translation of Hafiz Reveals the Mysticism of Poet Called "The ... - PR-USA.net (press release)
New Translation of Hafiz Reveals the Mysticism of Poet Called "The ...PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - 1 hour agoShaida, a native Urdu speaker, discovered an interest in Persian poetry after retirement from a long and successful medical career. ...
- Friday Books Miscellany - Walrus Magazine
Walrus MagazineFriday Books MiscellanyWalrus Magazine, Canada - 1 hour agoYears ago, John was a professor of mine at the University of Toronto for a course called Poetry and Prose 1500-1600. It was one of the best classes I’ve ...
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