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- Robert Redford Fights Global Warming With Poetry - NPR News
“Words are just words without action. But I think what we're seeing here today with these poets is the beginning of action.†Talk of the Nation , July 16, 2008 · Robert Redford has been fighting on behalf of the environment for more than 30 ...
- Aspen symphony, soloist join in nearly perfect story of love - Denver Post
ASPEN — In a world where all things fast and loud generally trump thoughtfulness and reflection, Peter Lieberson's five gentle "Neruda Songs" are a brilliant exception. Led by maestro David Zinman, the Aspen Chamber Symphony played a wonderfully ...
- Russell Banks: Class warrior in a club tie - The Independent
Banks hitched to Florida, hoping to join Castro in the Sierra Maestra, and got "as far as Miami. By then Castro didn?t need me, this skinny kid who didn?t speak Spanish." Spend some time with the American novelist Russell Banks, and the phrase "lived ...
- Finding challenge in verse - Stonnington Leader
Stonnington LeaderFinding challenge in verseStonnington Leader, Australia - 4 hours ago... it's just talking free-flow emotion and that's not very challenging, really," Albiston said. "For every rule in formal poetry, a creative window opens. ...
- As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap - Times Daily
A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower. Filipp Pishchik says this and similar cartoons, depicting the former president as a corrupt leader who stifles free speech, got him in ...
- The Hold Steady: The best classic rock band you never heard of ... - Fort Worth Star Telegram
The Hold Steady: The best classic rock band you never heard of ...Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 13 minutes agoBut then nearly all of Stay Positive is built on tough, unblinking poetry, focused on common folks — the gritty waltz of One For the Cutters is an epic of ...
- Silver Jews: The Shock and Awe of Being Alive - Crawdaddy
CrawdaddySilver Jews: The Shock and Awe of Being AliveCrawdaddy - 30 minutes agoWhether regarded as a former addict, a songwriter, or a poet (his 2001 collection of poetry, Actual Air, has garnered positive reviews in literary circles), ...
- Sex Rocks DC Preppies, Lithgow Tells Tall Tales: John Simon - Bloomberg
Sex Rocks DC Preppies, Lithgow Tells Tall Tales: John SimonBloomberg - 1 hour agoOne of granny's favorite stories is really a poem, the one about the one-hoss shay by poetry-writing Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. ...
- Edward Albee at 80: Still a 'Young Troublemaker' - Wall Street Journal
Last Wednesday, just before a preview performance of "Edward Albee's Occupant," an evocation of the late sculptor Louise Nevelson, the theater's house manager made a brief statement. "I wanted to let you all know," she said, "that Mr. Albee is in the ...
- London show of Bob Dylan paintings could be Million Dollar Bash - Earthtimes
London - Even before opening, the exhibition in London of 300 paintings by legendary US singer Bob Dylan promises to be a million dollar bash, as most of the work has already been sold. The Drawn Blank Series, comprising some 300 colourful canvasses ...
- Obama v. Clinton: A Retrospective - London Review of Books (subscription)
Obama v. Clinton: A RetrospectiveLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 5 hours ago... he took the occasion of this extraordinary moment in American history not to congratulate the first African-American nominee, but rather to deride, ...
- Animal whisperers help you communicate with your pets - Las Vegas Sun
Ears twitching wildly, Nikki and Lucy hovered near the telephone, aroused by the caller on the other end. He was their "whisperer," and the girls had something to tell me: "Their food tastes like sawdust." Nikki and Lucy are my 10-year-old cats. They ...
- Kenya: 'We Have Had Enough of Foreign Plays' (AllAfrica.com)
For a very long time, plays that dominated Kenya's theatre scene were all foreign adaptations. Theatre powerhouses such as Mbalamwezi, Phoenix Players and Heartstrings Ensemble barely had a Kenyan production worth writing home about.
- Glastonbury comes to Streatham festival - Sutton Guardian
The Streatham Festival, the centrepiece of the area's cultural calendar, kicks off this Saturday. The week long community arts festival, now in its seventh year, will bring internationally acclaimed artists alongside the best of local talent at a ...
- Former teacher wins Montana poetry - ONE News
A 54-year-old former schoolteacher has won the poetry category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Janet Charman has beaten strong competition from Johanna Aitchison and Fiona Farrell, with her sixth poetry collection Cold Snack. The West ...
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