Edgar Allan Poe

Playing handbells keeps seniors' minds sharp

By MEGAN PENNEFATHER • MIRROR Staff Writer • November 23, 2008 Hear the sledges with the bells - So it's no surprise Royal Oak's two handbell groups - an advanced 10-person all-ages choir and a 12-person senior citizen choir -...

Bronx Mowgli? Can celeb tots survive their names?

Bronx Mowgli Wentz entered the world Thursday, joining the growing list of celebrity children with unusual names. Will Bronx (and Kal-el Coppola Cage and Pilot Inspektor Lee) grow up to embrace his unusual moniker — or be...

Literary Cats

Ailurophilia -- the love of cats -- appears to be a congenital condition of writers. Canadian writer Robertson Davies observes, "Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable,?wise?creatures, and cats like authors for...

Images down Memory lane

Three titles capture the stunning diversity evident in the formative years of photography in India. Here, this has been extracted from Samuel Bourne’s recollections of his legendary pictorial, Picturesque Bridge Over The...

Streaming: "Edgar Allen Poe," by The Platitudes (Alex Constantine & Clay Coughlin)

"Edgar Allen Poe" That infernal heatbeat - why won't it stop? ... Poe's obsession with depression and guilt were tailor-made for rock music, we've learned. A song to chase away any suicidal impulses the music above may have...

Latest Fashion Film Launched!

Featuring the maverick and morbid creations of fashion's favourite enfant terrible Gareth Pugh, our latest fashion film project Insensate is a white-knuckle excursion into a gothic fairyland conjured up courtesy of Nick...

Mystery writers group to honor 2 scribes

NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Mystery Writers of America says it plans to name the authors James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton as the recipients of its 2009 Grand Master Award. The scribes will be honored at an event to coincide with...

Video: Sartre's Sink: Doing DIY with the greats

Mark Crick performs 'Hanging Wallpaper with Ernest Hemmingway' and 'Boarding an Attic with Edgar Allan Poe' from his new book of The Great Writers' Book of DIY two universities, a sports arena and a performing arts center. the...

The eternal adventure: The amazing tale of the Arabian Nights

In the caliph's palace, a girl is frying multi-coloured fish when a woman with a wand bursts through the wall and demands to know of the fish if they are true to their covenant. A young man mounts a flying horse. The horse...

Laptops in the classroom help middle-schoolers learn

Posted: Today at 8:10 a.m. Updated: Today at 9:10 a.m. Raleigh, N.C. — Laptops in the hands of middle-schoolers. Teachers and students say it has made a big difference in learning at Centennial Campus Middle School in Raleigh....