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- Alicia Keys isn't just about music anymore --she's on a mission (Miami Herald)
When we first heard Alicia Keys' velvet voice and masterful piano strokes in 2001, she was a beautiful tomboy singing about falling in and out of love. Hers was a pure, unapologetic sound -- authentic, magical, enriched by yesterday -- that returned vintage soul to its place in the pantheon of music.
- Mark Stryker's Playlist - Detroit Free Press
Nostalgia has a funny way of turning everything into a "classic," from lowbrow sitcoms to mildly successful pop tunes. Even questionable jazz of a certain vintage can re-emerge decades later to a chorus of huzzahs from press and fans. To put it ...
- Place of dreams - Cairns Post
Place of dreamsCairns Post, Australia - 2 hours ago"When I was a child in Southern China, I discovered the romantic poetry of Li Bai, a very famous Chinese poet,’’ she said. "One poem in particular made me ...
- Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen Bring "One Ounce of Truth" to Joe's Pub (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Broadway singer-actress Capathia Jenkins and songwriter-performer Louis Rosen celebrate the release of their new CD, "One Ounce of Truth: The Nikki Giovanni Songs," with a Joe's Pub engagement starting May 12.
- The Sky Scribbler - Jakarta Post
The Sky ScribblerJakarta Post, Indonesia - 2 hours agoShe also taught me how to write -- to write prose, write in paragraphs and the art of word arrangement. In her nasal voice, Bu Sri called out: "Arranging ...
- FORMER GARAGE IN BARELAS GETS NEW LIFE IN ARTS - Albuquerque Journal
There's a new performance space in town, and its owners want it to be more than that. The space, in the Barelas neighborhood just south of Downtown Albuquerque, is called The Filling Station. What had been a twin-bay automobile garage is now a 99 ...
- The Daily Almanac - June 7 - Post Chronicle
Today is Saturday, June 7, the 159th day of 2008 with 207 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini ...
- Local Poet Featured in National "Chronic Pain" Magazine - BigNews.biz (press release)
Local Poet Featured in National "Chronic Pain" MagazineBigNews.biz (press release), MA - May 6, 2008Waldorf, MD, May 06 2008 -Laura Beth Young is an inspirational poet, writer, singer, and motivational speaker. When an accident left her bed-ridden with ...
- MC professor to present paper at Oxford University - My West Texas
To mark her 25th year at Midland College, English professor Pam Howell wanted to do something special and she found it. This summer, she will present a paper at the 20th Oxford Round Table in England in July. Her paper is titled “No More Heroes ...
- The acting regrets of Wales' first voice - IC Wales
Welsh acting legend, Philip Madoc, is starring in a new production of one Wales’ greatest plays, Under Milk Wood. But as he prepares to play First Voice again, he admits to Karen Price that he’s uncertain about his future on the stage PHILIP ...
- Historical anti-slavery speech the subject of July 4th celebration - Oakland Tribune
Oakland musicians and poets will offer an alternative celebration of Independence Day this week with a staged version of Frederick Douglass' famed 1852 speech decrying the hypocrisy of slavery in a supposedly free country. Poetry and jazz ensemble ...
- TV's 'Laugh-in' comic Dick Martin dies at 86 (AP via Yahoo! News)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.
- CS Lewis event scheduled July 28 - August 8 - National Council of Churches USA
CS Lewis event scheduled July 28 - August 8National Council of Churches USA, NY - 6 hours agoIncluded are performances of music, poetry, theater and dance. Not only for CS Lewis scholars and fans, "Oxbridge 2008: The Self and the Search for Meaning ...
- City starts search 'parties' to recruit foster families for teens - New York Daily News
Luis was one teen who showed up at a recent mixer for foster parents in Queens. Valerie Benton whipped up banana custard for dessert, baked up her special chicken wings and had plenty of Cherry 7-Up for her bash in the South Bronx . She wanted her ...
- A prestigious honor all her own - TheReporter.com
A prestigious honor all her ownTheReporter.com, CA - 18 minutes ago... for opinion writing, won the Cultural Diversity Fair art and poetry contest for her age group, won two Solano County Reading Association poetry awards, ...
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