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- Hollins gets $5 million creative writing gift - roanoke.com (Roanoke Times)
The donation from alumna Susan Gager Jackson and her husband will nurture the university's program in a variety of ways. Hollins University will receive a $5 million gift to establish what will be known as the Jackson Center for Creative Writing. The university announced Monday that alumna Susan Gager Jackson and her husband, John Jackson, have pledged the $5 million to create the center.
- A Melodramatic Two-Step: Oceano's Great American Melodrama ... - RedOrbit
A Melodramatic Two-Step: Oceano's Great American Melodrama ...RedOrbit, TX - 3 hours ago"It still has a lot of wit and poetry to it," the artistic director said. Suzy King plays the sweet nursemaid, Luca. The cast also features Hayley Galbraith ...
- Attorney's rape case makes steamy fiction - Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Attorney's rape case makes steamy fictionLancaster Eagle Gazette, OH - 7 hours agoShe said she's had professional articles published and won poetry contests. But she had never taken on a 506-page novel. "It was difficult," Michalski said. ...
- Morgentaler award renews abortion debate - StarPhoenix
Morgentaler award renews abortion debateStarPhoenix, Canada - 5 hours agoHe then turned to his "self-published" poetry. In The Goddess of the Golden Breast, he writes: "A suckling baby am I/Nursing at the golden breast . ...
- Pierce Brosnan's Springsteen ambition - Monsters and Critics
Pierce Brosnan wants to star in a musical about Bruce Springsteen. The 55-year-old actor - who debuts his vocal talents in the ABBA-inspired musical 'Mamma Mia!' - has got the taste for singing on screen, and is keen to take on the challenge of ...
- Solar sculpture plays with the light (CBC)
A new sculpture soon to be unveiled in Cambridge, Ont., draws its energy from the sun, but emits a light pattern each evening based on public input.
- Theatre review - Beetle Graduation, Brink Productions - Adelaide Independent Weekly
Theatre review - Beetle Graduation, Brink ProductionsAdelaide Independent Weekly, Australia - 2 hours agoCantwell and Johnson both give strong performances, working with challenging material: writer Susan Rogers’s words often feel more like poetry than ...
- PM's Speech To Montana NZ Book Awards (Scoop.co.nz)
Many thanks for the invitation once again to speak at this ceremony, and to present the top awards. Tonight we celebrate our writers – across genre – for the contribution they make to our literature and to our understanding of our nation and our world.
- Government has no strategy for confronting homegrown Islamic - OhMyGov!
Government has no strategy for confronting homegrown IslamicOhMyGov!, DC - 4 hours ago... white papers, poetry and more. Content is then funneled to a clearinghouse before it is approved and posted on thousands of web sites on a daily basis. ...
- On 'Viva La Vida,' Coldplay's new sound leaves listeners adrift - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools Every time the heart-sleeved Brits in Coldplay release a new album of earnestly overwrought anthems, chief 'Play boy Chris Martin swears they've changed their sound. He thinks he's telling the truth. He's not. Detractors dig at Martin ...
- Event: Cultural function to raise funds for Samudra Gupta - The New Nation
Event: Cultural function to raise funds for Samudra GuptaThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 1 hour agoMusic and poetry recitation was included in the programme jointly organised by Scholars Publishers and Sangbrita. Poet Nirmalendu Goon and Asaduzzaman Noor ...
- Project Digitizes Works From the Golden Age of Timbuktu (New York Times)
A lode of books and manuscripts from Timbuktu is being digitized for the Internet and distributed to scholars worldwide.
- Too Soon for Iraq Dramas? - Gawker
Why isn’t George Packer ’s terrific little play Betrayed — about the three pro-American Iraqis who don’t quite get what they need from America – not doing better? (It opened in February at the Culture Project in Soho, extended its run for a ...
- Nas' still has attitude on new CD - Arizona Daily Star
Don't be fooled by "Queens Get The Money," the bracing opener of Nas' now-untitled ninth solo album: It sounds like nothing else on the CD. The Jay Electronica-produced cut — built on a few simple piano twinkles and no drum track — is by far the ...
- Read all posts by Caroline McCarthy in The Social - CNET News
NEW YORK--It's time to stop waxing philosophical about how this thing called "new media" is shaping American elections and time to focus on the real tech issues, like broadband policy. We talked about bloggers in 2004, we talked about YouTube in 2006 ...
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