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- New season: Sheringham Little Theatre - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
New season: Sheringham Little TheatreNorfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK - 2 hours agoPoetry and jazz join forces at the Hub on October 26 when acclaimed poet and playwright Jehane Markham reads from her collections, plus a new work ...
- Music: Silver Jews' latest album mostly loses its way (Chicago Tribune)
Silver Jews, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" (Drag City)
- Cruise Is 'Mentally Ill,' Pinsky's a 'Nazi' - ABC News Blogs
You mess with Top Gun, you get called a Nazi. Then, apparently, you apologize. Late Thursday, Dr. Drew Pinsky apologized to Tom Cruise for insinuating he's mentally ill, but refused to let the star's lawyer, who compared him to the Nazis, have the ...
- A festival month to remember - The Argus.co.uk
A festival month to rememberThe Argus.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe following day brought an extraordinary journey through lesser-known poetry and song from the First World War with Andrew and Kate Kennedy and Julius ...
- First Fridays on Fourth of July - AZ Central.com
AZ Central.comFirst Fridays on Fourth of JulyAZ Central.com, AZ - 2 hours agoIt's a mix of sing-song poetry and surreal imagery that tells the story of a middle-age woodworker's existential angst. First line: "Henry thinks crows are ...
- Start your beach reading at York Public Library (The York Weekly)
A character in Philip Roth's novel "Goodbye, Columbus" describes his cousin, the ultimate summer reader: "Doris? She's the one who's always reading 'War and Peace.' That's how I know it's summer, when Doris is reading 'War and Peace.'"
- A Van Cliburn anniversary: From musician to folk hero - Star-ecentral.com
If cultural gods tell us more about us than about themselves, Van Cliburn holds a particularly warped and smoky mirror up to the classical-music world he intermittently dominated over the last half-century - one that shows much about the strange ...
- Brosnan dreams of Springsteen musical - Irish World News
Irish Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has revealed he would love to take the lead role in a musical about Bruce Springsteen. By Madeline O'Connor - 04/07/08 Brosnan must have got a taste for the genre after his first on-screen singing role in the Abba ...
- Honor America Days events (Rome Sentinel)
• Boonville-Oneida County Fair. • Shop Rome First celebrates the 25th Honor America Days with special sales throughout Rome. Visit www.ShopRomeFirst.com or call 337-1700.
- Book signings (San Diego Union-Tribune)
KIP FULBECK – “Permanence: Tattoo Portraits,†7 p.m. Tuesday, The Book Works, 2670 Via De La Valle, Del Mar. OPEN MIKE POETRY READING – 7 p.m. Tuesday, Rebecca's Coffeehouse, 3015 Juniper St., South Park.
- Freund illuminates ‘three narrative flows in physics’ - University of Chicago Chronicle
Peter Freund, Professor Emeritus in Physics, packed his book, A Passion for Discovery, with stories about important 20th-century physicists and mathematicians, including a story he liked to share in class about Emmy Noether. Noether rose to ...
- Fuel House is a fine addition to the Avenue - Daily Journal
When I first moved back to Vineland, I said to myself, there is nothing here for people my age -- no activities that don't require drinking, no dance clubs, nothing. Millville had its 3rd Fridays, and I started to go. It was nice, relaxing and ...
- I'm forswunk of Burns' dewy-eyed doggerel, says Paxman - Times Online
Times OnlineI'm forswunk of Burns' dewy-eyed doggerel, says PaxmanTimes Online, UK - 10 hours agoand that within his poetry were contradictions as rich as humanity itself: “What an antithetical mind!†he wrote. “Tenderness, roughness - delicacy ...
- Can't get enough of the Madison Slam Team and spoken word? - Wisconsin State Journal
Last week, 77 teams of poets from all over the country took over Madison for the National Poetry Slam competition and conference. Our own Madison team came in at #35 in that line-up (see the full results here ). That might not sound like such a great ...
- Ta-Nehisi Coates writes of father Paul in 'Beautiful Struggle' - Los Angeles Times
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes of father Paul in 'Beautiful Struggle'Los Angeles Times, CA - 57 minutes ago... it gave him a chance to reach back into his wide store of influence, from the writings of the Black Arts Movement, to the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa. ...
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