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- June 12: Rising Stars Series in Millennium Park - ABC7Chicago.com
June 12: Rising Stars Series in Millennium ParkABC7Chicago.com, USA - 2 hours agoThe skilled orations of the Poetry Out Loud contest finalists will precede each show. This national program encourages high school students to learn about ...
- Insane Political Ad Must Be A Joke - Gawker
This campaign ad that's been making the rounds, for Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, is such a complete self-parody that it must be an intentional joke. From the John Wayne voice-over to the longtime lawyers' ridiculous cowboy outfits to the ...
- 'In Bruges' is about waiting for wickedness - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
There is a playful deception going on in the prosaic title of In Bruges , evocative as it is of chamber recitals and poetry readings in medieval coffeehouses. One is tempted to add a modifying phrase before the "In," for the sake of truth in ...
- Events listings - Boston Globe
Boston & Eastern Mass. Agganis Arena Boston University, 955 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 617-931-2000. agganisarena.com 5/24: 8 p.m. Roberto Carlos. $45-$125. 5/28: 8 p.m. Duran Duran. $35-$75. Bank of America Pavilion 290 Northern Ave., Boston. 617 ...
- Brought stage magic to city (The Herald News)
The theater bug bit Georgiann Goodson of Joliet when she was just 13 years old, during a touring performance of "You Can't Take it With You" at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet said her good friend, actor John Lordan of Evanston.
- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: 'Mongol' brims with blood, but gets to the heart of Genghis (The Dartmouth)
Is there hope for Kazakhstani cinema after "Borat" (2006)? Ever since the release of Sacha Baron Cohen's satirical sensation, any mention of the words "Kazakhstan" and "movie" in the same breath inevitably conjures up images of the eponymous, fictitious TV journalist who had a funny accent and poor table manners. Perhaps as a corrective to this unjust misperception, the Kazakhstani government ...
- Thomas M. Disch | Praised sci-fi author, 68 - Philadelphia Inquirer
Thomas M. Disch, 68, who has been called one of the most important science-fiction writers of his generation, died Saturday in New York. Friends said Mr. Disch was found dead in his apartment. He had shot himself in the head, according to the New ...
- San Bernardino County/Pass Briefs - 5/08/08 - Press-Enterprise
San Bernardino County/Pass Briefs - 5/08/08Press-Enterprise, CA - 8 hours agoStudents were judged on visual arts, poetry, essays, photography, musical score and class performance. The West End group is a consortium of school ...
- A Literary Look at Cuba in Revolt - Nevada Appeal
LOS ANGELES -- When Americans think of 1950s Cuba, they tend to picture Fidel Castro ranting in tattered fatigues about the revolution. But a new novel shows us, instead, United Fruit Co. executives in starched linen suits, daughters who play Chopin ...
- Did Robert Kennedy run 'The Last Campaign'? - Chicago Sun-Times
Always pungently observant, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, came up with an apt description of Robert Kennedy as he campaigned in 1968: “Bobby could have been a revolutionary priest.’’ She commented on a ...
- Book Talk: Events - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools Appearances • Lisa Unger ( Black Out ), 7 p.m. Thursday, Inkwood Books, 216 S Armenia Ave., Tampa. • Debora M. Coty ( The Distant Shore ), miniworkshop at 11 a.m., signing at noon Saturday , Family Christian Stores, Regency Square ...
- First stills from The Edge of Love - Monsters and Critics.com
Monsters and Critics.comFirst stills from The Edge of LoveMonsters and Critics.com - 36 minutes agoDylan tells her he is writing propaganda films, as he hasn't enough money to be able to write his poetry and that he’s not fighting in the war because of ...
- The newest column minefield the 'bowling alley' (Reno Gazette-Journal)
Most great writings have a theme that holds them together. This column does not. Today we clear out a passel (cowboy word) of saved e-mails and fading Post-its, to wit:
- DOWNTOWN OWL (Kirkus Reviews)
A debut novel that works better as cultural criticism than it does as fiction.
- A man who will be missed - La Crosse Tribune
For those of you who didn’t know him, my introduction was amply served. For those who knew him, we were blessed to be part of his daily life. A retired milk hauler from Tomah, Wis., is about all I know of his past. What I do know is that he was a ...
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