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- In the Big Easy, 2 Cocktails Reign (New York Times)
The Louisiana legislature recently chose the sazerac as the official cocktail of the city of New Orleans, but the Ramos gin fizz might be a better fit.
- Jessica Jones Live at Bowery Poetry Club, NYC (All About Jazz)
The first notes of Candace Jones' voice hit me like a tornado. Sure, they were sung softly, but that did not lessen their impact. I smiled to myself. So much beauty in the world.
- EDWIN O. GUTHMAN - The State
LOS ANGELES — Edwin O. Guthman , a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the infamous “enemies list” prepared by aides of President Richard Nixon and served as press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy, has died at 89. Guthman, who suffered ...
- Evidence of life (Las Vegas CityLife)
AT more than 800 pages in length (when you include sources, credits and index), Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State promises to serve as the definitive anthology for anyone wishing to learn more about the authors and texts that define our "battle-born" territory. The book makes damn good on that promise, despite just a few glaring lapses in Vegas-related selections. Any such ...
- Spencer's famous library cat dies - Sioux City Journal
SPENCER, Iowa -- One of the world's most famous felines, Dewey Readmore Books, died Wednesday in the arms of librarian Vicki Myron who had acted as his "mother" for most of the last 19 years. Dewey was adopted as the library cat at the Spencer Public ...
- Performers to reprise cabaret at Manhattan's - Toledo Blade
Performers to reprise cabaret at Manhattan'sToledo Blade, OH - 6 hours agoThe Art Tatum African American Resource Center at the Kent Branch Library joins with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and Owens Community College's Center ...
- Outhouse salesman has a good singing voice - ScrippsNews
BUSHNELL, Fla. -- In an economic recession such as the one Florida is experiencing, it helps to be good at a lot of things, just in case. Vince Denimarck's job skills include drafting, design, carpentry, wiring, plumbing, laying tile, hanging paper ...
- Food notes: Get your eat on at Soul Food Extravaganza - IdahoStatesman.com
Food notes: Get your eat on at Soul Food ExtravaganzaIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 5 hours ago... at Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd. This is a cultural event, celebrating the rich traditions of the Treasure Valley's African-American community. ...
- Dickinson's poetry will come to life on the Montalvo stage - San Jose Mercury News
The Montalvo Arts Center is putting on a one-time performance that takes the words of Emily Dickinson's poetry and uses them as a commentary on life. The performance, which is being touted as a "new opera," is titled Divide Light and was written by ...
- New book on South Asian history focuses on people’s past - Fresh News
New book on South Asian history focuses on people’s pastFresh News, India - 10 hours agoThere is a significant emphasis on the history of medieval Punjab and ample usage of poetry, folk tales, folk songs and folklore in the book, ...
- Michael Symmons Roberts's poetry workshop (Guardian Unlimited)
This month, the Whitbread award winner asks for self-portraits from unusual angles
- Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill, By Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev (Independent)
The excruciatingly painful end of this fascinating biography – Assia Wevill would gas herself and Shura, her daughter by Ted Hughes, to death – overshadows everything we can learn about this unfortunate woman, even as we fantasize, as with all suicides, that we can still save her somehow before the last page and rewrite her story.
- "TIGER, TIGER" (New York Post)
Galaxy Craze's exquisite new novel keeps you glancing at the author pic on the jacket: a strawberry-blonde beauty with a slightly pained expression, as if she were seeing the world for what it really is - not always pleasant - but seeing it with...
- Chamberlain on books: Poets get at the naked truth - Times Colonist
Times ColonistChamberlain on books: Poets get at the naked truthTimes Colonist, Canada - 16 hours agoAs enjoyable as poetry readings are, I've often wondered how we might make them even more soul-stirring. For me, the answer always was, "Hey, ...
- DJ Taylor's books for Orwell-lovers - guardian.co.uk
DJ Taylor's books for Orwell-loversguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoOrwell's youthful poetry is much quoted and there are some salutary slaps at the myth of his unhappy childhood ('a happy smiling boy' Ms Buddicom ...
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