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- Action: Lonnquist to perform at July 26 Prairie Fest - The Reporter
Action: Lonnquist to perform at July 26 Prairie FestThe Reporter, WI - 53 minutes agoHe is at once a lyricist with deep feeling and a side-splittingly funny observer of our world. Keen insight and poetry draw listeners into beautifully ...
- More free advice: Bioimportant for bands - Grand Rapids Press
It's time for another installment in my series that I've just now decided to call ``Unsolicited Advice for Bands.'' My last installment (which has been retroactively included in this newly christened series), in which I shared such chestnuts as ``Do ...
- Visual arts notes: Obama exhibit in SLC; monumental murals at Art ... - Salt Lake Tribune
Kurt Weiser's Semi Conscious, 2002, of cast porcelain and china paint, is on exhibit with other Weiser works at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. No, it's not the latest big box store to hit the U.S. It's a phenomenon ...
- Authors grieve over apparent suicide of David Foster Wallace, writer of "Infinite Jest" (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week.
- On Comics: Who is the Best Joker Ever - SF Weekly Blogs
On Comics: Who is the Best Joker EverSF Weekly Blogs, CA - 4 hours agoEven stodgy old dudes like the New Yorker's David Denby, who worry that, "Warner Bros. has continued to drain the poetry, fantasy, and comedy out of Tim ...
- America Back on Track... for Wednesday, July 16th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from John F. Kennedy who said, "The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." Some observations on the news... The International Criminal Court has charged Sudan's ...
- Vetoes leave local entities scrambling for funding - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
Gov. Bobby Jindal's attempt to rein in "out-of-control" government spending has left several nonprofit organizations in Central Louisiana alternately scratching their heads and shaking their fists. Local cultural and tourism entities -- including the ...
- Poetry Writing Contest Lets Subway Riders Vent Commuting Frustrations - NY1
"Vent Your Inspiration" asks riders to compose poems about what they want to improve about the subway system and what they appreciate about the MTA. Contestants are asked to submit poems of up to 30 lines in a category of their choice, such as air ...
- Kathleen Norris says the demon you're fighting may really be age-old ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
The word might have died, but the state of being it describes is very much alive. The blues, boredom, ennui, an inability to care, cynicism, escapism -- these symptoms are really just acedia, masquerading as the modern condition, argues Norris. She ...
- Taliban's war of words undermines Afghanistan's nation building - Yahoo News
Kabul, Afghanistan - Arbitrary detentions by United States forces in Afghanistan and the aerial bombardment by the international forces has not only increased public discontent, it has also given the Taliban opportunities to cash in on a ...
- A folk singer from the Los Angeles area: Azam Ali - Today's Zaman
Today's ZamanA folk singer from the Los Angeles area: Azam AliToday's Zaman, Turkey - 4 hours agoThe most recent Niyaz album, "Nine Heavens," espouses a philosophy based on a poem from Iranian musician and poet Amir Khousro Dehlavi who lived in India. ...
- Wichitan cheats death (Wichita Falls Times Record News)
The law — and other lawyers — have been pretty good to Clifford Bridwell over the years.
- Book review - Montgomery Advertiser
For much of the past decade, Barbara Wiedemann, a Montgomery resident, has spent most of her summers traveling and camping throughout the American West, accompanied in a very primitive van (a pickup covered by a shell) only by a lovable, aging but ...
- Top marks for Nutcracker - The West Australian
Top marks for NutcrackerThe West Australian, Australia - 3 hours agoSeveral duets between teacher Miss Drosselmeyer and the headmaster soar into poetry with the simplest of expressive movements, and the series of dances from ...
- In Years Past - Post-Journal
In 1908, Thomas S. Divilbliss, who lived about one and one half miles from Lander, shot and killed his neighbor, Jacob Osserlee, a respected farmer who had resided in the neighborhood for about a year. After the shooting, Divilbliss held the ...
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