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- Channeling Tupac: Miami actor-playwright portrays human side of slain rapper (Miami Herald)
n the surface, slain rapper Tupac Shakur and the deeply alive actor Meshaun Labrone Arnold would seem to have little in common. Shakur's mother was a member of the Black Panthers when he was born in 1971, later becoming a crack addict and welfare mom as she struggled to raise her son. Arnold's father, Elder Frazier Arnold Jr., is pastor of Miami's Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist Church; his mother ...
- ART: Literary Beauties (Nashville Scene)
That dual identity of books—as both media for ideas and fetish objects—makes any exhibit such as Cheekwood’s Artists’ Books From Postwar to Present both intriguing and problematic for book lovers.
- 'Slam' provides local storytellers a creative outlet (The Oklahoman)
Friday afternoon, I learned about a form of comic relief that likely will appeal to office workers. It's an offshoot of the Arts Council of Oklahoma's Wintertales storytelling program and modeled after PoetrySlam, where budding poets get to share with an audience verses they've penned. OKC StorySlam does the same thing, except in storytelling form, and each month focuses on a different theme. ...
- Poets Speak out for Parkinson’s - Scoop
In a show of support for Parkinson’s, six of New Zealand’s most well known and awarded poets will read a selection of their work at ‘Poetry for Parkinson’s’, to be held in Wellington in June. This unique event, which aims to raise awareness ...
- Uh oh - city never had the dough! - Camden Chronicle Independent
W ith the city's fiscal year ending in only 35 days, top city officials admitted under tough questioning at a City Council meeting Thursday night that there was never enough money in the proposed city budget when they submitted it. Now, ExxonMobil is ...
- Holocaust insights, Science Olympiad success - DavidsonNews.net
DavidsonNews.netHolocaust insights, Science Olympiad successDavidsonNews.net, NC - 3 hours agoPoetry was just one of many ways in which students at the Davidson charter school approached a greater understanding of the impact of the Holocaust. ...
- His heart remains in the game - Newark Star-Ledger
Solomon Burke's comeback continues to take some surprising turns on his new album, "Like a Fire." Burke, a soul singer best known for '60s hits like "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" and "Cry To Me," never really went away. But he reasserted his ...
- Refusing to dine out on his successes (The Herald)
AS a succession of big firms looked to tap shareholders for funds to tide them over tough times last week, at least some business owners must have been feeling cautious about the prospects for this year.
- Kevin Balling receives NC Arts Council fellowship - Appalachian State University
Kevin Balling receives NC Arts Council fellowshipAppalachian State University, NC - 3 hours agoBathanti writes poetry, novels and short stories and teaches creative writing in the Department of English at Appalachian. Since 1980, the North Carolina ...
- Festivities to mark Israel's 60th birthday - Charleston Post Courier
Festivities to mark Israel's 60th birthdayCharleston Post Courier, SC - 51 minutes agoThe series this year has as its theme "Israel at 60" and will feature a poetry reading by Ambassador Reda Mansour, consul general of Israel in Atlanta, ...
- The Real Lincoln Bedroom: Love in a Time of Strife (New York Times)
Daniel Mark Epstein?s careful parsing of the Lincoln marriage interweaves the crisis-filled, mercurial career of Abraham Lincoln with an equally rocky tale of man and wife.
- Archives > Communities > Whitestone (Queens Courier)
Whitestone is a largely upper-middle-class neighborhood in the northernmost part of the New York City borough of Queens, located between the East River to the north and 25th Avenue to the south.
- Coming Up - Charleston Post & Courier
SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: For 17 days and nights, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston's historic theaters, churches and outdoor spaces with over 120 performances by renowned artists and emerging performers in opera, theater, music theater, dance and ...
- The Church Program - Deutsche Welle
150 prayers and songs make up the book of Psalms, one of the first prayer books of the ancient Jews and later of Christians. Read as poetry, they number among the great works of world literature. They venture a thing never heard nor seen in writing ...
- Flush with opportunity, bathroom bards perform - Business Gazette
Flush with opportunity, bathroom bards performBusiness Gazette, MD - 1 hour agoIt was a bizarre setting for a poetry reading, an art form usually associated with a sophisticated night club or poetry slam, but for Bathroom Poetry ...
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