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10 Prime Hits: Blake Shelton Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:56PMWhat's that buzzing noise? Must be the swarms of fans ready to buy Blake Shelton 's new album, Red River Blue , set for release Tuesday (July 12). Although he's been having No. 1 hits for almost a decade, the Oklahoma native is currently riding a wave of newfound popularity.
Famed slam poet to visit Saskatoon Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 3:03AMShane Koyczan's poetry is larger than life. And these days, so is his spoken word career. He just finished performing at Massey Hall alongside Canadian icon Ron Sexsmith. He's headlined music festivals across the country. And yes, he's that poet that injected some much needed self-deprecating nationalism into the opening ceremonies at the Vancouver Olympics.
PLAINSBORO: Wicoff garden helps students put science to work Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:47AMPLAINSBORO — An initiative to teach Wicoff Elementary School students about science while instilling in them a love of nature came to fruition recently when a team of teachers and volunteers created a garden at the school.
Take your best shot at poetry contest Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:12AMI said "no more!" The end. That's it. Poetry is not my schtick. But you said "please!" Again to rhyme. Your 14th year of aging time. So I relent... Here's to your best! For the International Longevity Light Verse Contest. So, I never said I...
St Anthony’s breaks silence on child sexual abuse Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 1:10AMIn 2003, a UNICEF report stated that an estimated 3,500 children die of abuse before reaching the age of 15 years, each year. These and other statistics on child sexual abuse are far too frightening for many to face, but someone must face the growing problem.
Summer poetry Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 12:14AMAh Minneapolis in the summer! The potholes have been filled (mostly), down has been doffed, ice has surrendered to the liquid lakes, and the young folk run around them sporting their youth.
Poetry comes to Auckland Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:14PMAUCKLAND LIBRARIES POETRY WRITING COMPETITION This competition is for original work written by any member of Auckland Libraries. There are three age categories: 12 and under, 13-18, over 18. Entries close on 13th July. Entries online via the Library website www.aucklandlibraries.govtnz Prize winners will be announced at a ceremony at Mt Albert Community Library 84 St ...
The Young Library: A future legend meets his role model Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:05PMGary Golio's exceptional picture book about Bob Dylan's early years begs for an accompanying recording.
The Owl And The Pussycat & Other Oddities Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 5:12PMA Collection Of Nonsense- The Owl And The Pussycat & Other Oddities Dates: 19 July – 29 July 2011 (The VIC, DEVONPORT)
'I Had Always Been Blessed With Good Fortune' - At 98, Gay Concentration Camp Survivor Tells Story Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 9:12PMFor decades, the subject of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals during the Third Reich was swept under the rug and reparations were almost never paid. Rudolf Brazda, who may be the last living gay man to have survived the terror, shares his life story in a newly published book.
Writers take note: Words in the Woods a new feature in Alberni Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 8:29PMThe venerable Forest Fest is coming and Ivan Coyote is among those who will be giving readings.
Review: LaDiDa and Songify for iPhone Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 7:18PMDeveloper Khush builds iPhone apps with the idea of removing the barriers to creating music so that anyone can sing a song. Philip Michaels looks at two Khush apps -- LaDiDa and the newly released Songify -- to see if they deliver on that promise.
Water Works Theatre pulls out all the stops for Royal Oak's Shakespeare in the Park Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 7:17PMSummertime for theater lovers means putting away playbills from the previous season and bring out their barbecue grills and sandals until the next theater season to begins.
Wallets open wide for Joplin music program Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 7:07PMFor Trilla Ray-Carter, who teaches cello at William Jewell College and is director of Kansas City Baroque Consortium, the devastation caused by the tornado in Joplin is personal. She grew up there and received her first instruction in cello at Irving Elementary. Her love of music was further nurtured at Joplin High School.
Boyd Tonkin: Green poetry with avant-gardeners Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 6:27PMSails and seabirds float above a forlorn Channel-side landscape of sea-strand grasses. Alpine flowers sprout in clefts amid jagged honey-coloured rock from which a waterfall tumbles. Pastel plantings flank a sombre funerary monument; above it, petunias and euphorbias explode in deep colours of blood and grief. These are gardens, but also poems. To be exact, they are three of the six "English ...
The artists' artist: children's authors Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 5:14PMLeading writers choose their favourite living children's author Tell us who your favourite living children's author is here Anne Fine on Geraldine McCaughrean I reckon Geraldine McCaughrean knocks the socks off every other children's writer today. Everything she does is different and everything works – look at her list of prizes. She must write in tremendous bursts. Some years, she's so prolific ...
Intermission: We Dare You to Not Get a Crush on This Poetry Bomber Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 4:18PMAgustina Woodgate is an Argentine artist living in Miami whose work includes everything from doormats to produce-sticker collages to giant rugs made of stuffed-animal "hides." When she's not doing all that, Woodgate also finds the time to go "poetry bombing" around Miami thrift stores. Using her deft hands and a needle and thread, Woodgate sews short poems into pieces of clothing with the goal ...
Poemstogo.TV Celebrates 10 Years of Great Service to Customers Worldwide. Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 11:30AMA full decade of leadership in writing original poems, speeches and toasts for any occasionBristol, RI (PRWEB) July 07, 2011 They say time flies when you’re having fun – and PoemsToGo.tv is having a blast writing completely original poems, speeches and toasts for all kinds of occasions.From birthdays to anniversaries, weddings to baby showers, retirements, bar mitzvahs and much more.Now ...
Book uses storytelling to teach life’s lessons Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 5:06AMGodchild is a collage of literary art—short stories and poetry, rooted in the soul of Eintou Pearl Springer and sprouted onto a paginated canvas.
Water Works Theatre Company pulls out the works for productions of Shakespeare in the Park Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 4:48AMSummertime for theater lovers means putting away playbills from the previous season and bring out their barbecue grills and sandals until the next theater season to begins.
Lomontville poet shows clarity in focus (with video) Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 2:09AMAn image, a concept, a sequence of words. The bards of yore wrote about love – preferably unrequited – to cultivate the monarch’s favor and keep their heads.
A fitting eulogy for the lost surrealist Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 10:49PMThe library catalogue of the experimental poet David Gascoyne opens up an extraordinary vanished world I have been reading Every Printed Page Is a Swinging Door , a privately printed catalogue of the experimental poet David Gascoyne's library, compiled by the eminent bibliophile and rare-book dealer James Fergusson. Such catalogues combine many secret pleasures: the fascination of old texts ...
Interview with Gerald Elias, author of Death and the Maiden Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 5:38PMshare: digg facebook twitter Elias brings 35 years as an internationally recognized concert violinist, conductor, composer, and teacher to his novels, which take place in the murky recesses of the classical music world. [...] given that the titles of my books are also the names of classical music pieces having to do with death, I would have been a knucklehead to overlook Schubert's masterpiece ...
Telling historic carousel’s story Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 2:19PMSisters and Maine natives Jean Flahive and Judith Thyng have written a new children’s book about the historic 1894 Armitage Herschell carousel at the 19th Century Willowbrook Village Museum in Newfield, which operates by steam.
Love Is Talk Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 1:39PMWriters Paul Celan and Ilana Shmueli survived the Holocaust and later became lovers. They are remembered through their letters in a new book.
Calendar 07/07 to 07/17/11 Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 12:09PMGrand Funk Railroad is in concert July 10 at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. Outdoors THU JUL 7 Accabonac Harbor Paddle with Group for the East End. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Join naturalist Mike Bottini on a nature tour of this scenic embayment. Meet at the end of Landing Lane off Old Stone Highway. Kayak rentals are [...]
Potpourri: July 4, 2011 Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 2:15PMBearing arms in West Virginia: Pistol murders recur often on Charlestons West Side. In recent days, teenager Brandon Gray was charged with gunning down Timothy Thompson. Antonio Summers, 18, drew 30 years in prison for shots that killed 14-...
Listening post Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 12:29PMBroadway Show Music "The Book of Mormon Cast Recording" (Ghostlight); "Music from Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Cast Recording" (Interscope). Two toasts of the Great White Way just released their cast recordings.
Performance Poet Interview: Kat Francois Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 9:41AMKat Francois at Word4Word Kat Francois is not one to stand still. In 2004, she was the first performance poet to win the BBC3 TV Poetry Slam Competition; a year later, she become the World Poetry Slam Champion. She has toured nationally with Spoken Word All Stars and devised her own production Seven Times Me which debuted at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, where she has compered and performed ...
For singer-songwriter turned novelist, a cure for writer's block Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 7:20AMWhen acclaimed singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, 34, found that he couldn't get all the material he wanted into a particular song, he turned it into a novel, his newly published post-World War I story "Bright's Passage.'' Thus the Idaho-born musician is on a double tour, one with his band, the other for his book. Ritter, who once called Somerville home, read ...
Welch, Bizkit top CD reviews Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 1:24AMIt’s a long weekend, so let’s keep this short: Looking for new music? Here it is. If you need me, I’ll be on the couch.
Cool Reads Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 12:36AMSchool's out, so summer reading programs for kids have kicked in. If you're an adult, wh ...
TV Addict in His 50’s Discovers a New Hobby That Takes Him From the Couch to the Other Side of Insanity. 'Imagination ... Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 12:19AMMichael J Stadtler becomes a self-published author and starts M J Stadtler Productions. Five years later, Michael creates The Other Side of Insanity, a website uniting the novice writer with web readers one chapter at a time. (See http://www.theothersideofinsanity.com , home page.) (PRWeb July 02, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases ...
Soundings Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 12:06AMLower Keys Medical Center wants you and your family to have a happy and safe Fourth of July. "There is no such thing as safe fireworks," says the ER's extra-emergency services director, Sandy... read more
Between The Covers: 03/07/2011 Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 6:27PM*It makes us happy that two of the entrants on 2009's IoS Happy List have joined forces to create marvellous books.
Aurora resident writes new life into ancient stories Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 3:02PMGalilee and Bethlehem may seem like long-ago, far-away places or the stuff of Sunday school stories to most, but to Marilyn Huntman Giese, they are very real. Giese spent time in the ancient cities, as well as in Jerusalem , while researching for her book, “The Eye of God: A Fisherman’s Tale.” The story follows the life of Simon, a vigorous young fisherman, as he meets Jesus and finds his ...
Words to live by at Serenity House Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 11:57AM“Today was such a day of enlightenment for me. I know I’m at four corners in my life, Without any answers or any direction. Free falling,
Postcard from Canal Fulton — Portraying Poe is a vocation of area tourism director Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 6:57AMJohn Kiste is, by day, executive director of Canton-Stark County Convention & Visitors Bureau. By night, when the mood can adopt a darker alter ego, Kiste takes up the persona of the famed American poet and short story writer during performances at Warehouse on the Canal.
Belleville School's first black teacher has fond memories Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 6:30AMShe was pleasantly surprised at how few race-related issues she faced.
The Books Interview: Cees Nooteboom Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 6:22AMYour latest novel, The Foxes Come At Night , is preoccupied with memory, death and loss. What inspired you to write about these themes? It must have to do with age. So many people die around you, when you're almost 78. Death belongs to life's experiences.
PLAINSBORO: Wicoff garden helps students put science to work Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 2:49AMPLAINSBORO — An initiative to teach Wicoff Elementary School students about science while instilling in them a love of nature came to fruition recently when a team of teachers and volunteers created a garden at the school.
Kids like Shakespeare, too Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 12:07AMNine-year-old Carter Briggs gets pretty busy in the summer. Between baseball games, Lego camp, Grandparents University and an invite-only karate sword class, he’s got a favorite summer appointment: to take in all the Great River Shakespeare Festival (GRSF) he can.
Lawrence Lithography Workshop exhibit opens at Belger Arts Center Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 9:05PMJuly’s First Friday marks a big moment for Mike Sims, founder of the Kansas City-based Lawrence Lithography Workshop. The Belger Arts Center will showcase some of the ace printer’s major accomplishments in “Lawrence Lithography Workshop: Suites and Portfolios,” an exhibit of works spanning three decades.
Lou Reed on His Latest Edgar Allan Poe Project and Working With Metallica Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 12:04PMLou Reed’s latest creative production, The Raven , out this month, is a graphic-novel adaptation of his 2003 concept album of the same name, in turn derived from his 2001 theater piece POEtry , in turn inspired, of course, by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Reed’s next project, a not-yet-titled album with Metallica , also has its origins in theater: The onetime Velvet Underground leader wrote ...
Butler announces fall Visiting Writers lineup Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 11:53AMWe received word from reps at Butler University on Wednesday that the writers for this fall's Visiting Writers Series had been selected, and we've got to say, it's an impressive group. On deck: a New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize-winner poet and a hometown hero cum YouTube star.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Loraine Anderson: Local history books Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 6:33AMCall this column History Crossroads. Local history writers are adding new books to the area’s growing trove.
Robert Kroetsch set his books in his native Alberta Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 10:26PM‘He took the novel right out of the parlour, kidnapped it, and re-positioned it in a prairie bar or in open country’
Mirana Medina: Independent Advocacy Filmmaker (First of five parts) Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 10:26PMThe Rizal Project launch at the DLSU College of St. Benilde MANILA, Philippines -- Mga Natatanging Tula ni Rizal sa Wikang Senyas is just a working title of the first ever translation of Jose Rizal’s poetry in sign language!
Between the Lines: A trove from UC Davis faculty Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 10:08PMLet's not forget that within the avalanche of books published each year are titles by university personnel.
THE INWARD EYE Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 5:02PMI grew up in Delhi in the 1980s, before economic liberalization and the rise of the Hindu Right.