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- Dance star’s final sparkle - Reading Evening Post
The death of long-legged movie legend Cyd Charisse at the age of 86 brings to an end a whole era of dance. You only had to tell her: “Go into your dance†to be assured of instant cinematic magic. Trained as a classical dancer, she was a member of ...
- Remembering Cpl. Courtney ‘Spanky’ Brooks - Baltimore Times
Remembering Cpl. Courtney ‘Spanky’ BrooksBaltimore Times, MD - 44 minutes agoCpl. Brooks also had a hidden talent: poetry. He wrote poems for his nephew and niece, Brooks-Tucker's son and daughter. Brooks-Tucker framed many of the ...
- In Brief 6-26-2008 (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
An operating budget for the two-year period starting next month was passed unanimously by the City Council on Tuesday.
- Karen Woodhall to perform at North Street Coffeehouse May 3 - Medfield Press
Karen Woodhall to perform at North Street Coffeehouse May 3Medfield Press, MA - 1 hour agoWe welcome performers of music of any genre, prose, poetry, and comedy. Advance signup for open mike at imjanet@comcast.net is encouraged. ...
- Cherish your mangled song lyrics - Otago Daily Times
Cherish your mangled song lyricsOtago Daily Times, New Zealand - 29 minutes agoFor more than a decade, it's been easy and free. Tap a few keystrokes into one of the many lyric sites on the Internet, and the words become as clear as ...
- The verse comes off worse at the movies - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe verse comes off worse at the moviesguardian.co.uk, UK - 16 minutes agoDylan Thomas is coming three times to a cinema near you - no thanks to his poetry. It's all about the sex and the booze "There are some things friends ...
- Turning Summer Leaves (Gay City News)
Meena Alexander, "Quickly Changing River" (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, $14.95) Alexander's eighth book of poems quotes Whitman in its epigraph and in "Torn Grass" features five impressive triptych sequences (e.g., "Three for Summer").
- Miami Is Beach Country and Book Country, Too (New York Times)
In the last two decades, the Miami Book Fair International has grown into a widely emulated benchmark event.
- Fighting ignorance - Tonight South Africa
Nhlanhla Buthelezi, aka Apocalyptic, is a poet and emcee who is based in Joburg. He is also a consultant at a media company, so writing is a huge part of his life. Born of a Malawian mother and a Zulu father, he grew up in Klerksdorp, North West ...
- Around the Bend: 06.06.08 - 06.12.08 (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
READING WITH BONZO: Bonzo Crunch, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey goodwill ambassador, will read at 10:15 a.m. today at the Janet F. Harte Library, 2629 Waldron Road; 11:30 a.m. at the Central Library, 801 Comanche St.; 2 p.m. at the Greenwood Library, 4044 Greenwood; and at 3:30 p.m. at the Northwest Library, 3202 McKinzie Road. Free. Information: 241-9329.
- Loyola journalism student slain in drive-by shooting (Chicago Tribune)
Shooting may be tied to another one in Fuller Park that wounded 2 men A journalism student at Loyola University was killed when someone fired into her car on Chicago's South Side Sunday night, authorities said.
- PARENTING: End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty (Lancaster Online)
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys &quo
- U. Oregon African group celebrates culture of 'Great 56' - U-Wire.com
Hundreds of students and community members gathered in the University of Oregon Ballroom on Sunday night for the African Student Association's annual cultural night of performances. The event included traditional and modern dancing, singing, poetry ...
- Questions of Nationality - Maisonnueve
Questions of NationalityMaisonnueve, Canada - 23 minutes agoPlease note that this request has been denied by our editorial board as Ms. Bishop is considered an American poet and including her work in an all-Canadian ...
- Optimism on canvas (The Daily Tribune)
Italy-based, Bicol-born artist Lina Llaguno-Ciani held a one-woman show last February at the Galleria Duemila, the 34th in her artistic career. It was titled “After the Rain,†and was inspired by the Typhoon “Reming’s†fury in 2006, which devastated the Bicol region.
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