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- Simplicity and repetition may explain staying power of songs - Herald Tribune
It only takes a single exposure, and in an instant, your whole day can change. The infection is rapid and feels potentially unending. One minute you're minding your own business and the next you find that you can't stop thinking, humming, or singing ...
- Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack ... - Daily Telegraph
Barack Obama visited Mr Davis on several occasions to get his advice when he was grappling with racial issues Photo: AFP Although identified only as Frank in Mr Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father, it has now been established that he was Frank ...
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - Forbes
On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust. (Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp some ...
- MUST SEE: WILHELM SAAYMAN - Financial Mail
An epigram by the French writer Sebastien Chamfort offers a useful entrée into Saayman's bleakly funny pencil drawings: "Better on your arse than on your feet, flat on your back than either, dead than the lot." The epigram appears in a collection of ...
- BBC plans audio archive of complete works of Burns (The Herald)
An ambitious project using the voices of leading Scots actors to create a unique audio archive of the complete canon of Robert Burns's poetry was among the highlights unveiled by BBC Scotland when it launched its new schedule yesterday.
- B-52s rocking along with Cyndi Lauper (Miami Herald)
The rejuvenated B-52s -- Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson -- are still dancing this mess around 30 years after their deliriously wacko hit Rock Lobster shook up common notions of what rock 'n' roll should, and could, be.
- Wishes for Madiba pour in as city gets ready to party (Cape Argus)
Madiba mania is taking hold in the country in the countdown to Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday on Friday.
- Western apparel spotlighted at Cowboy Symposium - LubbockOnline.com
Western apparel spotlighted at Cowboy SymposiumLubbockOnline.com, TX - 16 hours agoThis year's cowboy symposium will also feature chuck wagons, a Native American powwow, horse-training shows, music and poetry. It will continue until near ...
- Poetry allows me to express myself: Kapil Sibal - Economic Times
Poetry allows me to express myself: Kapil SibalEconomic Times, India - 1 hour agoBut the evening was not all about poetry. Sibal was forced to talk about politics. "We (politicians) too are sensitive. We too have feelings like any other ...
- PM’s remarks at Hiren Mukherjee Memorial Lecture - Press Information Bureau (press release)
PM’s remarks at Hiren Mukherjee Memorial LecturePress Information Bureau (press release), India - 3 hours agoWe see it in the writings of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, in the essays of Raja Rammohan Roy, in the novels and poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. ...
- by Horacio Castellanos Moya The serious tone masks a tongue in ... - TheCelebrityCafe.com
by Horacio Castellanos Moya The serious tone masks a tongue in ...TheCelebrityCafe.com, NY - 5 hours agoIt is the first gem of the poetry of the oppressed to be collected in the journalist’s notebook. This sentence dominates his unstable mind as he slogs ...
- North Shore Calendar - Salem News
TOUR. Experience the architecture of the 17th-century Gedney House, 21 High St., Salem, Saturday, July 5. Guided tours available every hour from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission, $5, adults; $4, seniors and students; children, $2.50, and Salem residents ...
- Pacific Market Center Hosts Gift & Home Show - Gourmet Retailer
Pacific Market Center Hosts Gift & Home ShowGourmet Retailer, FL - 44 minutes ago... a collection of 50 exclusive Wonderful Wacky Women artwork and poetry, Monkeying Around, a colorful collection of plush sock monkeys, and re:VIVE, ...
- Meet Singer-Songwriter Aimee Mann and Acclaimed Author Joseph O'Neill "Upstairs at the Square" on Thursday, July 31, ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Barnes & Noble, Inc. , the world's largest bookseller, today announced the next event in its buzzed-about series, "Upstairs at the Square," held at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in Manhattan .
- Berkshire Stages - Berkshire Eagle
Berkshire StagesBerkshire Eagle, MA - 2 hours agoBill Barclay's original music, set to Shakespeare's words and classic French troubadour poetry, is more intrusive than helpful. It all makes for a very long ...
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