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- Story, photos: ’Mad Men’ and ‘30 Rock’ win top Emmys - Green Bay Press-Gazette
LOS ANGELES — The sleek ’60s drama “Mad Men” made Emmy history Sunday as the first basic-cable show to win a top series award, while the sitcom “30 Rock” and its stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin also emerged as big winners. “We’re all ...
- "Yo, Hadrian!" Who will play the Roman Emperor in a new biopic? - AfterElton.com
"Yo, Hadrian!" Who will play the Roman Emperor in a new biopic?AfterElton.com - 16 hours agoThe emperor meditates on military triumphs, love of poetry and music, philosophy, and his passion for his lover Antinous." The facts of Antinous are sketchy ...
- Andrew Davidson's $2.5-million voyage (The Globe and Mail)
This Canadian's literary odyssey began with a visit from an imaginary siren who insisted her story be put to paper. It evolved into a centuries-long saga of a porn star and his muse. It ended with publishing deals spanning the globe
- Local woman’s Easter tale a long time in the making - Houma Courier
Local woman’s Easter tale a long time in the makingHouma Courier, Louisiana - 7 hours agoFolse began writing at age 8, often focusing on poetry and short stories. While in elementary school, Folse saw some of her writings published as part of ...
- Poet aided Obama's search for black identity in Hawaii - Los Angeles Daily News
HONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Michael Chabon: Streams in a River - Locus Online
Locus OnlineMichael Chabon: Streams in a RiverLocus Online, CA - 9 hours ago“All phrasebooks are inherently funny, because they have this kind of absurdist, dadaist quality. Often it's hard to imagine real-life applications for the ...
- Wrong Turn At Lungfish (Sydney Morning Herald)
Wrong Turn At Lungfish is amusingly abrasive and empowering in a deeply familiar way.
- Come celebrate Governor’s Arts Award - ReporterHerald.com
ReporterHerald.comCome celebrate Governor’s Arts AwardReporterHerald.com, CO - 9 hours agoThe Governor’s Poetry Reading “Many Voices, a Celebration of Poetry and Music”: 6:30-8 pm Thursday at the Rialto Theater, 228 E. Fourth St. The celebration ...
- The Week[end]: August 8-10, 2008 (Isthmus)
Summer is entering its homestretch with the opening of the Beijing Olympics, but there's still plenty of fun to be found this weekend. The National Poetry Slam will crown a champion, the Johnny Winston, Jr. Streetball ' Block Party will take over Penn Park, and the Wisconsin State Fair will wrap up, just for starters. Productions of The Rocky Horror Show, Shiny Things, Ah, Wilderness! and ...
- War and sex: Who's afraid of Sarah Kane? (International Herald Tribune)
Soho Rep in New York is facing the challenge of staging Sarah Kane's "Blasted," a play bursting with audacious violence and wriggling with metaphor.
- Funeral home for pets opens in Orchard Park (The Buffalo News)
Wine-colored drapes and vases of flowers evoke a solemn tone for visitors who walk through the doors of Orchard Park's newest funeral home.
- Byronic Burlesque Comes to Brooklyn—The Madame's Poetry Brothel - Nypress.com
Some time ago, the New York Press received a small wooden box in the mail—a board game with a few poker chips in gold and silver, a pair of dice, small cards seemingly pulled at random out of a deck, some tarot cards, and a CD compilation of turn ...
- Debating society - Southwest Virginia Today
Debating societySouthwest Virginia Today, VA - 4 minutes agoThe school’s first president Charles Collins helped establish the Calliopean Literary Society, named for the Greek epic poetry muse, in 1840. ...
- In Other News... (Voodoo Extreme)
Grats to HitoraTaiko for winning the Wrath of the Lich King Poetry Contest with this lovely...
- Out & About (Nanaimo Daily News)
The Nanaimo Arts Council hosts Creative Currents on the second Saturday of every month at the Nanaimo Art Gallery Downtown from 2-4 p.m. Sunday Aug. 31. Pioneer Plaza, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Market, workshops, music, entertainment.
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