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- Hip Hop History: Local artists discuss the culture of hip hop (Pacific Daily News)
Ask Jovan Tamayo to define hip hop and the answer is the same as it's always been: Hip hop is a culture, he says. It's a state of mind.
- Examining Facets of a Beloved Composer?s Life (New York Times)
The curators of ?Prokofiev and His World? at the Bard Music Festival are concerned with exploring aspects of the composer?s life.
- Goodbye high school, hello college, and feeling torn (Norwalk Advocate)
DARIEN - It is three days until my high school graduation and to be honest, I really don't know what I am feeling. I'm torn between being ready to move on while at the same time having to say goodbye to the people I've made strong bonds with in the four years since I moved to Darien.
- Brunswick Arts Council seeks funds for programs in four schools - Star News Online
Gary Halberstadt asks how you learned your ABC's. By singing them, many will say. Halberstadt and the volunteer organization he presides over, the Brunswick County Arts Council, want to take that to the next level at county's schools. They are ...
- Noll, Scott, Skinner, Paice, Stanek, Lacey Take Wing in Signature's 'Ace' (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Ace, the Broadway-aimed musical about a boy's flight through his own family history, begins performances Aug. 27 in Arlington, VA, with a flock of divas helping to keep the production aloft.
- Ronnie Drew: Lead singer of the Dubliners (Independent)
With his huge bushy beard, trademark gravelly voice and a gift for stripping a song down to its soul, Ronnie Drew was one of Ireland's musical heroes. He was a founder member of the folk group the Dubliners, whose charismatic stage presence and penchant for raw, bar-room ballads and roaring chorus songs helped them achieve unprecendented international success over four decades. Drew was the ...
- Uncommon Senselessness | Horacio Castellanos Moya's novel -- his first translated into English -- views atrocity ... (Pittsburgh City Paper)
The genocide that accompanied Guatemala's long-running civil war has been called "the silent holocaust." From about 1960 until 1996, when peace accords were signed, an estimated 200,000 civilians died. Most were indigenous people of Mayan descent, and most perished, often horrifically,... By Bill O'Driscoll.
- Festivals and sports events braced for weekend rain - Irish Times
Festivals and sports events braced for weekend rainIrish Times, Ireland - 1 hour agoAs in previous years, talks will be interspersed with poetry readings, set dancing classes, Irish language classes and local tours. ...
- 'Step outside the box': Immaculate grads urged to pursue their dreams (The News-Times)
DANBURY -- Immaculate High School Principal Richard Stoops gathered his 99 seniors outside the Danbury school after their graduation Wednesday so they could toss their caps into the air in unison.For them, it was his final show of leadership, and in their joyful exuberance the class of 2008 revealed their sense of community for the school most of them had attended for the past four years.
- Leonard Cohen tours after 15-year break - ninemsn
Singer Leonard Cohen, who serenaded the world with songs like Hallelujah, is kicking off his first world tour in 15 years in Canada. An apostle of love in praise of the wandering spirit, Cohen, with his haunting voice, is best known for the songs ...
- Suffolk punch at Latitude Fest - The Sun
Suffolk punch at Latitude FestThe Sun, UK - 11 hours ago... on a show-stealing conga with hundreds of revellers. With literature, poetry, dance and multi-coloured sheep, Latitude is a total joy for ALL the family.
- Back to poetry, after a year promoting it (Concord Monitor)
Let's get one thing straight right off the top: Charles Simic was not George Bush's poet laureate.
- Culture at the Marxism 2008 festival - Socialistworker.co.uk
Culture at the Marxism 2008 festivalSocialistworker.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoJust some of the highlights include poetry performed by the hard‑hitting artist Lemn Sissay, Adrian Mitchell and John Hegley on Saturday evening. Love Music ...
- The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust - Aversion
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy TardustAversion - 1 hour agoIt took Nine Inch Nail Trent Reznor merely an album to help Saul Williams achieve what several published volumes of poetry, a screenwriting credit, ...
- Massive Laughs, Tiny Tent - This is London
Massive Laughs, Tiny TentThis is London, UK - 5 hours agoOn the positive side, Latitude's poetry tent was a great place to dip into. One could usually get inside and poetry lends itself to quick bites between ...
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