Sitting in the Mini-Dome Tuesday, I couldn't help but notice the dynamics of the crowd packed into the stadium to watch "An Evening with Martin and Langston" performed by Danny Glover and Felix Justice. The performance, which began at 7:30 p.m. on March 27, was well-attended, but the crowd seemed to be roughly equal parts students and non-students.
Yann Martel, the writer of "Life of Pi" has done it again … almost. In "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios," Martel has provided Pi lovers with a collection of stories he wrote long before his modern-day classic about a boy in the company of a Bengal tiger.
March 16 - Walking into Asheville, N.C.'s Orange Peel the atmosphere resembled that of a Southern family reunion rather than that of a concert as Band of Horses' family and friends joined them for the last show on their North American tour. After the tour the South Carolina natives will begin recording the follow-up to 2006's Everything All the Time in Asheville, N.
Cherokee/Appalachian author, poet, and storyteller Marilou Awiakta will be the featured speaker in the Presidential Distinguished Lecture Series at East Tennessee State University on Monday, April 9, at 7 p.m. Her talk, entitled "Roots of Survival: The Web of Mountain Life," will take place in the ballroom on the third floor of the D.