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- Daily Voice « - Village Voice
The most mysterious song I've heard all year is by a Londoner named Ben Simmons. Appropriately, the track shows up on iTunes as "[Blank]," as if technology itself couldn't figure out just how to classify this inscrutable sound: He starts off ...
- Book note: - Twin Cities Planet
Book note:Twin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 1 hour agoBy Dwight Hobbes , TC Daily Planet Jealous Witness, the new collection of poems by Andrei Codrescu (This Was Today)—published by Minneapolis’s Coffee House ...
- John Densmore's jazz education (Los Angeles Times)
- Funeral set for Anthony Kane Baker of Palm Beach, killed in plane ... - Palm Beach Daily News
Funeral services will be Tuesday, July 22, for Anthony Kane Baker, a longtime Palm Beach resident who was killed Wednesday when his lightweight airplane crashed into the Tennessee River. Mr. Baker was 65. The funeral will take place at 1 p.m. at St ...
- 20 Mil. Lost Generation in Japan - Donga.com
This is an excerpt from one of Ishikawa Takuboku’s poems published in 1910. He died at the age of 26. The passage is often quoted to express the harsh realities of the Japanese “working poor.” Although the Japanese poet worked day and night as ...
- Richmond Really Really Free Market - Infoshop News
Richmond Really Really Free MarketInfoshop News - 12 hours agoAnyone interested in performing, music or reading poetry or whatever, should contact us or just show up. So dig through your closets, take the extra from ...
- Making a statement - Western Front
Making a statementWestern Front, WA - 29 minutes agoby Danielle Koagel Olivia‘s colorful blue, purple and red drawing stands out among a shuffled pile of poetry, glass art plates and a CD case titled "Peace. ...
- Harry Potter ‘is too boring and grown-up for young readers’ - Times Online
They may have sold more than 375 million copies in 65 countries around the world, but J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are boring and inappropriate for young readers, according to the Children’s Laureate. Michael Rosen, 62, the poet and author ...
- Pets, Pets, Pets (Massapequa Post)
To animal lovers, pets are pure poetry in motion. Walt Whitman's work didn't glorify dogs or cats; however, in Stanza 32 of "Song of Myself" (published in 1855) Long Island's most celebrated poet does praise the simplicity of all animals:
- Patrick Phillips' "Piano" (Seattle Times)
Poets are especially good at investing objects with meaning, or in drawing meaning from the things of this world. Here Patrick Phillips of...
- Asia's love of 'living art' koi fish growing (TODAYonline)
This file photo shows an employee of Nippon Koi farm feeding koi fish in an aquatic hotel, in Singapore. Koi, an ornamental fish which enthusiasts liken to a moving work of art, are gaining popularity across Asia thanks to changing lifestyles and increasingly sophisticated tastes, experts say.
- Community Calendar July 16 to 22 - Atascadero News
Community Calendar July 16 to 22Atascadero News, Atascadero - 3 hours agoCriss Canaday of Paso Robles, will be featured reading her original poetry at Third Thursday Poets’ Night Out beginning 7 pm on Thursday, July 17 at St. ...
- LOG ON (RainbowNetwork.com)
With achievements ranging from the design of the mighty dome of St Peters to the painting of the vast fresco cycle in the Sistine Chapel, not to mention the beautiful, homoerotic statue of David, it seems fair to describe Michelangelo as one of the greatest artists the world has ever known.
- Ranch rodeo featuring 48 bronc-riding 'working cowboys' set for ... - My West Texas
ANDREWS -- A ranch rodeo featuring "working cowboys" riding wild broncs will be staged in Andrews this weekend in an event that is designed to accentuate the "ranch heritage" of the Old West and today. "We are wanting to keep this ranch heritage ...
- A Necklace of Raindrops - Financial Times
Joan Aiken wrote poetry, plays and adult novels, including a sequel to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park , but she is best known for her children’s stories: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and the Arabel and Mortimer series, the latter famously ...
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