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- Brazilian director swaps Saramago for Shakespeare - Reuters UK
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - After more than a year poring over Jose Saramago's book "Blindness" for the upcoming movie of the same name, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is embarking on a new literary journey with William Shakespeare. Meirelles this ...
- New Book Explains How Devotional Hindus Connect to God - PR.com
Mukul Shri Goel, PhD, published by iUniverse, Inc., the leading provider of publishing technology solutions for authors, announced today the release of Devotional Hinduism: Creating Impressions for God. Kota, India, May 03, 2008 --( PR.com )-- From ...
- Considering growth - Detroit Metro Times
Detroit Metro TimesConsidering growthDetroit Metro Times, MI - 44 minutes agoPoetry adorns walls while a "crushed painting" flows through them. There's a video you can dance to. And each artist, either overtly or indirectly, ...
- The Fergus Falls Daily Journal (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)
Gerda’s history to be unveiled? The Otter Tail County Historical Society will host a writing contest on Thursday from 6-7 p.m. at the Kadatz Hotel designed to weave a history for “Gerda,†a painting from the historical society’s artifact collection.
- Caution: Mangled metaphor ahead - Power Line
Caution: Mangled metaphor aheadPower Line, MN - 13 hours agoThe crossroads is a venerable metaphor in American song and poetry. Robert Johnson devoted a seminal blues song to it in "Crossroads Blues" and Robert Frost ...
- Germany's top literary prize goes to visual artist - CBC News
The winner of Germany's top literary prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, was announced Wednesday, and the surprise was that he is not a writer. German artist Anselm Kiefer was named the winner by the board of trustees of the Peace Prize for his ...
- Live: The L.A. Philharmonic at Disney Hall - Los Angeles Times
Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" (Song of the Earth) is a symphony for tenor and mezzo soprano. Having learned of his incurable heart infection, the distraught composer turned to Chinese poetry for solace, understanding, a wisp of beauty. He wrote ...
- Dark side of Clive Barker - News.com.au
'I AM not a horror writer," Clive Barker says. "Nor do I consider myself a fantasy writer. I am a writer who works in my imagination." In one sense, all writers re-invent the world, though some do it with more enthusiasm than others, and with more ...
- Paperback: Tennis Whites and Teacakes, by John Betjeman (Independent)
How delightful that a statue of the man who wrote "It is useless to pretend that I enjoy myself abroad" adorns the refurbished St Pancras. Equally dubious about the expat life ("Our savings gone, we climb the stony path/ Back to the house with scorpions in the bath"), Betjeman extolled the delights of the Northern Line's City Branch ("a strong smell of wet feet"). What he wrote of Waugh – "he ...
- What's New, Pusinky? - East Bay Express
What's New, Pusinky?East Bay Express, CA - 4 hours agoNew girl in school Tru (Najarra Townsend) seems to be dating Lodell (Matthew Thompson), but she's only a beard for the closeted gay African-American jock ...
- Logos and Language: A Post-Jazz Metaphorical Dialogue - All About Jazz
Logos and Language: A Post-Jazz Metaphorical DialogueAll About Jazz, PA - 1 hour agoDalachinsky's poetry provides another verbal frame for perceiving Shipp's music. One poem carries an essential message: ...â€if you're gonna tell what the ...
- Hardwired Homeschool Hints - BlueRidgeNow.com
Hardwired Homeschool HintsBlueRidgeNow.com, NC - 3 hours agoAlthough it might not be the most helpful resource for homeschooling assignments, parents of any child with health issues or special needs will find it very ...
- Stone Temple Pilots soar in State Theatre concert - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The lights went down, a roar went up from the crowd and the DeLeo brothers -- Dean on guitar and Robert on bass -- and drummer Eric Kretz took their places. Then a silhouette emerged from the darkness, the red glow of a cigarette tracing the wiry ...
- Rhyme And Reason - Post-Journal
CHAUTAUQUA - If poetry could take on a human persona, it would be a mild-mannered accountant by day and a psychopath at night in the eyes of Billy Collins. ''It's basically taking a little premise and pushing it to see how nutty it becomes, how ...
- 1980s vs. Today: Sports activism - ESPN.com
They spoke. Not loud, but strong. On the backs of anti-Vietnam protests, Watergate, Title IX, post-Civil Rights, post-Cold War activism in America, athletes found themselves in the unique position of having a voice, but without a major issue to voice ...
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