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- Hailing Casesars With Scrapomatic’s Mike Mattison (jambands.com)
After working with renowned producer John Snyder on their previous two releases, Mike Mattison and Paul Olsen have opted to go it alone this time. Well, not exactly, as the pair, better known as Scrapomatic have enlisted Jeff Bakos to engineer and co-produce Sidewalk Caesars along with Mattison.
- Nubiart Diary - The Profits Rise Again - Ligali
Nubiart Diary - The Profits Rise AgainLigali, UK - 1 hour agoAdama Gaye, ‘China in Africa: Why the West Is Worried’, New African, p16, Mar 2008 The US government has passed a $700bn economic rescue plan to dampen the ...
- Review: 'Strong' is bigger than its formula (The Salt Lake Tribune)
There's no shame in following formula. Haiku and sonnets are formula poetry - and yet they still require craft and beauty. Â Â Â So it's no insult to call the made-in-Utah drama "Forever Strong" a formula sports movie, because director Ryan Little ("Saints and Soldiers") draws so
- Singer Laura Marling writes beyond her years - Chicago Tribune
Singer Laura Marling writes beyond her yearsChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours ago"My favorite escape is the Bronte era, that dark, graceful, elegant old English way of life that I wish I was born into, and in a way believe I should have ...
- What The "Subprime Poetry Crisis" Means For The Overheated Metapor Market [Freakoutnomics] (Gawker)
Last night at a poetry reading marking the release of the 2008 Best American Poetry anthology the distinguished poet and Finding Forrester star Charles Bernstein delivered a stirring plea for swift...
- The Poetry of April Ossmann (Good Times)
Editor’s note: This week’s Poetry Corner features April Ossmann, the author of “Anxious Music†(Four Way Books, 2007) who has published her poems widely in journals. She is executive director of Alice James Books and teaches at The Writer’s Center in White River Jct., Vt.
- Victory Gardens Biograph Theater - MetroMix
Four-time HBO "Def Jam" poet and "Louder Than a Bomb" teen poetry series founder Coval performs works from his new poetry book, "Everyday People." Includes a CD of Coval's performance excerpts. A discussion and post-show reception with the Tim ...
- The Dark Knight: like no other blockbuster - Creative Loafing Sarasota
The Dark Knight: like no other blockbusterCreative Loafing Sarasota, FL - Jul 23, 2008Nolan's movie goes to places we don't expect in ways we don't anticipate, filtering epic tragedy and dark poetry through a lens of exhilarating ...
- Jessie Baylin hits Newport with folk-rock - OSU - The Lantern
OSU - The LanternJessie Baylin hits Newport with folk-rockOSU - The Lantern, OH - 47 minutes agoFor Baylin, songwriting is derived from poetry and journal-writing, creating an honesty in her lyrics. "When I first got a publishing deal, though, ...
- Israel's Nazi-porn problem - Salon
Americans first encountered French actress Ludivine Sagnier in the summer of 2003, when her oft-topless ingénue role opposite Charlotte Rampling in François Ozon's erotic thriller "Swimming Pool" made her an instant international sex symbol ...
- Elliott, Stanley to share stage on first day of Artisans Road Trip (Spencer Daily Reporter)
Iowa singer/songwriter, Chad Elliott, formerly of Spencer, and Mother Banjo singer/songwriter Ellen Stanley will be performing live at Shaky Tree Coffee in Spencer from 7-10 p.m. Oct. 4. This duo...
- Southern Gothic with a Side of Razor Yucks - Chattanooga Pulse
Southern Gothic with a Side of Razor YucksChattanooga Pulse, USA - 2 hours agoHis first book of poetry, Actual Air, was released to critical acclaim in 1999, placing him in the proud poet/rocker pantheon with such heroes as Dylan and ...
- The satisfying compromises of collaboration - Daily Star - Lebanon
Daily Star - LebanonThe satisfying compromises of collaborationDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 19 hours ago"But this project started when a mutual friend suggested I work with Jacques poetry. "I worked with Jacques for about eight months on the adaptation. ...
- A Fresh Focus on Novelist Morante - Wall Street Journal
Elsa Morante was born in 1912 in the working-class district of Rome called Testaccio. The product of an extramarital liaison between her mother, a schoolteacher, and a postal worker from Sicily, she grew up in straitened circumstances, compensating ...
- Charlotte Higgins on the literary influences of ancient Greece (Guardian Unlimited)
Its language is now barely known, and only a few of the works produced by its great writers and thinkers survive, but ancient Greece's influence surrounds us. In these extracts from her new book, Charlotte Higgins assesses the culture's legacy
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