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- B-52s refuel, get back in action with Lauper tour (Tacoma News Tribune)
The rejuvenated B-52s – Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson – are still dancing this mess around 30 years after their deliriously wacko hit “Rock Lobster” shook up common notions of what rock ’n’ roll should, and could, be.
- Silver Jews, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" (Drag City) - Chicago Tribune
Silver Jews, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" (Drag City)Chicago Tribune, United States - 6 hours agoWhat Berman did always bring was a serious, if often playful, literate acuity (his 1999 collection, "Actual Air," is a well-reviewed book of poetry). ...
- Ross mom whose son has Asperger's writes book of poems (Marin Independent Journal)
Like the autistic character Dustin Hoffman plays in the movie "Rain Man," Rebecca Foust's son is, in her words, "very different.
- River Forest - Chicago Tribune
Diana M. Nicholas was a longtime patron of the arts and daughter of the founder of the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Elmhurst. A lifelong resident of Elmhurst, Mrs. Nicholas was a former director and member of the board of directors of the... As ...
- Nerds nerd out for Nerd Slam at National Poetry Slam 2008 (Isthmus)
Despite the maps on the walls, the mid-afternoon hour, and the lack of beer and liquor, a lecture hall in the UW Humanities Building has the aura of a downtown bar after midnight. Throngs of poets enter through the double doors, and the result is cacophony as the Nerd Slam gets started at the National Poetry Slam on Thursday. Cheers of "Nerds Rock!" echo, and the blackboard at the front of the ...
- PREVIEW: 'Streb vs. Gravity' - Ann Arbor News Blog
Choreographer Elizabeth Streb didn't need a master's degree - in time and space, yet - to thrill audiences with the daring stage exploits of her eponymous company, Streb. But she has one now from New York University, and it's only fitting. Who ...
- Haiku Nation - TIME
Haiku NationTIME - 1 hour agoA second six-word collection, on love and heartbreak, will be out in January, followed by an edition of teen submissions. Smith, however, aware of the ...
- Eulogising past glories - Nation
Socrates thought they were the voice of conscience. Iroquois Indians saw them as commands to be followed. Voltaire said they resulted from overeating. Freud defined them as repressed thoughts. Author Robert G. Allen wrote: ”The future you see is ...
- Danielle Ward In Glorious Technicolor, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh - Independent
Danielle Ward In Glorious Technicolor, Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIndependent, UK - 7 hours agoUnlike Long, who relies on the poetry of the situation to provide humour, Ward crafts actual jokes. She's the "Nicolas Anelka of lovemaking", apparently, ...
- Impact of books influences lives (Arizona Daily Star)
For some, it's the children's books that opened a young mind to a new idea; for others, it's the breakthrough book that put an adult life on a different path.
- Wooster's Fuller sisters make literary history in the mid-1800s (The Daily Record)
WOOSTER -- In the mid-1800s the city was the home of two women who became the toast of the American literary world. Francis and Metta Fuller were two sisters whose poetry was first collected in the same volume, to the rave reviews of Victorian society.
- Religion Calendar: 08/16/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Religion Calendar is published weekly by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Information may be mailed to Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; fax to 946-8632; e-mail gmurray@record-eagle.com . Items should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
- China's Princelings Embrace The Limelight - Sin Chew Jit Poh
Sin Chew Jit PohChina's Princelings Embrace The LimelightSin Chew Jit Poh, Malaysia - 5 hours agoThe book is a collection of whimsical - if not exactly patriotic - poetry and illustrations. The image is that of a youth who is interested in the things ...
- Start your beach reading at York Public Library (The York Weekly)
A character in Philip Roth's novel "Goodbye, Columbus" describes his cousin, the ultimate summer reader: "Doris? She's the one who's always reading 'War and Peace.' That's how I know it's summer, when Doris is reading 'War and Peace.'"
- Qingdao, China: A six-pack of surprises - Newsday
QINGDAO, China - Millions of Chinese sun seekers annually visit Qingdao, the beach capital of northern China. It occupies a hilly peninsula on the eastern coast of the mainland that meets the Yellow Sea in a series of stunning bays. Olympic yachting ...
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