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- Layman bids WAHS fond farewell Sunday - Charlottesville Daily Progress
Layman bids WAHS fond farewell SundayCharlottesville Daily Progress, VA - 1 hour agoThe choir and band will join forces on “A Jubilant Song,’’ featuring poetry by Walt Whitman, before the Symphonic Band performs “Where Never Lark or Eagle ...
- Patti Smith To Release My Bloody Valentine Collaboration - Sound-Check Music
Patti Smith is to release her spoken-word performances of ‘The Coral Sea’, which feature My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, on July 11th. Smith’s performances, a tribute to her close friend, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, were ...
- McKinney Calendar & News Briefs (McKinney Courier-Gazette)
LeAnn Rimes will be the featured performer at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Collin County’s Chrysalis Ball on Nov. 1. The theme is “Fan the Flame.” Rimes, born in Mississippi and raised in Garland, began her career at age 5 in her first talent show. By age 7, she had recorded her first album.
- The Wanderer keeps people in their seats. - Ledbury Reporter
The Wanderer keeps people in their seats.Ledbury Reporter, UK - 1 hour agoBy Gary Bills-Geddes One school of thought has it that poetry should never be set to music, because it is word-music and does not need the notes. ...
- Mama, that’s your star, Lula Belle - Moultrie Observer
Mama, that’s your star, Lula BelleMoultrie Observer, GA - 3 hours agoSo when you say someone owns a star, that’s just poetry. If you can’t park a bass boat on it or plant butterbeans on it, you’re speaking metaphorically. ...
- Nature poetry contest to benefit state park - Banner-Graphic
Local writers are welcome to create poems for the Indiana Nature Poetry Contest that runs until Sept. 30. The contest was organized by Hoosier poet Stacy Smith. The winning poems will be published in a small chapbook called "Poetic Nature in the ...
- Few people would give their new album away for free online — but Saul Williams did (The Kansas City Star)
"... Side effects might include just being who you really are."
- Rediscovering Aenid, the epic of the West - Daily Telegraph
There is a superb exhibition at the British Library at the moment based on the great Indian national epic, the Ramayana. On display are illustrated manuscripts in the possession of the library, showing the wanderings and adventures of Rama, the ...
- Christian-inspired art, music are living treasures, pope says - Catholic News
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christian-inspired art, architecture and music are not dead artifacts from the past, but are living treasures reflecting the beauty of God and the joy of being a child of God, Pope Benedict XVI said. The Christian culture is ...
- Engelbert's Goils, a fan club based in Cleveland, love Humperdinck - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bill Kennedy / The Plain Dealer Dot Gillberg, right, and Jeanne Friedl, center in photo, founded Engelbert's Goils, a Cleveland-based fan club for Engelbert Humperdinck, in 1971. Here they meet their hero shortly after they started the club. On ...
- War victims remembered - Manchester Evening News
AMONGST the hustle and bustle of a weekday lunch-time, a corner of the city paused to remember the British and Russian victims of the Second World War. The special service of remembrance - marking Russia's traditional Victory Day - brought together ...
- Nobody knows what's true anymore - Pasadena Weekly
Pasadena WeeklyNobody knows what's true anymorePasadena Weekly, CA - 1 hour agoHe gives walking tours in downtown LA, and others for the Architecture + Design Museum and the Museum of Neon Art, after which he usually performs poetry ...
- Societies Open Contest To East Texas Poets (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
The Rusk County Poetry Society of Henderson and the Rose Garden Poetry of Tyler are sponsoring a contest with 38 categories and prize money of $1,480 total, awards chairman Bill G. Anderson said.
- Lyrical Genius (The Sun Post)
Songwriter Desmond Child’s story really is the American Dream. The Cuban-American grew up in poverty, alternating between housing projects near Miami Edison High School and Miami Beach, when his mother was earning enough money to afford a little apartment on the east side of the bay.
- Dick Martin, half of 'Laugh-in' comedy team, dies - Centre Daily
LOS ANGELES — Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died ...
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