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- Books notes (Asheville Citizen-Times)
The Writers' Workshop of Asheville is offering a series of summer writing classes.
- Spalding plays "cool" blend of jazz, R&B, bossa nova (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Moments after Esperanza Spalding finished singing "Precious" on NBC's "Late Show With David Letterman" in early June, the host strode right up and anointed her "the coolest person we've ever had on the show."
- A Poetry Slam dunk: From the halls of Pittsburgh Sterrett (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Hey, here's an idea. Take a bunch of eighth-graders desperately consumed with what's cool, what's not, what their friends think of what they wear, what they do and what they say -- and have them deliver their hopes, dreams, fears into words on a page called a poem.
- Outrage Fatigue - OpEdNews
Outrage FatigueOpEdNews, PA - 46 minutes agoAnother excellent article at TomDispatch, Tom Englehardt's invaluable website, by the New Labor Forum's Steve Fraser about our new Gilded Age puts this in ...
- John Densmore's jazz education - Los Angeles Times
THE GREAT jazz drummer Elvin Jones carried on a constant musical conversation with John Coltrane. It inspired me to have that kind of dialogue with Jim Morrison. Not that I was in Elvin's league, but his courage gave me the "huevos" to stop the ...
- WALKING OUT IN REEL CITY WILD STYLE - This is Nottingham
This is NottinghamWALKING OUT IN REEL CITY WILD STYLEThis is Nottingham, UK - 2 hours agoApples & Snakes present: Real RAP at New Art Exchange, Gregory Boulevard, Hyson Green Real RAP hip hop, poetry and fusions. Support by Nottingham's natural ...
- The Other - San Francisco Gate
Two 16-year-old runners from opposite sides of Seattle, one descended from bankers, the other from "nail bangers," meet at a high school race. They connect over a shared love of wilderness hiking and lighting out for the territories - "with all the ...
- Jacksonian Education - Post-Journal
FREWSBURG — Even though it was called the ‘‘Little Read,’’ the last few days at Frewsburg Junior-Senior High School were full of activity. As part of a countywide project, schools in the area received, or will have received by the first ...
- Calendar: Drum-bugle competition takes the field at Whitmer - Toledo Blade
Calendar: Drum-bugle competition takes the field at WhitmerToledo Blade, OH - 11 hours agoCharles H. Wright Museum of African American History: 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit; 313-494-5800; Chase Gallery: AT&T Gallery: Textural Rhythms ...
- Doug Burr On Promenade - Contactmusic.com
Contactmusic.comDoug Burr On PromenadeContactmusic.com, UK - 1 hour agoBurr relies on great songs, not on gimmicks, and pulls on literate wit and poetry to generate the intimate ache that drives the record. ...
- A Dangerous Time For Critics - Financial Times
These are hard times for journalism in America. Newspapers are at best shrinking, at worst folding. Fewer than 10 cities still support more than a single daily. Writers face buy-outs, lay-offs or firing. The papers that survive are making do with ...
- Cool and Breezy Cuba - World Music Central
World Music CentralCool and Breezy CubaWorld Music Central, India - 2 hours agoDelving into the "nueva trova" movement of mixing lyrical poetry with the island's folk traditions, Cafe Cubano smartly flavors the familiar with a ...
- Sadly, what we have here is a failure to be happy (Brick Township Bulletin)
A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think.
- Lyrical Alchemist Al Young Combining Poetry, Blues - NPR
Lyrical Alchemist Al Young Combining Poetry, BluesNPR - 28 minutes agoWould you like to receive information from your local NPR member station? (see NPR's privacy policy) May we contact you with information about NPR ...
- No holds Bard in bid for ancient title - Peterborough Today
No holds Bard in bid for ancient titlePeterborough Today, UK - 2 hours agoThe event, to crown someone the Chief Bard of the Fens, was a fun weekend to inspire both young and old, through stories, poetry, art and performance, ...
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