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- Cultural Life: Ben Whishaw, Actor (Independent)
Books At the moment I'm not managing to read much more than Dostoyevsky's The Idiot because I'm working on a multimedia adaptation of it on stage at the National Theatre. I first read it when I was 18 or 19. I couldn't have understood much of it but it stirred my imagination.
- Second Saturday: Neglect drives hard lesson home (The Burlington Free Press)
Columnist calls on TechAngel in hour of need
- Auto-erotica topic of film (Nanaimo Daily News)
A documentary airing on Britain's Channel Five features the literal love affair between two men and their cars. My Car is My Lover: Strangelove looks at two American "mechaphiles" who have "physical" relationships with their vehicles.
- With changes, there's a new lease on Glass' 'Life' (Baltimore Sun)
On radio, This American Life is a treasure - a brilliantly conceived form of quirky, true-life storytelling that has spawned a host of imitators and stands with the finest work the medium has delivered.
- Critics' best bets for Saturday - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis African Arts Festival. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday at the World’s Fair Pavilion in Forest Park. Free. 314-935-9676 or www.STLAfricanArtsFest.org . A marketplace, culinary ...
- No tragic end to drama section but I fear my number's up today - Irish Independent
No tragic end to drama section but I fear my number's up todayIrish Independent, Ireland - 21 minutes agoPart B, the prescribed poetry, was the highlight of the exam. Choosing Derek Mahon, my pen almost took on a life of its own as my hand guided it along the ...
- Considerate despot - Examiner
Considerate despotExaminer, Australia - Jun 23, 2008His opposite number, Stalin, wrote poetry as a young man, and Mussolini was influenced by Italy's avant-garde futurist movement. ...
- Social networks 'teaching tech skills' (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have suggested that social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook can have educational benefits for students.
- ‘Wonderland’ coming to PCC - Pratt Tribune
‘Wonderland’ coming to PCCPratt Tribune, KS - 2 hours agoPlus there is the classic pair, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, who recite poetry and who dance with Alice. They start her thinking about right and wrong and ...
- Little rest under these wings - Globe and Mail
Little rest under these wingsGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoThroughout her career (award-winning short stories, poetry, children's fiction, a memoir and 12 novels), she returns to the promiscuous nature of hybridity; ...
- Driving busesand breaking barriers - Austin Weekly News
Driving busesand breaking barriersAustin Weekly News, IL - 6 hours agoWe offer some of the same services as Walk By Faith-education, counseling, tutoring as well as dance classes, poetry reading, HIV awareness. ...
- Father’s - New York Times Blogs
Father’sNew York Times Blogs, NY - 2 hours ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrors - Evening Sun
In part, most poets are chroniclers. They record truthfully, though maybe not realistically, the times in which they live. They couch their stories in metaphor and allusion. They compare and refer, rather than state directly. Poets hold before us ...
- Widower’s tale wins poet Abse book prize (icWales)
CARDIFF poet Dannie Abse won a top book award for his diary about life after the death of his wife in a car crash, but admitted: “I wish I had never had to write it.â€
- World's fastest swimming trunks hit troubled water - Hong Kong Standard
When I was a junior reporter, I worked for an editorial department head who used to copy my work and resell it to other newspapers. I did not see Shanghai or Guangzhou 10 years ago, but I expect, allowing for cultural variations, they looked a lot ...
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