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- UKs Legacy for Indian dance (Express India)
An ambitious project to research, film and archive the history of India's Manipuri and Tagore dance forms in the UK has been launched with funding from Britain's Heritage Lottery Fund.
- Return Trip (winnipegsun.com)
Loosen those belts and get ready for a second helping of global hospitality. Twenty new pavilions open their doors today for Week 2 of Folklorama. Here's a sneak peek:
- Stanford Summer Theater opens its 10th anniversary season (San Jose Mercury News)
Stanford theater program celebrates the work of Irish playwright Brian Friel
- That Thing We Call Courage - American Enterprise Institute
High Noon is routinely listed as one of the top American movies of all time. And it is almost universally acclaimed as one of the top three Westerns, if not the best Western ever made. When it was released in mid-summer 1952, the New York Times ...
- What your lips say about you - Livemint
What your lips say about youLivemint, India - 21 hours agoThe annals of literature and poetry are full of metaphors for eyes and hair but they pay scant attention to lips. Tamil and Urdu poetry, for instance, ...
- Nice Office Mad Men returns for a second season. - Slate
Mad Men (AMC, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET) is not just about marketing, it's also a triumph of it. You can set the matter of the show's near-excellence—its patient pacing and self-possessed performances, its yards of assertive style—on the Saarinen ...
- Kay Ryan of Fairfax is named U.S. poet laureate - Inside Bay Area
When Kay Ryan was a student at the University of California Los Angeles, the poetry club rejected her application; she was perhaps too much of a loner, she recalls. Now Ryan, who lives in Fairfax, is being inducted into one of the most elite poetry ...
- July 29: Scenes from the Arts-burgh (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Sara Evans performed her fun songs with pep and sparkle, and people on the grassy lawn couldn't help but get up and dance.
- Where love is in the air - Haaretz.com
"Thank you Sderot, ahla" said Knesiyat Hasekhel vocalist Yoram Hazan when the last chord of the song "Nothing will harm us" died out, ending the performance. "You've done a wonderful thing." After enjoying the three-hour concert, the audience stood ...
- Local coffee shops offer more than just coffee - Daily Vidette
Local coffee shops offer more than just coffeeDaily Vidette, IL - 16 hours agoSomething else unique to the Coffeehouse is the poetry slams that go on every other Wednesday night from 7:30-9:30 pm These poetry slams consist of local ...
- Penniless author sells shares in next novel - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukPenniless author sells shares in next novelTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoTao, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, has also published a collection of stories and two books of poetry. Prospective investors can contact him via his ...
- The next chapter: Who'll be the bestsellers of tomorrow? (Independent)
There's something inescapably retro about the book trade. But then what do you expect from an industry in which the pastiche Victorian novel is still red-hot, the Knights Templar are big news and the biggest success of the last decade was a series about a boarding school? As persuasive visions of the future go, you still can't beat Russell Hoban's post-Apocalyptic Riddley Walker, and that came ...
- Coming of Age - Tucson Weekly
Tucson WeeklyComing of AgeTucson Weekly, AZ - 20 minutes agoPrince on Paper - Will this fantastic book of poetry by Dan Fante finally get him the recognition he deserves? by RYAN RITCHIE (07-10-2008)
- Valley native has small but huge role in Shepard play (The Morning Call)
The biggest role of Elissa Piszel's theater career is one of the smallest. The Bethlehem native stands silent for four to five minutes in nothing but a slip and a cowboy hat. Her only act is to hand the hat to the man who tossed it into a self-dug grave, a former dealer of expensive Western paintings stranded in the Badlands with a dead horse that symbolizes his -- and America's -- dead dreams.
- Pardon Our Monsters - Ottawa Citizen
Pardon Our MonstersOttawa Citizen, Canada - 8 hours agoHood mines the flotsam and jetsam of trashy suburbs, highways, garage sales and, of course, high schools, often finding poetry in the mundane details. ...
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