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Moving Portraits―A Downtown Performance

Monday, October 01, 2007 12:43:00 PM

LOS ANGELES―As the nearly full moon rose over the Opera House last Saturday night, 'Uptown Underground', a KCRW sponsored event, was well underway, filling the downtown Music Center Plaz ...   Full Story

Ottawa Writer Wins Top Guyana Fiction Prize

Monday, October 01, 2007 12:12:00 PM

In a lavish ceremony attended by over 500 guests in Georgetown, Guyana, renowned Ottawa poet and writer Cyril Dabydeen was recently awarded the Fiction Prize for his novel Drums of My Flesh.   Full Story

Militant Atheists Under Fire in New Book

Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:32:00 PM

LONDON—BBC broadcaster John Humphrys is an agnostic who finds militant atheists as infuriating as religious extremists. How can they be so certain they are right? After his own Christian belief found ...   Full Story

A Reading of 'Call for the Robin-redbreast' by John Webster

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:55:00 PM

Call for the Robin-redbreastCall for the robin-redbreast, and the wren,Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do coverThe friendless bodies of u ...   Full Story

Rumi Without Borders: Celebration of Our Common Bond

Monday, September 24, 2007 12:33:00 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The collection of Rumi's poems called Mathnawi-e-Ma'navi (Spiritual Couplets), had a great influence on Islamic literature and thought. His mausoleum, the Green Dome in ...   Full Story

Notes on the Value of Art

Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:20:00 PM

A reflection on the purpose of art.   Full Story

Hindson's Homage to his Time

Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:05:00 PM

Finalist for the Orchestral Work of the Year for his Percussion Concerto and artistic director of the Aurora Festival, which won the Most Outstanding Contribution by an Organisation in the 2007 ...   Full Story

Dream-like Puzzles Lead to Rocking in the Park

Sunday, September 16, 2007 9:30:00 PM

Much of what became known as the '60s Revolution took place—or began—in San Francisco. The same was true for poster art, an art form developed for the posters that advertised the concerts prevale ...   Full Story

Crafting Cultural Connections

Friday, September 14, 2007 12:09:00 PM

An interesting exhibition of beautiful pieces of craft is on display at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre in Melbourne.   Full Story

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