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- Petty puts on powerful, flashy show (The Buffalo News)
Being original is overrated. Just ask Tom Petty. For the past 30 years, he's been making music that has the earthy swagger of the Stones, the shimmering jangle of the Byrds, the bluesy poetry of Dylan and the palpable energy of Springsteen. From his self-titled debut in 1976 to 2006's understated, bittersweet “Highway Companion,” Petty has worn his influences proudly and prominently -- so much ...
- Finding challenge in verse - Whittlesea Leader
Whittlesea LeaderFinding challenge in verseWhittlesea Leader, Australia - 8 hours ago... it's just talking free-flow emotion and that's not very challenging, really," Albiston said. "For every rule in formal poetry, a creative window opens. ...
- In brief: Illinois (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Find events going on in your community, and plan your week’s activities with The Times.
- Michael X: A Life In Black And White, by John Williams (Independent)
Sometimes reading makes one feel old. As the fag end of the swinging Sixties merged into the sobering Seventies, John Williams was "a little white kid growing up in South Wales", seeing the Angry Brigade, the IRA and Black Power as distant spectres from the adult world. By contrast, I was newly married to a jazz musician and living in affordable Notting Hill, crossing paths with many of the ...
- Remembrance of flings past (Guardian Unlimited)
Life & style: What happened when Tanya Gold tried to track down her ex-boyfriends?
- Bumbershoot '08: Let's Get Ready to Rumble!!! - Seattlest
SeattlestBumbershoot '08: Let's Get Ready to Rumble!!!Seattlest, Seattle - 10 hours agoThere's three stages for comedy this year, including such guaranteed hilarity as Human Giant, Dartmondo, and Laff Hole, which means there's plenty of funny ...
- Urbana man saw citizen diplomacy at work on recent travels (The Champaign News-Gazette)
URBANA – Chungliang Al Huang describes himself as Chinese-born and American through and through. Immersed in both cultures, he insists that we Americans, as well as the rest of the world, need not fear China. Rather, we need to understand and accept it in new ways. One of the best, he says, is citizen diplomacy.
- Medium sized gardens: Winner Andy Beattie - Huddersfield Examiner
Medium sized gardens: Winner Andy BeattieHuddersfield Examiner, UK - 10 hours agoThis is a man whose creative talents range from writing poetry and stories of his Scottish childhood so that his grandchildren can share their heritage, ...
- The Rundown - Digital Collegian
When: 8 p.m. Where: Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St. Details: Admission is free. When: 8 p.m. Where: Boal Barn Playhouse, 300 Old Boalsburg Road Details: Tickets are $12 and $9 for children and seniors. When: 8 p.m. Where: Boal Barn ...
- Dorival Caymmi: Leading figure in Brazilian song (Independent)
In February 1939 a young, unknown singer-songwriter got the most fabulous break of his life by recording a duet of his swinging samba "O Que É Que A Bahiana Tem?" ("What is it about Bahian Women?") with Brazil's biggest ever vocal star. The song became one of Carmen Miranda's signature pieces just before she took Hollywood by storm, and launched Dorival Caymmi as a leading figure in Brazilian ...
- Event held to remember poet Akbar - Peninsula On-line
Event held to remember poet AkbarPeninsula On-line, Qatar - Jun 15, 2008DOHA • Anjuman Muhibban-e-Urdu Hind Qatar (AMUHQ), which is affiliated to the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC), held a poetry session dedicated to Akbar ...
- American Dead - Los Angeles Weekly
Brett Neveu’s play, first commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago — where the playwright earned his wunderkind reputation before immigrating to the film and TV biz out here — recalls an early stage work by Lanford Wilson, Rimers ...
- Local Punjabi Writer’s New Poetry Book Released,By Acharya ... - South Asian Link
Local Punjabi Writer’s New Poetry Book Released,By Acharya ...South Asian Link, Canada - 4 hours agoHe is credited with publishing Twenty Eight Books of his own poetry. There is hardly any one, I know, in North America who can match this number. ...
- Healing The Hood: Anti-Gang Street Festival - CBS 2 Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) ― Little Village, a neighborhood that was home to two of the 24 Chicago Public School students murdered in the last year is having a street festival as part of an anti-gang strategy. As CBS 2's Political Editor Mike Flannery reports ...
- A death - Arts Journal
With sadness, I want to mourn the death of Thomas M. Disch , who wrote the libretti for two of my operas, The Fall of the House of Usher and Frankenstein . The link takes you to his New York Times obituary. If you read it, you'll see that the last ...
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