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Showing off the new campus
ALBION — Albion’s Campus Grove at the Albion Normal School will host a free art festival Friday and Saturday with performing artists, children’s classes, food and music.
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Air Force One Discovery Center holds opening
A group of Kansans who restored a Boeing 707 flight simulator were invited by former first lady Nancy Reagan to attend the opening ceremony of the Air Force One Discovery Center, part of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif.
El Dorado Times |
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Star Of Queens
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Kashif Iqbal, 40, oversees and develops education programs for the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), a visual and performing arts center founded in 1972. There are three major programs for kids and adults under JCAL. The first and most prominent are the in-house activities, where the center holds exhibits and classes, usually on Saturdays, for members of the ...
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AVMA Condemns Abuse of Cattle Shown in New Video
Upon learning of disturbing new footage showing cattle abused at a Portales, N.M., livestock auction, the American Veterinary Medical Association today strongly condemned the cruelty and issued a call for stricter adherence to humane animal handling guidelines and standards.
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Steptoe's First Friday Walkabout
Join the celebration in Kilmarnock every first Friday of the month. Dance to live music, enjoy local shops and restaurants, see the new artwork in the local galleries or just stroll the streets. The main event is from 5-7 PM but Savannah Joe's keeps the party rolling much later with more live bands.
Southside Sentinel |
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Kasparov urges Russians to save Sakharov museum
Chess legend turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov called Wednesday on Russians to save a museum devoted to the memory of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.
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Kasparov urges Russians to save Sakharov museum
Chess legend turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov called Wednesday on Russians to save a museum devoted to the memory of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.
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Posted 06/26/2008
Thursday 6.26 UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL Utah Arts Festival organizers went above and beyond this year in the music department, gathering a panel of “experts” (myself included) to help determine the local lineup with unprecedented attention to homegrown talent.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
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Posted 06/26/2008
Don’t take that literally, and certainly don’t take it as a sarcastic swipe. The annual outdoor festival remains, after more than 30 years, the state’s best one-stop opportunity to see the work of its finest artists, listen to its best musicians and generally spend a summer day steeped in culture.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
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Camera club offers photo tips and techniques
The Paris Public Library and Friends of the Library are capitalizing on kids curiosity by getting them interested in photography. “Picture This! at the Library” camera club educates children 9 through 17 on photo tips and techniques.
Paris News |
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Rolling Stone sells art on eBay
Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is selling his artwork on eBay.
News 24 South Africa |
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Crews get ready as festival nears
Oceana County will see a huge jump in population next week as close to 50,000 music fans are expected to attend the inaugural ROTHBURY Music Festival, July 3-6 on the grounds of the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury.
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San Diego museum showcases Nandalal Bose
The San Diego Museum of Art held an exhibition of paintings of Nandalal Bose, the great Indian painter whose major work spanned the first half of the 20th century. The paintings convey aspects of nature and spirituality, simple lives of villagers, women at work, and also subtly reflect the socio-political environment of life in Bengal at the time.
rediff.com |
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66 Drives: Scenes From Western Roads [Photography]
I've always enjoyed shooting photos on California's highways, but never had the guts to get close-up shots of the occupants of nearby cars and risk dome-ventilation courtesy of road-ragers' firearms....
Jalopnik |
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Nelson nets nearly half a million visitors
Almost half a million people visited the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art since the opening of the new Bloch Building a year ago. But the museum's attendance figures—465,000 visitors between June 1, 2007 and June 1, 2008—falls 185,000 short of its goal of 650,000 visitors.
The Kansas City Star |
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New art gallery opens at Tempe Marketplace
ASU Herberger College School of Art's Night Gallery is opening reception June 26 Tempe Marketplace.
The Arizona Republic |
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West End Events
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT $"/> $"/>Gryphon D’Or Team Room: Exhibition of works by Dorothy Grostern until June 30. Hours are Mon., Tues. & Sat. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wed.-Fri. from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. At 5968 Monkland, NDG. Info: 514-485-7377.
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Painting Dropped Off at Goodwill Auctioned for $40,000
A painting dropped off at an Easton Goodwill store turned out to be a work by a French Impressionist. And now, thanks to the sharp eye of a store employee, the charitable organization is $40,000 richer.
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens on Mall
The festival runs through Sunday, takes a break and then opens for its second leg July 2 to July 6.
WTOP Radio Network |
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Whale License Plate Artist Wants His Tail Back
The Laguna Beach artist who created California's iconic whale-tail license plate is revoking the state's right to use his art after he was snubbed in his request that profits from the image be shared with his environmental group, it was reported Wednesday. Wyland, the marine muralist whose paintings of ocean life envelop buildings around the world, let the state use his hazy blue image of a ...
CBS 2 Los Angeles |
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Painting Dropped Off at Goodwill Auctioned for $40,000
A painting dropped off at an Easton Goodwill store turned out to be a work by a French Impressionist. And now, thanks to the sharp eye of a store employee, the charitable organization is $40,000 richer.
FOX 5 Washington D.C. |
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Kid's Art Show
The Yaquina River Museum of Art, Toledo, sponsors art teachers who lead classes in public and private schools of the area.
Newport News-Times |
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Ethiopia bans nude pics
Ethiopia has slapped a ban on what has been billed as the nation's first exhibition of nude photography, the photographer behind the show has said.
News 24 South Africa |
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Eddie Trunk's 25th Anniversary Bash to Feature Judas Priest at Hard Rock Cafe New York; Free Ticket Giveaway Contest ...
Famed rock guru EDDIE TRUNK revealed that Judas Priest (www.judaspriest.com) will be the featured performers on August 4th for his blowout 25th Anniversary Bash, cosponsored by Legends Harley Davidson and Hard Rock Cafe . Eddie, who is revered as the go-to guy for info on all things rock and heavy metal, announced that the special private show for 600 friends and fans will be at Hard Rock Cafe ...
Centre Daily Times |
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Colored pencil workshop to be in Newport
Learn about refining colored pencil painting techniques from author and instructor Kristy Kutch during a four-day workshop in Newport called “Colored Pencil: Delicate to Dynamic,” set for July 29 through Aug. 1.
Newport News-Times |
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