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- Tonya Plank: Marcelo Gomes and Veronika Part's Luscious, Heartbreaking La Bayadère (HuffingtonPost)
La Bayadère, with its combination of poetic choreography, bravura dance theatrics and its very human story, is the ideal way to start if you've never been to the ballet.
- Fabu: 'To be black is to be political' (Isthmus)
On the first Saturday night in May, while rowdy college kids roamed the Mifflin Street block party in search of their next keg, a quieter crowd gathered at Escape Java Joint on Willy Street. In the art gallery coarsely decorated with organic fair-trade coffee sacks, over 50 people sat in folding chairs and in the aisles. Madison's new poet laureate, Fabu Carter Brisco, took the mike.
- This will brighten any day - Oregonian
The sun is supposed to be out. The graphic in the bottom corner of my newspaper this morning said the sun would be out. It's raining. I respectfully request that it stop. The print industry has enough problems without weather reports gone bogus as ...
- Shakespeare on Film: Macbeth - MovieMaker Magazine
MovieMaker MagazineShakespeare on Film: MacbethMovieMaker Magazine, NY - 6 hours agoCopious thunder, lightning and wind effects enhance the artifice, and yet there is great visual poetry when the camera closes in on Macbeth’s feverish face ...
- Rarely-staged ‘King John’ shows Shakespeare in top form - Boston Herald
Rarely-staged ‘King John’ shows Shakespeare in top formBoston Herald, United States - 15 hours agoHere, the wicked aren’t always punished, the good often die with little poetry, key characters vanish from view and fortunes turn on a dime. ...
- Poetry night to benefit at-risk children - Anderson Independent-Mail
Local non-profit group MIRACLES is having a poetry night on Friday. Anyone older than 23 is invited to attend or to present work. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door. Seating is limited, so be sure to get tickets early. They can be purchased ...
- Ancestral Journeys - New York Times
Ancestral JourneysNew York Times, United States - 46 minutes agoHe is also a polemicist on behalf of the mongrel life. His 1998 book “Les Identités Meurtrières” (translated into English two years later as “In the Name of ...
- John Lundberg: The Poetry of Insomnia (HuffingtonPost)
Medical experts say that 30% to 50% of us occasionally suffer from insomnia, your intrepid poetry columnist included. Your anxiety kicks up, your heart starts...
- 3 EV writers qualify for 15th Iligan National Writers Workshop - Philippine Information Agency
3 EV writers qualify for 15th Iligan National Writers WorkshopPhilippine Information Agency, Philippines - 1 hour ago... poetry has gained appreciation and interest by some enthusiast as some schools continue conducting the same regional training-workshops for free led by ...
- Famed Authors to Participate in Eighth Annual National Book Festival - Forbes
WASHINGTON, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, rain or shine, on the National Mall in ...
- Expanded Wing Luke Asian Museum's treasures are its stories (Seattle Times)
This certainly can't be the most efficient way to get something done: Spend more than 10 years planning it, do a dozen separate studies...
- Freaky, flippant Friday - Register-Guard
After suggesting that the county government begin building a 32-hour work force, many people told me they’d gladly trade less pay for perpetual three-day weekends. I didn’t ask if any of them already work for the county. Whatever your opinion ...
- Making movies with Mani Ratnam (rediff.com)
It's not everyday one gets to have a long chat with Mani Ratnam. But when one does, it's always interesting. The director discussed his movies and much more with Maria Giovanna.
- 'Reluctant Environmentalist' Learning to Go Green (Fairfield Citizen-News)
Mariann Regan is retired and couldn't be happier. After 40 years as a professor of English at Fairfield University, where she met and married her husband, Richard, also a professor of English, she now has the time to devote herself to writing books, especially her memoir.
- Wilmington on DVD: One of the greatest silent symphonies (Isthmus)
Abel Gance, maker of the spectacular 1927 French epic 'lt;i'gt;Napoleon'lt;/i'gt;, was one of the great symphonic masters of the silent movie, and 'lt;i'gt;La Roue'lt;/i'gt; is one of his greatest symphonies. The story of 'lt;i'gt;La Roue'lt;/i'gt; ('lt;i'gt;The Wheel'lt;/i'gt;) is, in many ways, pure silent-movie melodama, but done with such grace, style and deep feeling that it sweeps you up ...
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