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- Man of many words - Ashland Daily Tidings
Seventeen-year-old poet Derek Pyle's attitude toward the world embraces Buddhist philosophy with a youthful drive for change and a passion for life. Pyle's academic life has taken him from elementary school in California's East Bay to Ashland schools ...
- Some news from the (new) editor's desk (Engadget)
Filed under: Announcements , Meta As you already may know , today is Ryan Block's last day as editor-in-chief of Engadget, and, consequently, the beginning of my tenure in that same position. If you've ever met Ryan, read his work here on the site (and you'd better have), or seen one of his appearances on television, then you know that he's that rare kind of obsessive technology nerd who ...
- Blackburn poet back to his roots - Lancashire Evening Telegraph
Blackburn poet back to his rootsLancashire Evening Telegraph, UK - 2 hours agoPublished on three different cont-inents he has written numerous collections of poetry and prose, most recently Used Rhymes and A Guide to Historic Haworth ...
- Living La Vida Solo - Ithaca Times
Living La Vida SoloIthaca Times, NY - 2 hours ago"To the blonde in the black dress and cowboy boots at GrassRoots: I must not have been the only one to see this beauty and stop for a moment. ...
- Poems about the BBC: it's your chance to rhyme! - Guardian Blogs
The good people of BBC Radio 4 has commissioned Wendy Cope to write a series of verses about the BBC and changing listener attitudes towards it. So it's time to get your rhyming dictionary out - now it's your turn. Yes, we want your odes to the Big ...
- "Man on Wire": An enthralling documentary (San Jose Mercury News)
On the morning of Aug. 7, 1974, after months of preparation and years of dreaming, a French daredevil named Philippe Petit stepped into the sky above Lower Manhattan.
- John Mellencamp still rocks, but ages gracefully (Chicago Sun-Times)
It’s been said that by age 50 you get the face you deserve.
- DSO contest: Win tickets to 8 Days in June shows - Detroit News
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and The Detroit News are giving away tickets to the following 8 Days in June shows at The Max M. Fisher Music Center: THURSDAY: Civil Disobedience. Stratford Festival Director Donna Feore, local actors and musicians ...
- Five years down the road - Half Moon Bay Review
When Nancy Elliot pays one of her regular visits to the handsome Mexican rosewood cross on Highway 1 just south of Half Moon Bay, she picks up litter and, if it’s spring, tends the cheerful daffodils she planted there. Sometimes she is joined by ...
- Britain's Postwar Blues Shine Through Modest Musical: Review - Bloomberg
Britain's Postwar Blues Shine Through Modest Musical: ReviewBloomberg - 18 minutes agoSallie Bingham is the scion of a prominent newspaper- publishing family and has published fiction, nonfiction, poetry and several plays. ...
- Composer's elegy for lost partner, "Green Sneakers," to open in Vail - Denver Post
Ricky Ian Gordon wrote "Green Sneakers" as a personal tribute to his partner, Jeffrey Grossi, who died of AIDS in 1996. (Duncan Hannah) As the title of a new artistic invention, "Green Sneakers" sounds light and whimsical. But for its creator, Ricky ...
- Patti Smith: The comeback years - Salon
Almost at the beginning of Steven Sebring's documentary "Patti Smith: Dream of Life ," a film and art installation and photography book that have been 12 years in the making, we hear a narration from the eponymous rock goddess-poet, declaiming a ...
- For the Records - Philadelphia citypaper.net
For the RecordsPhiladelphia citypaper.net, PA - 21 hours agoI just listened to a set of early LPs of Chopin played by Claudio Arrau that show a strength, nimbleness and poetry that his late-in-life recordings, ...
- LAist Interview: Filmmaker John Palmer (LAist)
Photo courtesy of John Palmer Starting Saturday and running until July 28, The Black Maria Gallery will feature an exhibit examining landscapes both natural and manmade. Titled “Modern Soil,” the show will include new drawings from Brooks Salzwedel and a series of short films from John Palmer called "Landscape Quartet.” We spoke with Palmer about his black-and-white 16mm project ...
- Iran's Sohrab Sepehri at 80 - Persian Journal
Persian JournalIran's Sohrab Sepehri at 80Persian Journal, Iran - 1 hour agoDuring his wanderings, he encountered a variety of different literary styles, some of which found their way later into his poetry enriching the language in ...
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