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- Michigan State grad's physics rap is a YouTube hit - Grand Rapids Press
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Kate McAlpine is a viral sensation thanks to her unlikely skill: rapping about high-level physics. The 23-year-old Michigan State University graduate and science writer's particle physics rap is a hit on YouTube with half ...
- A look at what people are reading this summer (The Weston Town Crier)
 It’s summer vacation time in the midst of a presidential campaign so thrillers, frothy romances and light novels are sharing space with weightier political and history tomes in the beach bags and on bedside tables of Sudbury, Wayland and Weston residents.
- Arts & Cultural Council honors seven area artists - Democrat and Chronicle
After local storyteller Jay Stetzer is honored next month by the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, he'll have a great tale to tell his family and friends. He'll be in good company as one of the winners of the council's 25th annual Arts ...
- School celebrations strike a chord with cultural diversity - The Star
School celebrations strike a chord with cultural diversityThe Star, UK - 20 minutes agoThe event at Fir Vale School, which included speeches, poetry, dancing and music, was aimed at celebrating the many different nationalities making up the ...
- Indian blogger's series to be published in Pak text book - Express India
Islamabad, July 23: An Indian blogger's write-ups on five things Pakistanis love about their country may soon be included in a Pakistani school text book. The Oxford University Press in Karachi, which is working on a Class 11 text book, has sought ...
- Palestinians mourn national poet Darwish - Middle East Online
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinians on Sunday mourned the passing of Mahmud Darwish, who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets. Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry ...
- Cardboard Synthesizers Look as Cool as your Software Synths Sound - Wired
We're not the only ones who love the look of analog synthesizers, with their patch cables, oscillators, filters and other old school controls. But when it comes to convenience or even sound quality, they've been left far behind by modern synthesizers ...
- Investor Backs Business To Benefit Artists (The Memphis Daily News)
When Bob Compton met the daughter of a family friend last year who wowed him with an impromptu recitation of some of her poetry, it gave the Memphis v....
- Movie: The Dark Knight (Journal Inquirer)
"Batman" isn't a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about.
- What Does Obama Have in Common With Frederick Douglass? - New York Times
What Does Obama Have in Common With Frederick Douglass?New York Times, United States - 38 minutes agoOn the stump, Mr. Obama is far more about poetry and sweeping rhetoric grounded in a powerful message of political change; but the admonition that one ...
- Bumbershoot: Braggadocio rules at TI concert - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Bumbershoot: Braggadocio rules at TI concertSeattle Post Intelligencer - 46 minutes agoIn its place were pre-recording bits, beats and samples that a DJ spun into a canvas while TI painted poetry in plainspoken prose. ...
- Desperate Housewives - Entertainment Weekly Online
The theme of last night's episode of Desperate Housewives seemed focused on loss. Of course, the ladies (and their hubbies) of Wisteria Lane are always losing something — their best friend to suicide, babies to their rightful mothers, etc. — but ...
- Handel's Forebears Given Fine Voice - RedOrbit
Handel's Forebears Given Fine VoiceRedOrbit, TX - 22 hours agoBut the music itself, while tuneful, never quite matches the timeless character of this prophetic and insightfully profound poetry.
- Detective tale meets literary fiction, but is it too timely? - Chicago Tribune
The fall of a presidential election year is rarely a good time to publish fiction. We're in the season of nonfiction titles: White House memoirs, Presidential biographies and partisan tracts. Philip Roth 's "The Plot Against America" was a rare ...
- Selves, Masks, Performance - A Theatre Workshop - Citizen Matters
Selves, Masks, Performance - A Theatre WorkshopCitizen Matters, India - 1 hour agoIt will also be interdisciplinary in nature and will cover aspects of devising a performance through the usage of forms like poetry, music, literature, ...
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