Heath Ledger's dream hangout becomes reality Sep 16, 2008
Pink Floyd founding member Richard Wright dies. Hannah Modra hid a secret illness in the pages of her diary. (Ninemsn)
Labour leadership rules Sep 16, 2008
The reference to a "session of annual conference' in the rule book does not mean that it has to happen at the scheduled annual party conference - the party can convene special sessions of annual conference. If Gordon Brown decided to quit: If Gordon Brown stepped down a short-term replacement would be chosen by the cabinet in consultation with the Labour Party National Executive Committee. The caretaker job does not necessarily go to the deputy Labour leader - currently Harriet Harman. The... (BBC News -- UK)
The Australian Pink Floyd Sep 16, 2008
On top of that, it ll give the tie-die set a chance to exploresomething that no longer exists; with the recent death of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, the original band is forever incomplete. Says the Australina Pink Floyd on theri website, "Such a big part of the whole Pink Floyd sound, he will probably be best remembered for his beautiful Piano work on 'Great Gig In The Sky',the majestic haunting intro to 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and his vocals and keyboards on the epic 'Echoes'.... (Suite101.com)
Salman Rushdie 'to divorce' again Sep 16, 2008
Obituary: Pink Floyd's Richard Wright. Gilmour's tribute to Floyd star. (Yahoo News -- Celebrity Couples)
Pot belly linked to heart disease Sep 16, 2008
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Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies Sep 16, 2008
Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65. (International Herald Tribune)
Courtesies and sneers: Turnbull quizzes Rudd Sep 16, 2008
Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, has died at 65. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are giving back to the country in which their three-year-old daughter was born. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Never-ending story as Costello hints at a sequel Sep 16, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Latest related coverage. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Renée Fleming, Pink Floyd, Jennifer Hudson Aug 27, 2008
Pink Floyd, founded in the early 1960s, reached critical acclaim and popularity with albums such as "Ummagumma," "The Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall." Mason, 63, said the band was honored to receive the award and that fellow band members David Gilmour and Richard Wright were sorry they couldn't attend. (AP). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'American Masters of the Miss. Gulf Coast' Aug 4, 2008
Third in the series will be a celebration of literature, primarily focused on Eudora Welty and Richard Wright, in 2009. The fourth, in 2010, will be the International Ballet Competition, celebrating Thalia Mara and dance in Mississippi. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Prince Chunk's the (fat) cat's meow Aug 2, 2008
Maggie Rodriguez of CBS' "The Early Show" pets Prince Chunk as Richard Wright looks on. Warga/News. (New York Daily News)
A Serious Meditation Jul 30, 2008
While the Berlin backdrop to DJ Darky's story is fresh, Beatty revisits certain classic themes that have come up in African American literature since Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright. "Moving to Berlin reduced the fear of being mistaken for someone else to almost nothing," DJ Darky reflects. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A DJ seeks the beat in Berlin Jul 20, 2008
Two of the liveliest strains of contemporary fiction find their roots in different strands of popular culture: hip white guys like Jonathan Franzen, Michael Chabon, and Jonathan Lethem take inspiration from the comic books of their youth, and the concomitant fascination with genre and role-playing, while writers like Colson Whitehead, Junot D az, and Paul Beatty - mostly African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American - find poetry between the lines of their favorite hip-hop albums and have... (Boston Globe)
Great Depth Of Characters Jul 17, 2008
"Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes . . . ". But the two bond through a mutual attraction and a love of music, with Alphine desperate for success and Claudie aspiring to be another Nina Simone. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Will Big Media Look at Obama and His Leftwing Influences? Jun 10, 2008
For example, Langston Hughes and Richard Wright got involved in communist activities but then broke with the Communist Party because it had become an apologist for some horrible crimes not only committed by Stalin but by the Soviet system. Yet Frank Marshall Davis stayed with the party and wrote some infamous poems not only defending the Soviet Union but attacking the United States. (Townhall.com)
Letters for Friday, June 6, 2008 Jun 7, 2008
Tell Richard Wright and Zora Neale. Tell Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis. (Missoulian, MT)
'Sex and the City' May 26, 2008
Keep it, do that in the take,'" was the director's advice. Samantha has always been a trailblazer, whether yanking off her wig while undergoing treatment for breast cancer or taking up with a much younger man. "I really loved the idea," particularly after the unhealthy relationship with Richard Wright, played by James Remar. Cattrall says, "When I started dating my younger man [chef Alan Wyse, 28], I first of all felt very much like Samantha. " She wondered, what would they talk about, how would... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Pink Floyd wins Polar Music Prize May 22, 2008
Syd Barrett, who co-founded Pink Floyd with Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright in 1965 and who also wrote many of the band's early songs, left the group in 1968 and was replaced by David Gilmour. Barrett died in 2006. (USA Today -- Life)
Catlett celebrates century of aging artfully May 21, 2008
Among the people who crossed her path in those years were activist and scholar W.E.B. DuBois, writer Richard Wright, and future sister-in-law and sculptor Elizabeth Catlett. Her college roommate was famed dancer Katherine Dunham, who introduced her to her older brother Albert, a budding philosopher who would become Catlett's first husband. (San Francisco Chronicle)
All rage and heart May 3, 2008
While some critics compared Alexie to Richard Wright, Time magazine thought the novel "septic with unappeasable anger". Though Alexie has pointed out that Smith was himself kidnapped - rather like Australia's stolen generation - he has also distanced himself from the book, the violence of which he now views with "overwhelming disgust". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Poetry In Conversation Apr 20, 2008
The Faulkner Festival, Eudora Welty Festival, Richard Wright Festival and Delta Blues Festival bring thousands of people from all over the world to Mississippi annually. Think what California could do. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A measured look at an extraordinary life Apr 9, 2008
Richard Wright criticized Hurston's portrayal of blacks in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" as being "quaint," for white readers. But the late writer Dorothy West took Hurston's side, saying of Wright, "I couldn't stand him.". (Boston Globe)
Celebrating 100 years of a 'simple' life Apr 6, 2008
The World Link: Celebrating 100 years of a 'simple' life. Celebrating 100 years of a 'simple' life. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
'Vain, querulous and a genius' Mar 8, 2008
Richard Wright, the young black novelist, knew this at once when he read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter on its publication in 1940 and wrote of the "astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice as those of her own race" ... " After her early success, and after the relationship had revealed itself as the sometimes supportive, more often destructive force it was (she and Reeves would split several... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Indonesian 'Hobbit' May Be Nutrient-Deprived Cretin Mar 6, 2008
Not so, replied Sydney University forensic archeologist Richard Wright. In 2006 he and colleagues compared skeletons of the hobbit, modern pygmies, people with a deformity called microcephaly and several types of pre-humans, including Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo erectus. (Fox News)
Chop Shop: Two siblings stuck in a junkyard world, struggling to survive and dream Feb 28, 2008
Directed and edited by Ramin Bahrani; written by Bahareh Azimi and Bahrani; director of photography, Michael Simmonds; production designer, Richard Wright; produced by Lisa Muskat, Marc Turtletaub and Jeb Brody; released by Koch Lorber Films. At Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, west of Avenue of the Americas, South Village. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Review: Richard Wright's 'A Father's Law' Feb 22, 2008
Review: Richard Wright's 'A Father's Law' - International Herald Tribune. Review: Richard Wright's 'A Father's Law ... A Father's Law By Richard Wright. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Long-delayed Bay cleanup hits new snag Feb 22, 2008
I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die, board member Richard Wright said in 2005. Mike Lee: (619) 542-4570. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Gloria Steinem to speak at Tulane Feb 11, 2008
Xavier events focus on Richard Wright Monday, February 11, 2008By John Pope ... A two-day program about the author Richard Wright will start Tuesday at Xavier University in honor of his 100th birthday this year. (Nola.com -- Sports)
Wright was a writer Feb 8, 2008
Richard Wright (1908-1960) was born on a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi. His father was an illiterate sharecropper and his mother was a well-educated school teacher. (Stuttgart Daily Leader, AR)
These black Americans 'will never be lost again' Feb 5, 2008
It contains 1,000- to 3,000-word life stories of everyone from abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Native Son author Richard Wright to actor Morgan Freeman and singer Tina Turner. But there are also bios of people such as Stagolee, the bad man immortalized in blues songs. (USA Today -- Life)
Borough Hosts Black History Events Feb 1, 2008
Listed here are just a handful of the events commemorating the month in Queens: Queens Central library at 89-11 Merrick Blvd. in Jamaica hosts African-American stories and songs for children on Saturday at 2 p.m. At the same library at 3 p.m., a production of Black Boy, a play based on Richard Wright s coming-of-age novel, will be presented. Urban Stages on Tour will offer a story of the Little Rock Nine, Warriors Don t Cry, at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Corona Library, 100-01 Northern Blvd., named... (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Slippery roads cause wreck that tosses trailer Jan 31, 2008
Another witness, Richard Wright of Columbia, was driving south when the accident occurred. I couldn t tell what the thing was, the accident was such a mess, Wright said. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Liberation's legacy: A museum series looks at the contemporary black experience Jan 26, 2008
In (Un)Civil Engineering: William Kentridge's Allegorical Landscapes, Enwezor says he will address the role of landscape in Kentridge's work "within the context of post-apartheid culture." A daylong symposium on Saturday, March 1, entitled Artistic Crossings of the Black Atlantic: The Migratory Aesthetic in Contemporary Art, will discuss the contribution to the modern aesthetic of black intellectuals and literary figures such as novelist Richard Wright and author W.E.B. Du Bois, the founder of... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Fighting the war on error Jan 19, 2008
I couldn t get outside of myself until I took an African-American literature class in college we read Jean Toomer, Richard Wright s Native Son, etc. and discussed common prejudices. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Clean as a pin Jan 18, 2008
A: Probably Black Boy (by Richard Wright). Q: Who's your favorite teacher. (USA Today -- Sports)
How to bring the past to life in 2008 Jan 11, 2008
"It represents the classic end of the market," says Richard Wright, owner of the 20th century auction house Wright in Chicago ... "They have a rich decorative arts culture, a long history of crafts like lacquer and joinery and all of the production facilities to interpret designs in a contemporary way," says auction house owner Richard Wright. (FOX59, IN)
In New York: A bookworm's holiday Jan 10, 2008
The Schomburg, in Harlem, is looking sharp after an $11 million overhaul last year, and holds, among much else, 400 black newspapers, rare books and the original manuscript of "Native Son" by Richard Wright. On Feb. 4, it will open the Abyssinian Baptist Church Bicentennial Exhibition, examining the evolution of what, at the time of its founding, was the only African-American Baptist church in the state of New York. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
One last brick in the wall Jan 9, 2008
On the threshold of stardom (from left) Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett and Richard Wright in 1967. Photo: AP. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
2008 - a year of theatrical milestones Jan 2, 2008
Novelist Richard Wright, who co-adapted his "Native Son" for the stage (and wrote the comedy "Daddy Goodness"), was born in 1908, as was the prolific Broadway composer and lyricist Harold Rome ("Fanny," "Destry Rides Again," "I Can Get It for You Wholesale"). Luis Peraza, a leading Venezuelan dramatist and director, and pioneering Jamaican playwright Archie Lindo were born the same year. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Egypt ponders bill to copyright the pyramids Dec 31, 2007
Novelist Richard Wright, author of Clara Callan, and Paul Shaffer, music director for David Letterman's late night talk show, are to be awarded the Order of Canada. Egypt might seek out copyright on its antiquities, from the pyramids to scarab beetles, in an attempt to collect royalties from the creation of replicas, an official said Thursday. (CBC Saskatchewan)
Ray Emery saga continues on Dec 29, 2007
Hockey Night in Canada's Scott Morrison delivers his insights into the world of hockey, on and off the ice. As much as the Ottawa Senators have insisted they do not have a controversy, it is a little like Chris Simon claiming he was oh, never mind. (CBC News)
Fatal shooting by Vernon RCMP under investigation Dec 29, 2007
Taser used to subdue Vernon man before shooting: police. Taser used to subdue Vernon man before shooting: police. (CBC News)
Major water improvements on tap, Williams promises Dec 29, 2007
Major water improvements on tap, Williams promises. Major water improvements on tap, Williams promises. (CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador)
Home Briefs for Friday, Dec. 28 Dec 28, 2007
Saturday: Fruit tree pruning with Richard Wright ... Feb. 9: Intro to Bonsai with Richard Wright. (North County Times)
Christmas closings Dec 25, 2007
Richard Wright Library, Jackson. R.G.Bolden/Anna Bell-Moore Library, Jackson. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Pincus on art Dec 24, 2007
Inauguration of the Jacobs and Copley Buildings, with exhibitions of Ernesto Neto, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Richard Wright and Modern American Masters, permanent commissioned works by Jenny Holzer and Richard Serra, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego downtown; opening date: Jan. 21, 2007. 3. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The city has a CEO Dec 22, 2007
Preferring to read novels, he lists his favorite authors as novelist Richard Wright and the Rev. Joel Osteen, a pastor in Texas who has written such books as Your Best LIfe Now. He also likes to spend time with his family, which includes his wife, Susan, and two children, Damario, 13, and Ashlynn, 1. (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
'Death Around the Corner' chosen as book club's book of the year Dec 7, 2007
The C.U.T. (Conversations Urban Teen) Society meets every 4th Wednesday at the Richard Wright Library (515 W. McDowell Road in Jackson, MS) at 6p. m., and is designed for those 17 and up who enjoy urban or street literature. (The Clarion-Ledger)
What a carve-up Dec 1, 2007
Among the cases that have commanded attention in recent years are On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Native Son by Richard Wright, two examples that serve to illustrate the good and bad sides of restoration ... Richard Wright's novel was scheduled for publication in 1939 by Harper ers, when Wright's trusted editor Edward Aswell conveyed the news that it had been selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Polygamist leader sentenced to prison Nov 21, 2007
Warren Jeffs, left, and his attorney, Richard Wright, watch the proceedings during Jeffs' sentencing Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007, in St. George, Utah. A judge sentenced Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to five years to life in prison for his role in the arranged marriage of teenage cousins. (Anchorage Daily News)
Polygamist leader wants verdict tossed Nov 14, 2007
Defense attorney Richard Wright stands behind him. (AP Photo/Jud Burkett,File Pool). (SunOnline)
Veterans Day honors past and present Nov 10, 2007
Joshua Saldeen, Juan Rodriguez, Ken Keith, Larry Dodds, Larry Peterson, Leighton Reid, Les Brown Jr., Loren Andrews, Louis Fisher, Louis Mansheim, Lyle Peterson, Mark Finley, Mark Larson, Martin Walsh, Mary Martineau, Matthew Burford, Michael Ebert, Michael Gockel, Michael Santora, Michael Jarvis, Michelle Bigger, Patricia Livingston, Paul Hill, Paul Melton, Ralph Todd, Ray Hutchinson, Raymond Farley, Rene Medina, Richard Reed, Richard Law, Richard Wright, Rick Gay, Robert Waldren, Robert Dowell... (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
SLO County draft housing ordinance meets resistance Nov 9, 2007
You have to spread out the high-density housing, Nipomo's Richard Wright added. Don't build it all in one place. (Santa Maria Times)
Polygamist leader said he was 'immoral' Nov 1, 2007
Defense attorney Richard Wright stands behind him. Polygamist leader said he was 'immoral. (Anchorage Daily News)
New film creates Container City on Silver Avenue Oct 20, 2007
Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright and Skip Williamson will produce. mkamerick@bizjournals. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)
SCSU exhibit focuses on first half of triumphant photographic display Oct 18, 2007
Photographs include those of Harlem's literary greats -- Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Richard Wright; its politicians -- Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; and its musicians -- Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday. The exhibit also includes photographs of everyday people who gave life to the legendary community. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Curious college collections: Famous manuscripts, artwork, music boost the profile of state's campuses Oct 16, 2007
The University of Mississippi houses materials from Mississippi writers Willie Morris and Larry Brown, and smaller collections for writers Nevada Barr, Beth Henley, Tennessee Williams and Richard Wright, among others. The University of Mississippi's Blues Archive includes early recordings of Mississippi blues artists Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, and several rare and valuable recordings of legendary Delta blues artist Robert Johnson. (The Clarion-Ledger)
The contender Oct 8, 2007
Richard Wright looks the very picture of septuagenarian health this hot day in this smallish Southern Ontario city that he and wife Phyllis have called home since the mid-1970s ... October is the 11th novel in a writing career stretching back to 1970, with the publication of his debut novel, The Weekend Man, under the moniker Richard B. Wright (the B is for Bruce included in his byline at the behest of his then-U.S. publisher to distinguish the Canadian from African-American novelist Richard... (Globe and Mail)
Ahmadinejad's message to the world Oct 4, 2007
Human underdogs' Writing after attending the Bandung Conference, the American novelist Richard Wright exclaimed that it was a meeting of "the despised, the insulted, the hurt, the dispossessed - in short, the underdogs of the human race". It was this shared experience of oppression that grounded the "Bandung Spirit", which leaders such as Nasser used to develop the "pan-" ideologies (-Arab, -African, -American, -Islamic) that proved a thorn in the side of US policymakers for much of the Cold... (Aljazeera.Net)
The banned list Oct 4, 2007
Native Son by Richard Wright. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Another Wright hero watches and suffers Oct 1, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007. Highly readable, yes, but this novel's sensitive soul fails to win much sympathy for his plight, A voyeuristic tendency toward fantasy can't disguise a familiar thinness of character] Sep 30, 2007 04:30 AM. (Toronto Star)
Clarence Thomas: The Justice Nobody Knows Oct 1, 2007
He had read the books of James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright and began to question the church's commitment to civil rights. "The nail in the coffin of my vocation was in the spring of 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated. I was going back into the dorm, to my dormitory and someone said in front of me when we heard that Dr. King had been assassinated. He said, 'Well, that's good. That's, I hope the SOB dies.' And that was it. That was the end of seminary. That was the end of the... (WFOR.com, FL)
What's On: Weekday Planner Sep 28, 2007
Richard Wright takes part in the 30th anniversary Author Series with his new novel October. Tonight 7 p.m. (free). (Toronto Star)
Library project comes to Clarksdale Sep 27, 2007
The project is designed to increase reading among all Mississippians and to highlight some of Mississippi's extraordinary writers, including Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Eudora Welty ... Beginning with Faulkner, Richard Wright (2008), and Eudora Welty (2009), "Mississippi Reads" will thereafter offer opportunities for reading and studying other writers from the state ... Richard Wright's Uncle Tom 's Children is the book for 2008, when the Wright centennial will be celebrated. (Clarksdale Press Register, MS)
