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- Persian calligraphy: Gentle curves of beauty - Presstv
Iranians have always been known for their appreciation of beauty and their artistic taste in creating masterpieces from elements. A brilliant example of such artistry is Persian calligraphy. Ancient Persian script, which developed between 500-600 BCE ...
- Old Town festival brings the variety - Chicago Sun-Times
Old Town festival brings the varietyChicago Sun-Times, United States - 11 hours ago... the Dance Tent (with sessions exploring everything from Aztec dance to Zydeco dance); the Nuestra Musica Tent (highlighting Latin American poets and ...
- Wow: We live in Music City, USA (Orlando Sentinel)
Have you heard? Orlando will be the fourth city in an international list of major music cities to become a "Gibson GuitarTown." Yes, Orlando is a major music city! Remember all the "boy bands," matchbox twenty, Creed? They all originated here, or their recording/management/production companies are based in Orlando. Music is still a huge business here. This community project unites celebrities ...
- Rochester, Brighton students earn literary awards (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
The Sokol High School Literary Award winners understand the power of words, and use them to connect with others.
- Christian McBride's 'The Movement Revisited' (All About Jazz)
Christian McBride's 'The Movement Revisited' at Disney Hall A four-section suite ruminating on the civil rights movement weds the music to the message.
- Look closer... - Boston Globe
Most of the summer-reading lists you usually see are long, as are many of the books. Here’s a quirkier sort of list. It has three criteria. 1. The books are all short gems, about 250 pages or fewer. 2. Most have been overlooked. 3. While none is a ...
- Women writers help each other find the right words (Daily Record)
Culinary and literary adventurer that she is, Joanne Flynn Black of Morristown penned the beginning of "Daily Dosa," the story of how she first encountered the South Indian crepe in a restaurant Down Under.
- Fair talent winners sing way to the top - Beacon News
Winners of this year's Kane County Fair Talent Contest included a duet and an opera singer. The 25th annual contest had 18 entries in the finals competing for prize money in two divisions. Winning entries received $200 for first place, $125 for ...
- New play explores what search reveals about us - Chicago Tribune
PHILADELPHIA - They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person? That's the premise behind "User 927," a new production in ...
- Nelson Algren Photos on Exhibit At MCA - Broadway World
Nelson Algren Photos on Exhibit At MCABroadway World, NY - 1 hour agoNelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day, an intimate multimedia portrait, sets Algren's backstreet poetry to the pulse of a live, on-stage jazz combo, ...
- Retirement Unearths Pleasant Surprises / Unexpected Twists in ... - RedOrbit
Retirement Unearths Pleasant Surprises / Unexpected Twists in ...RedOrbit, TX - 9 minutes agoShe has had some poetry published and is currently writing a humorous series about life and aging. Every year she attends a writer's conference for two ...
- TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86 (Chicago Tribune)
Martin was the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such phrases as "Sock it to me!"
- Progressive Poetry - American Progress
Percy Shelly said that poetry, also known as critical reflections upon popular culture, was a touchtone and an influencing agent for understanding and advocating for current issues. E. Ethelbert Miller, David Gewanter, and Naomi Ayala, have each ...
- Patt Rall Arts Column: Bemidji Chorale to premiere original ... - Bemidji Pioneer
Patt Rall Arts Column: Bemidji Chorale to premiere original ...Bemidji Pioneer, MN - 1 hour agoThis month student writers from the Red Lake Reservation will share their poetry or prose accompanied by Native flute player Annie Aitken. ...
- Poetry that you can chew over (Stuff)
Havelock North company Poesy is mixing yeast and Yeats. Well, sort of. Poesy sells thin, oval, pizza-base-like breads with a poem in each packet. The idea occurred to owners Alexandra Tylee and Chris Morris about two years ago while they were running their restaurant Pipi in Greytown.
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