Bob Dylan makes music video comeback Bob Dylan gets in the festive mood Musician Bob Dylan has appeared in his first music video for 12 years. The 68-year-old star is in seasonal spirit in the video for Must Be Santa, singing, dancing...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Beneficiary, Feeding America, Christmas album, Not Dark Yet, World Food Programme, and US

Fists flying, glass smashing and dancing the night away, Bob Dylan's latest music video gives an insight into how the famous musician may celebrate the Christmas holidays. Must Be Santa from Dylan 's first-ever Christmas album , Christmas...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Christmas album, Feeding America, Together Through Life, Not Dark Yet, and Time

...she concluded, and went upstairs to sign books in front of a blue curtain and under blown-up covers of James Joyce's " Ulysses " and Homer 's "Iliad." Nearly 24 hours before the former vice-presidential candidate arrived, her most fervent...

In this article: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Michigan, Barnes and Noble, Newsweek, and Alaska

...the ekphrasis of classical literature - the extended description, not of a play, but of a work of visual art. The first example is in Homer 's Iliad. The ekphrasis here is the virtuosic description of the shield of Achilles - the miraculous...

In this article: Homer, Alan Bennett, Thetis, Hephaestus, Achilles, Cattle, and Odysseus

...Kennon - Published: Nov 17, 2009 at 10:06 am 0 comments In the two decades that Irish theatre has engaged me, I have seen many of Oscar Wilde 's Lady Bracknells. Double digits to be sure. More Bracknells than Wilde 's bon mots? Not quite,...

In this article: Oscar Wilde, Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest, Nancy Marchand, Camille Paglia, Livia Soprano, and Anthony Asquith

...and left to destroy himself, each after his own fashion. You can argue with this way of reading Homer. You could suggest, for instance, that after Homer 's day moral duty became an increasingly complicated, variegated thing -- a matter of...

In this article: Homer, Tony Blair, Achilles, Hector, Troy, Horace, La Fontaine, Joseph Addison, and Dow Jones

Following the opening earlier this month of Bright Star , Jane Campion's film about the love affair between John Keats and Fanny Brawne , Penguin has clearly decided to target young, love-sick girls, which inevitably means lots of flowers on...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Syphilis, Penguin, and Jane Campion

By Evans Donnell For The Tennessean November 14, 2009 Edgar Allan Poe was born 200 years ago and died 160 years ago, but he s still the master of horror. Want proof? Check out Nashville Opera s The Fall of the House of Usher. It s a...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Glass, and The Fall of the House of Usher

...Oct. 20, 2009 Plagiarism-detection software was created with lazy, sneaky college students in mind not the likes of William Shakespeare. Yet the software may have settled a centuries-old mystery over the authorship of an unattributed...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Brian Vickers, Edward III, Literature, Thomas Kyd, Homer, London, and Injunction

Even Bob Dylan can't be Bob Dylan all the time. The 68-year-old Boy From the North Country born Robert Allen Zimmerman has been trying to break his own myth since the mid-'60s, when he alienated fans of his early folk albums by plugging in...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Patriot Center, Hiccup, Ballad of a Thin Man, All Along the Watchtower, Like a Rolling Stone, Highway 61 Revisited, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Joker, and Blues

...exhibition at the Morgan Library celebrates the Romantic painter and poet's mystical visions and mad obsessions. VIEW OUR GALLERY William Blake , the eighteenth century poet, illustrator, engraver and mystic, worked from home but lived in his...

In this article: William Blake, Morgan Library, Copper, Michelangelo, and Tyger

Ernest in Love , the 1960 musical version of Oscar Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest , boasting a frisky comic score beloved by cast album collectors, will return to Off-Broadway in December. Advertisement Irish Repertory Theatre...

In this article: Oscar Wilde, Ernest in Love, The Importance of Being Earnest, Ah, Wilderness, The Emperor Jones, and Vivien Leigh

Tech's music department is to hold a concert commemorating the 200th anniversary of poet Edgar Allan Poe's birth on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. in the Squires Recital Salon. The event will feature music spanning over a century of styles...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, All rights reserved, School of Performing Arts, and DePaul University

...to their feet. Women, Angelou told the crowd in her speech, "are rainbows in the clouds." "I am grateful to be a woman," said Angelou , who won the lifetime achievement award. "I must have done something great in another life." As...

In this article: Maya Angelou, Rihanna, Susan Rice, Amy Poehler, Stella McCartney, Bill Clinton, Chris Brown, Serena Williams, Iman, and Michael Douglas

...of Troilus and Cressida is an example: taken up by Chaucer drawing on an early mediaeval French romance, and later by Henryson and Shakespeare. Ransom is another tale from the inexhaustible magazine of Troy. It tells of the loving...

In this article: Achilles, Priam, David Malouf, Troy, Homer, Hector, Patroclus, History, and Hercules

...just want to be pure." Mr. Carroll was hailed as one of the best poets of his generation, and by his late teens, he had befriended Bob Dylan , artist Andy Warhol , photographer Robert Mapplethorpe , and poet and rock singer Patti Smith. Beat...

In this article: Jim Carroll, Lou Reed, The Basketball Diaries, Patti Smith, New York City, Keith Richards, Catholic Boy, Manhattan, and California

Jim Carroll , the poet and punk rocker who wrote The Basketball Diaries died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan , his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told The New York Times. In the 1970s, Carroll was a...

In this article: Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio, Patti Smith, Manhattan, New York, Larry Rivers, and Robert Mapplethorpe

" Basketball Diaries " author Jim Carroll dies Punk-rock poet and musician Jim Carroll , who chronicled his wild teen years in " The Basketball Diaries ," has died of a heart attack, his ex-wife told The New York Times. Rosemary Klemfuss , who...

In this article: Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries, Manhattan, Patti Smith, Beat Generation, The Paris Review, Jack Kerouac, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, and Leonardo DiCaprio