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- Haigh Book Signing, July 20 (Topanga Messenger)
Messenger readers enjoyed the regular nature columns of long-time Canyon resident Gerry Haigh for some 20 years. Those who came late to the party or failed to save their back issues will be delighted to learn that Haigh has collected scores of the best of those columns in his newly released book, Birding the Santa Monica Mountains (review forthcoming).
- The top five films of Summer 2008 (BG News)
5. "Iron Man" "Iron Man" was the first superhero movie of the summer, and the first of the Marvel superheroes to finally get the proper film treatment. As a film that focused on the humanity of the main character rather than his powers, Iron Man reigns true as one of the few superheroes that transfers elegantly onto the screen.
- 'The Romance of Astrea and Celadon': The Hopeful Romantic (The New York Sun)
Director Eric Rohmer, now 88 years young, has suggested that his 2007 film "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" may be his last. If so, it's a fitting send-off. While this soaring tale of flawed eternal love is not exactly the director's most compelling work, it certainly does build to a finale in which the heroes both succeed and fail, allowing the hopeless romantic behind the camera the chance ...
- CCI: The Adventures of Timothy Callahan Pt. 4 - Comic Book Resources
CCI: The Adventures of Timothy Callahan Pt. 4Comic Book Resources, Ca - 3 hours agoIt's the first in a series of graphic novels, as the two scamps travel across the globe, adventuring into the wilds of epic poetry. ...
- Review: Guillaume Zuili's double-exposure photographs - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesReview: Guillaume Zuili's double-exposure photographsLos Angeles Times, CA - 4 hours agoThe most provocative works in the show give physical fixity to fragments of poetry by Emily Dickinson. The lines are written out in white plastic block ...
- Featured Photo: "Pure poetry" - UT The Daily Texan
Featured Photo: "Pure poetry"UT The Daily Texan, TX - 4 hours agoBy clicking Post, you give The Daily Texan the right to publish your comments in any form, including online and in print in The Firing Line. ...
- Irish Cultural Festival and Puerto Rican Parade and Latino Fest add ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Marvin Fong/ The Plain Dealer The Irish Cultural Festival runs Friday-Sunday at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds. The Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea will be a Little Dublin this weekend during the Irish Cultural Festival. Dancers, singers and ...
- Sunday Journal: Trip to the morgue scares teen silly - St. Petersburg Times
One of my varied outside duties while working as a 16-year-old copy boy at our local newspaper was the trip to the city morgue to collect the obits and return them to the city editor for the next day's page. I hated making this trip. The morgue was ...
- Hot Picks: Things to do around the valley (The Desert Sun)
Often referred to as “the fourth Beatle,†Ringo Starr has enjoyed a post-Fab Four career that came close to, but never matched, the apex of his creativity, which everyone can agree is “Octopus's Garden.â€
- Back to School: Parents, Read Aloud to Your Kids, Say Experts (Newswise)
Research shows that whether a child has been read aloud to on a regular basis is the single biggest predictor of a child's success in learning to read, says University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor of education Kathleen Martin, Ph.D.
- The Sky Crawlers - Screendaily.com (subscription)
The Sky CrawlersScreendaily.com (subscription), UK - 20 minutes agoThe whole becomes a neat metaphor for the absurdity of war and a paean to the poetry of the lone pilot in the skies. Oshii really has no need to insist on ...
- Still dreaming of life - The National
Still dreaming of lifeThe National, United Arab Emirates - 14 minutes ago“I want to write poetry and make people laugh, I don’t want to have to go to rally after rally against the war. But one has to do that. ...
- Spanish museum doubts Goya painted "Giant" - International Herald Tribune
MADRID : Experts at Spain's leading museum El Prado said on Thursday they suspected one of their prize exhibits -- long attributed to Goya -- was in fact painted by one of the Spanish master's assistants. Manuela Mena, curator of 18th-century ...
- Girl found hanged in bedroom had become obsessed with ‘emo’ culture - Times Online
Girl found hanged in bedroom had become obsessed with ‘emo’ cultureTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoThey also found a diary with dark poetry and entries about eight earlier suicide attempts. The coroner, Geoffrey Saul, recorded a narrative verdict in which ...
- Biography: Shopping for Porcupine by Seth Kantner - January magazine
Biography: Shopping for Porcupine by Seth KantnerJanuary magazine - 3 hours agoThere are times in Seth Kantner’s memoir of growing up Arctic that we encounter this sort of cold, Northern poetry. A kind of love song to the harsh land ...
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