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Inaugural Lil Weezyana Fest
Lil Wayne has announced the first Lil Weezyana Fest, coming to New Orleans this August 28th at Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square. In an interview with Q93.3FM, Lil Wayne purportedly said the festival’s artists will be announced over the…
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Young Writer Cold, Too Many Drafts
You may have encountered the six word story in lit class, Hemingway’s“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Follow us here for a site dedicated to them. Six-Word Memoirs is hosting the #SixWords Festival on Twitter, June 4th-6th. To kick the event off,…
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The 215 Festival Kicks Off!
The 215 Festival, Philadelphia’s premier literary festival kicks off tomorrow, October 18 through Sunday, October 20th. Each day is in a different area of the city. Musician/novelist Wesley Stace, the subject of one of Rick Moody’s recent Swinging Modern Sounds columns, reads…
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Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusement Coming Soon
A brand new festival called Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusement is making its way to Chicago this September, with the aim of reinventing Vaudeville in a contemporary context with some hybrid musical/carnivalesque acts. If it seems like this is a…
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Nordic Track
My friend Margaret has some good ideas, like DJing a monthly night of Northern indie pop. She might call it Nordic Track. That’s a perfect name, indicating how we would skate to Jens and Beyond. Maybe it will happen someday.…