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- Sorted out for rhymes and lines: the secret of great lyrics (Independent)
On a recent trip to Brazil, I commented to the bossa nova-era songwriter Carlos Lyra that so many of the great Brazilian songs contain the word coracao – heart – in them. "It's so romantic," I said to Lyra. "It seems that Brazilians can't help but sing of the pain and the joy in their hearts." "Actually," Lyra replied, "there's another reason. Coracao is the easiest word in the Portuguese ...
- Look on my works, and despair - guardian.co.uk
Look on my works, and despairguardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours agoIt as if they were finalists in a Friday-Nite Hyborian Age poetry smackdown, pitting the long of tooth against the short on smarts, where first prize is a ...
- Shiloh schools enhance learning with computers (The Champaign News-Gazette)
HUME – Shiloh School seems like the epitome of a rural district – it's nestled among fields at the edge of this small Edgar County community. Inside, elementary classrooms still display alphabets featuring delicate cursive letters and boldly printed classroom rules. But in third-grade through sixth-grade classrooms, those old standbys are mixing with some serious technology. The rooms are ...
- DMC: Poet entertains, impresses students - KIII TV3
DMC: Poet entertains, impresses studentsKIII TV3, TX - 4 hours ago... poet to receive two National Book Critics Circle Awards. As one of the most published poets among his generation, his work frequently appears in Poetry, ...
- Sheryl Crow let all inhibitions go in recording her new album of songs ... - Modesto Bee
The first time you listen to Sheryl Crow's new CD, "Detours," you hear classic Crow. Big, jangly pop melodies and infectious, sing-along hooks. The second time you listen to "Detours," you hear a Crow unlike any you've heard before. Intensely ...
- Drinking iced tea and getting beat up at ep altelier - Twin Cities Planet
Drinking iced tea and getting beat up at ep altelierTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 1 hour agoSeveral evenings a week you also can take in live music, poetry, spoken word, and stuff like that. For example, they offer an acoustic music open stage on ...
- Learn what makes a poem powerful (The Advance)
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- Broadway Stands Up for Freedom! - Broadway World
Broadway Stands Up for Freedom! , a benefit concert to support the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union, returns for its 6th stunning year on Monday, July 21 at 7:30PM in the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 La Guardia ...
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies - FOX News
Michael Norton _ who spent nearly two decades covering Haiti's coups, rebellions and disasters for The Associated Press _ died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Norton chronicled the turmoil that followed former dictator Jean-Claude ...
- Nothing like the Fringe Festival before Dreams and nightmares - Henley Standard
Henley StandardNothing like the Fringe Festival before Dreams and nightmaresHenley Standard, UK - 1 hour agoIt will be a tough ask for several members of both casts: Rasputin author Andrew Hobbs will be reciting some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful poetry as king ...
- Jasper native named Indiana poet laureate (WTHR Indianapolis)
An author who writes about his youth in the southern Indiana city of Jasper and his German heritage has been named the state's second poet laureate.
- London bishop to investigate reports that 2 gay priests exchanged vows ... - International Herald Tribune
LONDON : London's bishop said Sunday he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines. The priests walked down the aisle in a May 31 service at one of London's ...
- Review: 'Port Authority' ... what might have been (AP via Yahoo! News)
NEW YORK (AP) — Is there anything more heartbreaking than what might have been? Recollections of regret are the soul of "Port Authority," a series of three superb, interlocking monologues by Conor McPherson that offers ample evidence why the Irish playwright is one of the finest writers for the stage today.
- Boyd places in South Dakota State University juried art contest - South Dakota State University
Boyd places in South Dakota State University juried art contestSouth Dakota State University, SD - 7 hours agoAn annual publication of the SDSU English Department, it contains fiction, poetry, paintings, and drawings composed by SDSU students. ...
- Pumped up through a volume of music (Newsday)
THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC TO GIRLS, by Lavinia Greenlaw. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 208 pp., $23.
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