Writers who are or have been residents of Kingston include Steven Heighton, Bronwen Wallace, Helen Humphreys, Michael Ondaatje, Joanne Page, Diane Schoemperlen, Eric Folsom, Michael Crummey, Melanie Dugan, Mark Sinnett, Mary Alice Downie, Robertson Davies, Douglas Fetherling, Wayne Grady, Merilyn Simonds, Ellen Stafford, Alec Ross, Jamie Swift, Carolyn Smart, Sarah Tsiang, Joanne Stanbridge, Laurie Lewis, and Alexander Scala.

* Laurie Lewis: vocals, fiddle, guitar, bowed bass

The two-day celebration featured film and video screenings by Steina and Woody Vasulka, Vito Acconci, Robert Ashley, Nam June Paik, The Kipper Kids, John Cage, and Robert Wilson ; musical performances by Laurie Anderson, Booji Boy, Glenn Branca, Philip Glass Ensemble, Brian Eno, Fab Five Freddy, Love of Life Orchestra, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich and Musicians, Z ' EV, Talking Heads, and George Lewis ; and dance performances by Laura Dean, Bebe Miller, and Arnie Zane.

More than 1, 500 one-act plays including more than 40 by Lewis Black have been staged at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in the West Bank Cafe ( where Bruce Willis was a bartender ) at the base of the building.

Fess's song " Tipitina " is covered by Hugh Laurie on the 2011 CD album " Let Them Talk ".

* The vanishing hitchhiker was the inspiration for Dickey Lee's recording on a 45 rpm single ( TCF-102 ) of the song " Laurie ", which is subtitled " Strange Things Happen ..." Country Joe McDonald wrote and performed a song about a vanishing hitchhiker called " Hold On It's Coming ", later covered by New Riders of the Purple Sage.

In 2007, Laurie Lindeen, Minneapolis author, wife of ex-Replacements member Paul Westerberg, and former bandleader of Zuzu's Petals, chronicles several years of working at the " Hi-Lo Diner ," described in her book Petal Pusher as a " famous fourteen-stool breakfast joint " near the U of M campus that has narrow walls " covered in grease-preserved foreign money.

Though runs came regularly from Arnold Hamer and less consistently from the West Indian Laurie Johnson and captain Donald Carr, the batting remained the weak point right up to the beginning of covered pitches in the 1980s.

* " Mystery ", a comic song written and performed by Hugh Laurie for the television series A Bit of Fry & Laurie

Hugh Laurie recorded the song in 2011 on the album Let Them Talk adding an extended intro which sampled the songs " House of the Rising Sun " and " You Can't Always Get What You Want ".

Before joining The Runaways, Laurie played with Baby Roulette and the Rave Ons, who had one song released on a Kim Fowley compilation LP called Vampires From Outer Space.

The novel inspired the 1984 song " Gravity's Angel " by Laurie Anderson.

The main character, English professor Laurie Jameson, watches a PBS reunion show featuring Avalon singing the song, and sings a line of it to her daughter.

Burden was referenced in David Bowie's 1977 song " Joe the Lion ", Laurie Anderson's 1977 song " It's Not the Bullet that Kills You-It's the Hole ( for Chris Burden )" on the double LP " Airwaves ", and in the diary of Nathan Adler from the David Bowie album " 1.

She recorded one single for Smash Records in 1961, which was a more mature song, but went back to recording teenage pop on Laurie Records in 1962.

And in the realm of romance, the heroine of the song Annie Laurie was married to Alexander Ferguson of Craigdarroch.

In 1710 he married Anna Laurie or Annie Laurie, daughter of Sir Robert Laurie, Bt., of Maxwelton House, near Moniaive, the Annie Laurie of the song.

The song is also performed by English actor Hugh Laurie in the pilot episode of " Jeeves and Wooster " ( 1990 ), which has his character ( Wooster ) singing / playing the song on the piano while Jeeves watches.

Laurie also performs a part of the song in the first episode of the British comedy television series Jeeves and Wooster, playing the role of Bertie Wooster, duetting with Reginald Jeeves, played by Stephen Fry.

In 1976, an on-air parody of the US hit " Convoy " ( by C. W. McCall ) led to a release of the song " Convoy GB " as a single, recorded with fellow DJ Paul Burnett under the name Laurie Lingo and the Dipsticks.

Maxwelton Beach It was first settled in 1905 by the Mackie family and named after a place in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, made famous in the song " Annie Laurie.

In 1989, the Band and fifty members of the 3rd Battalion were featured in the opening and closing sequences of BBC sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth with the band, men and actors Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Tony Robinson and Tim McInnerny dressed in World War I period uniforms marching to The British Grenadiers and the Blackadder theme song.

Money from the family's life insurance policies and the children's after-school jobs keeps the Nolans afloat in 1916 until the new baby, Annie Laurie ( named after a favorite song of Johnny's ), is born in May and Francie graduates from grade school in June.

It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie ( Miranda Richardson ), Melchett ( Stephen Fry ), George ( Hugh Laurie ) and Darling ( Tim McInnerny ) – that he has built a working time machine.

The pair began working as tradesmen on a house shared by comedians Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, which inspired them to start writing comedy.

This success turned Whitehouse and Higson's career, and they began to appear on shows such as Vic Reeves ' Big Night Out and extensively for the BBC, with Whitehouse appearing on A Bit of Fry and Laurie as a man with a clinical need to have his bottom fondled, and Paul Merton: The Series, then as performer on shows such as Harry Enfield's Television Programme, where he developed numerous characters including DJ Mike Smash of Smashie and Nicey alongside Harry Enfield as Nicey.

Freak Show also served as the name for a CD-ROM released by the Voyager Company on January 1994, shortly after Laurie Anderson's first multimedia CD-ROM experiment, Puppet Motel.

In 1972, Shakur was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the FBI alleged that she was the " revolutionary mother hen " of a Black Liberation Army cell that had conducted a " series of cold-blooded murders of New York City police officers ", including the " execution style murders " of New York Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones on May 21, 1971 and Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie on January 28, 1972.

In May 2011 Jones appeared as guest vocalist on the debut album Let Them Talk by Hugh Laurie.

* Horseback on the Boston Post Road, by Laurie Lawlor, ISBN 0-7434-3626-1, Aladdin, 2002

Laurie took the picture away from where Richie dropped it on Bobby because she wanted to protect Bobby.

After Lamont died on June 22, 1953, he married actress June Haver the following year ; he and Haver adopted two more children, twins Katherine and Laurie ( b. 1966 ).

Holmes married Laurie Rose on January 23, 1987 in Las Vegas, after confiding to her that he had AIDS.

In the ' 90s, RuPaul was known in the UK for his appearances on the Channel 4 series Manhattan Cable, a weekly series produced by World of Wonder and presented by American Laurie Pike about New York's wild and wacky public-access television system.

Parks has produced, arranged, or played on albums by artists including Tim Buckley, Phil Ochs, Delaney Bramlett, Vic Chesnutt, U2, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, The Byrds, Cher, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Phillips, Ringo Starr, Frank Black, The Beau Brummels, The Manhattan Transfer, Medicine, Keith Moon, Sixpence None the Richer, Carly Simon, Little Feat, T-Bone Burnett, Stan Ridgway, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Victoria Williams, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Case, Gordon Lightfoot, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, Ry Cooder, Joanna Newsom, The Everly Brothers, Saint Etienne, Silverchair, The Thrills, Scissor Sisters, Laurie Anderson, and Susanna Hoffs / Matthew Sweet's covers collection.

In an interview with Fox News on March 28, 2002, Cartoon Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg commented, " It hasn't been on the air for years because of its ethnic stereotypes.

David married Laurie Lennard on March 31, 1993.

Laurie David filed for divorce on July 13, 2007, citing irreconcilable differences and seeking joint custody of the couple's two daughters.

The handgun ban was enacted in direct response to an incident in 1988 when Laurie Dann opened fire on a classroom full of children in neighboring Winnetka.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

Anderson contributed to " Call on Me " from Reed's collaborative project The Raven, on the tracks " Rouge " and " Rock Minuet " from Reed's Ecstasy, and " Hang on to Your Emotions " from Reed's Set the Twilight Reeling ; Lou Reed contributes to the tracks " In Our Sleep " from Laurie Anderson's Bright Red and " One Beautiful Evening " from Anderson's Life on a String.