Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Mo's Blues at the Monk Jazz

Via a missive from a lady in Indianola, some nice plans if you happen to be or be going in the Mississippi Delta looking for music:

"The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz makes its return to Delta State"

CLEVELAND―The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will return to the Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) for a public performance on Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. Joining them will be legendary guitarist Keb’ Mo.’ [....] Mo’ performed at the opening of the B.B. King Museum in Indianola last fall, along with Robert Cray, Bobbie Blue Bland and B.B. King himself. For ticket information [...]

Gloria Enriquez, Senior Secretary
Communications and Marketing
Delta State University
P.O. Box D-3
1003 West Sunflower Road
Cleveland, Miss. 38733
Office: 662.846.4675
Fax: 662.846.4679 "

Seamus Heaney, in sum

The Hibernian Nobel laureate received another prize and says his forty-plus years work in poetry can be summed up by his

The Underground (audio begins automatically)

&

A Drink of Water

Maryland's porn-packed schools

As the Post puts it: "Excerpts of the film that students watched included fight scenes, stormy seas and close-ups of sweaty pirates having orgies."

Dunk of the century

The "Laramie neck plant" by Adam Waddell of Cody, Wyoming.

Huge worm

is reportedly found.

It's gross.

And it can, evidently, digest hooks and keep away the nasties with its numbing bristles.

Alberto Fujimori found guilty

In Peru's own courts.

From Joe to Dick

"dead wrong" regarding recent vices.

Biden: Cheney, having left his constitutional charge, has also left his nation "less regarded in the world."

Does having doctors torture people contribute?

Woes of Detroit as parodied by Jon Stewart & John Hodgeman

Funny how the state on the great lakes has so many roads.


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