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- Benefit at Davey's and the Pitch Showcase top the week for local venues (The Kansas City Star)
Davey’s Uptown, 3402 Main St., is having a fundraiser for one of its own: “The Music Arts Spirited Libations Sale” is a benefit for Dante Vichareli, whose parents are friends of Marco Pascolini of Mr. Marcos V-7 (one of the benefit’s organizers).
- Dracula and the butterfly beauty - Guardian Unlimited
A Strange Eventful History is the story of two theatrical dynasties - Ellen Terry's and Henry Irving's. It unfolds like a serial novel or a TV series: a large cast of selfish, wayward, clamorous, highly talented and hugely celebrated people scramble ...
- He's a poet, and everyone knows it (The Daily Sentinel)
It starts with three words.
- Emily Brontë - guardian.co.uk
Emily Brontëguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe sisters also published a poetry anthology as Acton, Ellis and Currer Bell in 1836; it received some praise, but apparently sold just two copies. ...
- Saini KM: West Java's literary maestro - Jakarta Post
From childhood to his present age of 70, Saini KM has remained a modest figure despite his accomplishments. Born in small Gending hamlet, Kota Kulon village, in the West Java town of Sumedang, Saini has contributed significantly to the country's ...
- Crowds to join Olympic celebration - Shropshire Star
Shropshire’s 2012 Olympic celebrations will kick off on Friday when more than 1,000 people gather at Ironbridge. The county is taking part in a cultural celebration that will run until London 2012. The fun will kick-start a weekend of events across ...
- The Balanced Life: 19 Tips for Cheering Yourself Up -- From 200 ... - Huffington Post
Huffington PostThe Balanced Life: 19 Tips for Cheering Yourself Up -- From 200 ...Huffington Post, NY - 6 hours agoDon't expect too much from human life--a sorry business at the best. 12th. Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, ...
- LITERARY DATEBOOK - Kansas City Star
LITERARY DATEBOOKKansas City Star, MO - 1 hour agoRegister. www.menuha.org (816-444-2434) WALSH WRITING WORKSHOP: Six-week workshop covering fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Thursday’s 9-10 am Sept. ...
- War and sex: Who's afraid of Sarah Kane? (International Herald Tribune)
Soho Rep in New York is facing the challenge of staging Sarah Kane's "Blasted," a play bursting with audacious violence and wriggling with metaphor.
- Yeats provides reliably glorious flourish - Independent
Yeats provides reliably glorious flourishIndependent, UK - 40 minutes agoIt really was poetry in motion, as Yeats danced seven lengths clear, though for what it is worth his owners apparently did not name him in honour of William ...
- Scottish Opera reveals new Five:15 collaborators - Allmediascotland
Scottish Opera reveals new Five:15 collaboratorsAllmediascotland, UK - 35 minutes agoThe piece, a 28 minute setting of poetry by Ted Hughes, was performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soprano Susanna Andersson conducted by Edward ...
- What Does Poetry Mean to You? - About - News & Issues
What Does Poetry Mean to You?About - News & Issues, NY - 10 hours agoI love those quotes all stumbled upon and "right"... They're so much better than the quotes that I search for, the ones that I wish said just the right ...
- Solzhenitsyn escaped a prison with a message for US - San Antonio Express
Solzhenitsyn escaped a prison with a message for USSan Antonio Express, TX - 55 minutes agoThe resulting book — “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,†later adapted into a film — was graceful and lyrical, the gentle poetry enhanced by the fierce ...
- The Erotic Slam - City Pages
Slam poets can sometimes be a bit too frank about their sex lives, with details of past encounters painted in aching detail across the canvas of public performance. But if words are your aphrodisiac of choice, come tonight for an orgy of prurient ...
- A treat for language lovers - Louisville Courier-Journal
A treat for language loversLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 56 minutes agoAnalogy, metaphor, and simile are the linguistic tools by which mere prose swoops and swells into poetry; with them, from the prosaic comes art. ...
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