Archive For December 2009

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

on December 11, 2009 by Duende in News, Comments (0)

Shot over 11 years by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is an intimate portrait of the legendary rocker, poet and artist. Following Smith’s personal reflections […]

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“Howl” at Sundance

on December 10, 2009 by Duende in News, Comments (1)

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl, starring James Franco, plays in San Francisco, California in late January as part of Sundance’s 2010 US select city competition. The film was slated […]

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Edith Snow

on by Duende in Beat bios, Comments (0)

I was born Edith Holsclaw, in southern Indiana in 1909.  Politics should have been my field: my parents were conservative Republicans in the Bible Belt, and my grandfather had built […]

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Beat generation

on December 9, 2009 by Mary in What is the beat generation?, Comments (1)

The picture at left is copyright by Larry Keenan and is used with permissions. Beat generation refers to the men and women poets, writers, thinkers, and philosophers who emerged on […]

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