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- In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com
Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
- Roxbury Film Festival and Berklee College of Music - Jazz-Quad
Jazz-QuadRoxbury Film Festival and Berklee College of MusicJazz-Quad, Belarus - 4 hours agoThis is the Life chronicles the rise and fall of this "family" of African-American street poets, while examining their obstacles to commercial success. ...
- Healing the spirit through dance - Downtown Express
Healing the spirit through danceDowntown Express - 49 minutes agoMcPherson is at her best when writing about mysticism and sex, and ultimately the two are inseparable. Her prose style echoes Rumi’s poetry in the ...
- Crossing barrios to promote peace - San Diego Union Tribune
Crossing barrios to promote peaceSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - Sep 18, 2008He protested the violence through poetry and tried to catch the attention of others through his artwork. At 16, he joined the End Barrio Warfare movement, ...
- Halloween happenings - Sun Chronicle
Spooky Zoo, Oct. 5 through Oct. 26, Roger Williams Zoo, Providence. Every weekend, including Columbus Day. Trick-or-Treating on Wetlands Trail, spooky storytelling and sing-alongs, creepy animal encounters, and demonstrations where select animals ...
- The sad story of Mohammad Hussain Azad’s library - DAWN Group
In addition to being a great writer and pioneer of modern Urdu poetry, Muhammad Hussain Azad (1830-1910) was an extraordinary book lover. It is, however, not enough to describe him as a mere “book loverâ€. He was an incurable collector of books ...
- Recycling 'Things Too Worthless to Save' - Post-Star
A Kewpie doll skips rope atop a unicorn. A giant monkey and goat overtake a classic European city like Godzilla in Tokyo. An "Our Lady of the Highway" flicker medallion nestles with bottle caps, a disassembled toy gun and flame-shaped light bulbs ...
- Solzhenitsyn's elusive Russia (International Herald Tribune)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn struggled to the end to sustain his spirit of moral resistance and maintain the power and purity of his great literary works.
- Ghana: Victoryland Holds 2nd Graduation Day - AllAfrica.com
Ghana: Victoryland Holds 2nd Graduation DayAllAfrica.com, Washington - Aug 20, 2008The children treated the gathering with spectacular performances, such as poetry recitals, choreography dancing and a beauty pageant, which kept the ...
- Olympic Journal: A cool spot on a blazing day - San Francisco Chronicle
Olympic Journal: A cool spot on a blazing daySan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 2 hours agoBut there is a metallic poetry in the way the curved and angled girders support the entire structure, a tribute to the design team representing firms from ...
- Playwright's own story adds a personal touch to the myth of ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Playwright's own story adds a personal touch to the myth of ...Seattle Post Intelligencer - 30 minutes agoThe story has been told many times, in poetry from Ovid to Auden, in operas by Monteverdi, Haydn and Philip Glass, in Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus ...
- How 'Genius' Bill Walsh brought brains to a brute-force game - Alameda Times-Star
For decades, the consensus held that the thinking fan's game was baseball. In its leisurely rhythms were the textures, subtleties and nuances of life itself. Football, by contrast, was the brute sport, a conflict of power and mayhem. That was before ...
- Crossing the final frontier - The Age
The AgeCrossing the final frontierThe Age, Australia - 58 minutes agoThe latest Vincent Buckley prize winner, David Wheatley, is on a mission to bring poetry to the people with his compositions on beer mats, writes Simon ...
- Hispanic culture celebrated - Courier-Post
Several hundred people came Sunday to the park at 29th Street and River Road to experience the cultural music, dancing, poetry and food at a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration sponsored by the nonprofit Hispanic Awareness Committee.
- OurSound in the Newspaper - Owen Sound Sun Times
Our Sound music columnist Bill Henry turns his eyes and ears on the area's vibrant, multi-genre music scene every week in The Sun Times. From blues to bluegrass, folk to funk, pop to punk and classical to celtic, Henry writes about the area's ...
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