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- Let's put City Hall to a vote - Boston Globe
Let's put City Hall to a voteBoston Globe, United States - 2 hours agoPlenty of important art, like Lucien Freud's portraits or Allen Ginsburg's poetry, also manages to offend standard sensibilities, but no one is forced to ...
- Introducing WEWS Channel 5's new vice president and general manager ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Victoria Regan is settling in as vice president and general manager of WEWS Channel 5. She comes from West Palm Beach, Fla., where she was general manager, and she has also led stations in Binghamton, N.Y., and Dayton. Regan was known as an innovator ...
- Uni students assess Winehouse's merits (The Australian)
AS spoken verse, it may scan a little awkwardly, and the rhymes could be considered somewhat laboured. But Amy Winehouse might argue her lyrics were never intended to be scrutinised by the poetry brains of Cambridge University.
- Online reviewing boosts unsung authors (Denver Post)
For all the literary hopefuls out there who are largely shut out of major newspapers and magazines, the ongoing development of online reviewing outlets has to be an incredibly encouraging development.
- The hot shot fuses tragedy with poetry - Sydney Morning Herald
Competitions are the great drift nets of art. Now in its fifth year, the Head On photographic portrait prize at the Australian Centre for Photography continues to successfully gather diverse, intriguing portraits from urban and regional Australia ...
- On the Shahnameh millennium concert: A conversation with Master Behzad Ranjabaran (Payvand Iran News)
When my friend Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi asked me to write a piece about the Shahnameh Millennium Concert, I thought it might be best to interview the composer of "Persian Trilogy," Behzad Ranjbaran. -Fariba Amini
- Russia on the Thames - The Moscow Times
Russia on the ThamesThe Moscow Times, Russia - 1 hour agoOne of them was a poetry and prose reading by Lev Rubinshtein and Zinovy Zinik. The flamboyant Dmitry Bykov, winner of the "Big Book" prize (second, ...
- Poetry Program Gives Prisoners Unexpected Voice - NewsHour
NewsHourPoetry Program Gives Prisoners Unexpected VoiceNewsHour - 3 hours agoJEFFREY BROWN: Techniques for better writing were discussed. RICHARD SHELTON: It's always a trade-off, that is, a trade-off between the way you want the ...
- Jaglul Alam remembered - New Nation
Theatre activists at a discussion meeting on May 21 remembered Jaglul Alam who passed away recently. The memorial meeting began with the screening of a documentary which portrayed the life and works of playwright, director and theatre activist Jaglul ...
- Why everyone wants to make a Dylan Thomas movie - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukWhy everyone wants to make a Dylan Thomas movieguardian.co.uk, UK - 35 minutes agoDylan Thomas is a poet for people who don't really like poetry. So why are Bob Dylan, Pierce Brosnan and Mick Jagger so besotted by him? ...
- Nathaniel Mackey's 'Bass Cathedral' Bubbles With Jazz - OC Weekly
Nathaniel Mackey's 'Bass Cathedral' Bubbles With JazzOC Weekly, CA - 8 minutes agoMackey, winner of the National Book Award for his 2006 collection of poetry, Splay Anthem, likes to push and take chances. Sound, rhythm and meaning are as ...
- Excerpt: 'The Story of a Marriage' (NPR)
NPR.org , May 23, 2008 · We think we know the ones we love. Our husbands, our wives. We know them—we are them, sometimes; when separated at a party we find ourselves voicing their opinions, their taste in food or books, telling an anecdote that never happened to us but happened to them.
- Coleman Barks: poet and translator (The Block Island Times)
This is Coleman Barks’ second visit to Block Island; he was here for the Poetry Project last year. Born in 1937 in Chattanooga, Tenn., and receiving a bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and a master of arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Barks is renowned for his collaborative translations of the poetry of Jelaludden Rumi, a 13th-century ...
- Can A Poet Be More Accurate Than A Journalist? - II.- Cuba (El Faro)
This is the second and last part of Romanian poet and essayist Andrei Codrescu’s series on Reflections on Journalism. His trip to Cuba, of which he tells here some misadventures, was finally made a book called “Aye, Cuba: A Socio-Erotic Journey”.
- 'MAMA's going to make it all all right' (The Capital Times)
Malfunctioning gear, squabbling bandmates, declining CD sales -- no matter what local musicians have to deal with, at least "MAMA's going to make it all all right." So sang The Gomers to kick off the fifth annual Madison Area Music Awards at the Barrymore Theatre on Saturday night, a chance for Madison musicians to honor each other and raise money for local music school programs. (The Capital ...
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