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- Author Paula Gunn Allen dies at 68 - United Press International
FORT BRAGG, Calif., June 7 (UPI) -- Breakthrough Native American author, feminist and top scholar Paula Gunn Allen died of lung cancer at her California home at the age of 68. The one-time University of California-Los Angeles professor paved the way ...
- Heart and Sole being put into Snow White - Belfast Telegraph
While most of us have been enjoying our first taste of sun this summer, Londonderry company Sole Purpose has been spending the past couple of weeks putting the finishing touches to its latest production. So what have they got lined up for us? A ...
- A beer party in a former home of the poet lands several teens and ... - Los Angeles Times
A beer party in a former home of the poet lands several teens and ...Los Angeles Times, CA - 26 minutes ago... into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. ...
- Performers boost China's profile - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Performers boost China's profilePittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 1 hour agoLocal talent also took to the stage, including high school seniors and poetry readers Peter Wong and Chelsea Cramer, and junior Adam Handen, ...
- Dazzled by derby: Super fans take their devotion to the rink of madness (The Capital Times)
They claim to be "more rabid than Badgers or Packers fans" and they show their love any way they can: one makes teddy bears, one writes poetry and another is a prolific poster-maker. This subculture of dedicated super fans has grown up around Madison's all-women roller derby league, the Mad Rollin' Dolls. The fans will surely be out in force when the league's travel team, the Dairyland Dolls, ...
- Taking the Kids: Youth art exhibit at the De Young Museum - Inside Bay Area
Taking the Kids: Youth art exhibit at the De Young MuseumInside Bay Area, CA - 9 minutes agoAdd in poetry readings, choral groups and jazz in the de Young's Koret Auditorium and outdoors on the museum cafe terrace, and there's something to tickle ...
- Flying Above The Sky - ArtslinkNews
Flying Above The SkyArtslinkNews, South Africa - 2 hours ago'Flying Above The Sky’ is the second anthology of poems from the award-winning writer, and marks her first foray into self-publishing. ...
- Arrangements pending for 'Renaissance man,' philanthropist Anthony Kane Baker, who died in plane crash (Palm Beach Daily News)
Funeral arrangements are pending for Anthony Kane Baker, a longtime Palm Beach resident who was killed Wednesday when his lightweight airplane crashed into the Tennessee River.
- Why everyone wants to make a Dylan Thomas movie - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukWhy everyone wants to make a Dylan Thomas movieguardian.co.uk, UK - 35 minutes agoDylan Thomas is a poet for people who don't really like poetry. So why are Bob Dylan, Pierce Brosnan and Mick Jagger so besotted by him? ...
- The art of therapy: Painting program aids seniors with dementia - Times-News
If you go What: Friendship Adult Day Services' first annual art show When: Friday at 6 p.m. Where: 1946-B Martin St., Burlington Patrons can take a painting for a suggested donation of $100.
- Kids exercise their creativity at writing camp (Orlando Sentinel)
Teaching kids the joys and wonders of the written word might seem almost quaint in an era of text-messaging shorthand and languishing public libraries.
- 'Made of Honor' star Monaghan announces pregnancy (The Washington Times)
Michelle Monaghan and her husband, Peter White, are expecting their first baby together this fall, her publicist said Tuesday.
- Car-Free Day festivities down on Denman - Georgia Straight
Car-Free Day festivities down on DenmanGeorgia Straight, Canada - 15 minutes agoThere was plenty going on: two stages at either end of Denman with bands playing, salsa dancing, double-dutch skip rope, spoken word poetry, ...
- The Cape Breton Chorale Rocks! - Cape Breton
These days when everybody seems to listening their fifty personal favorite tunes on their iPod or some highly niched satellite radio channel featuring only acoustic jazz pop ballads sung in Spanish by Norwegian coal miners (I jest now but just wait ...
- Caroline Kennedy's Role In Obama VP Search (CBS News)
As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Caroline Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is sure to be one of the most closely watched endeavors of this year's presidential campaign.
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