Macclesfield Quiz League - News & Views... (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Some very close games were fought out this week, 3 of them finishing with victories by a margin of just 1 point along with 1 match with a 2 point winning advantage. It was also “Derby Day” for many of the pubs with two teams playing from the same premises. In the A League , the Ox- fford just edged out the Ox- fford ‘C’ 146 – 134, Mark Watson top-scoring for the Ox- fford...
Professor VJ (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Now that the comprehensive exhibition in Athens is well underway, it's time for some serious name-dropping in another direction: What do John Ashberry, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Robert Creeley. my old undergrad teacher Harry Crews, Louise Erdich, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Ted Mooney, my old undergrad teacher Alain Robbe-Grillet, Salman Rushdie,...
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! It has just been announced that this year's reading selection for the city of Newark is THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker! I will be leading the discussion. I'm still working the kinks out of the format, but it's going to kick off with a dramatic reading from the text by Broadway actor, Rosalyn Coleman Wiliams . (She is five kinds of fabulous and is generously donating her time.)...
Workers World news online (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Many leaders of the movements for change will come together Dec. 4-6 at the Sixth U.S./Cuba/Venezuela/North America Labor Conference in Tijuana, Mexico, just 15 minutes from San Diego. A special “Nothing Less than Freedom for the Cuban Five” dinner and program will greet family members of the anti-terrorist heroes unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. The Dec. 4 program will include a video of...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Color Purple took its time -- 27 years, to be exact -- making the journey from the pages of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the stage of Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Its fleeting run ends Sunday, but as the cheering crowd affirmed at Tuesday's opening, the musical is abundantly worth the wait.
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Read an epistolatory novel. These are novels written as a series of documents, e.g. letters or e-mails, blog entries, historical documents, reports, reviews, excerpts from books, newspaper clippings and diary entries. Basically anything that is traditionally written or typed, used without any connecting passages to form a narrative. It enables the author to let the characters (or a chosen number of...
Irenic Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. —Alice Walker (1944- )
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Celie, the central character in Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, lives a life most folks would consider unendurable.
Reel Good Recipes (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
1 Pork Shoulder Blade Roast Apple cider vinegar (use 1/4 cup per pound) Crushed red pepper flakes (use 1/4 teaspoon per pound) Coleslaw, french bread or sandwich rolls dashes of salt Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix vinegar and red pepper flakes in a bowl. Place pork roast on oven rack with attached drain pan. Baste roast with vinegar and pepper. Add dashes of salt. Bake uncovered, basting roast every...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Rebuilding efforts in St. Bernard Parish, a small community just outside New Orleans, have recently gotten a major boost. One nonprofit focused on rebuilding in the area has received the endorsement of CNN, Alice Walker, the touring production of the play The Color Purple, and even President Obama. But an alliance of Gulf Coast and national organizations are now raising questions about the cause these...
Alec Harvey's Blog & Column - al.com (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Felicia P. Fields has been with “The Color Purple” since the very beginning. She was there for the show’s initial reading, its premiere at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, during its rewrite after the premiere and in its original Broadway cast,...
Qwerty Queen (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Great comedy gig last night: Simon Amstell , supported by Arnab Chanda . I'd never heard of Mr Chanda but he was very funny. "What do butterflies get in their tummies when they're nervous? It can't be butterflies. They would just be pregnant." There were similarities between the two acts: both men were skinny, clever, fizzing with energy, slightly surreal, self-deprecating, self-mocking....
SexGenderBody (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
One of the reasons I love vulva portraits is because they combine feminine energy with conscious intention. We use the term ‘pussy’ to describe that which allegedly lacks will, intent, integrity or strength; you are not looking at a pussy in this photo, you are looking at a woman displaying her volition. This is the big controversy; this is the big deal. It’s not the blameless vulva...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
NOAH BERGER Associated Press file, 2000 Novelist Alice Walker will appear at a fundraiser Oct. 25 for the Maraget Okari Children's Foundation to aid children in Kenya. In need of help: The Margaret Okari Children's Foundation, a nonprofit group that provides education, shelter, food and clothing to needy children in Kenya, East Africa. What they need: Donations to help fund projects, including a boarding...
Naki (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Dear Book Lover: You may not know me or my novels, because I am a member of a growing band of African-American writers of literary fiction who are slowly disappearing. And not because I am lacking in talent and credentials; in fact I have already published a number of books with major publishing houses and have been reviewed by national newspapers and well-respected literary journals, and have received...
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