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- LINE KING: The Al Hirschfeld Story(BroadwayWorld.com) - Broadway World
Just got around to seeing this Oscar-nominated documentary about the life and art of the late, great Al Hirschfeld. Surprised to have searched and not found previous discussions of the film here on BWW. It truly is an excellent insight into how he ...
- The scalpel's tip - Philippine Star
The scalpel's tipPhilippine StarHe has won the prestigious Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature in 2006 as well as the Philippines Free Press Award for Poetry in 2001. ...
- The Bushwick Sagas: The Young Men Go to a Hot Spring and Get Drunk - The L Magazine
The L MagazineThe Bushwick Sagas: The Young Men Go to a Hot Spring and Get DrunkThe L MagazineNameless, for example, described how his favorite saga character is one who is well known to have written poetry at three years old, to have killed great ...
- Ranching celebration to unveil 'Mountain Money' - Valley Courier Online
Ranching celebration to unveil 'Mountain Money'Valley Courier OnlineThe celebration continues to be a cherished opportunity to share and hear stories, poems and songs about life in Saguache County. Come and tell tales about ...
- 2nd Look: September University By Charles D. Hayes (2010) - Basil & Spice
Basil & Spice2nd Look: September University By Charles D. Hayes (2010)Basil & SpiceMy enjoyment of poetry, for example, died a horrible death at the hands of public school teachers; it remains dead to this day, and I expect that ...
- Faces behind the Mic - Egypt Today
... introduced to Egypt, it could only be found in the homes of a privileged few, though several families even refused to allow it in, fearing their daughters would be aroused by love songs ... song by Om Kolthoum then poetry recitals and oud ...
- Poet to read works at Little Theater - Sequim Gazette
Poet to read works at Little TheaterSequim Gazette... he became very active in the creative writing field, organizing annual community readings called Favorite Poem Nights. He also led monthly poetry ...
- Anne Carson Explores Ancient Greek Poetry - Emory Wheel
Renowned classicist and contemporary poet Anne Carson read her work at Emory last Wednesday as the 2010 Nix Mann lecturer. The Nix Mann lecture series features a distinguished lecturer on campus each year. Carson, who performed her poems “Cassandra ...
- Patti Smith Remembers Life With Mapplethorpe - NPR
Patti Smith Remembers Life With MapplethorpeNPRShe first came to the city at 20 years old, an aspiring artist with a passion for French poets and American rock 'n' roll. Smith recounts those years, ...and more »
- Dirty snow gets artistic makeover - Toronto Star
Dirty snow gets artistic makeoverToronto StarWith a shovel as his brush, Elliott walked to the lot in the middle of the night and turned the profane message into one of happiness, love and poetry, ...
- Spinning a tale - Charlottetown, The Guardian
Charlottetown, The GuardianSpinning a taleCharlottetown, The GuardianBoth teach literature and creative writing at St. Francis Xavier University. Lynes' highly accessible, entertaining and street-savvy poetry, along with her ...
- Solidarity can help Chile prevail - CNN
Editor's note: Ariel Dorfman , the Chilean-American writer and author of "Death and the Maiden" along with a wide variety of other plays, fiction, poetry and essays, will deliver the Mandela Lecture in South Africa this year. Dorfman is the Walter ...
- Showed Up: Sam Mendes Does 'The Tempest' and 'As You Like It' at BAM - The Awl
When they meet again in Arden, Orlando is hanging his terrible love poems all over the place, on trees, and Rosalind is disguised as a man. Now at this point what’s supposed to happen is some A-level onstage flirting. Rosalind is in love, but she ...
- Anatomy of a work of art - Business Gazette
Business GazetteAnatomy of a work of artBusiness Gazette"[Lohnes] let me read her journal, and she actually let me pick some passages I liked to begin writing her poetry." Lohnes, who read her work at the ...
- North Korea: secrets and lies - Daily Telegraph
If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Next to this mysterious black hole, South Korea, Japan and China ...
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