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- At 80, Maya Angelou still a dynamo - Toronto Star
At 80, Maya Angelou still a dynamoToronto Star, Canada - 1 hour agoDespite writing 31 books, including six memoirs, several collections of poetry, children's stories and a cookbook, the great-grandmother prefers to be ...
- Improvisation...Like The Weather - All About Jazz
Improvisation...Like The WeatherAll About Jazz, PA - 4 hours agoMy performance world is sonic; more poetry than prose, more like the weather than the forecast—more pliable and less specific—cloud-like and always shifting ...
- Scarlett isn't first to test singing skills - Lincoln Journal Star
Last week Scarlett Johansson became the latest to take the leap from actor to crooner with her debut album of Tom Waits covers, “Anywhere I Lay My Head.” Save a glowing review or two, the reception of Johansson’s effort has been lukewarm at ...
- Dear Philly1.com Members, - Philadelphia Center City Weekly Press
Dear Philly1.com Members,Philadelphia Center City Weekly Press, PA - 1 hour agoThe Boston Globe called Sort of Gone ''a welcome counterpart to the sentimental rhymes often celebrated as baseball poetry. ...
- The laureate of all Arabs - Guardian Unlimited
None of us really thought he'd die. Our loss is great, we tell each other. In our minds we think of Edward Said, of Haider Abdel-Shafi, of Faisal Husseini, and even - yes - of Yasser Arafat. The "big men" of Palestine. And now, Mahmoud Darwish. He ...
- Law excels in bringing political system to kids (Galveston County Daily News)
Janice Law's book introduces our country’s political system and little-known facts to middle school-age children.
- Retro TV W/C 18th July 2008 - Retro To Go
Retro TV W/C 18th July 2008Retro To Go, UK - 5 hours agoAlso worth a listen this week is Dread, Beat an Blood: the Dub Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson (BBC Radio 4.Tuesday 22nd, 11.30am). ...
- Abdellatif Kechiche: interview - Time Out
Abdellatif Kechiche: interviewTime Out, UK - 11 hours agoI don’t consider my films to be realist or naturalistic as they have more of an artistic aspect to them: there’s music, there’s dance, there’s poetry and ...
- World writers decry censorship at Swedish literary meet - Straits Times
STOCKHOLM - BANGLADESHI novelist-in-hiding Taslima Nasreen joined international writers gathered at a literary conference in Stockholm on Tuesday to deplore how censorship and persecution affect their work. 'By writing books, I wanted to do something ...
- NYC's East to Edinburgh Fest Begins July 8 With 7 Sins - Playbill.com
NYC's East to Edinburgh Fest Begins July 8 With 7 SinsPlaybill.com, NY - 3 hours agoTold through storytelling, movement, poetry and, of course, laughter." Friday, July 25 at 7 PM; Saturday, July 26 at 2 PM, Sunday, July 27 at 4 PM Queen ...
- The week in music - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Music lovers know that Matisyahu is a Hasidic Jew, so he won't perform after sundown on Fridays. But sunset isn't until 9 p.m., so the highly entertaining, thought-provoking, reggae-loving rapper will start his show early tonight. (7:15 p.m. today ...
- The two sides of Nathaniel Abraham - Detroit Free Press
The two sides of Nathaniel AbrahamDetroit Free Press, United States - 3 hours agoThe Nathaniel that Cromer knows is a talented kid who has finished a book of poetry and signed a record deal last spring that pays him a monthly stipend ...
- CD Review: Mraz continues to defy definition on 'We Sing - St. Clair County Journal
CD Review: Mraz continues to defy definition on 'We SingSt. Clair County Journal, IL - 2 hours agoOn "Coyotes," Mraz jumps back and forth between singing and his unique, poetry-slam style of rapping. Electronic overtones, flourishes of strings and a ...
- Refugees display their ingenuity in disused bus - Sowetan
Refugees display their ingenuity in disused busSowetan, South Africa - 18 hours agoBesides being taught maths and English, they do physical education, creative writing and poetry. The school, named the Good Hope Centre, ...
- Haycast 07: Michael Rosen, Will Self and Kathleen Turner - guardian.co.uk
Haycast 07: Michael Rosen, Will Self and Kathleen Turnerguardian.co.uk, UK - 6 hours agoPlus Kathleen Turner and Jhumpa Lahiri Children's laureate Michael Rosen opens today's programme with a poem and explains how you talk politics to children ...
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