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Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week in the U.K.

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:37 PM | Add Comment

Exene Cervenka's In-Store Free Show @ Amoeba Music Hollywood

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 6:34 PM | Add Comment

The next issue of Luciole Press will feature the new Alida Ivanov Gallery in Stockholm. The first exhibit, of artist Allen Grubesic's work, will close this weekend

Posted by kluciole at 11/5/2009 5:51 PM | Add Comment

Photo: crowds celebrate Loy Krathong festival at Wat Mahathat, one of the most spectacular temples in Thailand's first capital of Suhkothai

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:37 AM | Add Comment

Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished a three-month road trip in which he visited the graves of 150 poets in 23 states

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2009 9:41 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Luciole friends and contributors David Smith and Scott Wannberg hitting the road for the last time in 2009. Three event dates in NYC. Three dates in Ohio.

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2009 11:18 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Sightseers walk past the setting sun along a seafront in Mumbai, India

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2009 8:26 AM | Add Comment

NY's El Museo del Barrio reopens galleries

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2009 8:09 AM | Add Comment

Explore Savannah, Georgia, which was founded in 1733 and was one of America's first planned cities

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2009 8:04 AM | Add Comment

Thousands eat breakfast on Sydney Harbour Bridge as busy highway becomes grassy picnic ground

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2009 9:05 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Luciole's Scott Wannberg and David Smith will have readings in NYC and Ohio. Scott's note: "scott and david's excellent new york adventures....coming soon!!!!"

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 6:09 PM | Add Comment

Room with a pew: Businessman builds replica of Herefordshire church on 21st floor of Japanese skyscraper

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 7:13 AM | Add Comment

White House expects thousands on fall garden tours

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2009 3:05 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2009 2:11 AM | Add Comment

Photo a sightseeing boat takes in spectacular autumnal trees as it cruises around a small cape in Lake Chuzenji, Nikko, Japan

Posted by kluciole at 10/16/2009 11:50 AM | Add Comment

Historic tombstone tours: Check out these famous cemeteries

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 11:33 PM | Add Comment

World's Strangest Monuments

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 11:25 PM | Add Comment

Wish I could be there David, Scott and S.A.! Reminder, their reading (and book signing for David and Scott) will be today, Oct. 10th, at Skylight Books

Posted by kluciole at 10/10/2009 12:10 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a man sits on a bench in front of the Hudson River in Jersey City with the New York skyline in the distance

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 12:15 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

REMINDER! Message from David Smith. Catch David, Scott Wannberg, and S.A. Griffin on the 10th at Skylight Books, and all 3 w/Ellyn Maybe at Beyond Baroque on Oct. 11th

Posted by kluciole at 10/7/2009 9:04 PM | Add Comment

See Luciole Contributor Thomas Brorsen Smidt and his band The Esoteric Gender live in Reykjavík, Iceland! Wish I could be there Thomas :)

Posted by kluciole at 10/6/2009 3:14 AM | Add Comment

"Olympian dreams and favela realities collide in Rio de Janeiro -- the documentary Dancing With the Devil depicts what's at stake if the city fails to get its act together"

Posted by kluciole at 10/5/2009 2:52 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

90 years later, opera's back on Bourbon Street

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 12:53 PM | Add Comment

A wonderful treat: more photos from the very talented Luciole Press columnist Esmaa Self, taken in the gorgeous Rocky Mountain National Park

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 10:41 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Oil photo exhibit opens in D.C. -- "Edward Burtynsky: Oil" is at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:41 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a paraglider is seen over the Silberplattenchoepfe mountains in the Swiss Alps near Unterwasser, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2009 3:30 AM | Add Comment

A still photo from "The Crimson Wing" -- Filmmakers spent 14 months living at Lake Natron, the remote salt lake where the flamingos flock to breed

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:47 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The 10 least visited U.S. national parks

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2009 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Lady Dai tomb among richest finds in China's history -- artifacts will be on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's exhibit "Noble Tombs at Mawangdui" from Sept. 19 to Dec. 13

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2009 7:44 AM | Add Comment

Exquisite: Quiet thrills in the autumnal Blue Ridge

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2009 7:29 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Dangerous staph germs (MRSA) found at West Coast beaches

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 2:16 AM | Add Comment

The spectacular photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who captured pre-Revolutionary Russia: "Color photographs from the Russian Empire (1909-1915)"

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2009 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Highway in the sky: the gravitational corridors that could help spacecraft travel the solar system

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:31 AM | Add Comment

My Gypsy childhood: Roxy Freeman never went to school. But at the age of 22, she decided to get a formal education, forcing her to face up to the prejudices that blight her Gypsy community – and to shackle her wandering spirit

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2009 11:28 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Happy Labor of Love: The new Autumn 2009 Issue of Luciole Press is now published -- celebrating our 2nd Anniversary --

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2009 12:37 AM | View Comments (20) | Add Comment

National Book Festival in Washington, Sept. 26

Posted by kluciole at 9/5/2009 10:02 PM | Add Comment

Visiting the Maginot Line: Relic of World War II

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2009 12:48 AM | Add Comment

St Kilda: the edge of the world (the most remote island group in Britain has seen visitors like Samuel Johnson)

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 9:56 PM | Add Comment

Find Anne of Green Gables (and Lucy Maud Montgomery) on Prince Edward Island

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:45 AM | Add Comment

Spain's Catholic Church has new advice for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela: "For the sake of the H1N1 virus/swine flu, don't kiss the saint"

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2009 12:18 AM | Add Comment

Incredible images from the TV show "Big Cat Diary"

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 12:35 AM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Art: Monsters climbing through the floors, magic carpet rides through fantastical cities, and more from street painter Kurt Wenner

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2009 9:53 AM | Add Comment

Egypt warns pharaohs' tombs could disappear

Posted by kluciole at 8/19/2009 7:04 AM | Add Comment

Camp Milton, Florida: Little-known Civil War site

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:33 AM | Add Comment

Dinosaurs lie in wait at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2009 11:06 AM | Add Comment

From Scott Wannberg, poet and Luciole Press contributor: he will have two readings in Los Angeles - on October 10 at Skylight Books, and October 11th with Ellyn Maybe at Beyond Baroque

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2009 4:44 AM | Add Comment

Venezuela: Natural beauty for bold travelers

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:05 PM | Add Comment

Squirrel photo crasher: cheeky rodent becomes star of couple's holiday snap in Banff National Park

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 11:26 PM | Add Comment

Piano that survived atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima plays on for peace; it will play in NYC next year to mark the 9th 9/11 anniversary

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 3:06 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Received this comment from Laura Dobson: "The Blue Cross pet charity has now launched a fundraising appeal to raise the money to bring Sandbag back to the UK"

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 12:55 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Boy dies after getting stranded in Death Valley; his mom and their dachsund are still alive after failed camping attempt

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Photo: space shuttle Discovery rolls out to Launch Pad 39A against a backdrop of dramatic lightning

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 11:02 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

A gorgeous shot of the clouds moving across the moon above Tijuana, Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 11:18 PM | Add Comment

The high price one island is paying because of movie-obsessed tourists: "Mamma Mia! How the feelgood movie has ruined the Greek paradise island of Skopelos"

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2009 2:35 PM | Add Comment

Bauhaus anniversary show draws many visitors

Posted by kluciole at 7/30/2009 10:30 PM | Add Comment

Follow-up to previously posted topic: "With spellbinding charm, estate agent Carla Calamity wins £50,000 job as Wookey Hole witch"

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2009 2:51 AM | Add Comment

Annual crowning of a goat as "King of Ireland" at one of the country's oldest fairs, Puck Fair, runs into trouble as paperwork problems may prevent the heir from traveling to the festival

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2009 8:20 AM | Add Comment

(Photo) Eclipse tourists: Visitors stargaze at a campsite on Japan's southern island of Amami Oshima

Posted by kluciole at 7/22/2009 10:32 AM | Add Comment

Popular San Diego seals win reprieve from governor

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2009 10:08 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Yosemite's Half Dome at sunset

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2009 11:56 AM | Add Comment

Photo: evening view of the 1,000-year-old Potala Palace - the world's highest - in Lhasa, Tibet

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2009 11:00 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Egyptian whirling dervishes perform at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2009 10:25 PM | Add Comment

Engineer/photographer Patrick Koster travels the world capturing images of the world's volcanoes

Posted by kluciole at 7/16/2009 1:43 PM | Add Comment

Free weekend at national parks, July 18-19

Posted by kluciole at 7/15/2009 12:08 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Wadsworth Church built on faith, freedom, poetry

Posted by kluciole at 7/11/2009 12:27 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: lightning illuminates the night sky of Montevideo as a thunderstorm unfolds over the Uruguayan capital

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2009 1:49 AM | Add Comment

Costa Rica is world's greenest, happiest country (according to the HPI, Happy Planet Index)

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2009 12:02 AM | Add Comment

Sears Tower unveils 103rd floor glass balconies (lots of incredible photos of people out on "The Ledge")

Posted by kluciole at 7/2/2009 3:00 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a boy admires the various fish at the aquarium in Beijing

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 9:11 AM | Add Comment

Dead Sea peril: sinkholes swallow up the unwary

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 9:35 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press friend and contributer Geraldine Green will be at the 2009 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Woodyfest Poets in Okemah, OK, on July 11th

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2009 6:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photos: hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims trek through treacherous mountains in revolt-torn Kashmir each year to reach the holy cave of Lord Shiva in Amarnath

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

New Acropolis Museum to open with lavish party

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 2:06 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Art 'in its own glory' in bigger Cleveland museum

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 2:01 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Article: Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier (in Los Glaciares National Park) is advancing despite global warming ... (plus, lots of beautiful photos)

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 9:18 PM | Add Comment

Photo: hot air balloons lift off from the main runway at Bristol International Airport in the early morning sun

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2009 12:25 AM | Add Comment

Great Smoky Mountains National Park marks 75th anniversary

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2009 11:15 PM | Add Comment

Stephen Colbert shaves head for US troops in Iraq

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2009 9:45 AM | Add Comment

"America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam" -- Obama

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2009 2:15 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a huge yellow dragon contains what locals claim is the longest escalator in the world (in Longqing Valley, China)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2009 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Meteorologists campaign to classify unique 'Asperatus' clouds seen across the world

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 2:28 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Video: "La Cumparsita" -- dancers Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne (and TIME article from 1948 about this tango)

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2009 1:56 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an elderly man strolls on a beach with the backdrop of monsoon clouds in the southern Indian city of Kochi

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2009 1:50 AM | Add Comment

Video: "The Gates of Istanbul" by Loreena McKennitt

Posted by kluciole at 5/27/2009 1:25 AM | Add Comment

Legend of English vampire laid to rest in Peruvian village: the history of Sarah Roberts, and how some have come to see her as a saint (or boost for tourism)

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2009 5:21 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Scary, big ants... Colombian farmer Carlos Bayona tosses and cooks a big pot of giant Culonas ants, which are considered a delicacy

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2009 6:09 PM | Add Comment

Photo from Hubble: Florida's peninsula, plus the 'Tongue of the Ocean'

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 9:44 PM | Add Comment

A Prayer Addressed To The Mountain Spirits (Apache). For my mom.

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2009 2:06 PM | View Comments (15) | Add Comment

The Maine Woods: Ktaadn, by Henry David Thoreau, which mentions my 4th great grandmother, Marm Howard

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2009 11:15 PM | Add Comment

Conservation effort targets Montana hotel guests

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2009 7:48 AM | Add Comment

Thomas Jefferson's retirement retreat restored

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 11:42 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

We have a comment from a person writing for publishing agent PFD, hoping to contact Jan Griffiths over earlier story about Sophie Tucker, the Australian dog who survived the wilds (Anyone know contact info?)

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2009 12:56 AM | Add Comment

Photo: gorgeous horse in the Kalahari Desert, taken by Rudi Jeggle

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2009 11:25 PM | Add Comment

Photo: three different sized and colored doors in Italy, by Tim Brown

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2009 3:35 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Give the donkeys a rest! Plea to visitors over tourist site cruelty

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2009 3:11 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Food for thought: "What Finland can teach America about true luxury"

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2009 2:59 AM | Add Comment

Montbéliard, France

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2009 11:52 AM | Add Comment

World Health Organization to raise its pandemic alert level as flu death numbers jump in Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 4/27/2009 1:46 PM | Add Comment

New York City is constantly being rebuilt, paved over and reinvented, so it's not easy to find remnants of the colony of New Amsterdam 400 years after Henry Hudson sailed up the river that bears his name

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2009 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Walking Boudica's Way; unraveling the myths of East Anglia's warrior queen

Posted by kluciole at 4/22/2009 10:35 PM | Add Comment
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