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Ruben Blades Biography

Ruben Bladesactor, musician, composerBorn: 7/16/1948Birthplace: Panama City, Panama A popular salsa musician, he turned to acting in the 1980s, making his feature film debut in Crossover…

Shannen Doherty Biography

Shannen Doherty actressBorn: 4/21/1971Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee Television actress known for her roles as pretty but problematic young women, such as Brenda Walsh on the teen soap opera…

Yanni Biography

Yanni(Yanni Chryssomalis)musicianBorn: 11/14/1954Birthplace: Kalamata, Greece For someone who can neither write nor read music, Yanni has done pretty well as a musician. The pianist, known…

Saul Zaentz Biography

Saul Zaentzmovie producerBorn: 2/28/1921Birthplace: Passaic, New Jersey Zaentz has a pretty good Oscar batting average. He has produced only eight movies since 1975 and three won the best picture…

Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: Alarm and Pride

52 54 Alarm and Pride "GOOD-MORNING, my friend," said Alarm to Pride; "how are you this morning?" "Very tired," replied Pride, seating himself on a stone by the wayside and mopping his steaming…

Leonora Speyer: A Note from the Pipes

A Note from the PipesLeonora SpeyerPan, blow your pipes and I will be Your fern, your pool, your dream, your tree!I heard you play, caught your swift eye, "A pretty melody!" called I, "Hail,…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CXXXII

Sonnet CXXXI Sonnet CXXXIII CXXXII Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Butterfly's Day

by EmilyDickinsonThe RobinThe BluebirdThe Butterfly's Day The Butterfly's Day From cocoon forth a butterfly As lady from her door Emerged — a summer afternoon — Repairing everywhere,…

Aline Kilmer: Ambition

AmbitionAline KilmerKenton and Deborah, Michael and Rose, These are fine children as all the world knows, But into my arms in my dreams every night Come Peter and Christopher, Faith and…

Poem: The Grass

Poem 52 Poem 54 The Grass The grass so little has to do, - A sphere of simple green, With only butterflies to brood, And bees to entertain, And stir all day to pretty tunes The breezes…