Spoken word poetry transmits messages through a singular language: deft prose molded into a visceral performance by rhythm, intonation and physicality. The delivery turns words into daggers of truth, ...

You know poetry, right? It’s that thing that people in cultured clubs shout at you over a jazz saxophonist or read in classes where the books don’t have dragons on the front. You’re not wrong, but ...

The narrator of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” perhaps the greatest lament of the middle-aged man in all of Western literature, complains that he has “measured out my life with ...

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The new documentary captures one of the last year's in spoken word poet Andrea Gibson's life, and their relationship with ...

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His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Leos Carax’s “It’s Not Me” is said to have been made for an exhibition in Paris that never took place, in response to the question, “Where are you at, Leos Carax?” His response is a daring 42-minute ...

Harry and Sally? Adorable. Loki and Thor? Combustible. Belle and the Beast? Magical. John Travolta and Sylvia Plath? When it comes to artistic odd couples, the pairing of the “Pulp Fiction” and ...

A love letter to Los Angeles and, especially, spoken-word poetry, “Summertime” certainly stands out from the pack of summertime theatrical releases. “This morning the sewer waters smelled like ...

Guitarist Dave Stryker returns to Bear's Place tonight for Jazz Fables — and this time, he's joined by Bobby Floyd on jazz organ. They'll debut their new trip, with Steve Houghton on drums, at 5:30 ...