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...miss people, and what it is to come home.”In his poetry, Armitage has often focused on telling the stories of others, most notably in “Feltham Sings,” a 2002 documentary set in a young offenders’ institution near London. Responding to transcribed interviews with inmates, Armitage produced song lyrics for each to perform on camera, with the aim of empowering them to tell their own stories. One song began, “Brother did time, mother did time, uncle did time, now it’s my turn...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Armitage Arms Poems with Power | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...Judgment Day, and based on a graphic novel. The movie imagines that, in day-to-day activity, lifelike robots have mostly replaced humans, who sit at home speaking for the droids and controlling their actions. It's a piquant premise for those of us who see Americans retreating to near-stasis in front of their computers, enjoying (or condemned to) a life no more than virtual. But the main story, in which humans and robots do battle for the future of the collective soul, is familiar from many a Philip K. Dick story, like Minority Report, not to mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surrogates: The Zen Machismo of Bruce Willis | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...About a decade ago, one promoter offered ABBA a billion dollars, easily turned down, for a reunion tour. But the group was nowhere near as notable for its onstage electricity, for the performing verve and preposterous costumes, as for its songs. Now that Kristina seems headed for a fuller life in the West End or on Broadway, ABBA fans - all lovers of irresistible tunes that lodge in your internal iTunes and never go away - may have one more chance to tell Benny and Bjorn, "Thank you for the music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kristina: A New Musical from the ABBA Guys | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...trustee of Stonehill College, a small Catholic college near Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Kirk Jr., Kennedy's Replacement | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...citadel of the auto age, the "arsenal of democracy," the nexus of technology and innovation. Today it struggles for its life: not one national chain operates a grocery store in the entire 138-sq.-mi. city limits of Detroit. The estimated functional illiteracy rate in the city limits hovers near 50%. The unsolved-murder rate is about 70%, and unemployment is around an astonishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. Is in Motown | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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