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- Brent Gunter - Andalucia - The Celebrity Cafe.com
- For those looking to sit back and listen to a very talented musician play guitar, Brent Gunter's Andalucia is certainly worth looking into. Partly reminiscent of gentle flamenco music, part Eagles, without Don Henley's vocals, the tracks on ...
- Still life: sitting for Lucian Freud (Guardian Unlimited)
I've been sitting for Lucian for around 10 years now; I visit him every morning, so it's part of my life. It's a different sense of timing to anything else I do. The stillness is very therapeutic although you can't shut off completely.
- Silver Quill offers thrills - Silver Chips Online
Silver Quill offers thrillsSilver Chips Online, MD - 5 hours ago"We had a wide range of performances: poetry of all kinds, music of all kinds, prose and jokes," senior Giovanna Selvaggio, Silver Quill's managing editor, ...
- Poet Ratnam Thiru makes a comeback! - Daily Mirror
Poet Ratnam Thiru makes a comeback!Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka - 11 minutes agoBy K. Nageswaran A delightful collection of English poems entitled 'Poetry from the East' is poet Ratnam Thiru's newest offering to his readers. ...
- Matthew Shepard event set for LARAC - Post-Star
The 10-year anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard, the gay 21 year-old college student who was beaten and left to die tied to a split-rail fence in the plains of Wyoming, is Oct. 12. Members of Friends of Matthew Shepard and the Lower ...
- What a concept: Mad Cat's stirring it up - Miami Herald
Remember the mixtape? Before we started downloading music and burning CDs, a personalized tape of carefully chosen, precisely ordered songs was a way to make an artistically expressive personal statement. Some mixtapes said ''I love you.'' Others ...
- UNCA continues Writers at Home Series - BlueRidgeNow.com
UNCA continues Writers at Home SeriesBlueRidgeNow.com, NC - 19 minutes agoGreat Smokies Writing Program students who are enrolled in the fall 2008 advanced poetry workshop will read from their original work. ...
- Atlanta punk! A reunion for 688 and Metroplex - Creative Loafing Atlanta
Atlanta punk! A reunion for 688 and MetroplexCreative Loafing Atlanta, GA - 1 hour agoSome nights, he'd find Henry Rollins sitting in a corner writing poetry or Lemmy from Motörhead playing pinball or Mott the Hoople's Ian Hunter without his ...
- Burmese dissident deserves release - United Press International, Asia
Burmese dissident deserves releaseUnited Press International, Asia, Hong Kong - 4 hours agoWith his 57th birthday approaching on Dec. 11, the doctor deserves freedom as a birthday present for his contributions to society. ...
- Last chance for Titian - Evening Standard
and draped his body in a dappled hide. With terror in his heart, young Actaeon fled. This tale is Ovid’s, from his long poem Metamorphoses, the ancient Roman’s compendium of myths in which men and women, punished or rewarded, were transformed ...
- Gift Ideas - Modesto Bee
Gift IdeasModesto Bee, CA - 1 hour agoThis prize-winning poet's collection of verse and short prose will dazzle you with language and remind you why poetry is so vital. ...
- Aussie Rudd Condemns American People While Senate Readies Tax Cuts - OpEdNews
Aussie Rudd Condemns American People While Senate Readies Tax CutsOpEdNews, PA - 45 minutes agoNo, your profit margin is not more important than me feeding my family. Remember: Wall Street is a game, a sham, a pack of lies agreed upon. ...
- Poet laureate Billy Collins to speak in Stevens Point (Stevens Point Journal)
Poet Billy Collins, the United States Poet Laureate from 2001-2003, will speak in Stevens Point on Thursday, Oct. 30, as part of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Points Performing Arts Series. Collins will give his presentation at Sentry Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens and $6 for youth. UWSP students with ID may buy tickets in advance for $4.50 or be ...
- Why don't women write 'Big Ideas Books?' - The Independent
Greer says women are "more interested in understanding than explaining, in describing rather than accounting for." An important issue has been preoccupying the transatlantic blogosphere in this post-Obama world, and it concerns the question: What do ...
- PlayMakers polish rough 'Pericles' (The News & Observer)
'Pericles" probably isn't on anyone's top 10 Shakespeare list. Much of it wasn't even written by Shakespeare, and what's there is nearly devoid of the bard's usual poetry, character and philosophy. Its constant reversals of fortune and miraculous recoveries make it more fairy tale than absorbing drama.
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