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- Corporate Crime - Baltimore Sun
Seeking to defuse growing racial tensions in the small Louisiana town of Winnfield, the local district attorney announced Monday that he will seek an indictment against a white police officer for the death of a black man who was shocked nine times ...
- Veteran Seattle Symphony violinist, composer dies - Tacoma News Tribune
Ralph Victor Heino Sr., a Seattle Symphony violinist, composer and longshore worker, has died of a stroke. He was 91. Heino continued to play the violin in retirement until his stroke. He died a week later, on July 26, symphony spokeswoman Beth ...
- Rahsaan Patterson doesn't do labels (San Francisco Chronicle)
Among R&B's legions of preening crooners, Rahsaan Patterson is the rare singer who eschews affected bravado for an eclectic style inspired by both his difficult past and his journey of self-discovery. Yet even a fan or close listener of Patterson, who will...
- Batman is Back -- TIME Reviews The Dark Knight (Time Magazine)
Richard Corliss takes an advance look at The Dark Knight and finds it a masterly weave of madness and dread
- Mental Graffiti - Time Out Chicago
Mental GraffitiTime Out Chicago, IL - 22 minutes agoHBO Def Poetry Jam vets Tim Stafford and Joel Chmara host one of the city's longest-running (and most entertaining) poetry slams. ...
- Around the August Art Walk: The Movement Continues - blogdowntown
Around the August Art Walk: The Movement Continuesblogdowntown, CA - 1 hour agoCall it romantic-urbanism. For now, here are some scenes from the August Downtown Art Walk. Animation artist Renae Radford, currently studying for her ...
- Movie review: 'Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man' - Chicago Tribune
As tools of seduction go, Leonard Cohen 's voice--a rumble, as U2's Bono says in "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man," that seems "to come from the subway"--ranks with the Marlene Dietrich growl and Johnny Hartman's lion purr. "I was born like this, I had ...
- Free reading Sunday at Prairie Lights - Iowa City Press-Citizen
Fiction writer Brian Falkner from New Zealand and poet/fiction writer/translator/playwright Yael Globerman from Israel, participants in the University of Iowa International Writing Program, will be joined by Tom Macher, a fiction writer in the Iowa ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (Lexington Herald-Leader)
At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his opinions. He once argued that the public schools of his youth prepared neither blacks nor whites for "life in a multiracial, democratic nation." He called ...
- Old 97's Murry Hammond's First Solo Album Due August 18 (All About Jazz)
On August 18, 2008, Old 97's bass player and co-frontman Murry Hammond will celebrate the national release of his first full-length album outside of the Old 97's.
- YETI: A film about Tibet, releasing online 08/08/08 - MediaSyndicate (press release)
YETI: A film about Tibet, releasing online 08/08/08MediaSyndicate (press release) - 3 hours agoThe Original poetry used in Yeti is written by the award winning activist/poet Tenzin Tsundue. Tsundue is an inspiring leader in the Tibetan freedom ...
- TGI Thursday (Honolulu Advertiser)
The 4 indicates admission is $5 or less, or free. Full-price admission is listed; the * denotes discounts (or free) for students, seniors, military, members, children and/or advance purchase. Call venue for details.
- Hip-hop review: Marc Bamuthi Joseph's 'The Break/s' - San Francisco Gate
The Break/s: A Mixtape for Stage: Marc Bamuthi Joseph's performance. 8 tonight at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Novellus Theater. Tickets $20-$30. Call (415) 978-2787 or go to www.ybca.org . "The Break/s: A Mixtape for Stage," Marc Bamuthi ...
- Contest gives 'em gas (Toronto Sun)
Suffering folks empty their tanks about the depths they will sink to for a free fix
- 'So true, so intimate' - Guardian Unlimited
Your curiosity is lured into that enclosed hall, yet your attention is held back - left dangling over the bare floorboards with their scuffed varnish, which is the nearest to an indicator of commonplace living and everyday usage that the picture is ...
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