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- 'Hancock' not quite super - Observer-Dispatch
John Hancock uses side streets as launching pads to soar through Los Angeles, tosses criminals aside as if they were tin cans and sips whiskey from a jug while villains futilely shoot bullets at him. He has great powers, but Hancock’s had it with ...
- Please cut out the cardboard - The Observer
Please cut out the cardboardThe Observer, UK - 6 hours agoAt first glance, his Body and Soul, set to Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe song-cycle, which in its turn is set to the poetry of Heinrich Heine, ...
- Break out of your living room - Pretoria News (subscription)
Break out of your living roomPretoria News (subscription), South Africa - 1 hour agoPoetry competition: entrants must be under 18, any subject, poems no longer than 24 lines. Can be fewer. One poem only, in English or Afrikaans, ...
- MGS4 (and Leigh!) in the New York Times - Kotaku.com
The New York Times tackles MGS 4 in brief — discussing both the story ('What does it mean ?') and people's reactions to the game, including a couple of choice quotes from our very own Leigh Alexander . Several other game writers weigh in on MGS 4 ...
- School Notes: Independence, Raytown, Fort Osage, Blue Springs - Kansas City Star
School Notes: Independence, Raytown, Fort Osage, Blue SpringsKansas City Star, MO - 3 hours agoJudges’ choice: Brittany Ford, poetry recitation of “Inside of Me.†• Overall best group or duet performance: Sarah Pembrook and Cameron Hinkel, ...
- A saga of fearlessness, compassion - Economic Times
A saga of fearlessness, compassionEconomic Times, India - 2 hours agoThese and a thousand more uplifting thoughts emerge from Taare Zameen Par... film, art, poetry, entertainment, at its most harmonious. ...
- Couples will perform together tonight with Akron Baroque - Akron Beacon Journal
Couples will perform together tonight with Akron BaroqueAkron Beacon Journal, OH - 43 minutes ago(Champagne, candlelight, poetry, flowers: perfection, Amy said.) Not only was there mutual attraction, but there were also strange coincidences, ...
- A Cabinet of Soviet Curiosities - New York Sun
A Cabinet of Soviet CuriositiesNew York Sun, United States - 1 hour agoA fossil tells the story of massive planetary change, a line or two of poetry does more to explain trench warfare than a dozen history books, ...
- Help us beat stigma of depression - Evening News Norwich
A charity which helps people deal with depression is making a special film to raise awareness of the condition, which will be shown at a concert in the city. Soft Shoe Shuffle is written and directed by University of East Anglia graduate Henrietta ...
- Poetry column: Memorial Day a paradox of celebration and mourning - Evening Sun
Since Memorial Day was first celebrated, controversy has surrounded it. Initially, disagreement centered around where the designation originated. Was it inspired by wives, mothers and sisters honoring the war dead in Southern cemeteries? Was its ...
- Changing world of commencement speakers - San Francisco Gate
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of ...
- Ballet Chicago's 'Longlivingline' stretches limits - Chicago Tribune
Ballet Chicago's 'Longlivingline' stretches limitsChicago Tribune, United States - May 19, 2008Dancemakers love to futz with punctuation and syntax in their titles, but this time it hints at the structural poetry Seymour achieves. ...
- 'I Shot the Sheriff' mystery unraveled - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Ever since Bob Marley released "I Shot the Sheriff" in 1973, I've been puzzling over the lyric, "I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot no deputy." Here's what certain notables might have to say: Tom Cruise: Because the shooter was not -- whoo! -- a ...
- Somerville bookstores few and far between - Somerville News
Somerville bookstores few and far betweenSomerville News, MA - 2 hours agoIfeanyi Menkiti, Somerville resident, Wellesley College professor, and owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, said, “It's an immeasurable loss ...
- Punany Poets work up a Moolah Theater crowd (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Punany Poets, an erotic poetry troupe seen on HBO’s “Real Sex†program, got a crowd at the Moolah Theater all hot and bothered Thursday night over its Verbal Penetration show.
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