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FairPrice staff trained to display fruits, vegetables in line with Garden Festival
SINGAPORE : Eighty NTUC FairPrice staff are being trained on how to display fruit and vegetables as part of this year’s Singapore Garden Festival.
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Arts Program for Children Offered
Frostproof Art League and Gallery will present a three-day Summer Arts for Kids program.This special summer class is for students ages 8 through 13 on July 28-30 at the Frostproof Art League Gallery, 12 E. Wall St.For more information or to register, call 863-635-7271 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.
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Museums announce lecture series
YORK, Maine — The 19th Museums of Old York Decorator Show House will open to public Saturday, July 19, through Aug. 16. The newly renovated 1890's shingle style home on Gerrish Island, Kittery Point, Maine will feature 20 spaces decorated by the...
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12 great madcap British weekends
From kite festivals and coracle races to peashooting and performance poetry, the British summer may not be the sunniest, but we cram an awful lot into it.
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Brown secures oil production deal
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reached a deal with Saudi Arabia which could see an increase in oil production by 500,000 barrels per day. Mr Brown's agreement with Saudi Arabia comes at a time when British motorists are paying £1.20 for a litre of unleaded.
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Art Gallery Displays Culture of Cambodia in Phila.
An art gallery just north of Chinatown works to revive the culture of Cambodia. The Khmer Art Gallery is one of the country's only galleries dedicated to the art of Cambodia.
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Nigeria: World Stars Set for Thisday Music and Fashion Festival
Naomi Campbell: "It is fantastic that THISDAY and Mr Obaigbena are helping improve the positive awareness of Africa as too many people have stereotypical and negative views of the Continent.
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Dallas museum exhibit shows art, style of American couple in France of 1920s
DALLAS – For Sara and Gerald Murphy, art and life melded easily. Surrounded by friends such as Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, and Ernest Hemingway, the stylish Murphys raised their three children in the warm sun of the south of France while they infused their own brand of modernism into everything from the way they dressed to their art and the way they decorated their homes.
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Now on the menu in New Orleans: A museum for Southern cuisine
NEW ORLEANS — In a city so entrenched in culinary tradition, what's surprising is not that the Southern Food and Beverage Museum — or SoFAB —recently opened in New Orleans but that such a place wasn't here before.
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Suspension of belief
In the months following the attack on the World Trade Centre, New Yorkers are fascinated and appalled by a performance artist dressed in a business suit and suspended by the ankle from a variety of Manhattan landmarks. So who is the Falling Man? A craven exhibitionist?
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Inside Michelangelo's mind
In the 1980s, when the Sistine Chapel paintings underwent a major restoration, I was lucky enough to be sent there for a BBC programme. The lift transporting everyone from the chapel floor to the vaults had broken down, so I had to clamber up a series of ancient ladders.
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SHOW BIZ > Celebrities
Supermodel Kate Moss bared her breastsin a black-and-white polka-dotted sheer dress while attending an Istanbul art exhibit earlier last week with her rocker boyfriend and her 5-year-old daughter.
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Heirlooms of Tomorrow acquires art cooperative
FARMINGTON - Heirlooms of Tomorrow owners Dan and Janice Maxham will acquire SugarWood Gallery on Broadway as of July 1.
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Splashing spectacle wraps up Singapore Arts Festival
SINGAPORE: Crazy, wild, hyperactive, and with a choice name for itself, Dutch group The Lunatics rounded off the Singapore Arts Festival over the weekend with a big splash, literally, at the Bedok Reservoir.
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Assumption grad's artwork wins contest
Many students will travel to Washington, D.C., this summer and see various works of art. Kaitlin Marshall will go tomorrow, and one of the art pieces she'll see will be her own.
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Cleveland Museum of Art is part of global trend
UPDATED: 04 :47 a.m. EDT, June 23, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes a Fortney & Weygandt field superintendent. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
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Makati park transforms into outdoor art gallery
A section of Velasquez Park in Makati once again transforms into an outdoor art gallery on June 28th for the fifth edition of Art in the Park. From 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., art lovers, enthusiasts, and collectors can wander the tents and browse artworks at leisure.
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Sculptor to cast famed horse in bronze
It’s not obvious, but part of the artist’s signature on the new statue of the famed bucking horse Tipperary reads “Cowboy to Cowboy.”
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Holocaust center's name to be changed
When entering the Center for Holocaust Studies, an overwhelming array of student artwork fills the small interior, to the point where it almost feels necessary to quickly shut the door to prevent it from spilling out.
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Amateur Marilyn Monroe film highlights celeb auction
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amateur footage of Hollywood legends Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of their classic film "The Misfits" is expected to highlight an upcoming celebrity auction and could fetch up to $100,000.
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PrepArts briefs for Monday, June 23
Youth art exhibit ongoing NORTH COUNTY ---- Artwork by students from San Pasqual and Orange Glen high schools in Escondido, and High Tech High School in San Marcos, is on display through July 3 at the Escondido Municipal Gallery, 142 W. Grand Ave. The students' work includes hand-colored photography, pen and ink, acrylic and watercolor.
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Southwest Riverside County School News for Monday, June 23
Murrieta girl wins poster contest MURRIETA ---- Faith Speidel, a fourth-grader from Murrieta Elementary School, was the sweepstakes winner in the annual "Water is Life" Poster Art Contest sponsored by Western Municipal Water District.
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Eustis fiddler keeps making winning music
Eustis musician Jonathan Hodge, who has been fiddling for more than 37 years, has another contest victory to add to his string of triumphs.
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Guitar legend Les Paul featured in Milwaukee's Discovery World exhibit
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Guitar legend and innovator Les Paul is credited with developing revolutionary engineering techniques like close miking, echo delay and multitracking.
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5:55 p.m. -- Cathedral-Basilica museum establishing registry of artists
5:55 p.m. — The Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica National Museum in Hagåtña invites local artists to submit their names to establish a registry which will be used to plan a rotating series of local art exhibits.
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