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- Launching the next big thing - Eureka Times-Standard
Humboldt County lives and breathes conflict. Almost everyone who has made a home here on the North Coast is passionately invested in what they do and who they are. They don't just live here, leading blind lives between work and home. Humboldt County ...
- Conference on great Sindhi poet Sheikh Ayaz - The Post
Conference on great Sindhi poet Sheikh AyazThe Post, Pakistan - 14 hours agoHe expressed his creative talent in both Urdu and Sindhi. Sheikh Ayaz's poetry is philosophic and expresses a deep understanding of life on the part of the ...
- Edison teen learns lesson in standing up for herself (Miami Herald)
Never had Jeislee Alvarez imagined something so cold and humiliating as jail. There she was, all of 18 with her whole life ahead of her except for the grimy cell holding her back. Poet, pacificist and now jail bird No. 08-18621. Despite her tough-girl shell, the 5-foot-4 Miami Edison Senior High student feared using the toilet with other inmates and guards watching. Disgusted by the smell of the ...
- New reason for writing lines - Haverhill Echo
New reason for writing linesHaverhill Echo, UK - 2 hours agoWorking in groups, pupils used various methods to stimulate thinking and writing skills, including street dancing to poetry, crime scene reporting, ...
- Full-bodied flair - Tonight South Africa
Development programmes can be rather dry affairs. Not so Flare, Clare Stopford's mission at The Actors Centre, in association with The Market Theatre, to skill potential female directors. So far, so very good. Three of the six chosen theatre ...
- Out of the blue - Manchester Evening News
Out of the blueManchester Evening News, UK - 16 minutes agoThe extracts comprise an eclectic mix of ideas and formats, including music, comedy, film, drama and poetry. On Thursday, award-winning Manchester-based Ben ...
- Actions Speak Louder | For what A Midsummer Night's Dream loses in dialogue, it makes up for in physical comedy (Urban Tulsa)
Theatre Tulsa's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Whitson Hanna, favors slap-stick physical comedy over Shakespeare's poetry. Though the production fails to evoke much sympathy for the characters, its over-the-top sense of humor will have the audience in stitches. This is the par... By Paul Sheckarski.
- Edinburgh, open city (The New Statesman)
Every August, the Scottish capital plays host to the world's biggest season of arts events. Here, NS critics preview their highlights of this year's festival
- Climbing Down Off the Screen, Getting Up Onstage - New York Times
Climbing Down Off the Screen, Getting Up OnstageNew York Times, United States - 4 hours agoDanity Kane, whose music marries spacey club textures with soul harmonies, was best when unfettered, as on the melodramatic “Poetry†and the sultry “Damaged ...
- Apocalypse wow - Financial Times
S kies ashen with doom. Jagged, broken-topped skyscrapers like ruined wedding cakes. Lines of deserted, dust-gathering cars stuck in eternal gridlock. An empty pram pushed along by an uncaring wind. And of course a newspaper – every apocalypse film ...
- Updated 25 secs ago - Peterborough Examiner
Updated 25 secs agoPeterborough Examiner, Canada - 9 hours agoThe Spill: 414 George St. N., Tonight - Poetry Slam Next Round; Friday - afternoon Chill at the Spill with Gnosys and the Fever; Friday night - Jeffery Del ...
- Upcoming Events - Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Upcoming EventsSmoky Mountain Sentinel, NC - 2 hours agoThe NCWNW (Netwest) Prose Workshop and Critique Session will meet at Tri-County Community College in Murphy, North Carolina, Thursday, July 10, ...
- Science in the City: First-ever festival explores the science in ... - Science News
Science in the City: First-ever festival explores the science in ...Science News - 21 minutes ago“My experience has been that people love to learn about the hidden aspects of reality ... the fundamental questions and truths that transcend everyday life ...
- August Kleinzahler eschews Nobel-ese for a wry, witty approach (The Kansas City Star)
A couple of years ago, writing in Poetry magazine, August Kleinzahler lighted a string of firecrackers under Garrison Keillor and his “Writer’s Almanac†segments on National Public Radio.
- Energy conservation - DAWN Group
IF the government didn’t do anything it would be accused of sitting idle as the energy crunch became more debilitating by the day. So it is good to see some thought going into an area as critical as conservation after almost a decade of ‘planning ...
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