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- Street Scene, Young Vic, London (Independent)
Kurt Weill called Street Scene "a Broadway opera", but there aren't too many operas with a wild jitterbug that segues into a slutty blues or a children's chorus who chant, "My father's name is Rockefeller./He shovels diamonds in the cellar." Into his 1947 musical version of Elmer Rice's 1929 play, Weill emptied a cornucopia of influences – Wagner, Puccini, folk song, jazz, operetta, and his ...
- This muddled terror law limits free speech and wrecks innocent lives - guardian.co.uk
This muddled terror law limits free speech and wrecks innocent livesguardian.co.uk, UK - 9 hours agoThe Crown Prosecution Service was right to say that the Heathrow shop assistant Samina Malik (the "lyrical terrorist") was not tried for writing poetry, ...
- Circle of friends helps carry burden of grief - Times Colonist
Circle of friends helps carry burden of griefTimes Colonist, Canada - 3 hours agoIrene was the family musician and poet. Lawrence now writes poetry and songs, and has joined a choir. "We grieve for the meanings and implications of a loss ...
- Red Sox Nation feels Yastrzemski's pain (Yahoo! Sports)
Hall-of-Famer came through triple-bypass surgery OK, to the relief of fans who remember his Triple Crown in 1967.
- FRINGE STARS ENCOURAGED TO JOIN CELEBRATIONS IN SCOTLAND IN 2009 - TravelVideo.tv (press release)
FRINGE STARS ENCOURAGED TO JOIN CELEBRATIONS IN SCOTLAND IN 2009TravelVideo.tv (press release) - 1 hour agoSee and electrifying, illuminated art car parade featuring such sights as a Robert Burns Poetry van, a Burke and Hare barrow, a golf car, a whisky truck and ...
- Thrill, fun, adventure: DSS doles out all in plenty - Khaleej Times
DUBAI - The curtains came down on Dubai Summer Surprises 2008 on Friday, with a greater number of people taking part in the various acitivities, ranging from thrill and fun to adventure. Nasir Hakim, Public Relations Manager of DSS Office, said the ...
- Playhouse season unveiled - Antelope Valley Press
Performances by folk singer-guitarist Richie Havens, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester and local group Nuns for Fun, as well as a production of "Heidi," are on the schedule for the Palmdale Playhouse's 2008-09 season. Dressed ...
- Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival events set - Southern Illinoisan
CARBONDALE -- You don’t have to be a writer to want to see what’s cooking at the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The annual festival brings established and up-and-coming writers to a weekend ...
- Faraz dies: poetry loses a voice, people a friend - Pakistan Dawn
Pakistan DawnFaraz dies: poetry loses a voice, people a friendPakistan Dawn, Pakistan - 2 hours agoA famed and eminent career in Urdu poetry and a life lived richly in the pursuit of progressive ideals has come to an end. Acclaimed, admired and widely ...Legendary Urdu poet Ahmed Faraz dies Associated Press of PakistanAhmed Faraz: poet of love and defiance Daily Timesall 5 news articles
- Foo Fighters rock out in concert, at least as long as bandleader Dave ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dave Grohl needed a gag order. Don't get me wrong: His band, Foo Fighters , rocked with aplomb over the course of a 2 1/2-hour performance Friday night at The Q. Unfortunately, grunge survivor Grohl (a Warren, Ohio, native) felt compelled to ramble ...
- Fall books events in Vancouver - Georgia Straight
Fall books events in VancouverGeorgia Straight, Canada - 8 hours agoAt 7 pm tonight (September 25), in Room 406 of Emily Carr’s south building, Margaret Christakos reads from her latest collection of poetry, What Stirs, ...
- Books: "The Good Thief" (The New Yorker)
This striking début novel is an homage to old-fashioned boy’s-own adventure stories, and unfolds like a Robert Louis Stevenson tale retold amid the hardscrabble squalor of Colonial New England. The sheer strangeness of the story is beguiling: a one-handed boy, tainted by his upbringing in a Catholic . . .
- Beyond Voting: Guerilla Gardeners, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Pirate ... - Monthly Review
Beyond Voting: Guerilla Gardeners, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Pirate ...Monthly Review, VA - 6 hours agoIn Nowtopia, Ted White talks of his experience at the Center for Appropriate Transport in Eugene, Oregon, where he worked with young kids to fix and put ...
- Ideas in Motion: Art on Track - Chicagoist
Ideas in Motion: Art on TrackChicagoist, IL - 3 hours agoWhen local arts advocates Salvo and Lethal Poetry, Inc. found a way to convert an 8-car CTA train into a bonafide arts space, Art on Track was born. ...Art On Track Chicago Public Radioall 2 news articles
- Latrobe native enchants diners at Ivy Cafe in Ligonier - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Latrobe native enchants diners at Ivy Cafe in LigonierPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 2 hours agoMost recently, they have begun hosting mid-week poetry readings upstairs. And their intimate dining rooms -- one upstairs, the other on the ground floor ...
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