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University Press of Kentucky author bell hooks has been named as the recipient of the 2013 Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Best Poetry Award for her book Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place. The BCALA Literary Awards recognize excellence in adult fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and publishing by African American authors published during the previous year, including an award for Best Poetry and a citation for Outstanding Contribution to Publishing. The award will be presented at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association in Chicago, Illinois on June 30.

Trance music lovers will be able to vote for their all-time favorites in the Trance Top 1000 voting poll. Following the previous polls, when Delerium's 'Silence' and Rank 1's 'Airwave' become the most popular trance classics, 2013 will prove whether musical preferences really do change with time.

This is a night for all music fans! Featuring some of the finest musicians in Ireland, the Steve Kelly Big Band will be performing the music of Buddy Rich, the "World's Greatest Drummer!"

Comedian Doug Stanhope, winner of the 20th San Francisco Comedy Competition, will kick-off his “Big Stink” spring tour this Tues., Feb. 19, at Punchline in Sacramento. Tickets are $25 plus tax and fees at: http://www.dougstanhope.com/.

This one-man show written and performed by Seth Lepore, is a hysterical romp through America's spiritual enterprise. The show exposes the blurry line between self-help and faith. Yoga gurus, healthy chocolate peddlers and Buddhists with God complexes ego-trip their way toward absurdity. Losing My Religion was one of the top 10 plays of 2011 according to the Twin Cities Daily Planet.

Pocket Utopia is pleased to present Twilit Ensembles, a solo exhibition of new paintings, drawings, sculptures and collages by Paul D'Agostino. Creating sets within series, stories across drawings, sculptures out of characters, and settings from paintings, the poet and artist Paul D'Agostino employs narrative relationships within and throughout his works that are sometimes in opposition to each other, sometimes complementary.

The creative producers and co-director of the critically acclaimed and award-winning CANTINA will return to London's Southbank Centre this summer with a brand new show, LIMBO. An exotic mix of cabaret, circus and acrobatics, LIMBO will draw on both magic and music to seduce audiences with a celebration of otherworldly proportions.

A hotel room in disarray - lamps broken, cigarette butts, liquor bottles - a red sequin dress, and a man accused of rape... The accused is white, the accuser black. Two lawyers, one black and one white, must uncover and sift the facts of the case. Is the man guilty? And, irrespective of that, can his case be won?

On April 3 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport. Advised merely that his travel "could damage state security" he was escorted to a van by officials, after which he disappeared for 81 days. On his release, the government claimed that his imprisonment related to tax evasion.

Wexford Festival Opera, long considered one of the finest opera festivals in the world, has been nominated in the Festival Opera category in the inaugural International Opera Awards, announced recently. This Oscars of the opera-world aims to bring its biggest stars of the art-form to an even wider audience.

One month ago, 35 gifted lyricists, composers and librettists took up residency at Goodspeed Musicals in East Haddam, CT for the first ever Johnny Mercer Writers Colony to participate in an environment of discovery and inspiration. Working in teams and housed in specially constructed quintessential New England two story cottages each equipped with a piano, the teams worked on over 30 musicals during the course of the month. On Saturday February 16, the residency program concluded with a Salon as had been done each week featuring a sparkling sampler of new musicals that were worked on throughout the month. Scroll below for photos from the event!

Oyster Mill Playhouse in Camp Hill is announcing its second production for 2013 season, The Scarlet Letter. It is a drama by Phyllis Nagy, adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Life and Music is a new series of three intimate live concerts hosted by the prolific and eclectic multi-instrumentalist composer, arranger and improviser John Rodgers.

The Off-Broadway theatre company The Shelter - an ensemble of writers, directors, actors and designers developing original works for the stage - will present the world premiere of their newest work, GHOST LIGHT, a collection of six original short plays performed on a bare stage below a single light. Preview performances of GHOST LIGHT begin February 21 prior to an official press opening of February 24 at the Gloria Maddox Theatre (151 West 26th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001) in Manhattan.

Comedy in the Afternoon: A Revue in Two Acts with Music and Dance will receive its Equity World Premiere in May. The show is written and directed by Del Fidanque.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County heralds its eighth season of showcasing Broadway's greatest hits in the Ziff Ballet Opera house with a sixshow subscription package that opens with the South Florida premiere of the worldwide smash-hit musical featuring Queen's legendary hits WE WILL ROCK YOU December 10-15, 2013; followed by the hilarious holiday-themed Broadway musical ELF, set to bring in the New Year December 31, 2013-January 5, 2014.

The Kinsey Sicks, America's favorite dragapella beautyshop quartet, will celebrate their 20th anniversary with "America's Next Top Bachelor Housewife Celebrity Hoarder Makeover Star Gone Wild!" This over-the-top new musical will play three performances only at Hennepin Theatre Trust's New Century Theatre April 4-5, 2013. In this brilliant reality TV mash-up, we find Rachel, Winnie, Trixie and Trampolina in the jungle, trying their best to score at challenges that involve singing, dancing, dating, dieting and, of course, large insects. Tickets are on sale now. For tickets or more information, please visit www.HennepinTheatreTrust.org or call 1.800.982.2787.

In the tradition of nabbing up-and-coming artists, the Oakland University Student Program Board will present the Verge Campus Tour, sponsored by Karmaloop clothing company, with lyrical genius Kendrick Lamar and world-renowned DJ Steve Aoki.

The March broadcasts of The New York Philharmonic This Week — the weekly radio series of concerts and recordings by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by Alec Baldwin — begin with Music Director Alan Gilbert conducting the New York Philharmonic in Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring Rudolf Buchbinder as soloist, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, Pathétique. The following week, Alan Gilbert leads the Orchestra in Phantasmata by The MarieJosée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse; Bloch's Schelomo, featuring cellist Jan Vogler; and Brahms's Symphony No. 1.

Last night, Armin van Buuren celebrated the official 600th birthday of his weekly radio show A State Of Trance. He kicked off his brand new ASOT600 'The Expedition' world tour in Madrid. In the next 10 weeks, Armin celebrates the 600th episode of his A State of Trance radio show with an ASOT world tour bigger than he's ever done before with 12 shows in 11 cities such as Mexico City, Sao Paulo, New York, Miami and Kuala Lumpur. The 10th edition of Armin van Buuren's mix series 'A State of Trance 2013, which was released yesterday and which is based on this radio show, has entered Top 10 charts worldwide.