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- 'American Teen' documents lives of Midwest high-school seniors - MLive.com
AP Photo Astute subject: Hannah Bailey provides the opening narration for "American Teen." It's not difficult to imagine "American Teen" becoming a reality-TV series. The camera follows around a handful of high-school seniors in Warsaw, Ind ...
- Finding challenge in verse - Diamond Valley Leader
Diamond Valley LeaderFinding challenge in verseDiamond Valley Leader, Australia - 55 minutes agoJordie Albiston thinks of poetry as a living and breathing art form. Picture: MARK FRECKER N03DV306 While most poets start with a subject they want to write ...
- Poetry peepshow - Times and Transcript
Poetry peepshowTimes and Transcript, Canada - 5 hours agoTORONTO - The 16th annual Junction Arts Festival is offering what it calls a "Poetry Peepshow," giving participants the chance to "peer into an open window ...
- Layton struggles with NDP tradition - Winnipeg Free Press
Layton struggles with NDP traditionWinnipeg Free Press, Canada - 3 hours agoThis kind of rhetoric is oddly reminiscent of the melodramatic poetry of the US presidential election. Both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama ...
- Writing in residence (Guardian Unlimited)
As well as giving me time to work on my poetry, my stay at Grasmere has I hope served a wider purpose, says Adam O'Riordan
- This Date In History - Monday, August 4 - CBS 2
NEW YORK (AP) ― Today is Monday, August 4th, the 217th day of 2008. There are 149 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 4th, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people ...
- Get an early peek at the Taps McFirkin theme song - MLive.com
For your viewing pleasure, KalamaBrew proudly presents the first taste of the Taps McFirkin theme song, "The Debauching Ballad of Taps McFirkin." The song, written and performed by t. mule, is still a work in progress (a final cut is still being ...
- Winona group unveils 9/11 monument - Winona Daily News
Seven years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, a Winona group unveiled its tribute to the victims of the tragedy and to the solidarity that marked its aftermath. Twin towers of black granite emerged from a rain-soaked tarp in Lake Park on ...
- Ronnie Drew: Lead singer of the Dubliners - The Independent
With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the Dubliners, whose charismatic stage presence and ...
- 'Hamlet 2': A Fellow of Infinite Jest (Washington Post)
Critics are rarely the hero of anything in the movies. They are at best incompetent weasels, one notch below the "those that can't do, teach" category. At worst, they are Machiavellian figures, like Addison DeWitt, the suave but slimy manipulator in "All About Eve."
- Taboo 's Morton Will Be a Stranger in a Strange Land in October (Playbill)
Euan Morton, who made his Broadway debut in Taboo, will return to the Metropolitan Room in October with a new cabaret program.
- Listening to Merwin - Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
Idaho Mountain Express and GuideListening to MerwinIdaho Mountain Express and Guide, ID - 1 hour agoYet their shabby appearance only belies what lies inside—a poetry lover's treasure chest, full of little-known poems by famous poets like Emily Dickinson, ...
- at Memorial Library - Boothbay Register
The Boothbay Region Art Foundation proudly presents the eighth annual Art @ Waterfront Park on Saturday, August 30 (rain date, August 31) at the Waterfront Park in Boothbay Harbor. The juried art show, featuring the works of 22 artists from Maine and ...
- Review: The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson - Telegraph.co.uk
Review: The Act of Love by Howard JacobsonTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 12 minutes agoSo if that character gushes on interminably, you are left with this sort of runny prose: "erotic transport even when it is as extruded as mine enjoys close ...
- Patti Smith & Kevin Shields: The Coral Sea - Pitchforkmedia.com
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields: The Coral SeaPitchforkmedia.com, IL - 3 hours agoBut poetry was not just her first medium-- you could argue that it remained her primary gig even after music made her famous. Because in her best songs, ...
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