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- Neat freak spawns a slob - Edmonton Journal
Neat freak spawns a slobEdmonton Journal, Canada - 3 hours agoHe takes us skateboarding, and introduces punk, acid, "moody broody poetry," and a fleeting alignment with formal post-secondary education in which he ...
- Roger Palmer lets the Dogs out (Creative Loafing Tampa)
Childlike artworks underscore the horrors of war... By Megan Voeller When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. --J.S. Mill When philosopher John Stuart Mill evoked those brutal images in 1862, he was actually writing in favor of war, but only in cases that "protect ...
- A Van Cliburn anniversary: From musician to folk hero (The Star)
If cultural gods tell us more about us than about themselves, Van Cliburn holds a particularly warped and smoky mirror up to the classical-music world he intermittently dominated over the last half-century - one that shows much about the strange price of being a folk hero.
- Is It a Recession? - New York Times Blogs
For my money, we are currently in a recession. But the fiendishly clever Ed Leamer disagrees. All too often these sorts of disagreements come down to definitions. And so he asks: “ What’s a Recession, Anyway ?†(The ungated version is here ...
- Catching Up With... Ron Sexsmith - Paste Magazine
Paste MagazineCatching Up With... Ron SexsmithPaste Magazine, GA - 3 hours agoSexsmith’s music is equally unassuming—his melodies effortless, his poetry direct. And on his tenth release, Exit Strategy For the Soul (out in the US July ...
- Los Gatos Art Gallery Hosts Poetry Reading - Los Gatos Observer
Los Gatos ObserverLos Gatos Art Gallery Hosts Poetry ReadingLos Gatos Observer, USA - 4 hours agoAlthough he has written poetry and short stories for many years, he first read his poetry at Overpass Gallery a few years ago. His influences include Edgar ...
- Popcorn & Candy: Conspiracy Theories (DCist)
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Parallax View This week in Popcorn & Candy, what's old is new again. We've got Cold War satire that's just as appropriate now, a TV series that was at its best in the '90s reborn on the big screen, and ancient Rome through the lens of the mid-20th ...
- Event: Memories of poet Shamsur Rahman recalled - The New Nation
The New NationEvent: Memories of poet Shamsur Rahman recalledThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 1 hour agoFor this reason, he used structural frame of the European poetry in his poems. But there were also languages of the local people, said the speakers. ...
- Bash'd gives its regards to off-Broadway - Calgary Herald
Bash'd gives its regards to off-BroadwayCalgary Herald, Canada - 1 hour agoIt employs the humour of punch-line style rapping, with the power of poetry, all to a beat. It turns hip hop on its head, since its known for its ...
- Digication, Whipplehill Partner for ePortfolios for K-12 - The Journal
ePortfolio software developer Digication is teaming up with systems designer Whipplehill Communications to launch new ePortfolio services for their customers. The combined effort will allows students using Whipplehill Podium-based portals to ...
- Take on Life: Students stage King Street showstopper - Danbury News-Times
At the invitation of music teacher Jill Russell, Boston Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez came to King Street Intermediate School in Danbury on Thursday. Well, sort of. Maybe it wasn't the Manny Ramirez. But fifth-grader Johnny Garcia certainly gave a ...
- Celebrating with free art (Times Leader)
KINGSTON -- Marissa Miller sat on Main Street in Kingston on Sunday morning for more than three hours as she waited for the Paper Kite Studio & Gallery to open its doors.
- FCC announces fall schedule of events - Frederick News Post (subscription)
FCC announces fall schedule of eventsFrederick News Post (subscription), MD - 4 hours agoLee has received several awards for his work, including the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award for his collection, "Book of My Night. ...
- Grandson treasures his grandmother's work - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Grandson treasures his grandmother's workAtlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 1 hour agoMcRae's grandmother knew Hughes, often read his poetry and made a bust of him, which McRae also has. Why he likes it: "I grew up listening to Langston ...
- Spin control (Chicago Sun-Times)
ALT-FOLK | Fleet Foxes, "Fleet Foxes" (Sub Pop) Though their wardrobe, beards and burgeoning following are all in step with the leaders of the so-called "freak folk" movement, the Seattle quintet Fleet Foxes distinguishes itself from artists such as Animal Collective and Devendra Banhart because its members are much less emphatically stoner or self-consciously eclectic, and because its ...
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