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- The Erotic, the Political, and the Personal - New York Sun
The Erotic, the Political, and the PersonalNew York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoMs. Phelps has made a sculptural piece from letters cut from the last list she made, on January 24, 2007, arranged as concrete poetry. ...
- Literary Happenings: Some pen the lines, others stand in them (Ventura County Star)
In May I attended BookExpo America at the Los Angeles Convention Center. More than 2,000 exhibitors competed for visitors' attention with autographing sessions, in-booth activities and giveaways. Author events provided the most fun.
- HERBIE HANCOCK (New York Post)
Piano man speaks of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and how winning that Grammy really was all that jazz.Your impression of Herbie Hancock probably stems from when you grew up. If you're a child of the baby boomer generation, then you know him as the...
- If we're comfortable in our non-belief, why bash believers? - Chicago Sun-Times
Albert Einstein's letter, containing a short rant about God and the Bible, sold recently for 25 times its expected price, thanks, in part, to professional atheist Richard Dawkins being one of the unsuccessful bidders. It's long been said religion is ...
- Giving Voice to Poetry in a Concert of Choral Works (New York Times)
The alliance opened its Festival of American Music with a night of choral works, performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers.
- Harold Verduin, 92 - Holland Sentinel
Harold Verduin died May 7, 2008, at Hospice House in Holland, Mich. He was 92 when he succumbed to cancer. Â Born in South Holland, Ill. in 1916, he was the fourth of six children of Teunis and Rena Rietveld Verduin. He grew up on a farm outside ...
- A different kind of film school (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - What is unique about the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center in Antipolo is that film students are exposed not just to the basics of filmmaking but to the other forms of art as well.
- The Vietnamese Flag in Living Colors (New America Media)
The latest controversy regarding the Vietnamese yellow flag with three stripes appearing in a foot bath, published by Nguoi Viet daily newspaper in their 2008 Tet magazine has drawn international attention, yet no one has been able to adequately explain the phenomenal outrage that have not just engulfed Little Saigon, but polarized the overseas Vietnamese.
- World’s top 20 public intellectuals - The Post
World’s top 20 public intellectualsThe Post, Pakistan - 3 hours agoAbdolkarim Soroush, religious theorist, Iran: Soroush, a former university professor in Tehran and specialist in chemistry, Sufi poetry, and history, ...
- County's SEIU workers are standing firm - Vacaville Reporter
I was privileged to be a part of the Service Employees International Union 1021 march to the government center in downtown Fairfield last month. I can't begin to tell you how proud it made me to see hundreds of my fellow workers wearing purple ...
- America Back on Track... for Friday, July 11th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from Mark Twain who said, "Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense." Some observations on the news... Most of you are too young to remember the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. That was the legislation that ...
- Jessica Alba scores herself a husband; Kristi Yamaguchi scores herself ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jessica Alba has Cash in hand. Wedding season is in full swing, and Jessica Alba is our latest blushing bride. The actress, 27, married babydaddy Cash Warren, 31, at the Beverly Hills courthouse on Tuesday, taking care of the love and marriage stuff ...
- Art calendar - Monterey County Herald
Art calendarMonterey County Herald, CA - 56 minutes agoPoetry trail hikes, nature photography tutorials and plein air demonstrations with local artists. Cost: $9 per car; discounts for seniors. ...
- Author, professor emeritus Jack Forbes explores a new view of Native ... - California Aggie
The basic history of the United States of America should be a familiar story to any college student, but writer and UC Davis professor emeritus Jack D. Forbes wants to rethink the way textbooks cover American history. In his latest book The American ...
- The role of the artist's muse - guardian.co.uk
The role of the artist's museguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoPainters don't claim muses until painting begins to take itself as seriously as poetry. Andrea del Sarto, an Italian painter born in 1486, was famously ...
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