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- Bumbershoot '08: Let's Get Ready to Rumble!!! (Seattlest)
With this year's Bumbershoot nearly upon us, let's continue to hope that the weekend weather keeps looking good . If you don't have tickets yet, stop by your local Starbucks to avoid the lines and fees at the gates. Check out a few more tips (bring water and a jacket! take the bus! wear sunscreen! call your mother!) at the Bumbershoot site . While there's plenty of music acts to ...
- Happy Friday: News You Can Lose - Village Voice
Pixar's newest blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie’s gone before. And that’s a good thing. The Lives of Others has a superbly alienated title and a quintessentially 20th-century premise. Florian Henckel von ...
- Lunch with the FT: Felix Dennis (Financial Times)
I saw some poets in the audience last night, which hasn’t happened before,†says Felix Dennis, 61, multimillionaire magazine publisher and latter-day poet, as he joins me in Sartoria, a smart restaurant on Savile Row. We are discussing Dennis’s third poetry tour of the UK, which had begun the evening before our lunch.
- Something about Mary - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nzSomething about MaryStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 2 hours agoNor could she have dreamed that the school - opening with 33 students studying tables, spelling, poetry, grammar, geography and weights and measures - would ...
- Women of Steel cure men of insomnia - Waterloo Record
Waterloo RecordWomen of Steel cure men of insomniaWaterloo Record, Canada - 42 minutes agoWhen the emotional drama finally begins to unfold during the final act of the play, it's as predictable and maudlin as teenage poetry. ...
- Palin Flip-Flops on Whether Global Warming Has Man-Made Causes ... - ABC News Blogs
"Let me talk to you a bit about environmental policy because this interfaces with energy policy and you have some significant differences with John McCain," ABC News' Charles Gibson said in his conversation with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "Do you still ...
- OTEP and ILL NINÕ to Co-Headline on "Unite & Conquer Tour" (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
KOCH Records recording artist OTEP announces the "Unite & Conquer Tour 2008," a co-headlining tour with favorites ILL NINÕ. Otep Shamaya is set to bring her blistering live show to fans once again.
- Dogs and other gods - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphDogs and other godsCalcutta Telegraph, India - 2 hours agoIf the purpose of poetry is to educate and entertain, then this collection can be said to achieve its aim well. There are helpful poems on the ways of ...
- Culture Calendar (The Wheaton Sun)
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- Wayman Chapel A.M.E. to mark 175 years Sunday - Dayton Daily News
The first black congregation to plant roots in Dayton soil was Wayman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, now at 3317 Hoover Ave. It was the first A.M.E. connectional church in the district and the place where Dayton's most celebrated bard ...
- Step right up to McCain's three-ring circus - Portsmouth Herald
One of the strangest excuses I've ever seen from a politician came from Republican presidential hopeful John McCain who, much to his credit, laments the drop in rhetorical quality of the presidential campaign. According to McCain's diagnosis, the ...
- Weaving together bodies and words - Tonight
Weaving together bodies and wordsTonight, South Africa - 4 minutes agoBy Adrienne Sichel In the sunlit Newtown dance studio Lebo Mashile's words trigger the motion which dissolves into poetry. Standing in a tight-knit clump, ...
- Wild and Untamed Thing - Fort Worth Weekly
Arlington singer-songwriter Jessie Frye sounds older than her 19 years on The Delve, her recently released debut EP. But the precocious talent on that record, however impressive, has precedents. The soft ethereal vocals that sail unexpectedly into ...
- Engines have led us to this - Sentinel
On the old TV show "Northern Exposure," John Corbett, aka Chris Stevens, did his doctoral dissertation on the poem "Casey at the Bat." A few years ago, I had occassion to assist an old college friend on his dissertation on the poetry of Robert Frost ...
- When saving lives morphs into torture and killing (Sydney Morning Herald)
Behind the doctor-poet who wrote Let's Go Down To The Town And Kill Some Scum .
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