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- Cropsey is Creepy - The Faster Times
- Celebrate World Music Day by Reading a Book – the World’s First Euphictional ... - PR.com
- Urban farming facts, fable topic of Detroit discussion - Detroit Free Press
| 2010 Kentucky Book Fair - Examiner Posted: 18 Jun 2010 07:42 PM PDT The 2010 Kentucky Book Fair is scheduled for Saturday, November 13th at the Frankfort Convention Center in Frankfort, Ky. The event is free and is from 9:00am - 4:30pm. Each year there are approximately 150 authors who showcase and sell their books. This has been credited for being the largest literary event in the state. It is sponsored by the The State Journal, Frankfort's daily newspaper, and co-sponsored by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives and the University Press of Kentucky. There have been over 5,000 patrons each year that has frequented the 28 annual events. The donations of the profits have been a huge help to the local schools and libraries throughout Kentucky. The average donation is $120,000 per year, a huge amount for the schools in the area. The Book Fair is looking for the following to help make this year's book fair a success:
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| Cropsey is Creepy - The Faster Times Posted: 18 Jun 2010 11:42 AM PDT
I saw the documentary Cropsey at the IFC Film Center yesterday, and it lived up to this creepy looking trailer. It's gotten some criticism for being "another Blair Witch Project" but this movie is about something that actually happened, something really quite terrifying. The documentary uses found footage very well, there's tons of cool pictures and old new broadcast footage from Staten Island in the 70s and 80s, but the most haunting image of the movie is the footage from the expose piece by Geraldo Rivera. The images of mentally and physically disabled children subject to that kind of abuse are truly disturbing. While the narrator describes Geraldo's investigation with a hint of cynicism, calling him, "a young reporter looking for his breakthrough story," it is this and other disturbing footage that give Cropsey it's visual weight. The filmmakers, Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio, were clearly tireless in their research and preparation for the film, and there are dozens of interviews, tons of found footage, and they get close to having an interview with Andre Rand (the bad guy) himself. Zeman and Brancaccio's interest in "Cropsey" stemmed from their childhood fascination with the legend of Cropsey, a Staten Island myth about a man who lives in the woods and abducts children. But the myth became reality, and Andre Rand was the man implicated in the crime. Because he was convicted only on circumstantial evidence, there are many theories, which the film explores, that place Rand as the fall guy in different conspiracy theories, including a Satanic cult. Cropsey is, in part, about the way myth influences reality, and fictions are created to make the world make sense. There was a serious lack of evidence against Rand, but the darkness and seriousness of the crime required some action by the community. It's strange to see so many people who appear in the film clearly obsessed with Rand and the events that happened over twenty years ago; there is something so compelling about the unfathomable evil that Rand came to embody. Cropsey was extended at IFC once again this week. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Celebrate World Music Day by Reading a Book – the World’s First Euphictional ... - PR.com Posted: 18 Jun 2010 06:20 AM PDT Tampa, FL, June 18, 2010 --(PR.com)-- A year ago, writer Christian A. Dumais (Empty Rooms Lonely Countries, 2008) set in motion Cover Stories, a project where 10 writers from around the globe banded together to produce a collection of 100 stories that cut deep into the tracks of their favourite albums to produce euphiction, the duet of musical inspiration with the written word. The rules were simple: 10 stories per writer, each story inspired by a track from their chosen album, and each under 1000 words. In the book's foreword, Mike Dawson, creator of Freddie & Me (Bloomsbury USA, 2008), talks about euphiction: "My understanding of a song cover is one artist performing their own take on another artist's work. . . but how do you cover a song in prose form, those letters sitting silently on the page? How exactly do you do that? How do you write the way music feels?" Dumais says, "I believe the writers in Cover Stories addressed Dawson's questions and delivered more than just a mix tape of divergent fictions. Inspired by the music of the Walkmen, Combichrist, the Twilight Singers and more, these writers have become the scouts of a new literary invasion." And like any good mix tape, Cover Stories encompasses a wide range of territory, from horror to romance to comedy to the unexpected. The authors, too, are a diverse bunch, half of them published for the first time. Readers can also read the liner notes following each set of stories, where the authors provide details regarding their musical muses. The Cover Stories website (www.CoverStoriesBook.com) will go live simultaneously with the book's release and will include a 'Top 10 Chart' of the most popular stories from the book and visitors own submissions of euphiction. ISBN/EAN13: 1452831548 / 9781452831541 ### Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Urban farming facts, fable topic of Detroit discussion - Detroit Free Press Posted: 18 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT Urban agriculture is the subject of a discussion at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Today's event "Urban Farming: Fiction, Fable and the Facts" is being presented by the museum and the Detroit Agriculture Network. Organizers say the aim is to look beneath "romantic fictions" about urban farming. A number of people involved in community gardening in Detroit are expected to be a part of the discussion, including representatives of Earthworks Urban Farm, the Greening of Detroit and the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network. In Detroit, residents are increasingly working to transform vacant, often-blighted land into gardens and small farms. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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