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- NORM: Duck to water: Phelps and poker - Las Vegas Review Journal
Olympic swimming royalty Michael Phelps continues to possess the Midas touch. We also now know that he's a fast learner. Six weeks after coming to Las Vegas to learn how to play poker, Phelps made the final table of the Caesars Palace Poker Classic ...
- Royal Ballet Triple Bill - Guardian Unlimited
Michael Corder's L'Invitation au voyage is awash with sensuality. The light is opalescent, the music is haunting, the choreography and the set are inspired by fin de siècle poetry and painting. Perhaps it's just these hard-edged times, but the ...
- Memoir tracks the travails - Summit Daily News
Memoir tracks the travailsSummit Daily News, CO - 52 minutes ago“When you write poetry, you come at things pretty obliquely,†Lovelace said in a phone interview recently. “I read it and when I was finished I looked up ...
- Author tackles highs and lows - Windsor Star
Author tackles highs and lowsWindsor Star, Canada - 1 hour agoThat experience occupies a key section of The Lily Pond, where Barnes describes how his 2006 book of poetry, A Thaw Foretold, also published by Biblioasis, ...
- 'Miracle' is mired in war clichés - Detroit Free Press
Poor Spike Lee. You just knew the moment he lashed out at Clint Eastwood for leaving black soldiers out of his two-part Iwo Jima epic that he had really put his foot in it. And now here's proof. "Miracle at St. Anna" is Lee's sloppy, absurdly long ...
- Main Street Block Party is back - Gloucester Daily Times
Main Street Block Party is backGloucester Daily Times, USA - 43 minutes agoWedmore is part of the Concord Poetry Society and will be reading with five other readers in a weekend celebration of literature. ...
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling BeeScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 2 hours agoThat is its association with literacy, which is central to many of our community initiatives, including a variety of book and poetry awards aimed at ...
- UK writers protest 42-day detention plan (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
British writers have come out against new anti-terrorism legislation, protesting a proposal allowing police to hold suspects without charge for up to 42 days.
- Valen Hsu: I was involved in a three-way relationship (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Taiwanese song diva Valen Hsu recently published her second poetry compilation. While having a media interview with a Taiwan radio station to promote her literary composition Valen frankly said that she was once embroiled in a three-way relationship.
- Christian-based café offers coffee and praise - Stockton Record
Christian-based café offers coffee and praiseStockton Record, CA - 1 hour agoWe'll have music, poetry, performances," McMinn said. "Anything that glorifies the Lord." The UP in UPrisin stands for Unity Project, a nonprofit group ...
- Recent Articles by Adam Cayton-Holland - Westword
Recent Articles by Adam Cayton-HollandWestword, CO - 4 hours agoEven so, Don continued to cut a swath across the cultural landscape after surviving the train with his life, if not his arm. So, too, did his story bleed ...
- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 - Twin Falls Times-News
A fall family festival will be held 6 to 8 p.m. at Valley Christian Church. Halloween fun, games and candy. Free admission. Information: Judy Steinmetz, 733-2588. The church is at 1708 Heyburn Ave. E. Corn maze/Twin Falls College of Southern Idaho's ...
- "The hippest guy in the room:" Poet Robin Blaser, 83 - Vancouver Sun
"The hippest guy in the room:" Poet Robin Blaser, 83Vancouver Sun, Canada - 7 minutes agoThe next day the "hippest guy in the room" went on to win the $50000 Griffin Prize for Canadian poetry, based on his recent opus, The Holy Forest: Collected ...
- Books of the year 2008 (The New Statesman)
Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened of (Cape, £16.99) is a nice corrective to the one-note atheism of Dawkins and the rest. It is human, clever and full of doubt: "I don't believe in God, but I miss him . . ."
- A Voice Poetry Roundup - Village Voice
Last week's annual Poets House Showcase held in the West Village displayed more than 2,000 poetry books and related materials published in 2007. As impressive and even overwhelming as that number might seem, it represents a sliver—as any overview ...
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