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- King of Shadows - San Francisco Gate
In a collection of 21 autobiographical essays, Aaron Shurin explores his identity as both a poet and a gay man who has been living in the Bay Area since the 1960s. Although Shurin's writing is lyrical and, at times, humorous, "King of Shadows" as a ...
- Bandwagons that even you may have jumped on - ESPN.com
Stoked by the popularity of Michael Jordan, the Bulls bandwagon took off when the team won its first championship. Team merchandise was sold around the world, and the players were treated like rock stars. The bandwagon took a sabbatical when Jordan ...
- Palace sets stage for literature's Everywoman - Albany Times Union
Palace sets stage for literature's EverywomanAlbany Times Union, NY - 31 minutes ago"I've had 10000 people fill an arena and pay to hear an old black woman talk of love, of poetry, of laughter. I guess it means I belong to everybody. ...
- Florida Book Awards has call for entries - Fort Pierce Tribune
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Book Awards has kicked off its third annual competition with a call for entries in eight categories, including a new one for book design. The contest recognizes the year's best books penned by full-time residents of the ...
- A Welcome Retreat From Summer Excess (The New York Sun)
When summer gets to be too much work — battling traffic in the Hamptons, entertaining or being a houseguest, dealing with gardeners, cooks, and repairmen — it's a good time to book a few days at the Mayflower Spa in quiet Washington Depot, Conn. The destination spa, located on the grounds of the Mayflower Inn, offers the best of summer with none of the hassle. It operates year-round, but when ...
- SHULGOLD: All the theater's a stage for 'Cinderella' - Rocky Mountain News
On the list of moms deserving of praise on Mother's Day, Cinderella's probably won't show in the Top 10, but that isn't stopping Boulder Ballet from performing that fairy- tale saga on Sunday. Yes, we know, that nasty woman was Cinderella's step ...
- Forgotten photos capture idyllic past - Des Moines Register
Everett Kuntz was soon to graduate from high school in 1939 when he spent his life savings on a $12.50 camera. He carried it everywhere, snapping so many photographs that he earned the nickname "Scoop" in his tiny northeast Iowa hometown of Ridgeway ...
- Wensleydale...it's like poetry, says fan McMillan - yorkshirepost
BARNSLEY poet Ian McMillan has written a poem about Real Yorkshire Wensleydale in support of our Uniquely Yorkshire campaign to protect the cheese from producers outside the region. Wensleydale Dairy Products has made a submission for Protected ...
- Final Friday listings (The Wichita Eagle)
Today Final Friday, gallery crawl, 5-7 p.m., Wichita Center for the Arts, 9112 E. Central (Student-Faculty Exhibition reception); 5-8 p.m. at Larksfield Place Gallery, 7373 E. 29th St. North ("Young Guns," Part II reception); 5-8 p.m. at Kansas African American Museum, 601 N. Water (Pat Patterson/Mitchell Pearson, music by Sterling Gray); 5-8 p.m. at Garden Reflections, 3700 E. ...
- Galleries galore span Maryland's Eastern Shore - Maryland Daily Record
SNOW HILL — Art here. Art there. Art everywhere — in Worcester County. Art is alive and well as galleries across Worcester County highlight the drawings, paintings, photography and sculpture of local artists. "We think it's important to show ...
- Frank Gehry: pavilion of delight - Daily Telegraph
Whether it is a tribute to life in the Californian sun, or the weekly ice hockey matches that he started playing 20 years ago, Frank Gehry looks pretty spectacular for a man a year shy of his 80th birthday. Eight pavilions on, is it still possible to ...
- Sadly, what we have here is a failure to be happy (Independent)
A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think.
- Dubai establishes House of Poetry - XPRESS
Dubai establishes House of PoetryXPRESS, United Arab Emirates - 14 minutes agoThe Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation has been mandated to set up the initiative that will promote classical and contemporary Arabic poetry. ...
- Turning groans to grins - North Shore Now
Turning groans to grinsNorth Shore Now, WI - 36 minutes agoTwenty-one students wearing artfully decorated T-shirts with poetry on the back and a star on the front, plus additions to suit individual tastes, ...
- 3 in 4 Minn. sophomores satisfy reading requirement - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Three-quarters of Minnesota sophomores can begin their summer break knowing they've performed well enough on a state reading exam to satisfy a requirement for high school graduation. As freshmen, they faced a writing exam with diploma implications ...
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