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- The Movie Masochist: The unexpected, undeserving summer hit (Miami Herald)
Hollywood's stream of bad movies usually seems endless, but sometimes there's a drought. This often happens during the summer, when all the big studio movies stomp their way into multiplexes after marking their opening weekends with the noise and ferocity of rutting elephants.
- Mos Def and Gil Scott-Heron at Carnegie Hall, JVC Jazz Festival - All About Jazz
Mos Def and Gil Scott-Heron at Carnegie Hall, JVC Jazz FestivalAll About Jazz, PA - 1 hour ago“It was fitting that Mos Def, one of hip hop's most recognized, and Gil Scott Heron, considered a 'Godfather' of rap and spoken word poetry (most famous for ...
- San Francisco looking for next poet laureate - San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco looking for next poet laureateSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 5 hours agoThe fifth poet laureate will be responsible for delivering an inaugural address on the state of the poetry, participating in community-based poetry events, ...
- Poets hold audience spellbound - Khaleej Times
Poets hold audience spellboundKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 3 hours agoThe annual mushaira (poetry reciting evening) that has become a welcome and eagerly-awaited feature of the cultural life of the Indian community, ...
- Family Events, Day by Day - Advocate Weekly
Family Events, Day by DayAdvocate Weekly, MA - 15 hours agoMettawee River Theatre Company, production of the Winnebago Native American creation tale, "NANABOZHO," a comic account of how our world began, ...
- Young and restless: APT actor Matt Schwader taps into his own rebellious teen years for latest role (Wisconsin State Journal)
SPRING GREEN -- It makes sense that Matt Schwader looks like the boy next door. Because he is. Although his studies and acting career have taken him around the country, Schwader, a three-year veteran of American Players Theatre who joined the core company this year, grew up in Kenosha. He cut his teeth on APT by coming to shows while still a renegade teen, a kid with talent and charm to burn, ...
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet - nationalist to Communist and then kingmaker - Hindustan Times
Harkishan Singh Surjeet - nationalist to Communist and then kingmakerHindustan Times, India - 1 hour agoHarkishan Singh Bassi changed his surname to ‘Surjeet’ while trying his hand writing poetry in his youth. Surjeet lived the simple life. ...
- After wild party, justice is metered out - Boston Globe
After wild party, justice is metered outBoston Globe, United States - 25 minutes ago28, a 17-year-old former Middlebury College employee who knew the farmhouse planned a party, giving $100 to a friend to buy beer. Word spread. ...
- This Day, Like the Future, Belongs to Patriots - Nation
As the 50th anniversary of America's revolution against colonialism and the divine right of kings approached, the author of the rebellion's founding document -- still alive at age 83 --was asked to attend a July 4, 1826, celebration in Washington ...
- Street Scene, Young Vic, London - Independent
Street Scene, Young Vic, LondonIndependent, UK - 1 hour ago... his Harlem poetry made him a fine choice, especially for such despondent arias as Sam's "Lonely House": "The night for me is not romantic – unhook the ...
- Bards averse to top poetry job (Channel 4)
Every 10 years there is a new poet laureate - that strange job in which one of Britain's leading writers is nominated to produce verse on state occasions and to promote poetry in schools.
- Debut novel shortlisted for Montana (Stuff)
A Wellington writer's debut novel has been shortlisted in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
- Venezuela: Bloggers Pay Tribute to Eugenio Montejo - Global Voices Online
Global Voices OnlineVenezuela: Bloggers Pay Tribute to Eugenio MontejoGlobal Voices Online, MA - 53 minutes agoMontejo's poetry is well recognized for its rich texture. He was also published in numerous books in Spanish and participated in numerous editorial works ...
- All races lay claim to hip-hop - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
All races lay claim to hip-hopMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - 20 minutes agoThey’re able to perform anywhere, with anyone, from poetry slams to basement shows with punk and metal bands. Collaborations are also easier. ...
- Festival a celebration of a city's people - Tonight South Africa
The annual Feast of the Clowns community festival is again upon us. It is organised by the Tshwane Leadership Foundation (TLF) - an NGO which works with inner city churches, community organisations and the metropolitan municipality. the festival aim ...
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