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- Home-grown virtuosos - Chicago Tribune
HAVANA - Without saying a word, teenager Yamile Cruz seats herself at the grand piano, places her slender fingers on the keyboard and, after a brief pause, unleashes a torrent of sound one might expect from a virtuoso twice her age and size. Though ...
- Nancy Simspon Reading Announced - Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Nancy Simspon Reading AnnouncedSmoky Mountain Sentinel, NC - Aug 14, 2008She is the author of poetry book "Night Student" and chapbook "Across Water". poetry and will be in an upcoming anthology "A Poet's Guide to Birds". ...Upcoming Events Smoky Mountain Sentinelall 2 news articles
- Interview: Silver Jews - Pitchforkmedia.com
Interview: Silver JewsPitchforkmedia.com, IL - 39 minutes agoDB: [laughs] Well, yeah, except I guess that would make poetry a broadcasting career, if I was to go back into writing. DB: [laughs harder] Yeah! ...
- Poetry festival brings out the verse in people (The Herald-Mail)
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. Andrea Hollander Budy, two-time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, said shes still an apprentice to poetry. And its an apprenticeship she hopes to inspire other writers to take.
- Kos, Cass, and Palin - Slate
Note to Cass Sunstein and internet alarmists who argue that the Web results in partisans who listen only to their own facts, reinforcing their extreme opinions, etc. A Daily Kos blogger is refuting the Kos -fueled Palin-baby rumor with a photo found ...
- On the road - Guardian Unlimited
The Seat Ibiza is what's known as a "supermini", which is essentially a more exciting way - how could it not be? - of saying "small hatchback". In effect, that's also the aim of its new design: to find a more exciting way of saying "small hatchback ...
- Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish - Al-Ahram Weekly
It is five years today -- Thursday 25 September -- since the death of the Palestinian public intellectual and political activist Edward Said, "the most brilliantly eloquent emissary of Palestine to the outside world" in the words of an equally ...
- Brave New Worlds - Business Standard
Brave New WorldsBusiness Standard, India - 2 hours agoInstead, we did a rough categorisation, separating literary fiction from science fiction, poetry from pulp. This worked reasonably well, until we both ...
- Temple makes a leap of faith (Boston Globe)
It's been years since North Shore Jews have scrambled to find a seat at a synagogue for Rosh Hashana. But when the New Year holiday begins tomorrow after sunset, it will be standing room only at Congregation Shirat Hayam in Swampscott. More than 1,000 worshippers are expected to fill the sanctuary while another 300 will sit in a tent and ...
- Big B wants his father's poems on his b'day - IBN LIve
Mumbai: It is a big day for Amitabh Bachchan and his fans as the superstar turns 66 on Saturday. Born on October 11, 1942, Big B has acted in over 150 Hindi films and is considered as an icon of stardom. On his birthday, Amitabh Bachchan wants ...
- Historic headstones repaired - Fayetteville Observer
Dean Ruedrich sees a challenge — and a responsibility — to preserve history when a tombstone breaks. This month, Ruedrich, a restoration contractor who works for Preservation North Carolina, has begun repairing 28 headstones that were vandalized ...
- Updated 8/22: '08 Wynn Award recipients hailed (Evanston Review)
The Justin Wynn Memorial Fund awards banquet is held annually to honor young leaders from District 65 schools. The following District 65 students, listed along with the names of their respective schools, are the 2008 "Wynners" of the Justin Wynn Award.
- How to Think About Sex? A Freakonomics Quorum - New York Times Blogs
When it comes to sex, some things change ( internet pornography and contraception ) while others stay the same ( political scandals and teen pregnancy ). The externalities of sex, positive and negative, are so strong that some people even have ...
- The Eraserheads’ popular, most memorable singles (Part 1) (PEP)
No one knew it at the time, but when the quartet of Ely Buendia, Marcus Adoro, Buddy Zabala and Raimund Marasigan—collectively known as the Eraserheads—emerged commercially in 1993, Original Pilipino Music (OPM) was on the threshold of a new and exciting era.
- John McCain: Hidden Depths (Newsweek)
The scion of a family of warriors, John McCain seems easy to venerate—or caricature. But he is more complex than you may think.
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