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- Laughs die half way through "Ghost Town" - MLive.com
"Ghost Town" is a great idea that doesn't have very far to go. A guy dies for seven minutes while under anesthesia, then when he comes back to life, he sees dead people. And they see him, and talk to him, and follow him around Manhattan all day ...
- Theatrical battle of the sexes? (Salon.com)
Liz Smith says only men are trashing "Mamma Mia!" Meanwhile, an L.A. Times blogger explains why women can't handle "The Dark Knight." Oh, please!
- Authors grieve over David Foster Wallace's apparent suicide - Contra Costa Times
NEW YORK—The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel ...
- Fall frontier on the Lower East Side New dimensions of digital art and installations (The Villager)
On Sunday, September 7, the Lower East Side was swarming with art enthusiasts. It was the inauguration of the fall season and many of the galleries downtown had coordinated their exhibition openings for that afternoon.
- If you're living with AIDS, you are not alone An area agency is helping those who have it and educating those who don't (The Gainesville Times)
It was in the dark of winter in 1991 when a bright-eyed social worker gave Robin Hale the news that he had tested positive for HIV. The social worker told him to be wary of suicidal tendencies, to stay away from cat and bird feces and informed him that he could no longer eat raw seafood.
- Hail, hail, rock'n'roll - guardian.co.uk
Hail, hail, rock'n'rollguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 31, 2008Subtitled The Poetry of Silence, it shows some 60 paintings from across the Danish artist's career, and opens with a quotation from Rainer Maria Rilke. ...
- Remembering the Day Football Was Silenced - Bleacherreport.com
Do you remember the debate? The World Trade Center was still burning. They were still digging into the rubble at the Pentagon and wondering how the passengers took another plane down in a field in Pennsylvania before it could strike its target ...
- The Poetry of Scissors and Glue - New York Times
The Poetry of Scissors and GlueNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoMax Ernst, of the book-long collages, became his lodestar. Mr. Ashbery’s artistic ambitions stayed high until 1945 when he got to Harvard, where, ...
- Edinburgh Comedy Festival kicks off - Crewe Guardian
The inaugural Edinburgh Comedy Festival gets under way kicking off the Scottish capital's annual arts bonanza. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the globe will flock to the city in the coming month for a massive array of entertainment ...
- "AirQ Haiku" Contest Raises Air Quality Awareness (Kansas City InfoZine)
Contest invites entrants to submit haikus that relate to air quality
- Ronan's 'strange' claims - Gloucester Daily Times
Regarding John Ronan's recent letter to the Times, ("The potential for poetry," July 24): Though it shouldn't need saying, dropping an ancient cliche in conversation does not make a person a "real poet." Perhaps Mr. Ronan intended to show that poetry ...
- Tim Olyphant joins cast of FX series 'Damages' - Detroit Free Press
ANSWER: Born in Hawaii and brought up in California, 40-year-old Olyphant may be best known for playing lawman Seth Bullock in HBO's western series "Deadwood." He was also the computer-genius villain battling Bruce Willis in "Live Free or Die Hard ...
- Check It Out - News & Observer
Check It OutNews & Observer, NC - 1 hour agoBut it's the only poetry we have celebrating the fact that the thousands of metal plates making up the constellation will stay put in high winds.) Susie?
- Geoff Oldfather: 9/11 victim's father from Palm City recalls dark day when hope faded (Stuart News)
Edmund Lunder's wife and four other children would cling to hope for days. But as Lunder, a 75-year-old Palm City resident, watched the north tower of the World Trade Centers collapse, he was already starting to accept that his son, Christopher, was probably dead.
- Marge Tucker: Local ranch woman also is a cowboy poet - Sun Shopper
Marge Tucker: Local ranch woman also is a cowboy poetSun Shopper, AZ - 2 hours agoThis red-headed whippersnapper won the Gail Gardner Award for a Working Cowboy Poet at the Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering this past year. ...
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