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- Travel briefs - Times & Democrat
WASHINGTON -- Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival for Sept. 27 on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady ...
- An uplifting start - Daily Review & Sunday Review
WYALUSING — A jazz song cascaded through the air as Brian Keeler instructed some men and women in a Lindy dance lesson. "One, two, three, four, five, six ... nicely done," he said. It was the opening night of the 15th Annual North Branch Arts and ...
- How a 'light bulb moment' led Wilks to change career course - Royal Gazette
Royal GazetteHow a 'light bulb moment' led Wilks to change career courseRoyal Gazette, Bermuda - 5 hours agoHe enjoys various forms of art including music, poetry and photography: "My artwork is about pure consciousness. This means absorbing everything around you, ...
- An 'Office' worker takes to rock (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
As Dwight Schrute on The Office, Rainn Wilson is a walking sight gag with his thrift-shop clothes, chipped-kitchen-table haircut, and frowning face.
- Is There Room In Art For Football? - Football365.com
Is There Room In Art For Football?Football365.com, UK - 47 minutes agoI chase around town with a drink or four in my bloodstream, standing in lines to see radical theatre, poetry, interpretive dance - which as you know is my ...
- Phyllis Montana-Leblanc - Salon
Aug. 27, 2008 | Perhaps the most captivating part of Spike Lee's 2006 Hurricane Katrina documentary, "When the Levees Broke ," was Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc. Some critics went so far as to call Montana-LeBlanc the star of the film, no small feat ...
- Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize - Seattle Times
Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday. Glueck, who served as poet laureate in ...
- Hammershoi's decade of brilliance, before banality set in (International Herald Tribune)
For 10 dazzling years, the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi seemed possessed by some inner vision that made him see the world around him through a luminous haze. Some of his poetic portraits and interiors are now on view at the Royal Academy until Sept. 7.
- Brenda J. Moossy at OPWC (Fayetteville Free Weekly)
On Tuesday night, the Ozark Poets and Writers Collective will play host to one of the most sought-after slam veterans in the South, local slam legend, Brenda J. Moossy. Moossy will be the featured reader at the OPWC monthly gathering at 7 p.m. at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
- Time on his hands, and then some (The State)
The Carolina offensive line blocked, the defensive line rushed, the running backs ran, the receivers caught, the quarterbacks threw, the linebackers tackled, the defensive backs covered and the punter punted. Rhys Lloyd took notes. Lloyd, who has an opportunity to make the Panthers as a kickoff specialist, stood behind the punt returners and wrote in a little notebook. Poetry? “I was marking off ...
- College Town - Worcester Telegram
College TownWorcester Telegram, MA - Jul 13, 2008Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Worcester County Poetry Association will help Miss Halstead celebrate her 92nd birthday during “Rare Readings” from ...
- Phil Daoust: Radio pick of the day (Guardian Unlimited)
Phil Daoust on Dread, Beat an' Blood: The Dub Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson | BBC Proms 2008
- Samford arts dean Joseph Hopkins meshes drama with robust singing - Everything Alabama
Samford University's singing dean nearly made you forget there was a presidential debate going on and a financial crisis to deal with. As McCain and Obama were debating 200 miles to the north, Joseph Hopkins was delivering wrenching romanticism at ...
- Colombia: Interview with Antonio Navarro Wolf - Upside Down World
Upside Down WorldColombia: Interview with Antonio Navarro WolfUpside Down World, NY - 37 minutes agoHe has also written, edited or translated a half dozen other books of poetry, fiction, interviews and translations from Latin America. ...
- Sure shots at Bumbershoot (Tacoma News Tribune)
Get ready for Bumbershoot 2008!
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