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- Black comedy has a bright future - Age
A GUEST spot on an experimental music program changed the life of performer and writer Suzanne Andrade and, along the way led to the development of a new form of theatrical entertainment. Andrade appeared on Britain's Radio 3 with a selection of ...
- Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in ... - De Argentinos
Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in ...De Argentinos, Argentina - 56 minutes agoPerformance, theatre, and poetry were the elected means of tacitly protesting the totalitarian military rule that choked this country until the fall of the ...
- Swede Heart - Blackbookmag.com
Life on the road for Swedish pop singer Lykke Li means never having to say you’re bored. “I just saw my schedule, and I’m not going to have time to breathe for like the next year, but whatever, I love this.” With her plaintively percolating ...
- Not-So-Beachy Summer Reads - Daily Nexus
Summer shouldn’t be an excuse to sit around by the waves working on your deep bronze tan, frying your brain reading Cosmo and listening to your iPod for three sweet straight months (though there’s more than enough time for that, too). If you’re ...
- Elvis — Meet JFK - Hartford Courant
So it seems that Elvis Presley really isn't dead. Neither is John F. Kennedy ; at least, that's what the black man who claims to be JFK says. When they meet at a retirement facility, the two men decide to team up to fight an evil Egyptian deity that ...
- Mahogany Urban Poetry Series says “speak poet, speak” - The California Aggie Online
Mahogany Urban Poetry Series says “speak poet, speak”The California Aggie Online, CA - 7 hours agoUC Davis senior English and African American studies double major henry 7 has been following the movement of the Mahogany Urban Poetry Series and is ...
- 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.
- Singer credits Guthrie's influence (The Oklahoman)
When emerging singer-songwriter Samantha Crain lists her musical influences, they wind from her dad's favorites including the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan to the electronic experiments of Radiohead to fellow Oklahomans such as Student Film and Ali Harter. "I'd say a major part of my musical influence does come from Oklahoma, and ... the Flaming Lips and Woody Guthrie are probably two of my ...
- Poetry Night internship looking for more applicants - California Aggie
Although Poetry Night at Bistro 33 has been a successful bi-monthly event since its inception in 2006, the work involved with publicizing and promoting the event has become burdensome for UC Davis English lecturer and Poetry Night co-creator and co ...
- Palminteri brings "A Bronx Tale" to Denver in 2009 - Denver Post
Palminteri brings "A Bronx Tale" to Denver in 2009Denver Post, CO - 17 hours agoActor Matt Zambrano was first exposed to spoken-word poetry by Becker at age 15, and is now nationally regarded in the field. He quotes Becker's own words, ...
- The man who heard the woodwind in the willows - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentThe man who heard the woodwind in the willowsIrish Independent, Ireland - 2 hours ago... the poetry of Alfred Edward Housman, a turn-of-the-century English romantic, whose verse was all about nostalgia for a rural way of life that was gone ...
- Last Comic Standing Finds Funnies in LA and the Lone Star State! - Reality TV Magazine
Last Comic Standing Finds Funnies in LA and the Lone Star State!Reality TV Magazine, AZ - 1 hour agoEddie Pepitone always reads poetry before a set, and tonight he’s reading Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”. “Am I going to break the pattern of being a failure,” ...
- 'I Shot the Sheriff' mystery unraveled - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Ever since Bob Marley released "I Shot the Sheriff" in 1973, I've been puzzling over the lyric, "I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot no deputy." Here's what certain notables might have to say: Tom Cruise: Because the shooter was not -- whoo! -- a ...
- You write the reviews: Roger Lloyd Pack, The Maltings, Wells-Next-The-Sea (Independent)
This was a good choice for the opening night of the 11th Poetry-next-the-Sea festival in Norfolk. Roger Lloyd Pack, best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, commands a good audience even when poetry is the main topic. He was talking to Dame Gillian Beer, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in a Desert Island Discs-style format about his 10 favourite poems.
- Serbia: Arts Roundup - Global Voices Online
Serbia: Arts RoundupGlobal Voices Online, MA - 4 hours agoFor the last 10 years our cinema has focused on contemporary issues, on these sad days, on the wars, on the sanctions. The audience has had enough of such ...
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