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- Best Bets: Out and About (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
'BAG and Beyond: Old and New Friends' Today—Sunday — Nu-Art Series' Metropolitan Gallery, 2936 Locust Street — $20—$40 — 314-535-6500 The Black Artists Group (BAG) was one of the most progressive cultural forces in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish Dies - Wall Street Journal
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more ...
- Classic in a modern tone (Al-Ahram Weekly)
It took only few years for Eskendrella to acquire its fame and an audience. Formed like many other musical groups in Egypt in 2005, the band with its focus on Sayed Darwish and Sheikh Imam Eissa's music immediately clicked with audiences of all ages.
- Zora Neale Hurston - Orlando Sentinel
Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the most important authors of southern African-American literature in the 20th century. Hurston, born in 1891, grew up in Eatonville, Fla., just north of Orlando. The award-winning author, anthropologist and ...
- New school year brings new technology - Delphos Herald
New school year brings new technologyDelphos Herald, OH - 53 minutes agoWe did some poetry the other day and it wasn’t scary to them.†“I never have a problem getting volunteers to come up and do a problem in front of the class ...
- Killers stake it all on 'Do or Die' CD (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Chef Steve Martorano, left, served a homemade chocolate cupcake and tiramisu dessert to Pete Rose and his lady friend. Courtesy photo
- ebrary Signs 14 New Publishing Partners (Centre Daily Times)
ebrary(R) (www.ebrary.com), a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that it is greatly enhancing its growing selection of more than 170,000 titles with e-books and other authoritative materials from more than 14 new publishing partners. ebrary has now secured partnerships with more than 300 of the world's leading publishers of scholarly, STM, trade, and ...
- Havel to receive Seifert prize for 2008 (Prague Daily Monitor)
Prague, Sept 21 (CTK) - Former Czech president Vaclav Havel, playwright and writer, will be awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for 2008 that is imposed by Charter 77 Foundation for excellent poetry or literary work published in the past three years, or exceptionally for life work, Viola Bastyrova told CTK Sunday.
- Fort Worth man plays key role in McCain camp - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Fort Worth man plays key role in McCain campFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 2 hours agoLittle-known facts: He has written several books of poetry in both Spanish and English. And the only way he would work for McCain was as an unpaid volunteer ...
- 'The Romance of Astrea and Celadon': The Hopeful Romantic - New York Sun
Director Eric Rohmer, now 88 years young, has suggested that his 2007 film "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" may be his last. If so, it's a fitting send-off. While this soaring tale of flawed eternal love is not exactly the director's most ...
- Chinese school of rock? Somebody tell Jack Black - Winnipeg Sun
Chinese school of rock? Somebody tell Jack BlackWinnipeg Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoChinese black metal takes those basics and adds bits of history and poetry to make the music belong to the people. In every country, metal has been bent and ...
- Ariel View (Backstage.com)
August 12, 2008 By Irene Backalenick Conceiver-directors Andréa Graugnard and Daniel J LeBlanc have researched and sifted through considerable material to create a moving piece about the poet Sylvia Plath , weaving a dreamlike tale, nonlinear and surreal in form, to explore her life and work, telling their story most poignantly through Plath's own journals, stories, letters, and poems.
- Don't Miss: Running, Cohen, pics - Prague Daily Monitor
Don't Miss: Running, Cohen, picsPrague Daily Monitor, Czech Republic - 14 minutes agoThe SPUSA Education Center will hold the Prague Poetry Workshop on Sunday. All poetry lovers are invited to take part. (Na PoÅ™ÃÄà 6, starting 7pm) A new ...
- Thomas Dale Vines 1942-2008 (The Toledo Blade)
Thomas Dale Vines, 66, a celebrated photographer who documented the culture and history of Toledo's African-American community, died Monday in St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center. His wife, Katherine, said he had been ill since March with an undiagnosed ailment. The official cause of death was pulmonary edema, she said. Mr. Vines was the fourth generation in his family to pursue photography, a ...
- The Guide STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER - The State Journal-Register
The Guide STATE JOURNAL-REGISTERThe State Journal-Register, IL - 1 hour agoPeoples Coffeehouse, 9-11:30 pm every Friday, Peoples Church, 1109 E. Ash St. Featuring Live Poets Society moonlight open microphone night for poetry, ...
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