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Beat Generation

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Type: Organization

Name: Beat Generation

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Most Incredible Christian Ever

Detail of restored "Cycle of Saint Francis of Assisi" by Italian Renaissance artist Benozzo Gozzoli, Montefalco, ItalyAPWho, in your estimation wins the all-time, “most incredible Christian in history” prize?Call me crazy, but I vote for the guy who holds ... [Published FOXNews.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: Francis of Assisi, Christianity, Peacemaking, Benozzo Gozzoli, Evelyn Underhill

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Keep it under your hat, but Fès is for real

It's Fès, not Fez. The latter is a hat of Turkish production, a dark red truncated cone with a tassel, not much favoured by the locals, despite what some guidebooks tell you. And Fassi is what the citizens of Morocco's fifth city call themselves. The ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 17 2013]

Entities: Beat Generation, Cannabis, Morocco

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Words of Advice from William S. Burroughs

WSB haunts the entirety of counter-cultural curation like the grey eminence he was often portrayed as, but, it’s important to note that Burroughs rarely portrayed himself this way.I thought I’d seen every Burroughs documentary, but this one was news to ... [Published Disinformation - May 16 2013]

Entities: William Burroughs, AdvICE™, Brion Gysin, Hiroshima

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Emerson College

Office manager helps MRT run smoothly

LOWELL -- Michael LaChance spent years performing in comedy clubs and dabbling in acting, directing and doing sound and lighting for various stage productions.But when LaChance finally landed a full-time job in the entertainment industry, he ironically ... [Published Lowell Sun - May 14 2013]

Entities: Boston (Massachusetts, United States), Beat Generation, Emerson College

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

2 win Backus FYE Prize for scholarly achievement

Russell Bollag-Miller '16 (Photo byNghia Luu)First-year students Russell Bollag-Miller and Ramsey Daniels have been selected to receive the Candace Carlucci Backus ’66 FYE Prize for student academic achievement in the First-Year Experience. The award ... [Published Skidmore College - May 13 2013]

Entities: American Dreams Ltd, Miami (Florida, United States), Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, Emergency Preparedness

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Beat Generation

Still blue about Betty

IN mid-1980s Britain, posters for "Betty Blue" were an almost compulsory feature on student bedrooms walls, the film's pout-perfect star Beatrice Dalle the epitome of Gallic cool. The 1986 French title, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix and starring ... [Published Shanghai Daily - May 11 2013]

Entities: Philippe Djian, Béatrice Dalle, Beat Generation

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

New Orleans Jazz Fest serves rockabilly for breakfast with Johnny J and the Hitmen

Jazz Fest is the best gig in all the universe. When you're on that stage you feel you can do no wrong -- Johnny J.Johnny J. and the Hitmen motored through a classic rockabilly set to begin New Orleans Jazz Fest 2013 at the Acura stage Saturday. In a pre-show ... [Published Bayou Buzz - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Johnny 'J', New Orleans Jazz, Beat Generation, Elvis Costello

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

‘On the Road’ struggles under the weight of the acclaimed novel

Published in 1957, Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” defined the Beat Generation. Through his frantic and electric prose, imprinted on a 120-foot long scroll, Kerouac immortalized the Beat elite (counterculture legends), which is made up of poets, artists ... [Published Daily Collegian - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Jack Kerouac, Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Walter Salles

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Review: Mad Beat Hip & Gone

We got the Beat: Jon Cook's Rich, Jacob Trussell's Danny, and Erin Barlow's Honey have Kerouac and Cassady in their headlights.Photo courtesy of Kirk R. TuckZach's Topfer Theatre, 202 S. Lamar, 476-0541Running time: 2 hr., 30 min.Possibly no image better ... [Published Austin Chronicle - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation, Cheyenne (Wyoming, United States)

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Dreams of the dead

Liao Yiwu (廖亦武) was a reluctant dissident.A Chinese poet and storyteller nourished on Beat generation literature, he picked fights, drank to excess and despised politics.“I have never taken an interest in mass movements or foreign imports such as democracy, ... [Published Taipei Times Online - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Beat Generation, LIAO Yiwu, prison, Torture, Massacre

First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

Penned in Wales, original poem manuscript by Beat Generation pioneer sells for thousands

He counts Peter Kay and Simon Pegg as fans and, for those of us with children, he has attained god-like status for his ability to keep our little ones entertained thanks to his larger-than-life on-screen shenanigans and the colourful characters ... [Published Wales Online - Apr 12 2013]

Entities: Beat Generation, Justin Fletcher, Wales, Cardiff (United Kingdom)

First reported Feb 14 2013 - Updated Feb 14 2013 - 1 reports

Bunn's Beat Generation film gains buzz at Sundance

Following its Sundance Film Festival screening, 'Kill Your Darlings,' co-written by assistant professor Austin Bunn, gained a major distributor and is tentatively scheduled to be in theaters this fall. ... [Published Cornell News Highlights - Feb 14 2013]

Entities: Beat Generation, Sundance Film Festival, Austin

Quotes

...I smile and pretend I understand nothing. On the Metro I read Miller. "For me," he wrote in "Black Spring, "the book is the man and my book is the man I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am."

NOMAD: Midnights in Paris [Published The American In Italia - May 20 2013]

...Minus the porter's trolley, this is as it must have been in the days of Moulay Idriss. There are no straight paths and maps are unreliable. "Nowhere in Morocco does one recapture the spirit of the past more vividly than in Fès" the traveller Rupert Martin wrote in 1967...

Keep it under your hat, but Fès is for real [Published The Independent - May 17 2013]

"They are saying, 'Listen to yourself. Don't listen to other people,'" Nicosia continued. "It's important to find out who you are. With the Beats, you had permission to be nonconformist, and permission to find your own identity -- and maybe even break a law or two occasionally, if that's what was required to be yourself."

Kerouac's 'On The Road' revisited in Oxnard events [Published Individual.com - May 17 2013]

...Acclaimed author Maureen Seaton writes of the book: "A Horse Named Sorrow is simply, inexorably beautiful. It is sexy, cinematic, the prose itself an absolute joy to read, and often funny as holy hell. It is, at the same time, one of the saddest works I have ever read; piercing, poignant, and memorable."

Bookshelf [Published Windy City Times - May 15 2013]

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Most Incredible Christian Ever [Published FOXNews.com - May 18 2013]
Keep it under your hat, but Fès is for real [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 17 2013]
Keep it under your hat, but Fès is for real [Published The Independent - May 17 2013]
Kerouac's 'On The Road' revisited in Oxnard events [Published Individual.com - May 17 2013]
One of the last great New York characters [Published New York Social Diary - May 17 2013]
Words of Advice from William S. Burroughs [Published Disinformation - May 16 2013]
Bookshelf [Published Windy City Times - May 15 2013]
Office manager helps MRT run smoothly [Published Lowell Sun - May 14 2013]
Dan Brown: The Marmite Man Of Modern Literature [Published Huffington Post UK - May 14 2013]
2 win Backus FYE Prize for scholarly achievement [Published Skidmore College - May 13 2013]
Grateful author to go 'Belly Up' [Published U-T San Diego - May 12 2013]
Still blue about Betty [Published Shanghai Daily - May 11 2013]
'The Source Family' review: Billy Corgan sings ... [Published Zap2it.com - May 09 2013]
Fixed in fluidity [Published Financial Mail - May 09 2013]
'The Source Family' is a story of a cult with a... [Published Individual.com - May 06 2013]
Bozeman Film Festival Screening: âOn the Roadâ ... [Published Bozeman Daily Chronicle - May 03 2013]
The language of bluegrass [Published Recordnet.com - May 02 2013]
New Orleans Jazz Fest serves rockabilly for bre... [Published Bayou Buzz - Apr 27 2013]
‘On the Road’ struggles under the weight of the... [Published Daily Collegian - Apr 23 2013]
Review: Mad Beat Hip & Gone [Published Austin Chronicle - Apr 18 2013]
From 'Girls' to 'Tonight Show,' How NYC Is Wooi... [Published Hollywood Reporter - Apr 16 2013]
Letters from Poets: The Reader’s Shelf \| April ... [Published Library Journal - Apr 16 2013]
Join a Discussion of Kerouac's 'On the Road' [Published Hillsborough Patch - Apr 15 2013]
O’Connell discusses homelessness [Published Dartmouth College The Dartmouth - Apr 14 2013]
Dreams of the dead [Published Taipei Times Online - Apr 14 2013]
7 writer/artists/thinker groups whose members m... [Published TED Blog - Apr 12 2013]
Penned in Wales, original poem manuscript by Be... [Published Wales Online - Apr 12 2013]
'On the road' again, fifty-six years later [Published UV Cavalier Daily - Apr 10 2013]

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7 writer/artists/thinker groups whose members m... [Published TED Blog - Apr 12 2013] Photo: James Duncan Davidson In 1812, four men met for a “philosophical breakfast” at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, Richard Jones and William Whewell. Over food and drinks, they debated the state of knowledge –- imagining a ...
The Odd Girls of Paris [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - Mar 06 2013] Rebecca Brown Visits Shakespeare and Company in Parisby Rebecca Brown I spend a lot of time inside my head. I try to pay attention to things, and usually I'm pretty good at it; I follow along when people talk and do my job and do not wander into traffic ...
Bunn's Beat Generation film gains buzz at Sundance [Published Cornell News Highlights - Feb 14 2013] Following its Sundance Film Festival screening, 'Kill Your Darlings,' co-written by assistant professor Austin Bunn, gained a major distributor and is tentatively scheduled to be in theaters this fall. ...
The Daily Agenda for Tuesday, February 5 [Published Box Turtle Bulletin - Feb 05 2013] TODAY’S AGENDA: Fundraising Campaign for Jamaica Anti-Gay Violence Documentary: Kickstarter . Micah Fink is a documentary filmmaker whose credits include PBS, National Geographic, CNN, and HBO, among others. For the past four years, he’s been working ...
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