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- Singer Natalie Merchant edges into Pops collaboration - Boston Globe
Natalie Merchant was nursing a cold when we rang her up earlier this week to chat about her EdgeFest appearances with the Boston Pops next week. The former 10,000 Maniacs vocalist vowed she'd be well in time for the gigs, which pair the orchestra ...
- Silver Apples - Cleveland Free Times
Cleveland Free TimesSilver ApplesCleveland Free Times, OH - 5 hours agoAnachronistic, cosmic, icy instrumentation swirled underneath earthy, archetypal hippie poetry and a songwriting sensibility grown from Simeon's roots and ...
- Venues host open mic nights - UT The Daily Texan
Venues host open mic nightsUT The Daily Texan, TX - 3 hours agoParticipants here - with support and prodding from host and part-time muse Thom Worldpoet - are encouraged to create poetry and other writings on the spot ...
- Smart People (15) - this is hampshire.net
Smart People (15)this is hampshire.net, UK - May 16, 2008Page's wise-beyond-her-years teen bears striking similarities to her signature role in Juno, minus any of the self-deprecating charm or vulnerability, ...
- IN MY LIBRARY: LAURIE ANDERSON (New York Post)
Voracious! That's how Laurie Anderson - performance artist, love of Lou Reed's life - describes her reading habits. "I'm just a complete bookworm," the ethereal violinist/poet/composer tells The Post's Barbara Hoffman. "I love touring because I can...
- Poetry in the park (The West Australian)
Films like To Die For, Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester might have put director Gus Van Sant’s name on the Hollywood map but it’s early grunge films, like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, and more recent Cannes favourites like Gerry and Elephant, that make his oeuvre so distinctive.
- Joyce Robinson found a family - Martinsville Reporter-Times
Writing from the heart about your own life can be difficult — and challenging — especially if part of the story is missing. But Joyce Ann Robinson of Mooresville said this was a task she felt led to do, mainly because there were other foster ...
- Lynchburg icon, poet Anne Spencer’s works turned over to UVa - Lynchburg News and Advance
Lynchburg News and AdvanceLynchburg icon, poet Anne Spencer’s works turned over to UVaLynchburg News and Advance, VA - 55 minutes ago... of the late poet — the first black woman and first Virginian to have her work included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry — had become nomads. ...
- Arthur Russell's Out of Context Tribute - Village Voice
Out of blackness arises a distorted coo, not unlike a coyote out on a plain, but with its howls run through a Superfuzz Bigmuff pedal. A cello diverges out of the fuzz, the voice and bowed strings then moving together. The black screen turns to the ...
- Club's name is its goal for 110 years - Detroit Free Press
Club's name is its goal for 110 yearsDetroit Free Press, United States - 1 hour agoGabrielle Lewis Pelham invited five of her female friends to her Detroit home to discuss the poetry of Robert Browning. Such circles were fashionable in ...
- Tales of brave 'Ulysses' (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
It's funny that a book that's been lambasted by some scholars for its stream-of-consciousness prose style and suffered obscenity trials should become a cultural touchstone, but such has been the history of James Joyce's "Ulysses."
- Our Picks for the Weekend - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Takoyaki is a sometime treat at Shirokiya, but cravings tend to arise at those inopportune moments when it's unavailable. There is a source, however, if you don't mind heading for Waikiki, where Samurai Takoyaki has set up shop on Kuhio, in the ...
- Catching crabs at HighTide l - East Anglian Daily Times
Playwright Joel Horwood's works have been inspired by his upbringing on the Suffolk coast and I Caught Crabs in Walberswick, opening at the HighTide in Halesworth this week, is the latest. Lynne Mortimer talks to the playwright ahead of the first ...
- Gowdy, Lee up for Trillium prize - CBC News
Barbara Gowdy and Dennis Lee are among the finalists for this year's Trillium Book Award, Ontario's premier literary prize. The winners will be announced on June 12. Gowdy, winner of the Marian Engel Award in 1996, which recognizes the complete body ...
- A chat with two poets in love (The Standard-Times)
I got the chance to talk summer reading with a poetic couple this week — French poet/actress Hélène Cardona and her husband, Irish lawyer/poet John M. FitzGerald.
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