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- LP review: Terrence Howard - Austin 360 (subscription)
LP review: Terrence HowardAustin 360 (subscription), TX - 7 hours agoBut lyrically, Howard is more into obtuse personal poetry than creating hit songs. His words make better sense when they’re playing off the everpresent ...
- WQED Pittsburgh and The Dominion Foundation Celebrate VITA's Twenty Years of Volunteers (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
A special commemorative twentieth-anniversary reception to celebrate the contributions of Dominion VITA Award winners over the last twenty years will be held on Thursday, September 18 from 6 - 9 pm at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh's Strip District.
- Writer's journey begins at the Attic Workshop (Portland Tribune)
Walk into Powell’s City of Books, look at the endless books and ask yourself, “Isn’t the city big enough? Does the world need another writer?†After all, who will read all those books? “I think the great books in the library read themselves,†answers David ...
- The way Britain wages war (Mail and Guardian)
Four photographs recently published in Britain together break a silence. The first is of a former Gurkha soldier Tul Bahadur, aged 87. He sits in a wheelchair outside 10 Downing Street.
- Edinburgh elite: Who's going to be the talk of the biggest arts ... - The Independent
What better reason to visit the festival than a juicy new show from Matthew Bourne – and especially one that, like his 1995 production Swan Lake, will appeal to dance virgins and aficionados alike. Dorian Gray is adapted from the Oscar Wilde fable ...
- Canadian fans are rabid in red - SLAM! Sports
SHUNYI, China – Soon after claiming her medal, on our nation's best day at these Olympics, Tracy Cameron was the toast of the rabid band of Canadian fans who took over the stands. Tracy also had to deliver the beer. Canadian rowing boosters have ...
- Poet laureate Kay Ryan, a river of contradiction (The Buffalo News)
Kay Ryan is a woman built on contradictions. She's an adventurer who once rode her bicycle clear across the country –and she's a poet who writes while lying in bed.
- Dominic Lawson: We should have no reason to be surprised when a doctor turns out to be a murderer (Independent)
What should a genocidal mass-murderer look like? And what professional qualifications should he have? Of the two men indicted by the Hague war crimes tribunal as masterminds of the planned massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslim adults and children, Ratko Mladic fits all our preconceptions.
- Poems in Loos launched - The Advertiser
Poems in Loos launchedThe Advertiser, UK - 32 minutes agoPoet Dean Parkin read his poem Murray Mint at the launch, which is one of the Poems in Loos. Dean is from Lowestoft and works for the Poetry Trust as well ...
- By the book (Daily Local News)
Many creative area residents have found the time and inspiration to put pen to paper and publish the resulting book. This is one of an occasional series highlighting the self-published authors of Chester County.
- GALEN HOLLEY:Cilantro, avocado and small, daily rituals - NE Mississippi Daily Journal
I tend to create little rituals in my life. Many days I go to the same Mexican restaurant, sit in the same seat, and have the same waitress bring me the same meal. I know it's weird but it quiets me, brings me balance. I usually sit near the bar ...
- 2008 40 Under Forty: Tim Mammen - Worcester Business Journal
2008 40 Under Forty: Tim MammenWorcester Business Journal, MA - 4 hours agoThere are several inspirational people like this I have had the luck of working for. Two: “The Big Blue†and “The Gods Must Be Crazy. ...
- This Evening: Actual Air - Philebrity.com
Philebrity.comThis Evening: Actual AirPhilebrity.com, PA - 8 hours agoAmerica’s alternate poet laureate (ie the author of what is probably the only contemporary poetry book you’ve purchased in the last decade, ...
- Clueless after Rockefeller rant (Whittier Daily News)
Where's a psychologist when you need one? The bizarre first part of NBC's interview with Clark Rockefeller aired Monday leaving me more confused than ever.
- Del Martin, 87, pioneering lesbian activist (San Jose Mercury News)
Del Martin, a strident and eloquent voice in the early gay and lesbian civil rights movement in America, died Wednesday in San Francisco not long after enjoying perhaps the hardest-won prize of her lifelong cause -- legal marriage to Phyllis Lyon, her longtime partner. Martin was 87.
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