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- Vilhelm Hammershoi's show at the Royal Academy proves he should be better known (Independent)
An empty room. An open door, giving a glimpse of another empty room. Bare walls. Bare tables. Bare polished boards. A cold, clear light coming in, casting a slant of brightness on to a wall or floor. A woman in a long dark dress, standing alone and motionless. Her back turned. Whites, greys, blacks, browns so deep they're near-monochrome. A geometry of straight edges. The odd gleam. Stillness. ...
- Child soldier trades gun for beats - MediaGlobal
MediaGlobalChild soldier trades gun for beatsMediaGlobal, NY - 18 minutes ago“I liked it because it reminded me of how people used to talk poetry and rap in my village when I was small,†Jal recalled of his first encounter with the ...
- Music Review: The Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity (Blogcritics.org)
Love and romance with a country twang, the Old 97's return with a fiery new album. "Cowboy poetry" is one of those phrases you sometimes hear and don't know quite what to make of it. Odes to sagebrush and saddle sores, perhaps? But the music of the Old 97's, with its high lonesome sound, always felt like a kind of cowboy poetry to me. The Dallas-spawned band draws on country music to create ...
- Long may it wave, laundry on the line - Quad-Cities Times
CHEER up! In these troubled times, there are small events like hanging clothes outside to dry that make us whistle a happy tune. A recent Sunday column, “Hanging Out,†has brought everything from poetry and oodles of letters to a box of ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (The Maclay Argus)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- Fundraiser this week will benefit new Punjabi institute at San Jose ... - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Grab your gowns and tuxes. Or in this case, ladies, maybe your best salwar kameez , and men, your most colorful turban. San Jose State University is hosting a formal gala fundraiser on Friday for its new Guru Nanak Heritage Institute for Punjabi ...
- Tributes paid to crash victim Ali - Cumberland News
Cumberland NewsTributes paid to crash victim AliCumberland News, UK - 2 hours agoAs a child, Alice regularly entered the festival’s music and poetry competitions. In recent years she was a valued organising committee member who involved ...
- NH child-sex fugitive on FBI's most-wanted list is arrested (Boston Globe)
An FBI most-wanted fugitive who writes poetry, plays the piano and speaks several languages has been arrested in Mexico nine years after he allegedly molested the 5-year-old son of a couple who befriended him, authorities said Friday.
- Silver Jews - musicOMH.com
Silver JewsmusicOMH.com, UK - 2 hours agoWith a return to poetry on the cards this year, as soon as the Silver Jews complete their touring commitments - Berman released his first collection Actual ...
- Sights and Sounds from the National Folk Festival in Butte - Newwest.net
Thousands of music lovers from near and far descended upon Butte, Montana this weekend for the 70th National Folk Festival . Festivalgoers ambled among seven different stages taking in music, dance and cultural traditions ranging from zydeco to ...
- Green Says ‘No’ To Comeback Mundine Rematch - Secondsout.com
By Paul Upham: Retired WBA light heavyweight world champion Danny Green says suggestions he is on the verge of announcing a comeback to rematch Anthony Mundine, are false. Green, who has just launched a new book on his career titled, “Closed Fists ...
- Dorothy Stacy - Union
Her family will hold a celebration of her life memorial service at sea, off the coast near Carmel, on her 85th birthday, June 30. Mrs. Stacy was born June 30, 1923, in Norman, Okla., to Robert Clark Hodges and Ira Lucinda Clemmons. She graduated from ...
- J. Ivy - The Ivy League - Six Shot
“We are all here for a reason on a particular path/you don’t need a curriculum to know that you are part of the math/cats think I’m delirious, but I’m so damn serious/that’s why I expose my soul to the globe, the world/I’m trying to make ...
- Jack Kerouac's Colorado Road (Aspen Daily News)
For most of you, Jack Kerouac is the guy who wrote "On the Road" - a novel you read as a teenager that pumped you up for road-tripping and left you wondering about Benzedrine.
- Tom Horgen - Minneapolis Star Tribune
From "Macho Man" to the Miss City of the Lakes drag pageant, there's something for everyone on Twin Cities Pride weekend. Jun 26, 2008 Nightlife notebook: RZA's next move Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA is a busy man, what with acting roles, movie scores and ...
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