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- Booze Hound - Doraku - Miami New Times
Miami New TimesBooze Hound - DorakuMiami New Times, FL - 12 hours agoAll three drinks are like warm, homemade, chicken soup – good for the soul and as deserving as teenagers of their own book of badly written poetry and ...
- Joyce Carol Oates unravels murder mystery from interesting perspective in new novel (Ventura County Star)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable.
- Critic's Notebook: The failure of Ludacris' pro-Bama song was ... - Los Angeles Times Blogs
I highly recommend New York City blogger and radio dude Jay Smooth’s commentary on last week’s non-confrontation between Ludacris and Barack Obama. Jay’s view is that the incident -- which involved the rapper-actor offering up a pro-Bama song ...
- Zut Alors! Alliance Francaise “Crossing the Line: Transfiguring ... - HULIQ.com
Hailed by the media as “one of the most exciting festivals to hit New York in years,” the French Institute/Alliance Francaise's “Crossing the Line: Transfiguring Cultures” festival returns for its second year -- and with students from ...
- Inside Track - Style Weekly
Style WeeklyInside TrackStyle Weekly, VA - 2 hours agoLocal guitar teacher, session player and Frippster-in-training (as in Robert), Anthony Curtis has big plans for his program, which brings music and poetry ...
- Cover Story - Egypt Today
“I worked in an almost arid land. I had to discover by myself, and I also had to pave [this land],” the novelist and editor Gamal El-Ghitani quotes Mahfouz as saying in his book Al-Magalis Al-Mahfouziyya (Mahfouz’s Gatherings). At the age of 25 ...
- Santa Fe's yearly folk art sale lets patrons splurge in a socially - El Paso Times
Santa Fe's yearly folk art sale lets patrons splurge in a sociallyEl Paso Times, TX - 6 hours agoWe listened to a group of Japanese women performing Shigin, poetry chanting. Intonation and inflection heighten the meaning of the words -- and, ...
- Exiles from heaven - National Catholic Reporter
National Catholic ReporterExiles from heavenNational Catholic Reporter, Missouri - 18 minutes agoOnce a promising poetry student at Oxford University, Hopkins forsook poetry when he entered the Jesuits. But his rector convinced Hopkins to write the poem ...
- New Biography Burns With Dickinson's White Heat' - NPR News
Read an excerpt . Brenda Wineapple is the author of Hawthorne: A Life. Fresh Air from WHYY , September 3, 2008 · Conventional wisdom has it you can tell a lot about a person by the company he or she keeps. But, what if posterity makes a big mistake ...
- Citrin’s essay takes first - Gulf Coast Newspapers
Citrin’s essay takes firstGulf Coast Newspapers, AL - 3 hours agoRebecca Pober Citrin won The Holocaust Essay/Poetry Contest’s first-place award for her essay, “The Holocaust.” She read the piece at The Holocaust Memorial ...
- Just Asking … Amy Tan (The Kansas City Star)
Next month the San Francisco Opera presents the world premiere of “The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” based on the 2001 novel by Amy Tan, whose other books include The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife. Tan wrote the opera’s libretto, her first. The music was composed by Stewart Wallace.
- Most Sung-About Body Part? The Eyes Have It (Wired News)
Quick -- what body part is mentioned more often in song than any other? The eyes have it. Visual artists Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg analyzed over 10,000 songs and built an interactive graphic work that correlates musical genres with the body parts they mention the most, as part of their ongoing Fleshmap project.
- Class of 2008 Says Good-Bye to Berkeley High - Berkeley Daily Planet
Class of 2008 Says Good-Bye to Berkeley HighBerkeley Daily Planet, CA - 2 hours agoAll eyes were turned on the stage when Robert McKnight, chair of the African American Studies Department at Berkeley High, appeared to make a speech. ...
- So Whatcha Doin'?: Vincent Toro (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
The head of the theater program at the Guadalupe is polishing his play and overseeing the Teen Arts Puentes Project.
- Games Asylum - Gaming gibberish » Not a book in sight (Games Asylum)
Although the Games Convention was going on in Germany at the weekend, I chose to keep an eye on the world of video games from the less obvious surrounds of the Reading Festival.
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