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- Art, music, gossip - it's (virtually) all there in my parallel ... - guardian.co.uk
Art, music, gossip - it's (virtually) all there in my parallel ...guardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoSince buying my first patch of land in Second Life in May 2006, I have launched a book of poetry there (which included a discussion among avatars from ...
- No sensible British shoes for this rebel fashionista (Toronto Star)
"You can't have depths without surfaces," the British writer Linda Grant notes on her online blog, The Thoughtful Dresser . In The Clothes on Their Backs , her fourth novel, she pays plenty of attention to what her characters wear, but her emphasis is on what their fashion sense (or lack of it) reveals about them.
- Work to start on blind activity centre - Evening News Norwich
Building work on a £1.5m activity centre for blind people in the county is set to start this month. The trustees of the Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind (NNAB) have appointed city-based construction firm John Youngs Limited to build the ...
- From Ballasts to Ballads: Fishermen Take to the Stage - Forbes
Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce: -0- *T WHAT: Telling tales of the deep, fishermen and women will reel in audiences during the 12th annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Ore., the former canning capital of the world. Weathered and wise ...
- Indianapolis couple tie the knot in California (The Indianapolis Star)
By all reports filtering back to Indiana, last weekend's wedding in Oakland, Calif., which joined Steven Stolen and Rob MacPherson in marriage, included lots of special poetry, music and readings by friends who headed west to attend.
- Ghana Pays Last Respect To Baah-Wiredu - Peace fm Online
Ghana Pays Last Respect To Baah-WireduPeace fm Online, Ghana - 3 hours agoThe Forecourt of the State House in Accra where the funeral was held became a sea of mourning paraphernalia, in mostly red and black colours, signifying the ...
- Phoebe Snow's success comes after great sorrow - San Francisco Chronicle
Phoebe Snow's success comes after great sorrowSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 16 minutes agoIn February 1975, Snow's "Poetry Man" hit No. 5 on the pop singles chart, riding on a singing voice that was like snowflakes and fatback. ...
- Prime Time Calendar the week of Sept. 8, 2008 (Independent Press)
Auditions, are scheduled for the Chatham Community Players production of A Christmas Carol, an original musical adaptation of Charles Dickens story by Philip Wm. McKinley.
- Bishop and Lowell's 'love' letters - Monsters and Critics
Am I the only one who finds a book of letters utterly boring to read? I don’t care if the two people are gifted poets or not. Just shoot me already. “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell by ...
- Waterstone's defend decision to cancel gay author event - PinkNews.co.uk
PinkNews.co.ukWaterstone's defend decision to cancel gay author eventPinkNews.co.uk, UK - 30 minutes agoIn August he questioned the presence of racist group the National Front at Pride events, on the basis that "homosexuals are not black or Asian as a rule. ...
- Manhattan Project: New Staging - Wall Street Journal
A new production can usefully illuminate aspects of an opera that were originally obscure. By giving John Adams's "Doctor Atomic" to the film director Penny Woolcock, the Metropolitan Opera divorced the work from the inscrutable staging of Peter ...
- Patti Smith ends fest fetes on a high note - Toronto Star
Patti Smith ends fest fetes on a high noteToronto Star, Canada - 2 hours agoSmith played and recited poetry for over an hour, singing a cappella and playing acoustic guitar. She kept apologizing, saying she was sorry she was wearing ...
- CULTIVATING HOPE (The Telegraph)
Mahmoud Darwish, often referred to as the Palestinian national poet, once told his readers: “Do not trust the poem —/ The daughter of absence/ It is neither intuition nor is it/ Thought/ But rather, the sense of the abyss...â€
- Cultural center benefit features dragon dance - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Those who attend Moonlight Over the Orient on Friday -- a fundraiser for the Washington Arts and Cultural Center -- will be in for some unusual entertainment. Along with a pallet of events and displays with a Pan-Asian theme, a traditional Chinese ...
- Amazon Art Institute Helps Recover Indigenous Roots - Inter Press Service
MANAUS, Brazil, Sep 24 (IPS) - Dhiani Pa'saro came to Manaus, the bustling city of 1.7 million people in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, eight years ago, after wandering from one village or town to another. At the time he planned to become ...
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