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- On Balance, 'Man on Wire' Reflects a Gentler Time (Washington Post)
The documentary "Man on Wire" opens with a grainy black-and-white reenactment of events that transpired in August 1974, when French high-wire artist Philippe Petit and a group of friends infiltrated the newly built World Trade Center, armed with hundreds of pounds of equipment, a harebrained sche...
- A fun look at 'The Arroyo Seco' - Pasadena Star-News
A fun look at 'The Arroyo Seco'Pasadena Star-News, CA - 4 hours agoInside is a collection of poetry, encompassing prayers, thoughts and reflections, about the people who were affected by the terrorist attacks on Sept. ...
- When Experience and Disaster Collide - New York Times Blogs
Iowans have taken to calling this week’s devastating flooding “ our Katrina .†Katrina does come to mind when you look at these photos of Cedar Rapids engulfed by the Cedar River . But Iowa is lucky to have been spared a Katrina-sized death ...
- Between the lines: Books herald Beijing Olympics (The Sacramento Bee)
The Games of the XXIX Olympiad will be held Aug. 8-24 in the People's Republic of China. It follows that a glut of China-related books will precede the Summer Olympics, including this sampling:
- Orange Winner Dies, Still Engrossed in Her Books, at 68 - Buzzle
Orange Winner Dies, Still Engrossed in Her Books, at 68Buzzle, CA - 1 hour agoShe wrote poetry, literary criticism and biography, but found her medium when her first novel, Small Ceremonies, was published in 1976. ...
- Rajiv Vijayakar Posted online: Friday , July 25, 2008 at 1233 hrs - Screen Weekly
Rajiv Vijayakar Posted online: Friday , July 25, 2008 at 1233 hrsScreen Weekly, India - 20 minutes agoIn all that frenzy there should be space and situation for poetry with the right words, for 99 per cent of songs that endure do so because of words and a ...
- Thousands at Tamil rally - Surrey Comet
The Roehampton Vale sports ground was awash with colour as more than 20,000 Tamils from all over the capital gathered for the Pongku Thamizh rally. The rally was organised to urge the Sri Lankan government to recognise the Tamil people's call for ...
- Will we celebrate a Paxman night in even 50 years? - The Herald
Will we celebrate a Paxman night in even 50 years?The Herald, UK - 2 hours agoIt is my experience that people passing judgment on Robert Burns's poetry, in the manner that Jeremy Paxman has done, do so from ignorance or prejudice. ...
- Poet Charles Bukowski gives a lesson how to write "in the zone" - The Free Lance-Star
The Free Lance-StarPoet Charles Bukowski gives a lesson how to write "in the zone"The Free Lance-Star, VA - 3 hours agoBut the poetry comes out of this life authentically--he may have been a dirty old man, but he was a complete, harmonized, real, dirty old man. ...
- James Lee Burke's New Orleans - Daily Telegraph
Author James Lee Burke talks about the lasting damage of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. ; http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1494875123/bctid1736991231 http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1139053637 In the thickening dusk I ...
- 'Pity' skewers conventional assumptions - San Jose Mercury News
'Pity' skewers conventional assumptionsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 26 minutes agoThe last time American Conservatory Theater plunged into the dark heart of Jacobean tragedy was Robert Woodruff's infamously graphic 1993 production of "The ...
- Coming soon: Ninoy the brand - ABS CBN News
ABS CBN NewsComing soon: Ninoy the brandABS CBN News, Philippines - 16 minutes agoHad he been born in medieval times, Ninoy’s remarkable life and tragic death would have been immortalized in song and poetry and passed on from one ...
- Backstreet Shuffle (MetroActive)
IN 1980, San Jose carved itself up into what's often lambasted as the "mini-mayor system," a fragmented balkanization of 10 jagged, haphazard regions represented by 10 councilmembers with their own individual fiefdoms.
- Poetry invites introspection (The Leader Times)
The American writer William Carlos Williams wrote in his poem "Asphodel, that Greeny Flower": "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
- Teacher inspired to write about unsung heroes - Anderson Independent-Mail
Elementary school teachers can have profound effects on your life. Especially the good ones. Take Mrs. Montez Jolly, who was my fourth-grade teacher at Underwood Hills Elementary School in Atlanta. Mrs. Jolly was not fat and jolly, but tall and ...
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