Letter: Beware of Alice Jul 3, 2009
In Lewis Carroll s Alice in Wonderland, one finds this conversation. The March Hare and the Mad Hatter (together): No room. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Noted Southern California Art Dealer Brings His Passion and His Stable of Lowbrow/Pop Culture Artists to Dallas May 13, 2009
" Her award-winning illustrations have been recognized as being among "the best and most cutting-edge" in the country. Von Buhler is the author of the popular children's "The Cat Who Wouldn't Come Inside," published by Houghton Mifflin. In the celebrity-written benefit book she illustrated a story by . CVB Space, von Buhler's art studio in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, has been featured in , , (starring , , and ) and (starring ).MIGUEL PAREDESWhen you overlay colors and stories, no one is... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Atwood rallies anti-Tory votes by backing Bloc May 8, 2009
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there, he told a partisan crowd at a rally in Edmundston, N.B., borrowing a line from Lewis Carroll. Without a road map or a plan, don't take the Canadian economy for a ride. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Changing Places Mar 30, 2009
Lewis Carroll would be proud of you. No sooner has Susan s head burst through the church roof than she is captured by the Army and removed to a secure facility, where, to her dismay, she is stored as a potential weapon of war a rare female monster, according to the general in charge of the program, who may be too young to remember Bette Davis. (New Yorker)
Book Review | 'A Strange Eventful History': Ellen Terry and Henry Irving: Co-stars in a life on the English stage Mar 28, 2009
The Terry parents were traveling players, and Ellen made her London debut at the age of 9 as Mamillius in "The Winter's Tale." The Reverend Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, was sitting in the audience and became an obsessive, lifelong fan. She had a voice that was half whisper, half sigh, and she spoke Shakespeare's lines, her son later said, with such naturalness that it was as if they were something she had heard just that morning. (International Herald Tribune)
Flapjacks, free throws, flea market Mar 8, 2009
Stage III Community Theatre presents Lewis Carroll: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, by Marilyn Ann Hetzel and Margaret Lee Potts. This family-friendly adaptation of the Alice in Wonderland stories is suitable for all ages. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Lewis Carroll Life and Works Mar 1, 2009
Brief biography and works of Lewis Carroll, famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll was a 19th century English author of children's stories and poems ... Early Life of Lewis Carroll. (Suite101.com)
The writing's on the wall Feb 27, 2009
In 1864, Lewis Carroll wrote his most famous work for Alice Liddell. Aged 16, Winston Churchill wrote to his mother Lady Randolph Churchill. (BBC News -- UK)
Childrens' classic comes to High School stage Mar 29, 2008
The students said their production, which is based on Lewis Carroll s childrens classic, appeals to adults, too. The script is laced with some intelligent plays on words, the students said, and the colorful, fanciful costumes are works of art. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
How to bring the past to life in 2008 Jan 11, 2008
After several seasons of realistic carvings and castings, designers are beginning to tweak woodland fantasy motifs, presenting flora and fauna in an almost-surreal way that's more Lewis Carroll than Field m. "Acorns and owls are the new deer and daisies," says Brooke Hodge, curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Cartoon-influenced mass-market accessories aimed at the young at heart may resemble kitschy midcentury knickknacks, but unexpected materials... (FOX59, IN)
Books special Nov 25, 2007
Alice in Wonderland (Penguin Classics) by Lewis Carroll is a great book, an allegory for women today, still not fitting in 'quite', either too big or too small or growing too fast. It is amusing to read fiction as a satire, not as a simple story, and has been my favourite book all year. (Guardian Unlimited)
Bust’ and other words of art Sep 21, 2007
It is indeed, and although it sounds as if Lewis Carroll had invented it, the word has been legit since 1671. In the same vein, let me turn to a reader in Columbus, Ohio. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Ozone slayer?Science pioneer warns of holes in the 20- year-old ozone treaty Sep 18, 2007
Readers of Lewis Carroll may recall the words of an old song that came into Alice's head in Through the Looking Glass: "Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed - to have a battle". What was agreed in Montreal 20 years ago. (BBC News -- Americas)
Paris on the Platte Jul 27, 2007
The two-room interior, with bakery cases, a kitchen, a full-service coffee bar and an antique bean roaster, would seem more fitting to Lewis Carroll than Lower Downtown. The ceiling is partially covered in a black and white checkerboard, and Christmas lights abound, even in the middle of summer. (UCD Advocate, CO)
Cabinets of curiosity Jun 30, 2007
The walk-in china chamber is an irresistible child's fantasy, a Lewis Carroll concept, and in 2002 de Waal started the long project to construct his own. The Porcelain Room, a tiled chamber containing a sequence of 360 small, cylindrical pots, all celadon glazed, was first shown at the Geffrye Museum in London. (Guardian Unlimited)
Q&A Katie Roiphe Jun 24, 2007
It was followed by another polemic, "Last Night in Paradise," bemoaning the loss of mystery in contemporary sexuality, and "Still She Haunts Me," a novel sympathetically fictionalizing the unseemly fascination "Alice in Wonderland" author Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) had with children. But there's a thread connecting all of these books: an impassioned defense of "wild, unsensible feeling.". (Boston Globe)
Curling up with a good ebook May 11, 2007
The one that was sent to me already had downloaded on to it four books by Arthur Conan Doyle, two Bront novels, 10 by Dickens, four apiece by George Eliot and DH Lawrence, three Dostoevskys, James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses, Jane Austen's complete works, and ditto Lewis Carroll, both big fat Tolstoys, five Thomas Hardy novels and quite a lot of poetry. That's a hefty bookshelf, accommodated in a device only a little over a centimetre thick and in breadth and depth about the... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Interactivity Apr 29, 2007
Each is a Portmanteau word, which, according to owes its origin to nineteenth century English author Lewis Carroll, perhaps best known for Alices Adventures in Wonderland. He invented Portmanteau word in 1882 to describe words with two meanings packed into one word used in his poem Today, youll find celebrity couples with one. (USA Today -- Money)
'The art of the people' Apr 21, 2007
At first sight, his black and white illustrations, particularly those for Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Aesop, appear to be traditional wood engravings, but in fact they are all pen and ink drawings, which is something of a paradox ... Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, which he illustrated last year for Inky Parrot Press, is a story perfectly suited to his penchant for mystery, darkness and arcane symbolism. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
* Letters: English slings and arrows Apr 8, 2007
The logic is worthy of Lewis Carroll. "Nobody knows of a better way to fairly place students," Walsh says. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
He were a right bonny lad, that Mad Hatter Apr 1, 2007
Lewis Carroll's debt to the north east is writ large in the wise and witty graphic book, Alice in Sunderland ... What I'm trying to say is that Alice in Sunderland, in which graphic novelist Bryan Talbot suggests that Lewis Carroll's greatest source of inspiration was the gritty north east (and not, as most people think, rarefied Oxford, where he was famously a don), is one of the most exhilarating books I've read in years ... Talbot, who is best-known to comic fans as the creator of The... (Guardian Unlimited)
Bound For Beauty Mar 30, 2007
The current exhibition includes bindings for books that range from childhood writings of her daughters Kim, Margot and Hilary, to special editions of works by Lewis Carroll, Basho, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe and the poet James Merrill, her cousin by marriage and a close friend. Each project begins with the loose leaves of a printed, but unbound book. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Mike Keith's ode to pi in a poem Mar 15, 2007
". Infamous Surta's shelves (all in a grand display) contained: A Cambridge Treasury Poe's A Poem Herbert's Dune, Wyndham's Triffids Ad Infinitum & Beyond, Buzz Lite Stories, Fitzgerald Novels, Richardson Aliceland, Lewis Carroll Poems of England, Wordsworth Oulipo Anthology, Perec Several of my undeniable favorites I spotted among Surta's shelves. Undoubtedly worthy choices! In my wandering I discovered Shakspar's Comedies & Dramas. "Hamletian inspection beckoneth. ", I joked. In restless... (USA Today -- Tech)
Austen bests Tolkien in UK survey of favourite books Mar 3, 2007
The survey's more than 2000 respondents largely named classic titles from the likes of the Bronte sisters, Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Alexandre Dumas and W.M. Thackeray. Canadians on the list include Lucy Maud Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel andRohinton Mistry. (CBC Manitoba)
Blue Ceiling dance Feb 13, 2007
The group has tackled projects inspired by Lewis Carroll, Einstein, c, and the physiology and history of forgetting. Previous works include Pru, a dance inspired by T. S. Eliot s The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Dinner At 7:30, a multidisciplinary piece by Allyson MacMackon inspired by Virginia Woolf s novel The Waves. (Suite101.com)
Caterpillar can hide treasure Jan 23, 2007
Celebrate the birthday of author Lewis Carroll with imaginary `Alice in Wonderland' creature ... She was stuck in the middle of the wonderful imagination of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll, author of the magical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ... Celebrate the life and works of Lewis Carroll on his birthday Jan. 27 with a caterpillar made from a cylindrical container such as an oatmeal box. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)
Evan Rachel Wood: Manson/Von Teese Home Wrecker? Jan 11, 2007
The two have apparently been friends since he asked her to appear in his forthcoming horror movie, Phantasmagoria: The Visions Of Lewis Carroll, but their relationship had recently blossomed into something more, according to People. "Dita is heartbroken, she didn't see this coming," an unnamed source told the magazine. (Chart Attack)
Manson dating 19-year-old Jan 11, 2007
On his official website, Manson says he met Wood for the first time after asking her to star in his horror movie 'Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll. Wood once posed for one of Manson's watercolour paintings. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
The January Skinny Jan 7, 2007
Celebrate Lewis Carroll s birthday with a little one Sunday, Jan. 21, by attending the Mad Hatter Tea Party at the Lewis Library and be sure to wear a hat. Cherry. (Helena Independent Record)
