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- From Russia with Jazz (All About Jazz)
Is There Jazz In Russia, Really? A Short Jazz History of Moscow The answer is “YES". The first jazz concert in Russia took place in Moscow on October 1, 1922. The band was local, called no less than The First Jazz Band of the Republic, led by not a musician, but a dancer, one Valentin Parnakh (1891-1951), who also was a gifted poet, poetry translator, and literature historian, and spend seven ...
- New Milford auto repairman feels urge to compete in poetry slams (The News-Times)
DANBURY--There isn't a lot of money to be made on the competitive poetry circuit.Occasionally, you might win a small cash prize. More often, the rewards are far less tangible.That's one of the reasons that Craig Weidner is working as a service manager at a downtown auto repair shop rather than spinning his freestyle verse for appreciative audiences at poetry slams across the country.
- Midwest City teen died saving friend's life - Tulsa World
Midwest City teen died saving friend's lifeTulsa World, OK - 18 minutes agoGerald Lee said his sister wrote poetry and music and was an aspiring rapper and radio broadcaster. Her stage name was Proverb, he said. ...
- A Businessman?s View of Mid-American Life (New York Times)
Bill Wood Jr.?s curiously affecting images are the subject of a fascinating, compact exhibition at the International Center of Photography.
- what's new on the shelves - The Olympian
what's new on the shelvesThe Olympian, WA - 1 hour ago... dark thriller with undertones of the western and horror novels. Connolly also imbues his novels with a prose so rich that he invests a kind of poetry in ...
- Doug Burr On Promenade - Contactmusic.com
Contactmusic.comDoug Burr On PromenadeContactmusic.com, UK - 1 hour agoBurr relies on great songs, not on gimmicks, and pulls on literate wit and poetry to generate the intimate ache that drives the record. ...
- Utopia/Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James at The National Gallery of Art in Canada (Art Daily)
Geoffrey James, Pont-Neuf, Paris, 2000. Collection of Jim des Rivières and Kathryn Finter. OTTAWA.- Recognized as one of Canada’s most eloquent interpreters of landscape, Geoffrey James has been making photographs since the early 1970s.
- Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth opens 5th festival - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth opens 5th festivalFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 8 hours agoSeattle’s Deborah Birrane had two winners based on poetry. Eva Stone’s The Raven used literal reactions to a hilarious, updated version of Poe’s work; ...
- Wednesday's Agenda, April 30 (Miami Herald)
Items contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Calendar Desk, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Fifth Floor Newsroom, Miami, FL 33132-1693. To submit items online, go to MiamiHerald.com, click on Calendar of Events and click Add Events, then follow the prompts or e-mail your items to newscalendar@MiamiHerald.com. No faxes, please. To search for events throughout South ...
- The Pursuit of Excellence (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin)
Fourteen seniors represented Grantsville High School and the community at the Northeast Region competition held at Morgan High School on April 22. They competed against Wendover, Dugway, Rich, Uintah, Union, Duchesne, Altamont, Tabiona, Wasatch, South Summit, North Summit, Park City and Morgan.
- Bend's brew pubs cure what ales you - Seattle Times
The big and busy Deschutes Brewery's and Public House in Bend, Ore., is the town's original brew pub, established in 1988. Sunriver Resort, Mount Bachelor and 300 days of sunshine a year draw hordes of visitors to the town of Bend, a central Oregon ...
- Faith guide - Billings Gazette
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 180 24th St. W.: Join in a 40th anniversary celebration with afternoon activities including a pig roast dinner at 5 p.m. A special Taize service is at 6:30 p.m. All members of the local community are invited to join ...
- Tribute to a mate (Blue Mountains Gazette)
Killabakh bush poet Roderick Williams has returned from the Henry Lawson Festival at Gulgong with a prize for a very personal poem he wrote as a tribute to one of his mates.
- AP Top News at 11:00 p.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is ...
- How will Barack Obama get to 270? - Salon
Critics scoff and call it an antiquated and unfair system (it is). Many Democrats -- notably, this year, Obama backers -- would like their party to stop thinking in terms of three yards and a cloud of purple-state dust and instead embrace the beauty ...
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