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- Tim Harford's top 10 undercover economics books (Guardian Unlimited)
Tim Harford's new book, The Logic of Life: Uncovering the new economics of everything, argues that the most unexpected people - oversexed teenagers, Las Vegas slot addicts, juvenile delinquents and even your boss - are rational, unconsciously weighing up risks and rewards and complying with economic logic. The author of The Undercover Economist, Harford is fond of unearthing economics in ...
- More Than Cartoons in 'The Animation Show 4' - New York Sun
Given the rather profound poetry of a film such as "WALL-E" and the scathing satire of a television series such as "South Park," one could easily argue that we are living in a golden age of animation. Further evidence comes from "The Animation Show ...
- Pratt: 'I like songs that have a story' (Rapid City Journal)
Local singer, songwriter and comedian Gordy Pratt will be involved in this weekend’s Performers' Gallery at the Bullock Hotel in Deadwood, and plans to attend the Black Hills Songwriters workshop June 23-27. He took a few minutes to discuss songwriting and share a little bit about his personal process.
- Love, loss loom in 'Dangerous Age' (The News & Observer)
The world of Ellen Gilchrist's fiction is sprightly, sexed-up, engaging and deeply unnerving.
- He brought a unique touch to the Sinhala silver screen - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
P.K.D. Seneviratne was a distinguished poet and renowned script writer of the Sinhala cinema. A man with a vast knowledge of rural life, he wrote many scripts for radio dramas set against the village background. A schoolteacher by profession, he had ...
- Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn Fine Art - Los Angeles Times
In her second solo show in Los Angeles, Kristen Morgin strips away the sentimentality that made her earlier works look nostalgic -- so obsessed with yesteryear that they seemed to have been made by someone with her heart set on turning the clock back ...
- Exclusive: David Gest slates ex Liza Minnelli in pop debut - Mirror.co.uk
Mirror.co.ukExclusive: David Gest slates ex Liza Minnelli in pop debutMirror.co.uk, UK - 15 hours agoWhatever, it's real rock and roll poetry and it works. Think of Vincent Price's vocals on Michael Jackson's Thriller, it's a bit like that. ...
- Helping Girls Navigate Sexualization in the Media - AlterNet
Helping Girls Navigate Sexualization in the MediaAlterNet, CA - 28 minutes agoI think as Americans, our fixation with the taboo of sexuality causes us to overlook its poetry and its greater meaning in our lives, and then we pass this ...
- Young Ripley poets showcase free verse - Post-Journal
RIPLEY — Ripley Central School sixth-graders wowed parents and faculty this past week with a presentation of original poems. "The students worked very hard on this," said Susan Hammond, secondary school principal. "It is all their own original work ...
- Gowdy, Lee up for Trillium prize (CBC)
Barbara Gowdy and Dennis Lee are among the finalists for this year's Trillium Book Award.
- ‘Dr Patoana’s poetry asset for Ummah’ - The Post
‘Dr Patoana’s poetry asset for Ummah’The Post, Pakistan - 4 hours agoDr Mighiana said: "Harf-e-Taqaddus" depicts Dr Patoana's love with Holy Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (PBUH). Mrs Farhat Tahir said: "Dr Patoana's book recalls us ...
- Chalk Talk: San Mateo County teen poet makes anthology - Inside Bay Area
Justine Drennan's parents often read stories to her as a young child. "So it seemed natural to think of my own stories to write," said Drennan, 19, a graduate of Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough going into her second year at Princeton ...
- 'Classics' fun book about fun classics - Deseret News
'Classics' fun book about fun classicsDeseret News, UT - 2 hours agoHis selections cross genres — science fiction, fantasy, horror, adventure, biography, history, poetry, children's literature, romances, ghost stories, ...
- Beth Rowley: from backing singer to Top Ten star - Times Online
On a poster on a bus stop somewhere near you, the singer Beth Rowley and her corkscrew curls are currently looking menacingly perfect, just above a stack of quotes heralding the 26-year-old as the latest singer-songwriter to be as big as Duffy/Dusty ...
- A Strange Tale (Prairie Public Broadcasting)
Norwegian writer Karin Fossum becomes a character in her dark novel “Broken.â€
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