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- Beth Rowley: from backing singer to Top Ten star - Times Online
On a poster on a bus stop somewhere near you, the singer Beth Rowley and her corkscrew curls are currently looking menacingly perfect, just above a stack of quotes heralding the 26-year-old as the latest singer-songwriter to be as big as Duffy/Dusty ...
- VPL poetry slam set for June 26 (Vermillion Plain Talk)
The Vermillion Literary Project is hosting a poetry reading and poetry slam on Thursday, June 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Coffee Shop Gallery, which is located in downtown Vermillion. The poetry reading will feature award-winning writer Courtney Huse-Wika.
- Who’s Townsend slams iTunes as ‘heartless’ - PC Advisor
Who’s Townsend slams iTunes as ‘heartless’PC Advisor, UK - 9 minutes ago“Artists can no longer sell the products of their genius because the internet supplies it virtually for free. What can be sold is that genius in the flesh,” ...
- Gaia Online Completes $11 Million Series C Funding - TMCnet
SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Gaia Online, the leading online hangout for teens, today announced an $11 million Series C round of venture funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). At a time when eMarketer is predicting the number of ...
- Arts centre’s long struggle - Dorset Echo
Arts centre’s long struggleDorset Echo, UK - 8 hours agoAttendances for its silver jubilee in 1980 were so bad for a series of poetry readings, classical music, stage shows and painting exhibitions that its then ...
- Yes. I agree. It enforces straight male stereotypes. - RainbowNetwork.com
Cathy Davey was always destined to be a musician. Having grown up with parents who were creative types - her mother is a sculptor, her father a musician and composer - conventional means of academia just didn't appeal to her. Having dyslexia didn't ...
- Photonality Jazz Series Publishes a New Book to the Series "Breakin' Glass" with Oliver Lake (All About Jazz)
Breakin' Glass with Olive Lake expands on the vocabulary of Photonality(a visual music composition) adding the spoken word poetry of Oliver Lake. This visual music composition integrates the properties of photography with the music and spoken word poetry of Oliver Lake to create a visual dimension of tone and rhythm.
- Akron's Tangier restaurant: Touches of glitter, much of it faded - Cleveland Plain Dealer
It was heartening to look up from my meal at Tangier in Akron to see a row of fringe hanging from an overhead lamp. Ooh-la-la: This dining and entertainment mecca had not totally lost its sense of harem history. But changes have been made. Those who ...
- Remember when: Horse-drawn fire engine quite a sight (Vero Press Journal)
I can remember seeing a fire engine being pulled by a team of horses on the way to a fire! I was a toddler and on our porch when I heard the clatter of hooves and the clang clang of the engine.
- Microphones, guitars & warm weather - St. Croix Valley Press
Microphones, guitars & warm weatherSt. Croix Valley Press, MN - 34 minutes ago"I tell funny stories, not jokes, stories, and there's some cowboy poetry too that's mostly humorous," he said. Like most of his past performance, ...
- Family and Kids (Palo Alto Weekly)
Young Poets Open Mic Night Celebrate National Poetry Month with an open-mic night featuring young poets from Palo Alto schools. Poets grades 1-5 are invited to read their own poems or a favorite poem.
- Ballad of John and Yoko Hits All the Wrong Notes With Critics - Buzzle
Ballad of John and Yoko Hits All the Wrong Notes With CriticsBuzzle, CA - 23 minutes ago"Imagine there's no Beatles, imagine no iconic movies, no White Album, no poetry books, no drawings," wrote Linda Winer for Newsday. ...
- THE OTHER QUEEN (Kirkus Reviews)
Gregory (The Boleyn Inheritance, 2006, etc.) makes a return trip to Tudor England, focusing on the period when Mary, Queen of Scots, fleeing from rebel Scottish lords, found herself imprisoned in England by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
- Words of welcome: Festival honoree makes poetry accessible - The Daily News of Newburyport
Words of welcome: Festival honoree makes poetry accessibleThe Daily News of Newburyport, MA - 1 hour ago"We need to get back to poetry that communicates," she said. "Poetry needs to be taken out of academia and brought into the world of work, where we all live ...For the love of words Newburyport CurrentPoetry books 'set free' around city to promote festival The Daily News of NewburyportLiterary Festival to take readers inside minds of area writers and ... The Daily News of NewburyportNewburyport Currentall 6 news articles
- A Sisterhood of sounds - Asian Image
A Sisterhood of soundsAsian Image, UK - 3 hours agoWhile Selina had been writing poetry for much of her life, she had no experience of performing. "I didn't think of myself as a performer, but when Deeyah ...
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