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- Hundreds attend Minghella memorial on Isle of Wight - CBC News
Actors Jude Law and Alan Rickman were among the hundreds of family, friends and colleagues of Anthony Minghella who paid tribute to the late Oscar-winning filmmaker, playwright and theatre director on Saturday. A ceremony honouring Minghella, who ...
- Poetry: Emily Dickinson all day - Pioneer Press
MinnPost.comPoetry: Emily Dickinson all dayPioneer Press, MN - 8 hours agoThe marathon, which celebrates Poetry Month and is open to the public, will feature participants taking turns reading all 1789 of Dickinson's poems in ...Rhyme, reason behind Emily Dickinson marathon reading MinnPost.comall 2 news articles
- Drawing the Big Picture - The Moscow Times
Drawing the Big PictureThe Moscow Times, Russia - 41 minutes agoBy Jeremy Ventuso By John Freedman A new show, bringing together theatrical readings of poetry by writers from the last two centuries, features some ...
- Photo by: Scott Landis - BackStage.com
The 2007-08 Broadway season had dizzying highs: the revival of Gypsy ; the arrival of August : Osage County (see the dialogue on Page 12); the transfers from Off-Broadway of In the Heights and Passing Strange ; new plays by Stoppard, Mamet, McPherson ...
- Artists pay tribute to Hone Tuwhare - Scoop
Performance artists from around New Zealand will gather at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu to honour one of the country’s great literary voices. Tribute to Hone Tuwhare will take place in the Philip Carter Family Auditorium on Friday ...
- Housing market puts the squeeze on community - The Age
Housing market puts the squeeze on communityThe Age, Australia - 1 hour agoWhile we received barely a nod of welcome from the homeowners in our street, Bruno sent us a Rumi poem he had copied out by hand, entreating us to live with ...
- The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s Othello doesn’t flinch from the obvious race issue (The Pitch)
The story of a black man tricked into strangling his white wife because she's careless with her hanky, Othello isn't bring-the-kids-and-pack-a-basket fare, but I applaud director Sidonie Garrett and the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for daring it. The sex and murder probably upset nobody the ...
- More research into lung cancer - La Crosse Tribune
You can take pride in being a survivor in spite of public indifference. Research saves lives. It was research that improved the five-year survival in the past 30 years of prostate cancer from 67 percent to 99 percent, breast cancer survival from 75 ...
- Jarvis Cocker: the secret of saying the unsayable - Telegraph.co.uk
Jarvis Cocker: the secret of saying the unsayableTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 7 hours agoAre lyrics poetry? Well, they both rhyme. They're both concentrated forms - both songs and poems tend to be very short, one or two pages at the most. ...
- NEA awards 'Big Read' grants (Contra Costa Times)
LOS ANGELES — The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host The Big Read, an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture.
- Frank O'Hara in the Heaven on Earth Bldg - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Frank O'Hara in the Heaven on Earth BldgSeattle Post Intelligencer - 11 hours agoTime, inscribed upon O'Hara's brisk syntax and jaunty prosody, hastens every poem of his forward, but the world arrests him with marvels: a liver-sausage ...
- Coming attractions: Madison Roots Fest adds five more acts - Wisconsin State Journal
MADCELTFEST, two stages, 10:30 a.m.-midnight June 21, on the grounds of VFW Post 8483, 5737 County Road CV, Madison, www.madceltfest.org . LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY w/ Natty Nation, 8 p.m. July 9, Majestic Theatre, www.majesticmadison.com . IMMORTAL ...
- Open Mic: National Poetry Month - Young poets - San Francisco Gate
April is National Poetry Month and dozens of our readers have responded to our invitation to read their original poems out loud, right here on our Open Mic podcast. Here are some of the poems read by our younger readers
- Newspaper and Magazine - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
The written record cannot be trusted in Salman Rushdie's newest novel, The Enchantress of Florence, a story that roams from the red sandstone palace of the great Mughal emperor Akbar to the towered Palazzo in Machiavelli's Florence. One character is ...
- 3 year old Mid-Southerner the youngest member of Mensa (WMCTV Memphis)
She can point out any country on a globe, memorize a poem in minutes, and has dreams of becoming a doctor. She sounds normal enough for a child, but Avery Yarbro is just three years old, and one of the youngest members of Mensa.
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