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- Home-grown virtuosos - Chicago Tribune
HAVANA - Without saying a word, teenager Yamile Cruz seats herself at the grand piano, places her slender fingers on the keyboard and, after a brief pause, unleashes a torrent of sound one might expect from a virtuoso twice her age and size. Though ...
- James Joyce family portraits restored at Buffalo State (The Buffalo News)
Nine family portraits that belonged to James Joyce, including two of the literary giant himself, have been restored by Buffalo State College art conservators and will be showcased for the first time during the 2009 North American James Joyce Conference in Buffalo.
- Japan's Poetry Boxers Get Ready to Grumble - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Japan's Poetry Boxers Get Ready to GrumbleChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 15 hours agoBy DAVID MCNEILL In a crowded Yokohama hall, boxers file into a ring watched by cheering students and a panel of university professors. ...
- Signposts: Berkeley group names '10 best ethical destinations" - Inside Bay Area
In an effort to get travelers off the beaten path and support destinations in developing countries, Berkeley-based Ethical Traveler has published a list of the "10 best ethical destinations." The organization said in a statement that many countries ...
- Vote shows public's take being heard - Daily Local News
His name was George F. Babbitt. He was 46 years old now, in April 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. -- "Babbitt ...
- Heath Ledger in 'Dark Knight': Bravo! - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesHeath Ledger in 'Dark Knight': Bravo!Los Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoWhat's more, transcendent acting takes a toll in a way that goes beyond painting, poetry or other creative disciplines, because actors must utilize ...
- 19th Century Dutch Landscapes, Ice Scenes and Town Views to be ... - Art Daily
19th Century Dutch Landscapes, Ice Scenes and Town Views to be ...Art Daily - 3 hours agoAndreas Schelfhout's depictions of winter delight are universally admired for their tranquil poetry. Skaters on a frozen river near a Dutch town from 1848 ...
- DACC expands reach of literary magazine - Commercial News
DANVILLE — Danville Area Community College has taken some initial steps in promoting the creative writing talents of the surrounding community. Led by DACC Liberal Arts instructor Ryan Stone, the college has reformatted its literary magazine ...
- Lost in translation! - This is Salisbury
ORHAN Pamuk's intricate and brilliant novel, My Name Is Red, is currently being serialised on Sunday afternoon's on BBC Radio 4. The Nobel prize winning writer's work would have been unavailable to readers in English, if it hadn't been translated, as ...
- What's on stage? - MetroMix
A reimagined historical drama in which poetry, memory torture and lust come into play when the artist Caravaggio hires a beautiful, young farmer off the streets of Renaissance Rome to pose for a painting. Tony Award-winner Frank Galati directs his ...
- Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 (Arizona Daily Star)
SAN FRANCISCO — Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87.
- Marcus Garvey birthday celebrated in the Virgin Islands - Caribbean Net News
Caribbean Net NewsMarcus Garvey birthday celebrated in the Virgin IslandsCaribbean Net News, Cayman Islands - 1 hour agoThe USVI Daily News reported that the celebrations included drumming, poetry reading and singing an open-mic event at Bellow Moods on Tortola. ...
- LOCAL BOOKS ROUNDUP: SLO COUNTY WRITES (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
What do you get when you combine a World War II pilot with a biblical truth seeker and photos of the Central Coast? If you guessed a local books roundup, you’re correct. San Luis Obispo County has its fair share of local authors, which means the features desk regularly receives a fair share of books from local authors. The most recent batch includes works from the well-established Solo Press to ...
- Legacy of NC's Black Mountain College continues - Centre Daily
RALEIGH, N.C. — Starting in the 1930s, a small, experimental college on the dense wood slopes of North Carolina's western mountains left an outsized mark on American art and culture. Black Mountain College's model of holistic learning and communal ...
- The Iliad and The Odyssey remain awesomely true - TheChronicleHerald.ca
The Iliad and The Odyssey remain awesomely trueTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 4 hours agoIn prose that is always lucid, magisterial, and touched with its own poetry as well as that of the sundry authors he cites, Manguel’s history of the success ...
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