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- Beyond the Multiplex - Salon
There are viewers -- American and otherwise, right wing and otherwise -- who will really hate "A Mighty Heart" for its perceived politics. Without remotely excusing the heinous crime committed by Daniel Pearl's kidnappers, Winterbottom and Orloff ...
- Plus: Obama's failed fight-back - Slate
Effective day for Dems. 1) Bill Clinton outlined a simple, substantive framework for the election. As James Taranto noted, he built a stronger case for Obama than Hillary did--an inversion of how the two Clintons are said to actually feel about the ...
- DVD Review: Missing (Blogcritics.org)
Solid thriller that had potential to be great. The 1982 political film, Missing, by Costa-Gavras (his first American production), is soon to be released on DVD by The Criterion Collection. It’s a good film, but not a great one. This is mostly because it lacks any real poetry, the way Ingmar Bergman’s anti-war film, Shame, has. Yes, it’s well plotted, well acted, well directed,...
- in the groove - The Statesman
in the grooveThe Statesman, India - 4 hours agoThe group offers a mix of old and new music styles and the lyrics are quite philosophical, drawing from Perian and Urdu poetry. ...
- 'Up the Yangtze' personalizes cost of progress (The Capital Times)
I suppose if they rerouted the Mississippi River and displaced millions of Midwesterners, we'd make a few movies about it, too. On the heels of "Manufactured Landscapes" and "Still Life" comes "Up the Yangtze," yet another film about the aftershocks of China's Three Gorges Dam project. The massive dam is the largest hydroelectric project in the world, and a symbol of China's status as a global ...
- Youth movement alive and well (The Taunton Gazette)
Representatives from local agencies, Taunton schools, and organizations rallied around city youth Friday
- Palestinians say farewell to poet - Focus News
Palestinians say farewell to poetFocus News, Bulgaria - Aug 13, 2008Thousands of black-clad mourners lined the streets of Ramallah - many clutching portraits of the poet and Palestinian flags. A military convoy took the ...
- Book marks (The Florida Times-Union)
'Hit and Run' review
- art August 19 - 26 (except Sunday) at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #2460 4245; 11 am - 7 pm: (The Telegraph)
A Different Face — an exhibition of drawings by Prabir Sen. Till August 20 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: Abol Tabol : An installation in clay by Nidhi Jalan.
- Commentary: Fighting words from McCain and Palin - CNN
Commentary: Fighting words from McCain and PalinCNN - 2 hours agoShakespeare or not, as political speeches go, you don't get much nearer to poetry than how McCain opened and closed his remarks. First, McCain offered his ...
- Palestinian saga personified (Arab News)
MAHMUD Darwish, the renowned Palestinian poet ho died in Houston on Saturday after an unsuccessful heart operation, aged 67, often joked about his close brush with death. In 1998 he underwent a major heart surgery in Paris, more than 14 years after his first coronary, which nearly cost him his life.
- Public invited to Art Show Saturday - Daily Freeman Journal
Public invited to Art Show SaturdayDaily Freeman Journal, IA - 8 hours ago... sales has grown to include the annual art festival as well as the first annual car show, sidewalk art contest, poetry contest and a children's parade. ...
- J A L A N D H A R E D I T I O N - Tribune
The couplet precisely and appropriately depict the candlelight vigil that was launched on the eve of the Independence day of the two neighbouring nations of India and Pakistan at the Attari-Wagah joint check post about 14 years ago on the initiative ...
- 'Why I Came West' by Rick Bass: Writer details his love for the ... - WFAA
books@dallasnews.com Bryan Woolley is a journalist, author and past president of the Texas Institute of Letters. We've always considered Rick Bass a Texas writer, and justly so. He grew up in the Houston suburbs, has set much of his fiction in the ...
- Fleur Adcock: Noises Off - Independent
Fleur Adcock: Noises OffIndependent, UK - 42 minutes agoBut he did say that Camilla wrote a note thanking him for his poem about her wedding to Charles, and I know the Queen Mother was interested in poetry. ...Profile: Andrew Motion, the poet laureate Times OnlineIs there any rhyme or reason to the poet laureate? Sunday Heraldall 3 news articles
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