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- Poetry contest launched for the intellectually disabled (East York Mirror)
The Etobicoke-based charity Ideal-Way and its founder Robert Pio Hajjar, born with Downs Syndrome, are inviting the community to participate in a poetry contest for the intellectually disabled. Jud...
- X's music is letter-perfect (The Washington Times)
The seminal Los Angeles punk band X doesnt rehearse anymore - and no, says founding member Exene Cervenka, it has nothing to do with laziness or unforgiving schedules.
- Shuffling Through Memories: B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' (The New York Sun)
Samuel Beckett is often called a terminus in Anglo-Irish literature. He took modernism's radical approach as far as it would go; it is as though Jackson Pollock was succeeded by portraitists and landscape artists. B.S. Johnson (1933-73) did not get the memo. In 1961, while shopping his first book to agents, Johnson compared it favorably to "Ulysses," and declared himself in the tradition of ...
- 'Fugitive Pieces' seeks inner peace - Cleveland Plain Dealer
AP Rosamund Pike takes a red carpet stroll at the world premiere of "Fugitive Pieces" last September at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film finally comes to Cleveland Friday. "Fugitive Pieces," a drama about a man's long struggle to ...
- 'Xanadu' Special Edition: Let the Good Times Roll - Washington Post
Olivia Newton-John on skates plus Gene Kelly equal a "magical music edition" of "Xanadu." (Universal Studios Home Entertainment Photos) What I am about to write will undoubtedly elicit mockery and ridicule for weeks, if not months, to come. But I ...
- China cracks down on earthquake rumors - Los Angeles Times
China cracks down on earthquake rumorsLos Angeles Times, CA - 5 hours agoRumors are an integral part of Chinese folk history, songs and poetry. Last year, authorities drained a reservoir in central Sichuan province to dispel ...
- Rickie Lee Jones: following her fitful muse (The Star)
"Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here. "And I think, 'How is it that you have a job? You really suck.' And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: 'How come everybody in the world doesn't say that you're the greatest?'"
- Gulzar’s new anthology of poems steeped in nostalgia - Thaindian.com
Gulzar’s new anthology of poems steeped in nostalgiaThaindian.com, Thailand - 1 hour ago“Selected Poems” has 44 Urdu poems, mostly sonnets, along with their English translations. The poems are a reflection of the author’s life, ...
- Steamboat Mountain Theater drops the curtain after Cabaret - Steamboat Pilot
Steamboat Mountain Theater drops the curtain after CabaretSteamboat Pilot, CO - 8 hours agoKelly Anzalone said he’ll miss building sets and spending time backstage with people he’s known for years, and he’ll miss the blank slate of a black stage ...
- New peak oil documentary fluffs the faithful - Grist Magazine
New peak oil documentary fluffs the faithfulGrist Magazine, WA - 6 hours agoAnd when it comes to the Romantic agrarian peak oil evangelism this movie traffics in, the Average Joe needs lots of convincing. ...
- New translations tie eternal bond between Turkey, Pakistan - The News - International
New translations tie eternal bond between Turkey, PakistanThe News - International, Pakistan - 51 minutes ago“What Faiz has done in Urdu poetry, Nazim did the same in Turkish poetry by touching the same topics and feelings, as if the souls of both poets travelled ...
- Independence Day , Equality Day - Times and Democrat
July 4, 1776/ Independence Day and Nov. 19, 1863/Equality Day. “I’m going to try to link our glorious Declaration of Independence (1776) with Lincoln’s spectacular Gettysburg Address (1863) — an odd thing to do. The two are separated by 87 ...
- Angelou tells grads to be courageous above all else - Ithaca Journal
Angelou tells grads to be courageous above all elseIthaca Journal, NY - 5 hours agoShe delivered the first lines of her speech like a true poet: by reciting poetry. “By-and-by, by-and-by, I'm gonna lay down, my heavy load,” she sang to the ...
- Movie allows time to share kung fu magic with the grandkids - Democrat and Chronicle
STAMFORD, Conn. — Two of my grandchildren and I are on our way to see Kung Fu Panda , an animated film starring the voice of Jack Black. We're doing this to escape the heat — it's 95 degrees here — and because Kung Fu Panda is required viewing ...
- The poetry of train and track - Financial Times
Art in the Age of Steam Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool “Away with a shriek, and a roar, and a rattle,” runs Dickens’ enthralled/horrified description of a journey along “the track of the remorseless monster, Death!” in Dombey and Son in 1846 ...
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