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- Lou Reed in Concert (NPR)
NPR.org , May 6, 2008 - If we asked all the musicians featured on All Songs Considered to name their biggest influence, I bet the most popular answer would be Lou Reed. His songwriting in the Velvet Underground, and 40 years of songwriting since, is filled with street-life poetry and train-throbbing rhythms absent from rock and roll in the mid 1960s.
- B-52s refuel, get back in action with Lauper tour - Tacoma News Tribune
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 ...
- Candidates keep Portland weird - Oregonian
Lots of jokes about Sam Adams being gay. Sho Dozono doing - thankfully only briefly - a pole dance. A boatload of Portland City Council candidates displaying their, um, talents for everything from heavy metal (Amanda Fritz, believe it or not) to ...
- Writer Bill Holm's ship comes in (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The poet and essayist, who splits his time between Minnesota and Iceland, is known as "an American original."
- Nothing to do? That's just wrong - Modesto Bee
Police shoot, kill man who savagely beat toddler to death near Turlock Quest for answers in toddler's violent death Father killed boy; child kicked 'like a soccer ball' Books Ceres football coach tied to cocaine ring Police shoot, kill man who ...
- Self-Righteous Critics on The Left and The Right of The Political ... - NewsBlaze
Self-Righteous Critics on The Left and The Right of The Political ...NewsBlaze, CA - 43 minutes agoIn his younger days his poetry was published in literary journals including Solstice (England) and Beyond Baroque and Phantasm (California). ...
- Phoebe Snow Revisits `Poetry Man,' Offers New Tunes at Birdland - Bloomberg
Phoebe Snow Revisits `Poetry Man,' Offers New Tunes at BirdlandBloomberg - 1 hour agoReturning to her music has been a priority for Snow since the March 2007 death of daughter, Valerie Rose, who suffered from brain trauma during birth and ...
- Triibute to Women - Altoona Mirror
Triibute to WomenAltoona Mirror, PA - 15 minutes agoHobbies: Reading, cooking, writing poetry, singing and playing cards. Family: Husband, James A. Fogel; children James Fogel, Kathy (Fogel) Mayhue, ...
- What's Happening - Patriot Ledger
ART ON THE AVENUE – Gallery & Open Studio, 1037 Nantasket Ave., Hull. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Sun. Paintings, photos, books, drawings, furniture, jewelry by Lenore Schneider, Brooks Kelly, Theo Page, Ellie Hayes, Julie Schmitt Sullivan, Bill ...
- Hometown homage - Guardian Unlimited
There's a wonderful line from Guy Maddin's tragicomic 2003 film The Saddest Music In The World, which states, "Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass." If Maddin were to use this to describe his latest film, the autobiographical My Winnipeg, let ...
- Austin killer wants quick execution - Austin American-Statesman
Austin killer wants quick executionAustin American-Statesman, TX - Apr 18, 2008He said a life of listening to the radio, writing poetry, reading and corresponding with a few pen pals does not appeal to him. Davis said that since he's ...
- The fantasy of Scotland's history - Times Online
Times OnlineThe fantasy of Scotland's historyTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoWith the rediscovery of genuine traditional Scottish poetry and the creation of genuine modern Scottish poetry, Scott had filled the void, and Ossian was no ...
- The Healing Power of Poetry in New Book (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Finding help and freedom through spiritual poems in new book
- Praise the Lloyd - Age
The incomparable Harold Lloyd. The everyman comedy of a slapstick legend retains its poetic perfection, writes Jake Wilson. THE COMEDIES OF Harold Lloyd, it's tempting to predict, will endure for at least as long as the United States. Other silent ...
- A long flowering (Baltimore Sun)
New book celebrates the late poet Josephine Jacobsen and her 'gift for happiness' Poet Elizabeth Spires, a Goucher College professor and friend of the late poet Josephine Jacobsen, has edited a chapbook of Jacobsen's poems.
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