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- Thursday June 12, 2008 THURSDAY, JUNE 12 - Berkeley Daily Planet
Thursday June 12, 2008 THURSDAY, JUNE 12Berkeley Daily Planet, CA - 16 hours agoScratch with Company of Prophets at 7:30 pm, poetry at 9 pm, at La Peña Cultural Center. Cost is $7-$10. 849-2568. Fleeting Trance at 10 pm at Beckett’s ...
- Speaking up for eloquence - Los Angeles Times
Speaking up for eloquenceLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoMario Cuomo) "you campaign in poetry and govern in prose." Obviously, a lot of governing is, to put it simply, boring. If it weren't, the media wouldn't be ...
- Nothing but joy from the Godfather of Gloom - Spiked
His jog on to stage prompts rapturous applause, wolf whistles and howls. His one-fingered piano solo triggers an ecstatic round of clapping. A simple twirl delights the 20,000-strong crowd. He can hardly get a word in between songs; when he does ...
- Sophisticated and complex, ‘August: Osage County’ is curiously ... - Kansas City Star
In “August: Osage County” he give us a rich, funny, sad and frequently mesmerizing three-act comedy/drama about a wildly dysfunctional family in Oklahoma and in so doing satisfies a hunger for something I thought I might never see again: A ...
- Space rockers reunite on Earth (Independent)
In 1966, Daevid Allen, who had left Australia in search of "the hot spots of culture", had a spiritual vision in Mallorca. "It was Easter Sunday, 1966. A friend of mine came through with some particularly strong acid from the States. I took this and saw the whole future of myself as a rock musician," recalls Allen, now 70. "I was bathed in light on stage."
- On the Topic of St. Louis (Riverfront Times)
Sometimes finding a suitable topic is the most difficult part of writing. University of Missouri-St. Louis MFA writer-in-residence Joy Katz circumvented that issue by charging the poets and writers of the UMSL Graduate Writers' Association with writing specifically about St. Louis. During an all-day ...
- cold snack wins 2008 Montana Poetry Award - Scoop
cold snack wins 2008 Montana NZ Book Award for Poetry Janet Charman’s cold snack , published by Auckland University Press , has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and $5,000. "The team at Auckland University Press are enormously ...
- An absolutely Ani performance at Wolf Trap - Inside NoVA
Inside NoVAAn absolutely Ani performance at Wolf TrapInside NoVA, VA - 20 hours agoOver nearly 20 years, 20 albums, 10 official bootlegs, 3 DVDs and a book of poetry, DiFranco managed to sell more than 4 million records under her ...
- Bulges (The New Yorker)
The Incredible Hulk” picks up the story of Bruce Banner--the guy with anger-management problems--some five years after the end of his tantrummy misadventures in “Hulk.” As Bruce, Edward Norton has taken over for Eric Bana, and Louis Leterrier has replaced Ang Lee as director, but Bruce’s situation . . .
- Ruth Fazal: Oratorio Terezin, Divine Commission - La Scena Musicale
Ruth Fazal: Oratorio Terezin, Divine CommissionLa Scena Musicale, Canada - 52 minutes agoThe book I Never Saw Another Butterfly, a collection of artwork and poetry written by children interned at the Nazi concentration camp Terezin from ...
- CD REVIEWS: NIYAZ - World music - San Francisco Chronicle
CD REVIEWS: NIYAZ - World musicSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoOn the song "Ishq: Love and the Veil," for example, Niyaz takes an 18th century Urdu poem ("Once awakened there was no longer a veil . ...
- The great Indian Empress conquest - Hindustan Times
Contrary to her sombre public image, in private UK’s Queen Victoria was a passionate, romantic and a feisty politician who even had an affair with a young and handsome Indian servant, a new film says. Apart from courtier Abdul Karim, Victoria had ...
- Oregon poet William Stafford is hugely popular -- 15 years after his death (The Oregonian)
William Stafford's study looks pretty much the way he left it Aug. 28, 1993. His hat is on the table, a worn copy of a book by one of his favorite writers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, is on the shelf and a handwritten list of items he needed to bring on trips ("Ticket. Watch. Lecture materials.
- Iraqi-American author, poet, filmmaker to speak at OCC - Suburban Lifestyles
Iraqi-American author, poet, filmmaker to speak at OCCSuburban Lifestyles, MI - 8 hours agoShe studied poetry in Prague and screenwriting at the Motion Picture Institute of Michigan. Cofounder and president of the Iraqi Artists Association, ...
- Arthur Russell's Out of Context Tribute (The Village Voice)
A belated and mesmerizing celebration of the mysterious downtown music icon (By ANDY BETA)
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