The opening poem in 'Felon” (Norton) by Reginald Dwayne Betts includes these stirring lines: 'Dear Warden, my time been served, let me go,/ Promise that some of this I won't recollect.” Betts, who ...

Preaching to academics is not always an easy job for any homilist or evangelist and I speak from personal experience here. In Chapter 17 of the Acts of the Apostles we read the account of St. Paul ...

A chest-thumping, head-pounding, axe-wielding tromp through the wilderness, “Severed Ways” is the unexpected, frankly unsolicited cinematic spawn of Werner Herzog and heavy-metal album cover art. But ...

Björk has been living in New York for a while now, and if you're in New York and you get a chance to see Jay Z live, you go; duh. Last night, Björk went to Jay's show at Long Island's Nassau Coliseum, ...

In her first Seattle concert since the mid-'90s, Bjork offered a night of pagan poetry at the pier. It was as strange and wondrous as a UFO sighting and as magical as an orchestra of elves. Backed by ...

December 21 is the shortest day of the year - but it's not all doom and gloom... here's why we celebrate it THE shortest day of the year might seem like a depressing milestone, but in reality, it is ...

Jay Z performed in New York on Sunday night (19 January) with none other than Björk just happening to be in the audience. Finding out about his special guest, Hov decided to pay a little homage to the ...