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- Facebook is "educational", says US uni - Silicon.com
Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. According to the study, social networks build beneficial technological, creative and ...
- The Material Girl at 50 (Mail and Guardian)
It seems to be happening to everyone at the moment: Prince, Michael Jackson, Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin and Paddington Bear are all turning 50 this year with Madonna also blowing out her birthday-cake candles next month.
- The 'Bluestocking Circle' and the fight for women's rights in literary ... - International Herald Tribune
LONDON : They dazzled 18th-century London, or at least their closest friends, with their fine art of conversation which was to redeem "Society" from its mortal addiction to playing cards and dancing. Failing that, it made them famous, but fame is a ...
- Books: Welcome to the Club - Newsweek
Books: Welcome to the ClubNewsweek - 28 minutes ago... even food writing (the Library has also just published an anthology of that), as often as in conventional novels, stories, poetry and plays. ...
- Magazine Preview - New York Times
M atthew Weiner stood on the set of his hit show, “Mad Men,” ready for his close-up in extreme anxiety. He was watching the rehearsal of a scene that seemed fine to me, better than fine, but his staccato commentary was a scene in itself. “He ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse - Star-ecentral.com
"Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't ...
- Poet's influence will live on through his inspirational words - Record
Most Stockton poets are such dilettantes and navel-gazers that a real poet is cause for profound gratitude. That is why I feel a loss at the death of David Humphreys. Humphreys, a skilled poet who combined the mundane and metaphysical, often in the ...
- ‘Carpetbagger’s Children’ is storytelling at its best (Cleveland Jewish News)
If you like a good story, you’ll enjoy “The Carpetbagger’s Children.” Written in 2002 by master playwright Horton Foote when he was 86, the drama revolves around three sisters who relive their family’s history in an era spanning post-Civil War Reconstruction to the present.
- Lingua publica - Enter Stage Right
Lingua publicaEnter Stage Right, Canada - 1 hour agoBoth sides agree something must be done about America being the world's only superpower, the sad legacy of the straight white male. ...
- Weaver of words - Hindu
HinduWeaver of wordsHindu, India - 32 minutes agoHe narrated my own poems to me. He has that spontaneity. We did not plan to sit down and discuss every poem. He worked out on his own. ...
- MUSIC SCENE - Morning Journal
When two potent writing, recording and performing inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame get together for a concert, it should be no surprise that the concert will be soon sold out. Indeed, such is the case of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ...
- Tony Jeffries guaranteed boxing light-heavyweight bronze medal in ... - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukTony Jeffries guaranteed boxing light-heavyweight bronze medal in ...Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoTony Jeffries, the former nightclub doorman who has spent his nights here writing prose to his girlfriend back home, was poetry in motion as he cruised to a ...
- Robert M. Thorson - Hartford Courant
Robert M. ThorsonHartford Courant, United States - 27 minutes agoJust before his death, he sent me his most recent collection of poetry, "Turtle Island Tree Psalms" (2006), which we were going to discuss when he returned ...
- Review: An invigorating, politically savvy 'Hamlet' at the Cleveland ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
King Claudius (played by actor Gil Frank, left) confronts his rebellious stepson, Prince Hamlet (Itay Tiran) in the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv's Hebrew "Hamlet" at the Cleveland Play House. When: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (Queensland Country Life)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
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