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- Students, teachers compile their own textbook - Herald News
JOLIET -- When Ally Mahoney, 16, reads her American literature book for class, she's quite familiar with some of the excerpts because she typed them. Ally, a junior at Joliet West High School is one of a handful of students, who helped with the ...
- All the world's a stage for Okkervil River - Montreal Gazette
When Will Sheff - the wild-eyed, wild-throated frontman of Austin, Tex.'s Okkervil River - let himself loose in the labyrinth of the art world on 2007's breakthrough The Stage Names, he found no shortage of inspiration. Music, movies, poetry. Rockers ...
- Lance Hammer interview, part I - The Phoenix
Lance Hammer interview, part IThe Phoenix, MA - 18 minutes agoSo he doesn’t cotton to those who say that a white filmmaker can’t make a film about black people. Otherwise, he’sa very nice guy, humble, idealistic and ...
- Punk rock persona turns a little bit country (Oregon Daily Emerald)
In 1977, more than three decades ago, musician John Doe met a woman named Exene Cervenka in a poetry class in Los Angeles. He invited her to sing in a band he was forming that only three years later would release the defining album of punk rock in Los Angeles.
- Literary Cats (The Norman Transcript)
Ailurophilia -- the love of cats -- appears to be a congenital condition of writers. Canadian writer Robertson Davies observes, "Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable,?wise?creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
- Brooklyn Museum Shows Notable "Black List" - NY1
NY1Brooklyn Museum Shows Notable "Black List"NY1, NY - 16 hours ago"The concept of the 'Black List' is kind of really about the African-American experience today," said Greenfield-Sanders. "I really wanted as a photographer ...
- Sweet-and-sour synergy - Newark Star-Ledger
WILLIAM PERLMAN/THE STAR-LEDGER Magnetic Fields singer-keyboardist-bouzouki player Stephin Merritt, performs at the Loew's Jersey Theatre in Jersey City. Appropriately enough, one of the things that the Magnetic Fields' Thursday night concert at the ...
- Novelist Michael Redhill named a judge for prestigious Griffin ... - The Canadian Press
Novelist Michael Redhill named a judge for prestigious Griffin ...The Canadian Press, TORONTO - 1 hour agoTORONTO — Michael Redhill, a noted Canadian novelist, poet, and playwright and publisher, will be among the judges for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. ...
- Greece to mark anniversary of Byron's death - San Diego Union-Tribune
ATHENS – Greece has declared the anniversary of the death of Lord Byron, the British Romantic poet who fought in its 19th century war of independence, as a day of celebration to hail Greek culture. Byron died of pneumonia fighting Ottoman rule on ...
- Connecia Brown named "Youth of the Year" - Trading Markets (press release)
Connecia Brown named "Youth of the Year"Trading Markets (press release), CA - 3 hours ago"I've been dealing with kids since 1999," said William Johnson, the teen director at the Lee County club, "and she's one of the best teens I've ever dealt ...
- Halloween happenings - Sun Chronicle
Spooky Zoo, Oct. 5 through Oct. 26, Roger Williams Zoo, Providence. Every weekend, including Columbus Day. Trick-or-Treating on Wetlands Trail, spooky storytelling and sing-alongs, creepy animal encounters, and demonstrations where select animals ...
- Chicano Art And Activism: A Conversation with Juan Felipe Herrera - NHPR
Juan Felipe Herrera’s poetry, in the words of one critic, is “a manifesto you can dance to.” It’s little wonder. The son of migrant farm workers, Herrera was reared on both the hardships and the heart of California’s campesino community ...
- Composer Talks Music with Panel (The Harvard Crimson)
Forty years ago, John C. Adams ’69 was the first Harvard undergraduate to submit an original composition as his senior thesis. The music concentrator then went on to become one of the most renowned American composers of the twentieth century.
- Author Jacob Rosenberg dies - Jerusalem Post
Author Jacob Rosenberg diesJerusalem Post, Israel - 5 minutes agoRosenberg wrote several books as well as poetry in English and Yiddish, his mother tongue. He arrived in Australia in 1948 with his wife, Esther. ...
- Literary Happenings: Lectures to address science, spirituality (Ventura County Star)
The correlations among scientific advances, spiritual beliefs, physical health and the human brain are fascinating and complex.
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