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- Melbourne hooks the books - The Age
Melbourne hooks the booksThe Age, Australia - 3 hours ago... including the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Victorian Writers Centre, the Emerging Writers Festival and the Australian Poetry Centre. Continued...
- Nine Inch Nails @ The Forum - Orange County Weekly
Andrew Youssef shoots the "Lights In The Sky" tour performing before their hometown crowd on 9/6. Read a review of the concert here. Three best things to do in Orange County on Tuesday, September 9 Animosity, Decepit Birth, Antagonist, Dead in ...
- Culture update - Daily Telegraph
Things are going from bad to worse,/ Our stages flooded with dodgy verse./ It's really getting up my nose,/ Please let's return to decent prose. Preposterous tosh: Fram is a rhymed epic about a Scandanavian polar explorer I'm sorry to sound a ...
- Bumbershoot's mighty literary lineup - Seattle Times
Step away from the loud music and swarming crowds of Bumbershoot, and you might find yourself in a dim theater, pondering heady literary questions. Such as: Can William Gibson's dystopian novels be made into good pop songs? Is the modern advertising ...
- Theater review: Music lessons - Minneapolis Star Tribune
An ode to lovelorn letters set to Elvis Costello's music Bad Jazz still makes for good viewing 'Vinegar Tom' is a churning caldron of well-staged drama Quarry awash in slow-motion 'Ocean' 'Fences' extended at Penumbra At first blush, Josef Mashkan ...
- RACE RELATIONS: Civil rights monument unveiled on Va. Capitol lawn (The Daily Times)
RICHMOND  For the first time Monday, statues of black children and civil rights leaders were placed alongside statues of some men who had worked to deny racial equality on the lawn of what was once the Confederate Capitol.
- A novel campus - EducationGuardian.co.uk
A novel campusEducationGuardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoDue to the size of the student body, smaller tutorial classes were something of a luxury, but there was something about being taught modern poetry by a ...
- My marriage was a mistake - Salon
I am a 25-year-old woman with two dogs and a sad marriage. I've been married going on three years and for the past one year or so have been seriously thinking I'd be better off without him. We met about four and a half years ago, and fell for each ...
- Man Asian favours the Phillipines - guardian.co.uk
Man Asian favours the Phillipinesguardian.co.uk, UK - 35 minutes agoOf these, Alfred A Yuson is by far the most experienced, with 22 books, as well as poetry and essay collections, to his name. His nominated novel, The Music ...
- Local students, staff compete in National Poetry Slam Festival (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Hundreds of spoken-word performers will be in Madison Aug. 3-9 for National Poetry Slam 2008 . The poet-performers are members of some 75 teams that will compete at several downtown venues for a chance to advance to the finals showcase and competition at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St.
- Twenty years of gastronomic memories - Inquirer.net
Twenty years of gastronomic memoriesInquirer.net, Philippines - 38 minutes agoCelestina Arvisu, “sister†to Feliz and Lia, and daughter of former café partner and owner Christine Arvisu, reads poetry to coincide with her exhibit of ...
- Bubbly Johnson sets off to charm Beijing - guardian.co.uk
Bubbly Johnson sets off to charm Beijingguardian.co.uk, UK - 9 hours agoAway from the gym, she transfers her zest for life into poetry. In one poem, titled "Champion", she describes the battle to keep striving towards winning. ...
- Ann Coulter vs. Kausfiles - Slate
Ann Coulter responds , on behalf of getdrunkandvote4mccain.com, to the argument that conservatives should consider that McCain is more likely than Obama to actually enact "comprehensive immigration reform" with its misguided semi-amnesty for illegal ...
- Fine Arts Festival set for Saturday (Elk Grove Citizen)
The Fine Arts Festival of Elk Grove will be returning for its second year on Aug. 30 at the Laguna Town Hall, 3020 Renwick Ave., Elk Grove. The first festival took place last year and was considered a success with around 3,000 people in attendance.
- Charlotte Kohler, Literary Journal Editor, Is Dead at 99 (New York Times)
Ms. Kohler was a longtime editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review and a quiet influence on the course of 20th-century American writing.
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