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- Austin, Boston, Charlotte, and New York teams win semifinal bouts at National Poetry Slam 2008 (Isthmus)
Four finalist spots were up for grabs at the National Poetry Slam semifinals on Friday at the Overture Center, where 20 contenders battled with words after a week's worth of bouts and last-minute practicing throughout downtown Madison. One highlight bout pitted defending the 2007 champion team from Charlotte against those from Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland, and St. Paul, which brought the talents ...
- A Musical Journey: Interview With Loreena McKennitt - The Epoch Times
Whoever truly desires to experience the essence of music will need to take time for it, stepping out of the mundane existence of everyday life, perhaps into a different time and place. Today, there are too few musicians who view their profession as a ...
- Tale of high-wire act one of year's best documentary - MLive.com
Balancing act: Philippe Petit crosses a high wire strung between the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York City in "Man on Wire." "Man on Wire" shows us when insanity becomes poetry. On Aug. 7, 1974, after years of yearning and months of ...
- Be a lucky fish and get to any of these festivals - Tonight
Be a lucky fish and get to any of these festivalsTonight, South Africa - 51 minutes agoHere hip-hop will play alongside drum 'n bass, breakbeat, beat poetry, boys and everything else that caters for the hey-shoowow brigade . ...
- Opinion: 'gg Game Auteur, no re' - Gamasutra
Opinion: 'gg Game Auteur, no re'Gamasutra, CA - 57 minutes agoThe latter line of thinking dates back to the Romantic era of art and poetry, during which the creative soul rejected “mere†depiction in favor ...
- Calendar - Los Angeles Times
CalendarLos Angeles Times, CA - 11 hours ago... of Flames") will discuss their work and the Abani-founded Black Goat poetry series, a division of Akashic Books, which recently released "Abstraktion. ...
- Slaying of parents on alleged to-do list - San Diego Union Tribune
Slaying of parents on alleged to-do listSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 2 hours agoThe teenager, who family members said suffers from mental illness, was kicked out of Maranatha Christian high school in early 2008 when she began “cutting†...
- Host of bands rock at festival - Norwich Evening News
Host of bands rock at festivalNorwich Evening News, UK - 18 minutes agoSet in Henham Park, near Blythburgh, the lakeside festival boasted big names from the worlds of music, comedy, literature, poetry and theatre - and also ...
- Pitt Opens 2008-09 Contemporary Writers Series With Reading by ... - University of Pittsburgh News (press release)
Pitt Opens 2008-09 Contemporary Writers Series With Reading by ...University of Pittsburgh News (press release), PA - 5 hours agoHer poetry also has been featured in such anthologies as “Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present†(Scribner Book Company, 2003), “Best American ...
- Man Asian longlist strong on Filipino writers (Guardian Unlimited)
The longlist for the second Man Asian literary prize features a strong showing from Filipino writers
- New York Press - Rottentomatoes.com
Across the Universe (2007) " Across the Universe feels like something entombed on Broadway, made to instruct bored tourists while grasping after Importance. It’s an anomalous musical epic: a Pop movie without the excitement of pop." Armond White ...
- First Diva - Slate
If opinion polls are to be believed, the French are still ambivalent about their first lady, Carla Bruni. Bruni, of course, is a former supermodel and current multimillion-album-selling singer-songwriter, but she is still best-known for her avocation ...
- Colorado Prize for Poetry - Fort Collins Now
Colorado Prize for PoetryFort Collins Now, CO - 1 hour agoThe Center is looking for book-length collections of poems. A $1500 honorarium will be awarded to the winner, who will also have their book published ...
- Recalling Solzhenitsyn, the genius of socialist realism - International Herald Tribune
Most of the recent tributes to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died earlier this month, have concentrated on his titanic struggle against the Soviet regime, and rightly so. But what seems to have gotten lost is the reason he was listened to in the first ...
- Free Agent Ivey Signs With Sixers - The Bulletin
Philadelphia - The Sixers added some depth to their backcourt yesterday, signing free agent guard Royal Ivey to a multi-year contract. Financial terms were not disclosed. The 6-foot-4, 215-pound Ivey has played four professional seasons - three with ...
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