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- Jacksonville poetry artists look forward to international slam - Florida Times-Union
Lucie Roberts is enthusiastic about spitting - the hip-hop term that has found its way to spoken-word poetry. Roberts says spoken-word poetry is a way to speak her mind and share a message. In her poem, Hypocrite , the Jacksonville Beach teen ...
- On Stage: Oceano's Great American Melodrama presents two summer plays (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Local theater impresario Suzy King was on her way to Disneyland last month when she got a call from the folks at the Great America Melodrama. The star of the Melodrama’s current show, “Showdown at Slick Rock Ranch,” was bound for an off-Broadway show. That left King and artistic director Eric Hoit without a lead actress. “Eric e-mailed me the script at my hotel,” recalled King, longtime stage ...
- Nuns serve the hemisphere's poorest - Catholic Sentinel
Catholic SentinelNuns serve the hemisphere's poorestCatholic Sentinel, OR - 2 hours agoHoly Names Sister Joan Maiers, a Marylhurst University writing instructor, organized a poetry reading at a Lake Oswego chocolate shop to benefit the ...
- Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, 'The Coral Sea' (PASK) (Spin)
When she's singing, pioneering mystic punk Patti Smith can be extraordinarily mortal. But in recitation, she approaches the godly, delivering her poetry's surreal grace with sheer force. Here, she's captured twice in concert feverishly reading her phantasmagoric memorial to friend and artist Robert Mapplethorpe with the accompaniment of fellow savant Kevin Shields, the reclusive My Bloody ...
- Why we love Phil and Paul - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Why we love Phil and PaulSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 18 hours agoImagine the poetry from the mountains!First, Phil’s gems. Commenting on sprinter Robbie McEwen, who does not have teammates as fast he to set him up: “In ...
- ‘Carpetbagger’s Children’ is storytelling at its best - Cleveland Jewish News
‘Carpetbagger’s Children’ is storytelling at its bestCleveland Jewish News, OH - 13 minutes agoThe play, tenderly directed by Lucia Colombi, captures the understated elegance of Foote’s lyrical prose. The intimacy of the performance space at Studio ...
- Lit Beat (Honolulu Advertiser)
PUPPET TIMES with Christy Lipps Ah Sing for ages 3-6; 10:30-11:15 a.m. July 15; Mililani Public Library; free; 627-7470.
- Craigslist romance: How I met my wife with a sofabed (Times Online)
It's astonishing how many things you can find to sell on Craigslist, even in a zero-capital home such as my own.
- Communication is key (Owen Sound Sun Times)
By Don Crosby Sun Times correspondent Organizers of this year’s Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film in Durham are honouring one of their own. Geoffrey Shea has created five installations that emphasize the written and the spoken word — a theme that he says runs through his [...]
- Parallel Lives - Weekly Standard
Born a little over 150 years apart, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) both had the experience, on the threshold of adulthood--he was 20, she 22--of fleeing the culture they'd grown up in and entering another. For both, it ...
- Gene Harris Jazz Festival • Weinstein Talks • Music Fills the Air ... - Boise Weekly
Gene Harris Jazz Festival • Weinstein Talks • Music Fills the Air ...Boise Weekly, USA - 5 hours agoNorman Weinstein, poet, jazz-music critic, professor and architecture writer, is holding a poetry reading with a decades-long retrospective from his various ...
- Why Does SA Constantly Criticize Talk Radio? - Charleston City Paper
Charleston City PaperWhy Does SA Constantly Criticize Talk Radio?Charleston City Paper, SC - 3 hours agoBut let us not forget that it is poetry, no logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. ...
- Who is Killing the Writers of South Dakota? - New York Times Blogs
Who is Killing the Writers of South Dakota?New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour agoBy Jennifer Schuessler Having declared the death of reading, the folks at the National Endowment of the Arts are now proclaiming the health of the arts ...
- The puck doesn't stop here - Boston Globe
As a proud-of-it Neanderthal, it was especially satisfying for this pucks observer to watch the belligerent Ducks bash their way to the Stanley Cup in 2006-07, playing old-time hockey - a checking line! - and clobbering opponents, throwing sharpened ...
- The inscrutable craftsman - CricInfo.com
CricInfo.comThe inscrutable craftsmanCricInfo.com, UK - 1 hour agoOnly with a bat was he articulate, but even there he was not so much given to prose as to poetry. His beginning was all fairytale: the unknown young ...
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