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- Crossing barrios to promote peace - San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO – Every Sunday, Lucky “2 Tears” Morales laces up his steel-toed boots, wraps a bandana across on his forehead and slips on his black, fingerless gloves to march the streets of southeastern San Diego alone. For more than a decade ...
- Pros and cons of 'The Great Debaters' - Baltimore Sun
(B-) An optimistic movie set during the Great Depression, the fact-based The Great Debaters coarsens its inspirational story and powerful history with movie devices that date to the 1930s. Director Denzel Washington uses the cliffhanging climaxes and ...
- A legacy from Newman to Lambeth? - Virtue Online
A legacy from Newman to Lambeth?Virtue Online, PA - 2 hours ago... life-long priest friend Ambrose St John, and the Pope has, interestingly, ordered that he be exhumed as part of his canonisation. The poetry of Hopkins, ...
- Philip Glass: Confessions of a chameleon (Independent)
As a child, the composer Philip Glass worked at his father's radio- repair shop in Baltimore, which doubled as a small record store. It was there that he was exposed to a huge variety of music, from Schubert and Bartok to Hank Williams and Elvis. "I liked nearly all of it," he said years later. "People forgot to tell me some stuff was better than others."
- Catching Up With... Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet - Paste Magazine
Paste MagazineCatching Up With... Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow QuartetPaste Magazine, GA - 43 minutes agoAnd Abby would bring us these Chinese songs, and some of them were just beautiful poetry, and some of ’em were fiddle tunes and, I mean, how do you put all ...
- Child inspires stories - Osakis Review
Child inspires storiesOsakis Review, MN - 32 minutes agoThe result was Gannon’s World, a book of poetry from the perspective of a small boy with a lively imagination, whose tales are a little more than tall. ...
- TEMPO: Kip Calahan this week at AFP - Sierra Vista Herald
The Arizona Folklore Preserve, in partnership with the University of Arizona South and Dolan Ellis, Arizona’s official state balladeer, presents Kip Calahan in concert at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Reservations are recommended and can be made ...
- Ralph Victor Heino Sr., 91, musician, composer (Seattle Times)
Until the end of his life, composer and musician Ralph Victor Heino Sr. remained passionate about the arts. Mr. Heino, best-known for his 40-year career with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, died July 26, after suffering a stroke the week before. He was 91.
- In Your Schools - Sept. 29, 2008 - Lynchburg News and Advance
In Your Schools - Sept. 29, 2008Lynchburg News and Advance, VA - 20 minutes ago30: School pictures for all students, faculty and staff -Oct. 3: Blessing of the Animals, 2:15 pm in the courtyard; Upper School Poetry Recital, ...
- P.E.I. Book Awards jury releases shortlist of titles - Prince Edward Island Guardian
The jury for the 2008 P.E.I. Book Awards has released the shortlist of titles for the prestigious award. This year, for the first time, awards will be given in three categories: fiction, non-fiction and poetry. A news release says that the jury ...
- An Afternoon of Chicano Spoken Word - SDSUniverse
SDSUniverseAn Afternoon of Chicano Spoken WordSDSUniverse, CA - 2 hours agoBringing spoken word to relevant places – from taquerĂas to Chicano Park to New York University – Riley’s more than 200 thought-provoking poetry ...
- Teen Center set to open on Saturday (The Desert Sun)
The highly anticipated opening of the new Indio Teen Center is just a day away. The city of Indio will host a 2 p.m. Saturday grand opening ceremony for the 12,500-square-foot, high-tech hangout created and designed by — and for — high school students.
- Short Takes: More movie reviews for week of Sept. 5 (New York Daily News)
A decidedly lightweight amusement, "Ping Pong Playa," the first comedy from documentary filmmaker Jessica Yu, is the sort of movie that works best if you keep your expectations low.
- Firoozeh Dumas' memoir gives insight into her culture - Battle Creek Enquirer
Firoozeh Dumas' memoir gives insight into her cultureBattle Creek Enquirer, MI - 9 minutes agoAs a form, it has been around for hundreds of years, but unlike poetry or theater, it has been able to keep its mainstream appeal throughout all that time. ...
- Palestinians Bury 'National Poet' Mahmoud Darwish - Voice of America
Voice of AmericaPalestinians Bury 'National Poet' Mahmoud DarwishVoice of America - Aug 13, 2008Darwish's poetry dealt with the themes of exile and the hope of return, both of which he experienced personally. His village was destroyed during Israel's ...
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