Pete Brown, a British Beat poet who wrote the lyrics to songs by the rock supergroup Cream, including the hits “White Room, ” “I Feel Free” and “Sunshine of Your Love, ” and who after the band’s break...
05.25.2023 Nytimes.com and 3 sitesSeductive and detail-oriented, Richard Avedon could have been a successful director — and in fact, he was. From his beginnings in fashion to his development as a portraitist, his photography consisted...
05.24.2023 Nytimes.com and 1 sitesRecreational drugs known for mind-altering trips are being studied to treat depression, substance use, and other disorders. Kate Demolder finds out more. In November of last year, researchers at Trini...
05.26.2023 Rte.ieERNEST HEMINGWAY thought his phone was tapped. Doris Lessing reckoned that British spies were following her every move. Claude McKay suspected that the FBI was monitoring his travel in Europe. Their i...
05.24.2023 Economist.comIrshadgul News report, Noted Sekwepem poet Gary Gottfriedson is set to receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George on May 26. According to the university, Gottfriedson has been at the forefront of advocating for Indigenous self-determination and identity recovery for over four decades, beginning with his land-based education at Mountain Cree Camp – a remote community in Alberta also known as Smallboy Camp Known – during the 7...
05.23.2023 Nationtalk.ca and 1 sitesThe history of queer poetry in the UK remains, in many ways, untold. There are the fin-de-siècle and Modernist exceptions: Swinburne ’s decadent erotics, whose metrical complexity torsioned transgress...
05.22.2023 Poetryfoundation.orgBeat poet, lyricist and singer Pete Brown has died at the age of 82. Early career collaborations included working with Graham Bond and John McLaughlin. In his mid-twenties Brown had the distinction of...
05.26.2023 Lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com“This show is often called the worst show ever recorded. Bob Dylan“, led a few years ago blog Music Travelers, dedicated to the rescue and dust lost pieces of rock archeology. Joan Turner, widow of Ví...
05.26.2023 Newsy-today.comMIDDLESEX – The Rochester Folk Art Guild will present its third annual summer Lecture on the Lawn Series at their East Hill Farm, 1445 Upper Hill Road, Middlesex, beginning May 28. Lectures will take ...
05.25.2023 Chronicle-express.comAt Gagosian, Marian Anderson, Marilyn Monroe, Dovima and a cast of showstoppers. Seductive and detail-oriented, Richard Avedon could have been a successful director and in fact, he was. From his beginnings in fashion to his development as a portraiti...
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