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- Channel some Jimi Hendrix - Tampabay.com
Channel some Jimi HendrixTampabay.com, FL - 29 minutes agoRhythm Eclectic: Ybor's Crowbar will be a night of hip hop and spoken word poetry that aims to elevate the art form. No thuggery here, organizers promise. ...
- Geek talk, street talk and other musings on language - Kentucky New Era
Geeks and nerds used to be defined as people with poor social skills. The terms were rather cruel and were sometime applied to people who just had an unusual fascination with some aspect of life. Computers seemed to often attract nerds and geeks. Now ...
- Author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' - South Coast Today
Author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope'South Coast Today, MA - Jul 19, 2008Steel is a leader of a genre that generated $1.37 billion in book sales in 2006, outselling every market category except religion/inspirational, ...
- Teacher has one job: advance knowledge - Reporter
When he became president of the University of Chicago, Robert Hutchins is supposed to have remarked that a college administrator's job was to provide sex for the students, football for the alumni and parking for the faculty (he promptly eliminated ...
- Open House Offers A Peek At A Poet's Place - TheDay
Open House Offers A Peek At A Poet's PlaceTheDay, CT - 1 hour agoMerrill's poetry talks about that: how he and Jackson took down their Ouija board dictations, for example, in the red dining room, and then talked about ...
- Regionalist painter documented rural, urban scenes from his life (The Columbus Dispatch)
Clyde Singer was a beloved artist, critic and administrator in northeastern Ohio. During a 50-year career at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, he held many titles -- including artist in residence and assistant director. He inspired fellow artists and guided students. His most impressive legacy, however, is his stunning volume of work: He produced more than 3,000 paintings, ...
- From Holby City to the Royal Family - Daily Mail
Daily MailFrom Holby City to the Royal FamilyDaily Mail, UK - 59 minutes agoIrons is among 200 guests who have paid £35 each to see a performance of poetry and music by a dozen of the inmates, after which he will be the master of ...
- Scenes of looting, pillaging near Georgian city of Gori - Khaleej Times
DZARDZANIS, Georgia - Scores of houses were ablaze Wednesday outside the Georgian city of Gori as local fighters and Russian soldiers looted homes in Georgian villages, an AFP reporter witnessed. The body of a man, apparently a civilian, his mouth ...
- Knowledge Convention To Mark Royal Celebration (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Knowledge Convention 2008 will be held at the International Convention Centre from July 26 to August 6, in conjunction with His Majesty the Sultan and Yang DiPertuan of Brunei Darussalam's 62'd birthday celebrations.
- Hear This Hammer Ring - Common Dreams
Stand by my side. - Langston Hughes When we first began organizing the Split This Rock Poetry Festival about a year and a half ago, I told people that we'd chosen the date to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I can't ...
- Poetry in motion - Savannah Morning News
Poetry in motionSavannah Morning News, GA - 4 hours agoSculptor Matt Toole has fond childhood memories of exploring the woods on Wilmington Island, boating over to Wassaw Island and camping on Daufuskie Island. ...
- LAST CHANCE: Playbill.com's Reminder of NYC Shows Closing (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
The devil's sexy assistant, a long-running Off-Broadway revue, and a tale of a family milestone all disappear July 27. What follows is Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway and Off-Broadway productions before they close.
- Malema doesn’t speak for this young South African - The Times
Malema doesn’t speak for this young South AfricanThe Times, South Africa - 14 hours agoYou need only visit a poetry session in Newtown, Johannesburg, to understand — “counter revolutionist”, as “my leader” will call me.
- Celebrities with reader's block - Daily Telegraph
For today's column, I have invited some famous people to contribute a few words on the subject of: What I Never Got Round to Reading on My Summer Holiday. I know it had the word 'dilemma' - or maybe it was 'struggle' - in the title and it was by some ...
- Eulogy for a Palestinian Propagandist - FrontPage magazine.com
Eulogy for a Palestinian PropagandistFrontPage magazine.com, CA - 24 minutes agoDarwish used his poetry to give voice to those who reject Israel ’s right to exist as a Jewish state in its ancient homeland. He called himself a “weapon” ...
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