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- So, How Would You Like Your Culture Clash? Joke-Filled or Sugar-Glazed ... - New York Times
CHICAGO — Tracy Letts ’s Pulitzer-and-everything-else-winning “August: Osage County†is a full theatrical meal, a nine-course tasting menu of family angst. His new play, “Superior Donuts,†which opened Saturday at the Steppenwolf Theater ...
- 'Someone missed something,' says family of woman who died in now-suspended detox program (The Wilmington Star-News)
When Jennifer Gardner checked herself into a detoxification program just before Christmas, she expected to stay three or four days while being medically weaned off the heroin that had popped in and out repeatedly throughout her young life.
- Reasons to love The Culture Show - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukReasons to love The Culture Showguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoTen years ago, if you'd asked people if they'd like two whole channels dedicated to showing arts and culture, one free-to-air, one pay-to-view, ...
- Maine sails: A briny breeze and way too much good food (Lexington Herald-Leader)
We've been stuffed with fresh blueberry pancakes and perfectly-crisped bacon, tempted with salads and pork in barbecue sauce and home-baked focaccia, sated with all the steamed lobster and corn-on-the-cob we can manage in a single sitting. Now we're all staring at our watches, waiting. Twenty long minutes more before one of the galley girls will hoist the huge brass bell and bellow, "dinnah!" ...
- Anderson County Library plans new programs for teens (Anderson Independent-Mail)
Youths ages 12-18 to enjoy video games, a wide-screen TV and special programs with new initiative.
- Return of the urban balladeer - Livemint
Return of the urban balladeerLivemint, India - 3 hours agoThe song Bulla ki Jana, a fresh interpretation of the poetry of Sufi saint-poet Bulleh Shah, hit the airwaves three years ago, making the self-described ...
- American Gangster Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding ... (The New Straits Times)
AFRO hairdos, flared trousers, bell-bottoms, disco shirts, fur coats and the list goes on. Hey, it’s the 70s classic in all its splendour! In retrospect, American Gangster celebrates the period in a classy retro manner that is unmatchable.
- Longtime poet George Keithley keeps his work fresh - Chico News & Review
Longtime poet George Keithley keeps his work freshChico News & Review, CA - 2 hours agoWhen Heather Lyon put out the word that the store would like to host regular poetry readings, he was all too happy to step up to the mic. ...
- Utah Phillips: radical US folksinger and pacifist - Times Online
Utah Phillips was an American folk singer, story-teller and political activist of the old school who kept alive the freewheeling hobo spirit of Woody Guthrie. He was born Bruce Duncan Phillips in 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were both labour ...
- Monongahela native receives award from French ambassador - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Monongahela native receives award from French ambassadorPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 58 minutes ago... former president of Senegal and the leading black poet featured on the French Advanced Placement reading list. "I had been teaching Senghor's poetry to ...
- Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Eating Disorder Roulette (HuffingtonPost)
Why do teens get eating disorders? Blame it on their friends! But wait, it's not that simple. In fact, it doesn't matter which group teen girls actually fall into but only which group they most identify with.
- Readings and Talks (The New Yorker)
NATIONAL ARTS CLUB Eugene Drucker, a violinist for the Emerson String Quartet, reads from his début novel, “The Savior,†about a violinist in a Nazi concentration camp. Drucker will also perform. (15 Gramercy Park S. No tickets necessary. June 19 at 7.) FILM FORUM The downtown revival house, which is . . .
- Mike Huckabee - New York Observer
Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn will introduce former Republican Governor Mike Huckabee at a Manhattan dinner tonight honoring the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel. According to the press release, headlined "HIKIND & HUCKABEE ...
- Simon Hoggart's week The poetry of death - guardian.co.uk
Simon Hoggart's week The poetry of deathguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoIn fact it's about life, and responsibility and humanity, but it was sold as a bad taste joke, which is probably why it flopped so horribly. ...
- 'Two Rivers' Blends Iraqi Music, American Jazz - Hartford Courant
The confluence of Iraq's two major rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, is known as the "cradle of civilization" and the birthplace of writing. Trumpeter-composer Amir ElSaffar has created the "Two Rivers" project, which blends traditional Iraqi ...
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