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- Art, Antiques, Food -- Did We Mention Art? - Washington Post
Art, Antiques, Food -- Did We Mention Art?Washington Post, United States - 41 minutes agoThe walls here are filled with works by local artists, and if you stay long enough, you're sure to hear some poetry or jazz or African drumming. ...
- In Memoriam: Thomas M. Disch - PopMatters
Los Angeles TimesIn Memoriam: Thomas M. DischPopMatters, IL - 1 hour agoIn his 1998 book The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of (a companion piece to his 1996 excoriation of modern poetry (The Castle of Indolence), Disch created a ...Thomas M. Disch | 1940-2008 Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide Columbus Dispatchall 12 news articles
- Indie fave Fleet Foxes to play the Moore - Seattle Times
Did you miss Fleet Foxes at the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Festival? The Capitol Hill Block Party, too? No worries — the hometown indie favorite is playing again, bringing their distinct brand of baroque harmonic pop to the Moore Theatre on Sunday ...
- Wilkes sets the ultimate scene at JVC jazz fest - Chicago Sun-Times
There are few musicians who qualify as “on the scene†more than Corey Wilkes — wherever the young trumpeter is, you can be sure there’s a party close by. Though his keenness to reach a wide audience is transparent — through high-energy ...
- Oz Without GPS - Washington Post Blog
Here's my piece in Slate about giving up on GPS devices (written on vacation in Australia as you will see). The nut grafs: '...the GPS device robs the traveler of a human skill that has emerged from Deep Time. We are generally quite good at reading ...
- A Challenge to Idealistic Progressives - Gather.com
A Challenge to Idealistic ProgressivesGather.com, MA - 19 hours agoLike the poetry of the prophet Amos, this was a bold attack on the illusions of the US population that this nation is basically an innocent and idealistic ...
- The mighty Fringe is starting to crack under its own weight - it had ... - Guardian Unlimited
I'm always struck by just how often the British, supposedly so prudish and repressed, seem to talk about sex. At dinner parties and by office water coolers, we can frequently be found swapping anecdotes about encounters so intimate they'd make a ...
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GO AMERICAN DEAD Brett Neveu’s play, first commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago — where the playwright earned his wunderkind reputation before immigrating to the film and TV biz out here — recalls an early stage work by Lanford Wilson, Rimers of Eldritch . Both works place their focus on the subtleties and vagaries of plain talk by plain folk, Midwesterners whose cities are ...
- Edwin Morgan wins £25,000 arts council award - Herald
Scotland's greatest living poet, Edwin Morgan, yesterday won one of the most prestigious prizes in Scottish literature. The nation's Makar, or national poet, won the £25,000 Scottish Arts Council (SAC) book of the year award for his latest ...
- Sad details of everyday life distilled into brilliant collection - Norwalk Hour
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You'll remember Seinfeld, the '90s sitcom famously dubbed "a show about nothing." Here's part of Charles Simic's blurb for Tate's new collection, "The Ghost Soldiers": "To write a poem out of ...
- Being an artist is not always enough - Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH - Maha Baeshen is a distinguished Saudi Woman artist, influenced to a great extent by the works of legendary artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso. One thing is sure about Baeshen; she is a very busy woman. In addition to being an ...
- Portobello Nu-Jazz Festival - Metro
MetroPortobello Nu-Jazz FestivalMetro, UK - 7 hours agoAs if that's not enough, there'll also be poetry readings and art exhibits from a host of local talent. It doesn't even matter if it rains - the Westway ...
- Local wagon train to participate in annual event - El Dorado Times
Area residents will have the opportunity to step back into the Old West Saturday as part of the Symphony in the Flint Hills, held one mile south of Council Grove. Flint Hills Overland Wagon Trips, based out of El Dorado, will be providing rides from ...
- Court strikes down King County land use ordinance - Seattle Post Intelligencer
A state appelate court has overturned King County's controversial land use ordinance that had ordered some rural property owners to leave at least half of their property untouched. The decision, handed down in Division 1 of the state's Court of ...
- Alabama Ballet students to begin challenging regimen under new program - The Birmingham News - al.com
The Birmingham News - al.comAlabama Ballet students to begin challenging regimen under new programThe Birmingham News - al.com, AL - 13 hours agoSairam also excels in abhangs -- devotional poetry sung to the Hindu god, Vitthala. Tickets are $10 to the event, which is sponsored by Indian classical ...
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