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- 'Mad Men': Smart, subtle character study - San Francisco Gate
on AMC. In the first episode of the second season of "Mad Men," there's a great moment - in fact, many great moments - that immediately justify the runaway critical acclaim for this series while underscoring the primary mechanism for its brilliance ...
- A world without Montana (The Star-Ledger)
She can't be Hannah Montana forever. Miley Cyrus sang as both her famous TV character and herself on her last album, 2007's "Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus," and on her wildly popular 2007-08 "Best of Both Worlds" tour.
- Nightlife Calendar: 08/22/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Nightlife Calendar: 08/22/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 1 hour ago30; Open-Mic Poetry 7 pm third Mon., (Sept.-May), followed by open mic, bring poems to read and share, writing exercises available, bring eight copies of a ...
- Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New Criticism - New York Sun
Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New CriticismNew York Sun, United States - 2 hours ago... what modern poetry had become: an art that, in Tate's words, "demands ... in its writing and in its reading all the intellectual power that we have. ...
- Sweet thought at the dentist’s - Financial Times
A t the dentist, with four different implements in my mouth (a whistling narrow blue tube to draw away moisture; a large white pipe blowing in bicarbonate of soda; a sharp pointed metal scraper; and a dolly-sized oval mirror), I begin to wonder if ...
- 93-year-old debut novelist gives home to friends from care homes - Guardian Unlimited
A raunchy novel with a dauntless heroine has transformed the lives of a 93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing homes. Pushed by her daughter-in-law, who found the manuscript and couldn't put it down, Lorna Page has ...
- Celebrated Palestinian poet dies in US hospital - Lebanon Daily Star
JERUSALEM: Mahmoud Darwish, widely considered one of the greatest poets in Palestine and the wider Arab world, died Saturday in a US hospital following open-heart surgery. He was being treated at the Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas ...
- Hunt for Karadzic ends as fugitive is found - Independent
Hunt for Karadzic ends as fugitive is foundIndependent, UK - 2 hours agoWhile in hiding, he published five books – poetry and novels – widely publicised by his supporters. The former UN prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia, ...
- Events on Long Island - New York Times
Events on Long IslandNew York Times, United States - Sep 12, 2008HEMPSTEAD African-American Museum Exhibition exploring the state of photography being produced on Long Island today. Tuesday through Nov. 1. ...
- ‘John Adams,’ ‘Mad Men’ Big Winners at Creative Arts Emmys (MultiChannel News)
HBO, led by its John Adams mini-series, topped the list of winners at the 2008 Creative Arts Emmy Awards with 16 golden statuettes this weekend while AMC’s Mad Men walked off with four awards.
- NYC RFD: Water Park DWI Charged, Swimmer Hauled In, Pol Protests ... - Village Voice
For better or worse, John Ashbery looms over the downtown of contemporary American poetry like a gaudy skyscraper: Wherever you wander, it's impossible to lose sight of him. Given Ashbery's aversion to all things mainstream, his dogged ...
- President Ben Ali pays tribute to Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwich - Tunisia Online News
President Ben Ali pays tribute to Palestinian poet Mahmoud DarwichTunisia Online News, Tunisia - 6 hours agoThanks to his genius and magnificent poetry, Mahmoud Darwich managed to capture the hearts and souls and to give a concrete shape to his people’s awareness, ...
- 'Mixing It Up' by Ishmael Reed - Los Angeles Times
'Mixing It Up' by Ishmael ReedLos Angeles Times, CA - 12 minutes agoHis plays, poetry and especially his satirical, form-breaking novels have countered the racial distortions and omissions of popular (ie, white) media by ...
- Beck's surprise ending (Los Angeles Times)
The moody album, with themes of alienation, wasn't what the artist envisioned when he began recording. It's just what developed. BECK'S rented recording studio is a tiny, vault-like cell set in the core of a Fairfax-area office building. It's one of the last vestiges of a hotbed of musical production in the 1960s and '70s -- the headquarters of the ABC-Dunhill record label, where some seven ...
- Obama's Failed Fight-Back - Slate
Time magazine's "hot shots" breakfast Tuesday morning Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Rep. Artur Davis, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and D.A. Kamala Harris. 1) Booker and Davis are very impressive. Newsom, who seems kind of goofily egomaniacal, not so ...
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