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- 'Man on Wire' Between the Twin Towers (The New York Sun)
'Man on Wire" is an upside-down documentary, so riveting in its setup and exposition that the climax arrives almost as an afterthought. The man of the title  the famed French tightrope walker Philippe Petit  is ultimately less interesting than the drama surrounding his wire, a tightrope strung between the newly completed World Trade Center towers in August 1974. And rather than tease the ...
- Radio free you - Atlantic Online
Radio free youAtlantic Online - 4 hours agoWhich led me to realize that I have never heard good poetry at an open mike night. Which leads me to wonder if it is possible to hear good poetry at an open ...
- Literary calender for Oct. 6-11 (Pioneer Press)
Author appearances and readings in the Twin Cities for the first week in October.
- IIFF Arbiter Picks: (The Arbiter)
5. “Humboldt County†Directed by Danny Jacobs and Darrin Grodsky, Egyptian, Sunday, 7 p.m. A film taking consideration to the search for happiness and acceptance in an unlikely setting – backwoods marijuana farms.
- Hymn Vérité - Willamette Week
Hymn VéritéWillamette Week, OR - 2 hours agoI fucking hate spoken word, I don’t like poetry. But I really wanted the vocals to be talked,†he says. “So the first few records are really weird, ...
- Vezina scores for museum (Orillia Packet & Times)
About 15 masked goalies descended on the Leacock Museum yesterday to get a look at the Vezina Trophy, which honours the NHL’s top goaltender each year. The trophy was in Orillia for a poetry reading by Newfoundland poet Randall Maggs from his book “Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems.†[...]
- Nominations sought for muses award - Yuma Sun
Nominations sought for muses awardYuma Sun, AZ - 36 minutes agoThe award takes its name from Greek mythology, which said that art forms ranging from poetry to music received special inspiration from a particular muse. ...
- Zimbabwe: Poet Gwariwa Set to Scale Loftier Heights (AllAfrica.com)
GIFT Gwariwa, a Chitungwiza-based performance poet popular for his tribute poem Tamirira Mharidzo dedicated to and featured on sungura musician Cephas Mashakada's album, Zita Rine Zvarinoreva, has done it again.
- Statewide Alliance of Organizations Hold 'Day of Remembrance for ... - Earthtimes
ST. PAUL, Minn. , Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citizens for a Safer Minnesota and the Minnesota Alliance on Crime (MAC) today announced that several local and statewide organizations, as well as family and loved ones of homicide victims ...
- Book review: 'Downtown Owl' - Vail Daily News
Book review: 'Downtown Owl'Vail Daily News, CO - 5 hours agoAs one of his adoring essay acolytes, I had legitimate concerns over his legacy when the review copy of the book emerged. Now I’m just proud to say I knew ...
- Tropicalia boating: Sailor brings wicked boat to annual regatta - The News-Press
Tropicalia boating: Sailor brings wicked boat to annual regattaThe News-Press, FL - 3 hours agoSo does Horton's poetry, which is rhymed and metered. Among his favorites is one called "The Learning Boat" about a man who buys his son a clunky, ...
- Ex-king Gyanendra writing autobiography (Nepalnews. com)
With loads of free time at his disposal while he lives a solitary life in the idyllic and sylvan surroundings of Nagarjun, ex-king Gyanendra is doing what many deposed leaders like him do - turn to writing.
- Austen? Buchan? It's time for more unusual adaptations - Guardian Blogs
Rupert Penry-Jones of Spooks ... a dashing choice to star in the Buchan classic, but how about making more novel steps? Photograph: Talkback Thames/BBC So Rupert Penry-Jones is to play Richard Hannay in a new version of The 39 Steps . Lizzie Mickery ...
- Carol Guess: The write stuff - Western Front
Carol Guess: The write stuffWestern Front, WA - 3 hours agoGuess’s book "Tinderbox Lawn," which will be released Oct. 1, is a collection of prose poemsâ€â€a kind of poetry printed as prose. Prose poems are compact and ...
- Scholarly press trades on its future - The Australian
TIME was when a university press existed primarily for the purpose of serving the university or a broadly defined scholarly community. This model no longer applies to Australian university publishing, whose biggest houses are collectively pursuing ...
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