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- Library hosts Summer Celebration - Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA — South Georgia Regional Library hosts its Summer Celebration Saturday, highlighting the success of its Summer Reading Program. It will be fun and free, says Halley Little, the library’s community relations coordinator, continuing that ...
- Uganda: Championing Against Domestic Violence (AllAfrica.com)
When you see the glow in her eyes and hear passion in her voice as she talks about her vision for women and children, Atuki Turner immediately strikes you as a human rights activist.
- Betjeman popular in town hall - Morley Observer
Betjeman popular in town hallMorley Observer, UK - 29 minutes agoCoun Varley had even donned tennis whites and sunvisor to match, in honour of Teacakes and Tennis Whites, a John Betjeman collection of poems and prose. ...
- The Man Behind Woody Allen - Jewish Theatre
The Man Behind Woody AllenJewish Theatre, Israel - 1 hour agoKonigsberg sees a connection between writing jokes and poetry. In talking about his admiration for WB Yeats, he notes, I think that had I been better ...
- Garden-variety Shakespeare in the park - pride source.com
Garden-variety Shakespeare in the parkpride source.com, MI - 1 hour agoAt a fundamental level, the complex, brilliant and artful poetry, the psychology and values of the Renaissance, and the deeply intertwined moral and erotic ...
- Rare collection of recordings preserved after decades (Knoxville News Sentinel)
In 1946, a radio repairman named Latham Wyrick purchased a home disc recorder and began roaming the hills of Union County. Electricity was still a newcomer to rural East Tennessee, and Wyrick was one of the first to plug in. He loved gadgets, and although he didn't play an instrument, he loved music, especially the old-time gospel singing of the Holiness church.
- From A To X, by John Berger (Independent)
John Berger has always defied conventional genres and boundaries, mixing and blurring art criticism and autobiography, poetry and letters, diaries and drawing. His first novel purported to be a diary of a previously undiscovered Hungarian painter; in From A to X, long listed last month for the Booker Prize, prior to publication, he punctuates the story with line sketches of human hands.
- Brosnan dreams of Springsteen musical - Irish World News
Irish Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has revealed he would love to take the lead role in a musical about Bruce Springsteen. By Madeline O'Connor - 04/07/08 Brosnan must have got a taste for the genre after his first on-screen singing role in the Abba ...
- Can Art Be Rated From 1 to 1,000? - Wall Street Journal
James Surowiecki’s best-selling book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” made a case for the power of numbers in decisionmaking: A large group of independent, nonexpert thinkers can, when aggregated, often beat a single expert. But the book focuses on ...
- City pair resurrects Canada Day celebrations - Williams Lake Tribune
Williams Lake TribuneCity pair resurrects Canada Day celebrationsWilliams Lake Tribune, Canada - 5 hours agoThe pair will also host a poetry/short story contest for kids between five and 13 years old on the topics “Why are you proud to be a Canadian? ...
- Afterglow of CCM opera lingers - Cincinnati Enquirer
Afterglow of CCM opera lingersCincinnati Enquirer, OH - 25 minutes agoCatán’s opera, with a libretto by Juan Tovar, is more about Paz’s surreal, dreamlike poetry than the gothic horror of Hawthorne. ...
- Proposal aims to foster live entertainment in Baltimore - Baltimore Sun
Baltimore's night scene, from dance clubs and karaoke bars to stand-up comedy and poetry slams, could get a boost under a bill expected to be introduced today in the City Council. The proposal, sponsored by City Council President Stephanie C ...
- Bulletin Board, June 3 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board, June 3Norwich Bulletin, CT - Jun 2, 2008HIV/AIDS IN THE LATINO AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, 10 am to 2 pm, 401 W. Thames St., NORWICH. Sponsored by the Southeastern Mental Health Association ...
- Barker on Books - Fort Morgan Times
Barker on BooksFort Morgan Times, CO - 1 hour ago“The Aeneid” is a kind of epic fantasy poem, very similar to “The Odyssey” by Homer, in which the protagonist, along with his family and friends, ...
- Swede Heart - BlackBook Magazine
BlackBook MagazineSwede HeartBlackBook Magazine, NY - 8 hours ago“I’ma bipolar city girl. My mind is in New York, but I would love to live in Argentina, drink red wine and write poetry no one understands.”
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