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- Annual celebration of African-American art starts this weekend (The Post and Courier)
Even without money in your pocket, it's easy to enjoy MOJA. The annual African-American and Caribbean arts festival, which kicked off Wednesday and stretches through Oct. 5, will be serving up plenty of free entertainment. "This year, we have more free events than we have paid," said program coordinator Elease Amos-Goodwin. "Everybody can't afford to buy expensive tickets and go to the theater, ...
- John Betjeman hated being Poet Laureate, says Andrew Motion - Daily Telegraph
Motion said Betjeman, who was much loved for his poetry and cheerful public persona, wrote "vicious" things about the burden of the Laureateship. But while Motion has let his struggle with the position be known, Betjeman largely kept his troubles ...
- Community Works NYC Announces New Theater Season - All About Jazz
Community Works NYC Announces New Theater SeasonAll About Jazz, PA - 3 hours agoThe spoken word series, Get the Word Out will be presented for its sixth year with Nuyorican Nation: Poetry Summit, featuring Lemon, La Bruja and Flaco ...
- Extended Q&A: Fred Andrle, author of Love Life, a collection of poems - The Columbus Dispatch
As host of WOSU AM's radio show Open Line , Fred Andrle has interviewed the famous and become a bit famous himself. But nothing, he said, compares to the thrill of seeing the words "First Edition, First Printing" on his book of poems. Love Life , a ...
- Self-made hero - Financial Times
Man in the Dark By Paul Auster Faber £14.99, 160 pages FT Bookshop price: £11.99 In Paul Auster’s new novel Man in the Dark , a grandfather and his adult granddaughter obsessively watch films at home together, as many as four a day. The ...
- Religion vs science: can the divide between God and rationality be reconciled? (Independent)
''A clergyman in charge of education for the country's leading scientific organisation – it's a Monty Python sketch," pronounced Britain's top atheist, Richard Dawkins, recently.
- Advice dissent - Chicago Sun-Times
At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his opinions. He ...
- Senior citizens pursuing education from home - Charleston Daily Mail
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kathy Leeds grows animated as she describes the courses she is taking this fall, including classes in current events, art and literature. But Leeds will never step foot on a campus or in a classroom. The 79-year-old widow has ...
- City return for Cohen - Manchester Online
City return for CohenManchester Online, UK - 7 hours agoAs dark as it gets, you still feel that beauty is truth. “He makes something beautiful out of this blackness. He finds shades in the blackness that feel ...
- tri-arts - Contra Costa Times
tri-artsContra Costa Times, CA - 9 hours agoBenefits Art in the Schools of the San Ramon Valley. n Poetry Reading — 2-4 pm, Oct. 5. Pleasanton Poet Laureate Martha Meltzer will host nature poet Sandra ...
- County’s environmental watchdog turns 20 (Telluride Daily Planet)
Sheep Mountain Alliance celebrates victories, shares memories on Sunday
- Short List (Creative Loafing Atlanta)
Black and Red Prom, LaDonna Smith and more... Aug. 1 Friday Prom's in August this year. Wordsmiths Books hosts the BLACK AND RED PROM in celebration of Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in her critically acclaimed Twilight series. Ghoulish games, fiendish food and daunting (alcohol-free) drinks will be available, as well as a chance at prizes from Wordsmiths and Hot Topic. The ...
- Russia and Georgia A scripted war - Economist
Times OnlineRussia and Georgia A scripted warEconomist, UK - 1 hour agoThey read poetry and sang songs. Georgia, a small, dignified, theatrical nation, had held together. In the evening they lit candles and waved flags: ...Video: Georgian President Doubts Russian Intensions AssociatedPressScenes of looting, pillaging near Georgian city of Gori Khaleej Timesall 11,126 news articles
- Scaling The Skillet - Denver Post
Scaling The SkilletDenver Post, CO - Aug 5, 2008(Zach Ornitz, Aspen Daily News) The Skillet sizzles on the western walls of the Fryingpan River, just north of Basalt. An exposed crag of red sandstone that ...
- Aarhus – Denmark’s ‘art-house’ city break - Easier (press release)
Easier (press release)Aarhus – Denmark’s ‘art-house’ city breakEasier (press release), UK - 1 hour ago... open to the public, to see a selection of musical and theatre performances, poetry readings and art exhibitions all in one night (kulturnataarhus.dk). ...
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