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- Pierce Brosnan's Springsteen ambition - Xinhua News Agency
The 55-year-old actor -- who debuts his vocal talents in the ABBA-inspired musical "Mamma Mia!" -- has got the taste for singing on screen, and is keen to take on the challenge of performing Springsteen's most famous tracks. Pierce told BANG Showbiz ...
- Global Psyche: Forever Mamma's Boy (Psychology Today)
Mammismo trumps machismo in Italy.
- In the frame - Financial Times
Even we who have experienced these techniques for years – in my case 35 – cannot quite get used to them. Each May, we are flown to a remote French fishing port and subjected to ruthless disorientation methods. Night becomes day; day night. We are ...
- Fort Lauderdale conference offers real-world advice to poets (Sun-Sentinel)
Lauderdale conference offers real-world advice for artists Successful spoken-word poets mine their souls for inspiration.
- You write the reviews: Fram, National Theatre, London (Independent)
Tony Harrison's Fram is long and mind-knottingly complex, but it is neither self-indulgent nor superfluous. It is one of the most stimulating, engaging and extraordinary evenings on offer. Its message is simple: it asks what role the arts can play in a world where illegal immigrants fall from their hiding places in the wheel bays of aircraft, and four-year-olds starve to death in the Russian ...
- Poet, editor to speak at the Authors Series (The Warren Reporter)
WASHINGTON TWP. -- The Warren County Community College Visiting Authors Series continues on Thursday, April 24 with a reading by poet David Tucker on a night that will also highlight readings by the winners of the 2008 Warren County High School Fiction and Poetry Contests, as well as the student authors of the college whose work appears in this year's edition of Ars Poetica, the student art and ...
- The Good 'Shepherd' - Jamaica Observer
The Good 'Shepherd'Jamaica Observer, Jamaica - 4 hours ago... arts to the family household in which he grew up in the 1990s. "I grew up in a house where we entertained ourselves with poetry, comedy and music. ...
- Cold feet at the gates of Hades - Daily Telegraph
The horror story, like so much else in Western literature, has its origins in Homer. This fascinating study of contact with the underworld sticks at the Styx Millennia before Interview with the Vampire there was the Odyssey , in which the hero, just ...
- In creative writing, the girls get the last word - Salt Lake Tribune
In creative writing, the girls get the last wordSalt Lake Tribune, United States - 23 minutes agoLinda Melcher's 18-year-old daughter likes to write poetry, but her 14-year-old son doesn't like to write at all. "He doesn't have the patience," the Butler ...
- Spread Nazrul’s literary works globally: CA - The New Nation
Spread Nazrul’s literary works globally: CAThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 10 hours agoPointing to his success in using Arabic, Persian and Urdu words in his literature, Dr Fakhruddin said he had not only enriched Bangla poetry but also proved ...
- Budding bookworms - Times and Transcript
Budding bookwormsTimes and Transcript, Canada - 1 hour agoKenzie Robinson, a Grade 11 student at Tantramar Regional High School, credits the festival for encouraging her love of writing poetry. ...
- Meditation in the Moment - Listen&Be Heard
Listen&Be HeardMeditation in the MomentListen&Be Heard, CA - 58 minutes agoNo one is calling here to nationally televise a poem though. But I did get an e-mail from Brazil yesterday about “Living It,” letting me know that more than ...A Loss in the Listen & Be Heard Family Listen&Be HeardGabi Wilson Singer, Musician and Poet Listen&Be HeardTell Me A Story Listen&Be HeardListen&Be Heard - Listen&Be Heardall 9 news articles
- 'Almost nominee' status keeps Obama in limbo - International Herald Tribune
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri : The contest with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton not quite over and the one with Senator John McCain not quite under way, Senator Barack Obama is floating somewhere between the two major phases of his long campaign — a ...
- When Experience and Disaster Collide - New York Times Blogs
Iowans have taken to calling this week’s devastating flooding “ our Katrina .” Katrina does come to mind when you look at these photos of Cedar Rapids engulfed by the Cedar River . But Iowa is lucky to have been spared a Katrina-sized death ...
- Getting girl power - UI The Daily Iowan (subscription)
Getting girl powerUI The Daily Iowan (subscription), IA - 6 hours ago"The title emerged in the poetry of it all." By demonstrating the difficulty of expression, Leaverton hopes the performance will engage the audience and ...
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