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- Reporter's Notebook: Al Giordano (The Narco News Bulletin)
The expensive U.S. military adventure named "Plan Colombia" and renamed (in a rare moment of candor by those who want to expand Colombia's civil war beyond its borders) the "Andean Regional Initiative," has so many things wrong with it (massive human rights violations, strengthening of paramilitary death squads, massacres, assassinations of hundreds of union and social leaders, and the delivery ...
- Cannes Review: Palermo Shooting - Cinematical
Cannes Review: Palermo ShootingCinematical, CA - 44 minutes agoThere's a quote from the great literary critic Robertson Davies that says "Thou shalt not read The Bible for its poetry"; as a variation on that rule, ...
- Poems and Popular Songs: Kissin’ Cousins or Closer? - About - News & Issues
Poems and Popular Songs: Kissin’ Cousins or Closer?About - News & Issues, NY - 21 minutes agoOver the years we’ve written a lot on this site about the intermingling of poetry and music — see the list below for a sampling of our posts. ...
- Mohammed orders setting up centre for arabic poetry (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI — His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday directed the establishment of the House of Poetry, a centre for researching and documenting Arabic poetry and strengthening its presence and profile within the Arab world and beyond.
- Much Ado About Something - Jewish Exponent
Jewish ExponentMuch Ado About SomethingJewish Exponent, PA - 1 hour agoI've never forgotten Grossman, not only because I eventually sought out his splendid poetry, which has enriched my reading life significantly. ...
- Writing on the wall - Guardian Unlimited
In 1962, in a studio overlooking Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the city he had moved to in 1957 from America and which he still regards as his home, Cy Twombly made a painting that could have been construed as a calculated affront to - even a philistine ...
- Arts Calendar: 6/1-6/7 - Milford Daily News
KITCHEN AND GARDEN TOUR, featuring eight private gardens and kitchens, will be presented by the Southborough Garden Club today from 1-5 p.m. View arbors, fountains, pools and gardens, and enter kitchens decorated for festive occasions. Tickets are ...
- Pittsfield slam poets to perform (Berkshire Eagle)
Wednesday, April 30 PITTSFIELD — It's performance poetry that packs a punch.
- City writer hits jackpot with third novel - Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - On his website, Edmonton's Thomas Trofimuk describes himself as "writer, gardener and failed Buddhist." Looks like he'll now have to add literary lottery winner to the billing. After publishing his first two novels with small presses ...
- Behind the Blue Curtain - Princeton Packet
Princeton PacketBehind the Blue CurtainPrinceton Packet, NJ - 8 hours agoSince his youth, as a founding member of St. Louis-based Black Artists Group, he has savored his involvement in a variety of the arts — poetry, visual arts, ...
- Event: 16 personalities receive Poet Abu Jafar Obaidullah Awards - New Nation
Sixteen personalities received Poet Abu Jafar Obaidullah Awards 2008 at a function recently, said a news release. Poet Abu Jafar Obaidullah Foundation organised a discussion meeting and award giving ceremony at Poet Sufia Kamal Auditorium of the ...
- Home from home - guardian.co.uk
Home from homeguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoFord Madox Ford had founded the English Review the year before, just months after Pound's invasion, which was to prove the proper corner for his poetry, ...
- 'Wanted': James McAvoy makes it work, and Angelina Jolie makes it fun - Cleveland Plain Dealer
OK, Junior, here's how you turn this into a term paper: It's a post-modern version of trick-riding cowboys in Westerns. Angelina Jolie plays a hired killer (again) in "Wanted." Yes, it's sad but true. There are certain men in the world who will go to ...
- Vicious Sir Vidia: Out-Snitting the Chilly Brits - New York Observer
Trinidad’s island beauty. If the Nobel Prize is the ticket to one’s own funeral, as T. S. Eliot once quipped, then V. S. Naipaul is taking the scenic route. His authorized (but unsupervised) biography has just appeared in the United Kingdom ...
- Pacific Standard is Literary, Boozey - mediabistro.com
mediabistro.comPacific Standard is Literary, Boozeymediabistro.com, NY - 11 hours agoThey run a Finnegans Wake Reading Group every Wednesday (They should get Jameson to sponsor it), there's also Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry ...
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