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- Aaron Eckhart Tried To Portray Controversial 'Towelhead' Character As ... - MTV
It's somewhat ironic that Aaron Eckhart's latest film, "Towelhead," is being attacked by some groups for its title . The title may very well be one of the least incendiary things about the flick, which was written and directed by Alan Ball and ...
- Broken English - Age
THE prophets of doom say technology is killing the English language. All that evil shortcut lingo spawned on mobile phones, instant messaging and chat forums is slaughtering our vocabulary, savaging our sentences into silly acronyms and bad-mannered ...
- Burmese democracy activist: 'I don't know how I kept my sanity' - Independent
Burmese democracy activist: 'I don't know how I kept my sanity'Independent, UK - 5 hours agoWin Tin, who is also known for his poetry, was frail but in remarkably good spirits after spending 19 years and three months in solitary confinement. ...
- MADISON: James Whitcomb Riley in Anderson (The Herald Bulletin)
There were reports of womanizing, alcoholism, fraud, scandal and even the selling of patent medicine. Yes, James Whitcomb Riley, the gentle, fondly remembered bard of children’s classics such as “Little Orphant Annie†and “The Raggedy Man,†made quite an impression on Anderson, Indiana.
- Peter Oresick's Warhol-O-Rama is a tour-de-force homage, in verse. (Pittsburgh City Paper)
Warhol-O-Rama By Peter Oresick Carnegie Mellon University Press, 102 pp., $16.95 Â Peter Oresick's Warhol-O-Rama is as much performance as poetry collection, and in the best way possible. The Pittsburgh-based poet's pop-epic suite of 53 verses -- just published on what would have bee... By Bill O'Driscoll.
- Acquire the write stuff - Thecalifornian.com
Salinas-area residents yearning to see their writing published can meet nationally known authors and agents who can help them make it happen at the East of Eden Writing Conference, running Sept. 5 through 7. "Some people who attend may have never ...
- Event gives musicians, artists forum to respond to naysayers (The Record)
After nearly 30 years in the nation's musical bloodstream, hip-hop still has detractors who question its artistic merit.
- The worldwide chrysanthemum - Financial Times
Financial TimesThe worldwide chrysanthemumFinancial Times, UK - 2 hours ago... its grand finale and the prince is moved to poetry. “I do not love among flowers the chrysanthemum only,†he begins, quoting a famous old Japanese poem. ...
- Local woman hopes her poems will help others - Daily Gleaner
Local woman hopes her poems will help othersDaily Gleaner, Canada - 2 hours agoBaird takes the simple events and topics of everyday life and sets them down in poetry. Her early poems reflect some struggles in her life with becoming a ...
- Also in this article: - School Library Journal
Also in this article:School Library Journal - 1 hour agoFire has inspired a broad range of stories and poetry. From Peter Dickinson’s tale of a sorcerer seduced by fire’s power to SD Nelson’s adaptation of ...
- The Man Who Shocked the World (Psychology Today)
Stanley Milgram and disturbing truths about human nature.
- A Beach Boy's Lucky Old Album ; Wilson Soars With Nostalgic Song Cycle - RedOrbit
A Beach Boy's Lucky Old Album ; Wilson Soars With Nostalgic Song CycleRedOrbit, TX - 12 minutes agoIt isn't Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys' 1966 teen-angst classic. But what is? The seeds for this comeback were planted four years ago, with the resurrection of ...
- Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka - Bookslut
Trouble and Honey by Jilly DybkaBookslut, IL - 1 hour agoThere are prose-poems and poems in columns that can be read both across and down. There’s even some free verse. Dybka embraces and often acknowledges her ...
- In memory of Will - Times West Virginian
FAIRMONT — When William Charleton Bridges died in July 2005, Neshia and Cory Bridges lost their baby brother, and Neshia lost her best friend. And Corliss Bridges lost a son who was gentle, kind and loving. Each year, around the time of his passing ...
- 'Palace Council' by Stephen L. Carter: Secrets are murder in this ... - Dallas Morning News
'Palace Council' by Stephen L. Carter: Secrets are murder in this ...Dallas Morning News, TX - 2 hours agoPalace Council puts a spooky angle over the barbershops and segregated hotels of Harlem by introducing a secret society that is based on Miltonic poetry, ...
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