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- The lure of the lighthouse - Scotsman
The lure of the lighthouseScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoThis piece was dinned into us at school, instilling not necessarily an appreciation of poetry, but a whole gallimaufry of conspiracy theories – the accepted ...
- The Right Rev Hassan Dehqani-Tafti: Exiled Anglican Bishop in Iran - The Independent
Hassan Dehqani-Tafti was Bishop in Iran from 1961, in exile from 1979 until 1985. His life, it is fair to say, was an epic Anglican Christian story. His 1959 autobiography (published in both Persian and English) borrowed its title from the central ...
- Channeling Tupac: Miami actor-playwright portrays human side of slain rapper (Miami Herald)
n the surface, slain rapper Tupac Shakur and the deeply alive actor Meshaun Labrone Arnold would seem to have little in common. Shakur's mother was a member of the Black Panthers when he was born in 1971, later becoming a crack addict and welfare mom as she struggled to raise her son. Arnold's father, Elder Frazier Arnold Jr., is pastor of Miami's Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist Church; his mother ...
- Nothing Romantic about environmentalists - Spiked
Nothing Romantic about environmentalistsSpiked, UK - 3 hours agoSir Philip Sidney, perhaps England’s greatest poet, could have been writing about the Romantics in his Defence of Poetry (1595). There, in what almost reads ...
- Ché Walker wrote The Frontline while he was sitting backstage ... - Londonist
LondonistChé Walker wrote The Frontline while he was sitting backstage ...Londonist, UK - 2 hours agoBut surely incongruity is something the Globe, with its brightly clad, element-battered tourists lapping up medieval poetry, its bitterly uncomfortable ...
- Trailblazers Selling a Romantic Kind of Love (All About Jazz)
Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock"?
- Hard Corps (Washington City Paper)
“Anybody know what clichés are?” I ask the class, searching the sea of faces for a hint of recognition. “Yeah,” responds a lanky, dark-skinned girl. “Ain’t that like when you say something but a lot of people done already said it, like ‘cry like a baby’ or ‘dumb as a doorknob.’”
- Out from the shadows: Elusive actress Debra Winger to speak about new ... - Jewish News Weekly
It’s the stuff of Hollywood legend: promising young ingénue Debra Winger makes Tinseltown A-list with a couple of star-making roles, then, Garbo-like, mysteriously disappears from the silver screen. Trouble is, the legend isn’t true. The 53-year ...
- SoUl Search (Express India)
Success to me means the ability to do what one loves to do, especially when it is to do with ones work.
- Iraq War Veteran Recycles Uniforms Into Art - ConnieTalk
Iraq War Veteran Recycles Uniforms Into ArtConnieTalk, Ohio - 9 hours ago"Art, poetry and performances have now become my way of letting go of the past," Turner says. "They also have reminded me of who I was before I signed on ...
- The Skillet (Aspen Daily News)
Without a climber's eye, you might miss it. But once you've found it, you'll never forget it. The Skillet sizzles on the western walls of the Fryingpan River.
- Poetry with je ne sais quoi - Guardian Blogs
"The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written," declared Doctor Johnson. This was motivation enough, in his view, to "learn the language". It would be charming to think that, prior to ...
- 'American letters' No. 6: Viriville is a state of mind - Beaufort Gazette
Late in the Lowcountry year, pecan trees here in Beaufort County drop their nuts to the ground. Folks gather bagsful of free pecans for pies, pralines and snacking. It's another time of year and a different nut in Beaufort Isere, France. Green ...
- On the convention floor - Oregonian
On the convention floor at BookExpo America, all sorts of information swirls around and gets swept from booth to booth. Hundreds of publishers are pushing thousands of books at happy, tote-bag hauling store owners, who happily line up for anything: a ...
- Rubicon's 'My Antonia' is tale of love, hope - Ventura County Star
Rubicon's 'My Antonia' is tale of love, hopeVentura County Star, CA - May 22, 2008The play flashes back to his teen years and his first encounter with the Shimerdas and their vivacious daughter. Both families struggle with conflicting ...
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