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- Where Do People Still Use Cassette Tapes? - New York Times Blogs
The answer: in prisons, where CDs are routinely banned because they can be shattered and the shards refined into shivs. MP3 players are unavailable in most prisons, as are, one imagines, turntables. California-based entrepreneur Bob Paris got the ...
- The man who got Scotland to sing together - Times Online
Times OnlineThe man who got Scotland to sing togetherTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoHe envisaged T in the Park as a cross between Glastonbury and Reading — fewer poetry readings and not quite as much rock music. But after just one year the ...
- Revamped Green Show hits a high note (Ashland Daily Tidings)
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show has incorporated acts for everyone this year. The festival is mixing it up with a variety of free outdoor performances before the evening's plays. Songwriters and Clown Theater are on the schedule following what has quickly become a popular hip-hop act.
- Musical rules were made to be broken at An die Musik event (Baltimore Sun)
Music history is filled with composers who methodically followed the rules - this chord can't follow that chord, this type of theme must be balanced by that type of theme, this structure must be built only that way.
- Palestinians plan 'state' funeral for poet Darwish (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Palestinians were making plans on Monday for a funeral of pomp and ceremony for their "national" poet Mahmud Darwish, whose writings captured the spirit of the Palestinian struggle.
- St. Paul's Karen refugees - Minnpost.com
St. Paul is home to the largest Karen refugee population in the U.S. There are approximately 3,000 Karen (pronounced Ka-REN) living in St. Paul, most of whom arrived in the 2003 resettlement wave. Many more families are expected to come to Minnesota ...
- Reflect during solstic, shaman tells 30 at event - Daily Item
SUNBURY — Red and blue streamers fastened to wooden stakes snapped in the breeze 360 feet above the Susquehanna River Saturday as a shaman and his audience welcomed summer at the Shikellamy State Park overlook. The daylong event, which also ...
- THE SCORE — Neruda, Prokofiev lovers take note - Aspen Daily News
Full of poetry that inspired composer Peter Lieberson to write an award-winning song cycle, Kelley O’Connor and David Zinman will bring further inspiration to these songs. Anytime pianist Yefim Bronfman performs is newsworthy, and he will close the ...
- Meet a living relic of bohemian New Orleans - South Coast Today
Every morning in Slidell, La., a Southern town of big-box stores and Bible readers, the Beat Generation can still be found dissing the system in the form of a 91-year-old woman in a red beret and cowboy boots. The acts of rebellion take place in the ...
- Thriving at 90 (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
Legally blind poet and painter welcomes each day with zest.
- Scranhattan Festival Premieres in Downtown Scranton - WNEP-TV 16
The city of Scranton is preparing for it's first arts festival in many years. It's called " The Scranhattan Festival " and its kicking off with a premiere Thursday night in the Electric City's downtown. It's not only a premiere, but a red carpet ...
- Kenneth Goldsmith on Uncreative Writing - The Skinny
Kenneth Goldsmith on Uncreative WritingThe Skinny, UK - 1 hour agoHe teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the editor of UbuWeb, the most comprehensive collection of avant-garde poetry video and music online. ...
- Poetry in motion - Houston Chronicle
THEIR voices are inflected by hip-hop, music videos and the personal disclosures of YouTube. But as Houston's first student poetry team competes this week, the performers will also show off some of the most valuable skills of a classical education ...
- A Macclesfield ode by Jo - Community News Group
A Macclesfield ode by JoCommunity News Group, UK - 40 minutes agoUsing some 50 inspirational ideas submitted by members of the public, Jo produced her words of wisdom at a special poetry evening which she jointly hosted ...
- Colombia: Interview with Antonio Navarro Wolf - Upside Down World
Upside Down WorldColombia: Interview with Antonio Navarro WolfUpside Down World, NY - 37 minutes agoHe has also written, edited or translated a half dozen other books of poetry, fiction, interviews and translations from Latin America. ...
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