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- Calendar (El Paso Times)
Today's events - High-school graduations - Tornillo High School: 7 p.m. today at Coyote Stadium on campus.
- Reviews roundup: Afterlife - Guardian Unlimited
'Excellent', 'engaging' but 'reduced to actor laddie bluster' ... Roger Allam as Max Reinhardt in Afterlife at the National Theatre. Photograph: Tristram Kenton As the man who put the cheque into Chekhov (that's Alan Bennett's jab at the writer's ...
- TV's 'Laugh-In' Comic Dick Martin Dead At 86 (Local 6 Orlando)
Comedian Dick Martin, best known as the zany half of the comedy team Rowan and Martin whose show "Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, has died.
- Super Tuesday Double Bill: The First Line at Quimby's and The ... - Examiner.com
Super Tuesday Double Bill: The First Line at Quimby's and The ...Examiner.com - 1 hour agoTerkel has been an obvious influence on Hillmann, but the inspiration for the Windy City Story Slam came from legendary poetry-slam founder Marc Smith, ...
- A bushy's soul - St George & Sutherland Shire Leader
A bushy's soulSt George & Sutherland Shire Leader, Australia - 1 hour agoThis is a friendly jam session with lots of encouragement to sing a song, play an instrument or read some poetry. It is free. Also at Tradies, The Shire ...
- 'Papers' doesn't quite capture new U.Va. collection - Inrich.com
Technically, the University of Virginia took formal possession last week of the collected papers of poet and Lynchburg icon Anne Spencer. But "papers" is too simple a phrase for what was hidden within the nearly 70 boxes carted away from Spencer's ...
- How Ignorant Are We? (Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel)
The Voters Choose... but on the Basis of What? "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
- Joy Division (2007): DVD Review - Sentimentalist Magazine
Joy Division (2007): DVD ReviewSentimentalist Magazine, NY - 8 hours agoThe film’s opening scenes explore the city as a concrete stage that supported the masochistic escape of Curtis’ bleak poetry. His ability to internalize the ...
- 'Kid crunch time' can be cruelest season - CNN
NEW YORK (AP) -- My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the ...
- Mental Graffiti - Time Out Chicago
Mental GraffitiTime Out Chicago, IL - 22 minutes agoHBO Def Poetry Jam vets Tim Stafford and Joel Chmara host one of the city's longest-running (and most entertaining) poetry slams. ...
- The paintings from Sadr City - Houston Chronicle
The paintings from Sadr CityHouston Chronicle, United States - 20 minutes agoIn Lebanon, Saib had grown up reading Iraqi poetry, and he hated seeing what had happened to a country that was once at the leading edge of progressive Arab ...
- Spots available for mentor program - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Spots available for mentor programTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 20 minutes agoApplications in all disciplines are welcome including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, writing for children and young adults and short fiction. ...
- United we stand, divided we fall - Coeur d'Alene Press
The huge redwood trees in California are considered to be the tallest trees in the world. Some of them are 300 feet high and more than 2,500 years old. One would think that trees so large would have a tremendous root system reaching down hundreds of ...
- Life's precious gifts - Daily Reflector
For 32 years, Lynn Morgan has held onto a poem handwritten for her in the corner booth of a Knoxville, Tenn., restaurant. She shared it with everyone she knew before stashing it away inside a drawer. Every few years, she'd pull it out and read it ...
- Review: The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa (Guardian Unlimited)
Review: The Diving Pool by Yoko OgawaTo read Yoko Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with nightmare, writes Joanna Briscoe
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