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- UAB Student Art Guild Works - Everything Alabama
Works by the members of Wonderland Art Guild. Location Alabaster Alexander City Alpharetta Anniston Atlanta Bessemer Birmingham Brownsboro Calera Center Point Chelsea Collegeville Crestline Cullman Decatur Ensley Enterprise Fairfield Fairhope ...
- Tempted by the illusion of greatness (Asbury Park Press)
In a previous life, I remember wondering out loud about Mark McGwire's assault on one of our cultural treasures, baseball's single-season home-run record. Something didn't feel right to me. I wasn't alone, either. But the skeptical voices of 1998 were drowned out by an unrestrained celebration that was enthusiastically endorsed by Major League Baseball.
- 'Nightwood,' A Hymn To The Dispossessed - NPR
'Nightwood,' A Hymn To The DispossessedNPR - 10 hours agoSiri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, two books of essays and four novels, most recently, The Sorrows of an American. She has been known to sing ...
- Salman Rushdie: Knight of the Tall Tale - New York Sun
'The Enchantress of Florence" (Random House, 368 pages, $26) is a "Harry Potter"-ish restoration project of great intelligence and remarkable egoism, both of which are characteristic of its author. Although he sets his novel in the Florence of the ...
- New Montreal exhibit showcases legacy of designer Yves Saint Laurent - 680 News
An Yves Saint Laurent cocktail dress from 1992 is shown in a handout photo. Organizers of a retrospective on the creations of designer Yves Saint Laurent knew they were dealing with a legend when they began putting together the Montreal Museum of ...
- Oh, for a poet laureate - The Kingston Whig-Standard
Oh, for a poet laureateThe Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - 1 hour agoA pastoral, full of all its rural rustic charms, is precisely the type of poetry that could bring the Wolfe Island windmill project to life. ...
- Teen feud ends in death - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Teen feud ends in deathSanta Rosa Press Democrat, CA - 3 hours agoAt Carlé on Friday, students gathered in an enclosed quad to talk about their feelings, read poetry, burn incense, scatter rose petals and embrace. ...
- NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Sugarland, Alan Jackson Lead 2008 Album Releases ... - CMT
(NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/ CMT .com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.) It's well past the six-month peak for the year 2008, so let's think about the music we've heard so far this year to consider what's been good and what's been very ...
- He's my Man of the Match - Electric New Paper
He's my Man of the MatchElectric New Paper, Singapore - 18 hours agoIt was Dutch poetry in motion, a windmill with a lethal sweeping, fanning move. Before the game this morning, Van Bronckhorst had asked the media why they ...
- Now the smart money is on magazines for intellectuals (Guardian Unlimited)
Standpoint, launching this week, is the latest periodical funded by an entrepreneur in search of powerful friends and social cachet, reports James Robinson
- Third Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina brings new wave of books - New Orleans Times-Picayune
For most of us, summer is a time for easy reading, catching up on that best-seller or that long overdue classic. But for those of us in Louisiana, summer also brings the season of hurricane books. On this third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and ...
- Corporate honcho, management student give in to impulse, pen books - Webindia 123
Vivek Kumar Aggarwal and Zaheer Ahmed, one a corporate executive and the other a management student, have given a break to the structured thinking they are trained in and delved into the literary world with their debut books to get in touch with ...
- Leeds University, England - guardian.co.uk
Leeds University, Englandguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoThe sing-song rhymes, blunt speech (see the obscene inarticulate skinheads of V) and political stance of Harrison's poetry have kept him outside the ...
- Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land - Financial Times
Thank goodness Tim Mackintosh-Smith didn’t listen to his Arabic teacher’s advice not to go to Yemen to brush up his enclitic pronouns. “Why don’t you go somewhere respectable?” he was asked. Had he opted for the safer bet of Cairo or ...
- Local wordsmith heads off to Vegas for poet of the year competition - Herald South Africa
MULTI-TALENTED Makhosonke “Chief” Fundakubi is thrilled about his third nomination for the international poet of the year competition. Chief, 44, a self-taught painter, sportsman, teacher and writer from Zwide in Port Elizabeth, says he is proud ...
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