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  • The decision to present three new full-length plays during the final week ( "This Is Not a Time Bomb" by Aaron Wigdor Levy; "It's Lonely Out in Space" by Sean Graney; "Splinters" by Emily Schwend) instead of one-acts is something the Source Festival will do again next summer, Frederick says.

    Backstage: Source Festival audience and play length grow 2010

  • Next time someone asks me just what noir is, I'll refer them to your 'Splinters' post.

    My First Dead Body 2007

  • Splinters from the door flew at the same time shards of glass exploded on the floor as the door slammed against the tub, hinges hanging.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • In "Bayou Underground," a head-long dive into the music and culture of New Orleans and its environs, Dave Thompson rightly stops to comment on "I Walk on Gilded Splinters."

    A Road Trip in Search of Ghosts Eddie Dean 2010

  • Splinters from the door flew at the same time shards of glass exploded on the floor as the door slammed against the tub, hinges hanging.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • We become Yodas with kufis and Splinters in thobes.

    Wajahat Ali: A Ramadan State Of Mind Wajahat Ali 2011

  • If "Gris-Gris" at times flirts with schtick, the album's closer, an eight-minute incantation called "I Walk on Gilded Splinters," boils off any taint of put-on with its sinister groove, its seething invective and its backing female vocals filled with Creole curses.

    A Road Trip in Search of Ghosts Eddie Dean 2010

  • "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" - it's got a mood on.

    Tweets I have known 2009

  • Indeed, most of the songs that work a conjurer's spell on Mr. Thompson are, aside from "Gilded Splinters," evocations of the swampland by outsiders who had never been there except in their imagination, epitomized by Creedence Clearwater Revival, who hailed from northern California "but whose boots were nevertheless caked with bayou mud."

    A Road Trip in Search of Ghosts Eddie Dean 2010

  • We become Yodas with kufis and Splinters in thobes.

    Wajahat Ali: A Ramadan State Of Mind Wajahat Ali 2011

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