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- Germany films life of critic Reich-Ranicki - Monsters and Critics
Hamburg - Filming begins in July on a biopic depicting the Holocaust years of one of Germany's most extraordinary literary figures: an intense, finger-wagging critic whose judgement about new books has been akin to law for the past 35 years. Marcel ...
- Cohen's the Homme in his Hometown - Boston Globe
With visions of tea and oranges dancing in his head, assistant arts editor and "SE" contributor James Reed went all the way to Montreal yesterday to catch Leonard Cohen’s homecoming show there. And it was worth it… "OK, is that what I think it is ...
- Linda Kosut, Award-Winning San Francisco Vocalist with Quartet at Jazz at Pearl's, June 22 (All About Jazz)
San Francisco vocalist LINDA KOSUT will be performing songs from her highly acclaimed CD and tribute show to jazz legend Oscar Brown Jr. on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at the world renowned Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco.
- YouTube shows Couric’s fun side (The Fayetteville Observer)
NEW YORK — Every weekday evening, Katie Couric is the picture of sobriety on the “CBS Evening News”: buttoned-down and earnest.
- Rest in pieces - World Link
CHARLESTON — If Charleston’s Charlie had hoped for his friends and loved ones to laugh at his funeral, the fish statue’s wishes were granted. At what was likely the most bizarre wake ever held for an 8-foot tuna, people celebrated the life and ...
- Pedophile's journey to FBI's list began in Houston in 1989 (Houston Chronicle)
When U.S. federal agents and Mexican cyberpolice recently captured an American pedophile on the FBI's most-wanted list, they snared a predator whose criminal deviance quietly began 19 years earlier in Houston.
- Freshmen will find their way on The Devil’s Highway - Daily - University of Washington
Freshmen will find their way on The Devil’s HighwayDaily - University of Washington, WA - 2 hours ago“I think it would be even better if there was a collection of poetry.” The UW Common Book program was created in 2006. The first Common Book was Mountains ...
- Karibib Cluster Marks Children’s Day - New Era
Karibib Cluster Marks Children’s DayNew Era, Namibia - 1 hour agoLearners from the participating schools put up performances such as dramas, singing and poetry depicting the everyday plight of the African child, ...
- An Online Swap Meet Where Ids and Superegos Mingle - New York Times
An Online Swap Meet Where Ids and Superegos MingleNew York Times, United States - 5 hours agoAmong the Brooklyn postings lie hidden snips of poetry: “Please contact me if you have something small, bright and yellow. ...
- East High grad gets Boys, Girls Clubs award (Denver Post)
Her blue-streaked hair and contagious smile make 18-year-old Shonnetta Henry look like your average, happy-go-lucky Denver teenager.
- Pembrokeshire prize poetry - News Wales
Poets of all ages are invited to enter the annual Pembrokeshire Fish Week poetry competition. This year it is called Angling for Words and entrants can interpret the subject in any way they want. Entries can be in English or Welsh, and will be judged ...
- COLUMN: Leyde: Murphey follows way of the West - Thecalifornian.com
Michael Martin Murphey isn't shy about sharing what his priorities are: The cowboy way, restoring the American prairie, longhorn cattle and preserving our Western heritage. The singer-songwriter has made a career and a lifestyle working at those ...
- Website Review: Vagabondage Press Launches Online Literary Magazine The Battered Suitcase (Blogcritics.org)
Literary website that means what it says. On June 1, Vagabondage Press will publish the inaugural issue of The Battered Suitcase, an online "literary magazine that promotes intelligent and imaginative art and fiction." And so it does, if the preview copy available is any indication.Here's the important question, though: aren't there enough of these things - high art...
- The private life of a courtier unmasked (Guardian Unlimited)
Another clutch of slim vols from the Faber Poet-to-Poet series; I picked on this one (others include selections of Pope and Hart Crane) because, well, I felt like it.
- Leaping Puffballs, Floating Demons and Lots of Gyrating Whatsits (New York Times)
?Passion,? a 75-minute show presented by Momix, strikes me as sensationalist trash so brightly harmless that I wish I could fall in line with those who enjoy it as sheer sensation.
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