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- Innerpartysystem, 'Innerpartysystem' (Island) (Spin)
If Trent Reznor and Interpol had a baby, and then that baby had a baby with Brand New... well, that kid still wouldn't be caught dead at anything like the Hot Topic "Hope for the Hopeless" Tour. I mean, c'mon . But that tour's headliners, Innerpartysystem, still sound like they had a gay old time concocting this flashy debut album -- a hummable throb of synth-heavy, melodramatic, emoish dance ...
- Ada poet to give reading - NewsOK.com
Ada poet to give readingNewsOK.com, OK - 4 minutes agoNORMAN — Ken Hada of Ada will be the featured poet when the Performing Arts Studio has its Second Sunday Poetry Reading at 2 pm Sunday at Norman Depot, ...
- Seeing the light in darkness - Nashua Telegraph
Seeing the light in darknessNashua Telegraph, NH - 15 minutes ago... fiddler crabs and chickadees; comets and seastones; wind, water, earth, fire and air. In his title poem, he tackles darkness and finds the poetry in it.
- I woke up to see Andrew dancing the tango naked in our room - Daily Mirror
It sounds like every housewife's secret fantasy... waking up in the middle of the night to see GMTV heart-throb Andrew Castle twirling around at the foot of your bed, stark naked. But, ladies, that is no dream. It is exactly what happened this week ...
- 'Last' Hardy actor performs again - BBC News
A woman who is one of the last people alive who knew writer Thomas Hardy is to perform one of his poems at the age of 102. Norrie Woodhall will be reciting one of Hardy's best-known poems, The Ruined Maid, at a fundraising event in Dorchester, Dorset ...
- Artists aim West (Santa Fe Reporter)
Long before Santa Fe was a blip on anyone’s map of art destinations, the American West, in general, consumed the imaginations of artists.
- Books: "Antoine’s Alphabet: Watteau and His World" (The New Yorker)
In 1944, Cyril Connolly, having just passed his fortieth birthday and in a melancholy mood, published “The Unquiet Grave,” a gloriously strange book of fragments, quotations, epigrams, impressions, and wartime journal entries--a kind of aesthetic autobiography--under the pseudonym Palinurus. Perl, the art critic for the New Republic, has . . .
- ONLINE AUCTION: Raising money for library programs - Abington Mariner
A sunset row for two around Hingham Harbor aboard a 17-foot Salisbury Point skiff, complete with wine, cheese, music, and poetry, is one of the more than 100 exciting items that are up for bid during the Hingham Public Library’s online auction ...
- Fearless but peaceful (Calgary Sun)
When action superstar Jet Li shot his historical wushu drama, Fearless, he vowed he would never make another martial-arts movie. The reason was simple, if elegant.
- Trick roper thrills crowd at cowboy culture awards - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
It isn't every day that a horse and rider can be seen in the Banquet Room of the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. But the National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration is in town, and boots, hats and ropes were suddenly commonplace Thursday night during ...
- Gare, poetry in motion - Sowetan
Gare, poetry in motionSowetan, South Africa - 10 hours agoWilliam “Dynamite” Gare put on an exhibition of boxing artistry free of charge on hundreds of fight fans at Bloemfontein City Hall last Friday night. ...
- Eye On Crime: Faye talks "The Monocle & Jimmy Specs" - Comic Book Resources
Eye On Crime: Faye talks "The Monocle & Jimmy Specs"Comic Book Resources, Ca - 3 hours agoIt blows me away how guys like Raymond Chandler could just crank this stuff out like sausage -- but it's poetry!" Faye said. "Also, if you read the old ...
- Poetry festival packs a punch - Enfield & Haringey Independent
Poetry festival packs a punchEnfield & Haringey Independent, UK - 3 minutes ago“I say forget about what really happened and feel free to change events for the art of the story. “Also, people should break from the obsession of wanting ...
- Green Bible - Islam Online
Green BibleIslam Online, Qatar - 4 hours agoAmong the contributors are famed American evangelical Tom Wright and late Pope John Paul II. Nobel laureate South African archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote the ...
- John Lundberg: Highlights From the 2008 National Poetry Slam (HuffingtonPost)
The National Poetry Slam--or so-called "Superbowl of spoken word"-- took place in Madison, Wisconsin this past week. The event featured more than 75 teams that had won their way through preliminary slams and city championships around the country to reach the final.
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