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- Feats on film: Get real for high drama (Independent)
It can be said with reasonable certainty that Philippe Petit is the only tightrope walker to have appeared on Desert Island Discs. In 2005, while recounting an extraordinary life spent with his head in the clouds, the French high-wire artist also became the first "islander" to cue up works by Morricone and Dvorak alongside obscure Jewish chants. His luxury: "An object found by my father that ...
- Zandra McMillan - Birmingham News
Description: A Spoken Word CD reception at 6:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Local poet Zandra McMillan will recite poetry from her new Spoken word CD and Book, "I've Got Something to Say.
- Ryan reading to kick off literary season (Moldova.org)
Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate consultant in poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, has agreed to open the library's 2008-2009 literary season with a reading.The library said the event is to take place Oct. 16 in the Mumford Room of the James Madison Building in Washington. Sponsored by the library's Poetry and Literature Center in the Office of Scholarly Programs, the reading is free and open ...
- Changes to Design May End Main Street Debate (East Aurora Advertiser)
After long debate, a solution may be in sight: the New York State Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Main Street Reconstruction Task Force last week unveiled an amended design for the reconstruction of the Grove to Walnut block of Main Street intended to address the concerns of the East Aurora Fire Department.
- Timeless appeal - Screen India
Frankly, it does not. Whenever I listen to a script, I try and understand its wave-length. Every decent film has a specific texture and sur. I gauge the intellectual level and sensibility of the characters. This is done at a conscious level in part ...
- Beacon Hill** resident publishes latest poetry collection - Lankaweb
Beacon Hill** resident publishes latest poetry collectionLankaweb, Sri Lanka - Jul 11, 2008“When I had a few of my first poems published, I said to myself, if poetry magazines are publishing them so they must be good so I kept writingâ€, he said, ...
- Nashville Symphony’s 'New World' lifts spirits - Nashville Tennessean
If this old world has you down these days, Nashville Symphony’s “New World†performance will certainly lift your spirits. AntonÃn Dvořák’s 1893 masterpiece Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 “From the New World†is part of a refreshing ...
- Storm Over Palin Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowhere - Los Angeles Weekly
A battle in the desert over territory and resources, starring hard-shelled refugees, burger-loving insurgents and a couple of dazed road warriors It might have been the waterlogged and vengeful ghost of Katrina, materialized in the form of Gustav ...
- The Speech Of His Life - Hartford Courant
On a soft summer night a mile high in the Colorado Rockies , Barack Obama gave the speech of his life. It capped a week in which a drifting campaign corrected course and began, again, to gather steam. A successful acceptance speech is a triumph of ...
- Conference theme explores ‘Writing with Heart’ - Wayne Independent
The Wayne County Arts Alliance once again presents The Annual Writer's Conference at the Falls Port Inn, Hawley, October 4. Registration and breakfast begins at 9:00 a.m. with a buffet lunch you won't want to miss and concludes at 3:30 with ...
- Ian Hunter: My commonplace books - National Post
Ian Hunter: My commonplace booksNational Post, Canada - 1 hour agoIronically, the only criterion for inclusion in a commonplace book is that the entry not be commonplace; mine contain poetry, aphorisms, snatches of song ...
- Adam Mathew Lipton is Named Overall Winner by Hugo Boss - 24-7PressRelease.com
Creative Director Adam Mathew Lipton's winning concept was selected from over 3000 entries, and will be published in I-D Magazine Adam Mathew Lipton's Winning Concept Consumer-advertising concept by Award Winning Creative Director Adam Mathew Lipton ...
- Tuesday Poetry Offering - OpEdNews.com
(This is verbatim from Rachel Maddow's reading of Qadaffi's recent "comment" about Condi...kinda creepy.) Robert Sargent is co-owner of a Washington State commercial printing company with operations in Seattle and Redmond. He has an Economics degree ...
- Computer Forensics: The New Fingerprinting - Popular Mechanics
The night Cindy M. * disappeared, she ate dinner with her parents and older brother in the family's two-story suburban Pittsburgh home, then went to her room and promised to come back for apple-walnut pie. The pretty 13-year-old with dark blond hair ...
- Victoria Palmer Faulhaber (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
Victoria Palmer Faulhaber, born March 28, 1914, passed away peacefully on Aug. 15, 2008. Vicky was born at the St. Helena Sanatorium and was raised in San Francisco. She raised her older sons, Thomas and John, on her own during the Depression era.
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