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- Theater review: 'Twelfth Night' a multicultural, lively romp in San ... - San Jose Mercury News
"Namaste!" biddeth the fool in the opening moments of "Twelfth Night" but, fear not, there is a method to his madness. Indeed, Arclight Repertory Theatre has booked a passage to India for the inaugural season of Shakespeare on the Square. The Raj is ...
- Urbana man saw citizen diplomacy at work on recent travels (The Champaign News-Gazette)
URBANA – Chungliang Al Huang describes himself as Chinese-born and American through and through. Immersed in both cultures, he insists that we Americans, as well as the rest of the world, need not fear China. Rather, we need to understand and accept it in new ways. One of the best, he says, is citizen diplomacy.
- Summer Activities for Family Promote Learning, Fun - Newswise (press release)
Summer Activities for Family Promote Learning, FunNewswise (press release) - 2 hours agoDancing, writing poetry, producing a talent show, creating plays – all of these activities can build vocabulary, reading, writing and spelling skills. ...
- Touchstone Poetry Reading Springs From Teenage Girls - Hartford Courant
Touchstone Poetry Reading Springs From Teenage GirlsHartford Courant, United States - 29 minutes ago... for their life choices, take part in a weekly creative writing workshop led by poet Sharon Charde. Their poetry is an outgrowth of their participation. ...
- Children can’t vote, but can read (The Hill)
Children can’t vote in the presidential election, but they can read about the candidates thanks to three picture books coming out this fall.
- CD review: "Wild & Free," The Radiators - Greenwich Time
Trying to the synthesize the 30 years of New Orleans road dogs The Radiators into a two-disc set is nearly impossible. The group has a catalog of more than 1,000 songs, has allowed its concerts to be taped from the beginning and hasn't played the ...
- A Girl and a Gun (New York Times)
A look at the revolutionary achievements and long career of the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.
- An Upstate Saga (The New Yorker)
From the first pages of Ethan Canin’s new novel, “America America” (Random House; $27), we feel in safe hands; the prospects are panoramic, and the prose, in the author’s preferred first-person mode (“It’s easier to write when you have a voice,” he has said), is ruminative, ominous, and . . .
- Deriving the night away - Silver Chips Online
Deriving the night awaySilver Chips Online, MD - May 21, 2008However, analyzing abstract poetry can discombobulate even the sharpest of literary wits. It's easy to get some extra practice at prom by carefully ...
- Poetry comes alive - Citizen Online
Seward Elementary School students watch as author and poet Kalli Dakos performs her works. Dakos is touring Auburn's elementary schools speaking about her children's poems, that revolve around scholastic themes. “Make sure you check the toilet ...
- Dispatch from The Philadelphia Urban Seminar: Day 5 - Penn State Live
Dispatch from The Philadelphia Urban Seminar: Day 5Penn State Live, PA - 3 hours agoIn the morning we worked on helping three of the girls write their final poems for the poetry contest. The class did another compare-and-contrast reading ...
- Kindred musical spirits form Dresden Dolls - AZCentral.com
With their dark vaudevillian image, it is fitting Amanda Palmer and her onstage foil Brian Viglione of the Dresden Dolls met at a Halloween party. In an artists' loft, no less. As Viglione, the Dresden Dolls drummer, recalls, "There were poetry ...
- Quantum poetics (Guardian Unlimited)
A friend emailed months ago and asked me to contribute to an anthology of "space poems". He was pairing up poets with astronomers in the hopes that new poetry would result, and my counterpart was Paul Murdin, the treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Tempted by the illusion of greatness (Asbury Park Press)
In a previous life, I remember wondering out loud about Mark McGwire's assault on one of our cultural treasures, baseball's single-season home-run record. Something didn't feel right to me. I wasn't alone, either. But the skeptical voices of 1998 were drowned out by an unrestrained celebration that was enthusiastically endorsed by Major League Baseball.
- 'Brel's Lonesome Losers' paints riveting portrait thanks to standout cast (Chicago Sun-Times)
Jacques Brel, that Belgian-bred, Parisian-based musical storyteller whose songs chronicled the demi-monde and bohemian life of mid-century Europe with a blend of lyrical anguish and biting sarcasm, would have felt right at home at the No Exit Cafe. This rough-and-tumble little Rogers Park storefront, which serves as home to the Jeff-winning Theo Ubique Theatre Company, is an intimate, raw-bones ...
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