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- What, No Santa? Keeping the Spirit Alive When Children Stop Believing (Newswise)
How to keep the spirit going when the kids get too big for Santa, from Mary Muscari, associate professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and author of Let Kids be Kids: Rescuing Childhood.
- Youthful Intervention - Culpeper Star Exponent
Youthful InterventionCulpeper Star Exponent, VA - 1 hour agoFor the last four years, ASAP has offered classes in beginner violin, beginner guitar, drawing, painting, art fusion, quilting, poetry and creative writing, ...
- R&B Star Ne-Yo Flaunts His Gentlemanly Style - KSDK
NEW YORK ? Shaffer Smith, the artist currently known as Ne-Yo, was born late ? about 50 years late, he figures. "I always refer back to the days of the Rat Pack, because that's when I should have been around," Ne-Yo says, a little wistfully. "I know ...
- Theater minireviews - Washington Times
Washington TimesTheater minireviewsWashington Times, DC - 1 hour agoCanadian playwright Daniel MacIvor truthfully and lovingly writes in "A Beautiful View" about a friendship that transcends time, trials and sexual labeling. ...
- Robert E. Cormier - Worcester Telegram
Robert E. CormierWorcester Telegram, MA - 1 hour agoMr. Cormier will be honored this month by the Worcester County Poetry Association with a performance of his “Frenchtown Summer” tomorrow; a reading of found ...
- NEA Chairman Dana Gioia to leave in 2009 - FOX News
NEW YORK — The confident baritone of Dana Gioia sounded a little hoarse during a recent telephone interview, as it often has since he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a job that has exhilarated and exhausted him. "I have ...
- Madison author doesn't let cancer take away her edge (The Capital Times)
Gail Konop Baker, a 45-year-old mother of three in Shorewood Hills, had just finished writing her second unsold novel in 2006 about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer. Then she got her own breast cancer diagnosis. Soon after, Baker begin writing about her personal experience with cancer in a column called "Bare-Breasted Mama" for the online magazine Literary Mama. She parlayed those personal ...
- Brooklyn Book Festival - Columbia Spectator
Jonathan Lethem is to Brooklyn as Woody Allen is to Manhattan, as evidenced by his prose and his presence on the podium this weekend at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn , Fortress of Solitude , You Don’t Love ...
- Family trees and indie rock geographies - Queen's Journal
Queen's JournalFamily trees and indie rock geographiesQueen's Journal, Canada - 4 hours agoTwo EPs and two albums later, The Acorn settled into a raw and rich folk rock, where stripped down vocals, narrative poetry and brooding piano lines collide ...
- Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin speaks at the University of Texas at Arlington (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By GENE TRAINOR ARLINGTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin called on journalists Wednesday to concentrate on what makes candidates great leaders rather than on who wins a debate or who wears what clothing. Abraham Lincoln set a high standard, she said. "Elections are so important that we need to figure out a better way to really understand what the strengths and ...
- The Last Day of World War One - Times Online
Times OnlineThe Last Day of World War OneTimes Online, UK - 15 hours agoI still love travelling, but this is the logical point to stop doing big journeys. Over the past 20 years, we’ve been to every continent, and now there are ...
- The perils of faith and reward - Sydney Morning Herald
The perils of faith and rewardSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 3 hours ago(2003), The Castle In The Forest (2007) and a collection of poetry and drawings titled Modest Gifts (2003). "Working with Norman was not what I expected," ...
- School helps students reach their goal - Richmond County Daily Journal
School helps students reach their goalRichmond County Daily Journal, NC - 31 minutes agoShe added that this is a transitional type program and not meant to be long-term, before pausing in front of a display of poetry that students penned on the ...
- South Florida arts on the cheap - Miami Herald
Miami Art Museum, 101 W. Flagler St., Miami, offers free admission on the second Saturday of the month. Children under 12 and students with ID are always admitted free. 305-375-3000; miamiartmuseum.org. Museum of Art l Fort Lauderdale, 1 E. Las Olas ...
- Curious enough to document the world - The Gazette (Montreal)
Curious enough to document the worldThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - Nov 7, 2008I also liked Golden Gloves (1961) and Voir Miami (1962), both by Gilles Groulx - for the rhythm, the poetry and the urge to understand and discover. ...
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