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- Afropop Arrives (Houston Press)
Who knew back in January, when Vampire Weekend tinkered with soukous's guitar-driven dance rhythms on its self-titled debut, the band would set the tone for the next 12 months? In many ways, 2008 was the year Afropop fully cracked the American music landscape. Sure, this sort of appropriation was a ...
- The Vikings' burning question: some decent graveside theatre - Times Online
The average Viking lived a life in which spirituality and thoughts of immortality played a far more important part than the rape and pillage more usually associated with his violent race, according to new research. A study of thousands of excavated ...
- Cyrano de Bergerac | Black Swan Theatre Company - Australian Stage Online
Cyrano de Bergerac | Black Swan Theatre CompanyAustralian Stage Online, Australia - 8 hours agoIn this brand new production, seven actors follow Cyrano’s lead and defy rationality, reason and sense in favour of passion, poetry and panache, ...
- People in the news (Northbrook Star)
Sandra Pesmen of Northbrook was recently inducted into the University of Illinois' Media Hall of Fame.
- Poetic justice for celebrated Canadian poet - Toronto Star
Poetic justice for celebrated Canadian poetToronto Star, Canada - 23 minutes agoThe tightly-knit ensemble slithers about the stage with a sinewy grace; the performers are fearless, funny, uninhibited. They give the words such vivacity, ...
- Natural wonder - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeNatural wonderBoston Globe, United States - 25 minutes agoNo poet in our day knows from birds like Brendan Galvin: the longtime denizen of Truro is an inveterate maven of all things avian in the classic American ...
- Mourners farewell poet Dorothy Porter (Adelaide Now)
Mourners have paid tribute to the life and work of internationally acclaimed Australian poet Dorothy Porter following her death from breast cancer on Wednesday.
- Poetry corner - Calgary Herald
Poetry cornerCalgary Herald, Canada - 3 hours agoLest we forget/ All those we haven't met./ Who fought 'til peace was found -- Soldiers lying on the ground./ Look into their eyes, You'll see the people's ...
- Thrill ride through a "maximum city" - Salon
When Danny Boyle burst on the international film scene with the black-comic thriller "Shallow Grave" in 1995 and the profanity-laced Scottish youth culture saga "Trainspotting" the following year, he seemed at first like a British answer to the young ...
- Dick Morris: Kennedy Senate Campaign a 'Disgrace' - NewsMax.com
Dick Morris: Kennedy Senate Campaign a 'Disgrace'NewsMax.com, FL - 10 hours agoThe governor, David Paterson, owes his whole political career to the fact that his father was the highest black official in New York State, the secretary of ...
- Brian Turner, Clay McLeod Chapman at Brookdale Nov. 11 - Asbury Park Press
Brian Turner, Clay McLeod Chapman at Brookdale Nov. 11Asbury Park Press, NJ - 3 hours agoTurner's poetry has been published in Poetry Daily, The Georgia Review and other journals, and in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction ...
- Remembering Thomas Merton - Louisville Courier-Journal
Remembering Thomas MertonLouisville Courier-Journal, KY - 40 minutes agoPhil Stark had been helping Merton with the typing and layout of Monks Pond, an avant-garde journal of poetry Merton was editing in 1968. ...
- Musical genius - AsiaOne
AsiaOneMusical geniusAsiaOne, Singapore - 4 hours agoThis has not hindered her from winning competitions in Mandarin poetry, and Bahasa Malaysia and English storytelling, among others. ...
- Professor Derek Brewer - Telegraph.co.uk
Professor Derek BrewerTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 5 hours agoHe was honoured by the establishment of the Brewer-Hall poetry prize for the best original collection of poems in English, a university-wide prize ...
- A science news blog from - New Scientist
What is it with ideologies hijacking space exploration? Perhaps it started with Kruschev reporting that Yuri Gagarin didn't see God while in orbit . Now, according to an Arab News story, there are moves afoot to set up an Islamic space agency . This ...
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