The Global Arts Are The Foundation Of The Next Renaissance.

The Arts Are Global XIII-Within Temptation, One of the World's Most Popular 'Indie' Bands.

The fact that so many of my friends here in Iowa and around the country STILL haven't heard of this Band is amazing. I would remedy that here and now. I've listened to Within Temptation for over five years. The first time I heard them I was jaw-droppingly wowed.

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Come Away & Lady Light...Two Poems Straight From The Heart by 'DeX'

Come Away by 'DeX' Will you come away and ride with me, take the wheel when I go wrong, be my eyes, when I fail to see, bring melody, when I lose my song.

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This Common Food Ingredient Can Really Mess Up Your Metabolism

What's REALLY wrong with the way we eat? How does Food Additives affect your Metabolism and over all health? These Videos, (There are several, so look at this when you can set aside some time) get down, with plenty of Research discussed, into the Biochemistry of how what these Ad …

The Arts Are Global XI-A Newborn Star-Desiree Bassett! by Dr Rex Dexter

Rock n Roll has always had a prominent place in the lifestyle that is the American Dream. I am pleased to introduce an American Rock n Roll Dream Girl. She hit the stage at 12 covering songs by and WITH the likes of Jeff Beck.

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The Arts Are Global X- The Shiver, Faith, Finch, & Company

This week, I'm going to limit the article to one highly motivated Singer-Composer, her partner, and her Band. She "Friended" me on MySpace. She had specifically requested that would write about her and her Band in my next Newsvine article.

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"Into Life", A New Poem By Dr Rex Dexter

The winter is faltering, graying around the edges, dragging his heels like a man walking that green mile. But that green dream seems but a distant rumor, while the season remains like a stubborn boxer. hugging the ropes and refusing to go down.

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The Arts Are Global IX-Just Two Bands-Two Different Styles-One Serious-One Mostly Fun.

Hello Readers, this is going to be a shorter Article, as with the ridiculous weather we've had in the Northern 'Steppes' this last week, I was beset with "Home Front Issues".(Frozen Pipes-Frozen Auto-Frozen Streets-in a word, "Frozen".) I intend to add two more Bands, plu …

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Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma - call for entries

The Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma recognize exemplary journalism on the impact of violence, crime, disaster and other traumatic events on individuals, families and communities.

"The Sun Breaks Through", a New Poem by Dr Rex Dexter

With icy fingers, this late January day swirls eddies of gray snow upward into the lowly hanging skies, to join the ragged clouds running headlong to the south,...icy fingers tugging at the collar of my comfortable old wool overcoat.

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My Entry To "Implied Presence" by 'DeX'

This struck me at the time I took it as a "Window On Yesterday", which became it's title. The overcast skies, the antique irons, the weathering, and the reflection all played into the idea.

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The Arts Are Global-VIII It's Really About The Music-Or So We're Told. Plus, "Miss Crazy" & "Nicki J"

Well, friends, what a week. The AP put up a story about Muslim/Hindu Bands and an organization called Taqwacore.

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"The American Table" A New Poem by Dr Rex Dexter

The war goes on, it never ends. It eats up houses, families, friends, as dying gets easy, living gets mean. Hieronymus Bosch couldn't paint this scene. We gathered belongings in flour sack totes, and ran for our lives to the sea in boats. We have our dreams, we're hard and able t …

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The Arts Are Global-VII Part A: "Deep Sleep and Arkona"

This will be the seventh installment of the Weekly Music Article, "The Arts Are Global", since I felt that I needed to broaden it's coverage to include ALL the various Genre's incorporated into the idiom known as "Global 'Indie' Arts".

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"The Arts Are Global VI"-A Tribute To a Real Hero, Angie Pirog 1991-2009

This will be the sixth installment of the Weekly Music Article, "The Arts Are Global", since I felt that I needed to broaden it's coverage to include ALL the various Genre's incorporated into the idium known as "Global 'Indie' Arts".

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The Arts Are Global! (Small Businesses...Why Not You?)

This will be the fifth installment of the Weekly Music Article, "The Arts Are Global", since I felt that I needed to broaden it's coverage to include ALL the various Genre's incorporated into the idiom known as "Global 'Indie' Arts".

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The Arts Are Global! This Week-Can A Mere Band Unite Old Enemies in The Arab-Israeli Conflict? Plus, Can an Actress-Singer End Commercial Whaling?

I've now moved into Articles primarily devoted to "Global Indie" Music and Culture, primarily in Eurasia, N Africa, A America, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. There are MANY Genres of Music, and a large amount of other forms of Arts Media, being dismissed here as "merely fringe".

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The Arts Are Global! The Revolution Of Arts & Culture the Rest of The World Hears & Sees Outside Most Of N America.

The Genres this week have a little broader range, though "Clandestine" most definitely ROCKS! But this Band, as well as the featured "Album Capsules" are for the Global "Indie" Arts. There's a Revolution going on in the Arts and it's coming to a town near you REAL SOON.

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The Arts Are Global-Exposing The American Audience To Arts & Culture the Rest of The World Hears & Sees Outside Most Of N America.

I've now done two Articles primarily devoted to "Goth" Music ad Culture. I STILL like it a lot. It IS a HUGE Phenomena, primarily in Eurasia, N Africa, A America, Canada, Mexico, and Australia.

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"The Children Of The Night", An Ongoing Exploration Of The Rising "Goth" Culture, A Periodic Column by Dr Rex Dexter #2

First, I want to present one of the "Hardest Working Moms in Goth Metal Music": "LENNON" A Brief History Condensed From Her Own Words:

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"The Children Of The Night", An Ongoing Exploration Of The Rising "Goth" Culture, A Periodic Column by Dr Rex Dexter

First, I want to take a moment to thank Sydney5 and MoonCrow for their invaluable intellectual prodding that started me researching the Artists and Culture this Column will be the continuing story of.

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The Artful 'DeX', Abstract Paintings Digitally Processed

These works are part of a series I call "Vision Makers". They were originally started with oil on canvas, digitized, then "tweaked" by a set of algorithms in three digital imaging programs.

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The Rite Of Spring, a Poem by 'DeX' in Six Scenes.

The Rite Of Spring in Six Scenes by 'DeX' SCENE I "What do you want?"

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The Shadows Of Light (Title Poem of 'DeX's Upcoming Book)

You taste like soft light gathered from late summer shadows on wooded paths, dappled by the shifting patterns of leaves in golden sun. His golden fingers kissed your soft skin and left his perfume as you walked. And if light has form and shape, let me stand in your shadows.

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