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- Our democracy is only as good as we are (Creative Loafing Tampa)
By Peter Meinke "The medium is the message." --Marshall McLuhan (1964) Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) may be the wisest book ever written about the United States. In it he said that "America demonstrates invincibly one thing that I had doubted up to now, that the middle classes can govern a State. Despite their small passions, their incomplete education, their vulgar habits, ...
- Literary journal moves to Ark. university - Maryland Daily Record
Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters & Life, a 25-year-old journal that has been available only on the Internet for the past decade, will publish an annual edition through the Conway campus. The Corpse is edited by author Andrei Codrescu. UCA ...
- Minority Male Leadership Academy kicks off Nov. 21 - Asheville Citizen-Times
Minority Male Leadership Academy kicks off Nov. 21Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - Nov 13, 2008The interventions with students will involve recruiting up to 20 minority male students from the African-American, Native American, and Hispanic/Latino ...
- Sierra Leone: An Anatomy of Country's Latest Movie - AllAfrica.com
Sierra Leone: An Anatomy of Country's Latest MovieAllAfrica.com, Washington - 3 hours agoThe same is true of our poetry as it is true of our music and of course our movies. A major reason for this constraint in the local film industry is that ...
- Dead and merry - Birmingham Weekly
Dead and merryBirmingham Weekly - 5 hours agoHuman skulls were ordinary fixtures in rituals related to life, death and rebirth. A few centuries later, Catholics co-opted the holiday, moving it closer ...Is DÃÂa de los Muertos the Mexican Halloween? Examiner.comall 2 news articles
- Who should rock Barack? - Beacon News
These days the pop music beat touches upon every aspect of life: politics, religion, sex, the environment, the economy, technology and the law, to name a few. Music is simply the connective thread, because there is absolutely no aspect of life that ...
- Poet Michael Palmer will read for the UI Writers’ Workshop Nov. 12 - Iowa City Press Citizen
Poet Michael Palmer will read for the UI Writers’ Workshop Nov. 12Iowa City Press Citizen, IA - 15 minutes agoPalmer is the author of numerous books of poetry, including "Company of Moths," which was short-listed for the Canadian Grif-fin Poetry Prize; ...
- Stalin, the poet and life’s choices (Online Journal)
“I regard class differences as contrary to Justice.†(Albert Einstein in a personal statement of his credo.) “The Russians have proved that their only aim is really the improvement of the lot of the Russian people.â€Â
- 'Rock Band' to Feature Beatles Songs - FOX News
MTV's 'Rock Band' Will Feature Beatles Songs | 'Laura Bush' Makes A 'Porno' | Rosie Gets A Broadway Theater | 'Mad Men' Contract Kerfuffle | Blackberry Goes Bold; Mark-Linn Baker Sings MTV's 'Rock Band' Will Feature Beatles Songs Big Beatles ...
- Who is the nouveau Cousteau? - Irish Independent
Who is the nouveau Cousteau?Irish Independent, Ireland - 55 minutes agoThey could talk about poetry, dreams, literature. Philippe was always the preferred of the two boys." Tall and handsome, Philippe worked as his famous ...
- Desert delight - Daily Times
KARACHI: The courtyard of a local hotel located on the edge of the Arabian Sea was a sight to behold, with men and women attired in traditional Thari dresses dancing to the rhythm of Thari or desert music. The occasion was the fourth annual Manghaar ...
- The Quietus' Self-Indulgent Reissues, Compilations And Mixes Of ... - The Quietus
The QuietusThe Quietus' Self-Indulgent Reissues, Compilations And Mixes Of ...The Quietus, UK - 32 minutes agoStill sounds great now and the Mark Ronson pisstake is as funny as balls." John Doran What they said: "I impose a rigid discipline in the studio. ...
- Thirteen horrifying reads for Halloween - Daily Camera
Thirteen horrifying reads for HalloweenDaily Camera, CO - 19 minutes agoFeaturing revised stories from his 1947 debut, "Dark Carnival," this 1955 book has stood the test of time because of its well-crafted tales of gothic horror ...
- Hyderabad observes 100 years of great Musi floods - Thaindian.com
Hyderabad observes 100 years of great Musi floodsThaindian.com, Thailand - 22 hours agoPoems in Urdu, Telugu and English describing the death and destruction caused by the floods were read out at a gathering under the dense shadow of the tall ...
- Say hallelujah for sacred steel; wind up for Warchant (Tallahassee Democrat)
The pedal steel guitar can moan and holler and purr. It can seduce and offer solace and lure the unwary onto the dance floor.
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