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- Arts Calendar: 8/28-8/31 - Daily News Tribune
Arts Calendar: 8/28-8/31Daily News Tribune, MA - 3 hours agoTonight at 8, it's the ``salon gone wrong,'' a vaudeville variety show and poetry slam. Admission is $15, $14 for students and seniors, $12 for members. ...
- Berkeley Video and Film Festival Showcases the Indie Spirit - Berkeley Daily Planet
The 17th annual Berkeley Video and Film Festival features its usual eclectic mix of independent cinema, from The Road to Bonneville, a documentary about hot rod racing in the salt flats of Utah, to George Aguilar’s virtual cinema-poems, with avatar ...
- Angry young lady-man (Mail and Guardian)
'The complexity and contradictory existence of mankind is what gives me a hard-on about being alive. This is what my work is about," says Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito.
- 'Sex and the City' transitions to DVD - MLive.com
Back in NYC: Reprising their TV roles for the big-screen version of "Sex and the City" are, from left: Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall. The TV-to-movies transition can sometimes be rough, but that didn't deter the ...
- Easton author offers two new books (Connecticut Post)
EASTON -- With musical words like whizz, zoom and rumble, and illustrations to match, books created by a local author capture the attention of beginning readers.
- Late-night films would be 'too noisy' for navy - Portsmouth News
Late-night films would be 'too noisy' for navyPortsmouth News, UK - 28 minutes agoBy Alex Forsyth A row has broken out between arts centre managers and the navy over plans for late-night poetry readings and film showings. ...
- CDs out today (Denver Post)
John Mellencamp, "Life Death Love and Freedom" (Hear Music) Chevy ad soundtrack "Our Country" soured Mellencamp's otherwise impeccable folk-rock credentials a couple of years ago, but his new album returns him to the gritty, spare ruminations for which he's known.
- A haunting look into humanity's dark corners - Globe and Mail
A haunting look into humanity's dark cornersGlobe and Mail, Canada - 5 hours agoBut having watched other talented translators trip over Mouawad's concrete abstractions and rational poetry, the strengths of Gaboriau's translation are all ...
- Poem of the week: Fine Knacks for Ladies, by Anon - Guardian Blogs
This week's poem is by the greatest poet of all time. I was reminded of its existence by an essay by Clive Wilmer, published in the latest issue of that excellent poetry journal, PN Review , "Thom Gunn, Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry". During the ...
- Black poet, journalist advised young Obama (Honolulu Advertiser)
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.
- DVDs: 'Made of Honor' is sweet - Oakland Tribune
DVDs: 'Made of Honor' is sweetOakland Tribune, CA - 4 hours agoThe film bears some similarities to "My Best Friend's Wedding," but where the latter was mean-spirited, this one's sweet as McLuscious. ...
- Kicking a Dead Horse: mounting tedium of a dead-horse drama - Daily Telegraph
In real time, this new play from the American dramatist Sam Shepard lasts only 70 minutes, but it feels immeasurably longer than that. Indeed, I began to wonder whether I'd get out of the theatre alive or succumb to death by chronic tedium. Going ...
- Joyce Carol Oates unravels murder mystery from interesting perspective in new novel (Ventura County Star)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable.
- One nation, under English - La Grange Daily News
La cucaracha, la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar. La cucaracha, la cuca ... Oh, perdon. I was just tuning up for an interview with Baracko Obama and Juan McCain who have been busy lately wooing los que hablan espanol. That is, people who speak Spanish ...
- E.M. Forster, Middle Manager (New York Review of Books)
An article by Zadie Smith from The New York Review of Books, August 14, 2008
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