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Mills-Mills top team in Walleye Festival
Robert Mills of Ulm and Matt Mills of Great Falls won the $10,000 top prize in the Canyon Ferry Walleye Festival last weekend at the Silos Recreation Area. Mills and Mills caught 10.98 pounds the first day and 20.7 pounds of walleyes the second f ...
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[Best Bets] Monday, July 7
The Clinton Community Nature Center begins their week of education workshops at 8 a.m. Pre-registration is required; call 601-926-1104 for details. … Candy’s Art Camp for children ages 6-14 begins at the Mississippi Craft Center , teaching the fundamentals of drawing and then moving into painting and sculpting. $135; call 601-856-7546 for details.
Jackson Free Press |
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Black history exhibit coming
A museum exhibit celebrating 400 years of African-American contributions to the nation will be announced Friday, and a mobile preview will visit here this month.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Video: Choe U Ram's robotic art
Filed under: Robots Korean artist, Choe U Ram, possesses something most artists don't, a deep understanding of robotics. With it, he creates massive, precision engineered sculptures with an eerie organic feel. While his show titled, Anima Machines (Anima is Latin for life or soul) just wrapped up at Japan's SCAI The Bathhouse gallery, we've managed to collect a few images and video of ...
Engadget |
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Park District art contest deadline is extended
The city of Naperville and the Naperville Park District are extending the Community Art Contest deadline to July 14.
The Naperville Sun |
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Complete coverage of the Rothbury Music Festival
When fans begin arriving at the Rothbury festival today, they'll likely be struck by the lush beauty of the place: sumptuous rolling hills, sparkling blue lakes, forests outfitted with a kaleidoscope of lights.
Detroit Free Press |
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'Flag' portraits capture Maine East's diversity
The assignment started out simple: photograph something important to you. But for Laura Matzen, an art teacher at Maine East High School trying to get a master's degree, her simple assignment became a book of 56 faces. Her book is titled "56 in Harmony" and it contains the portraits of 56 Maine East students taken during the 2004-05 school year.
Morton Grove Champion |
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Winning artist to show off work at Newcastle gallery
A prize-winning artist will be exhibiting his work at Newcastle Museum and Art Gallery for the first time. Neil Taylor-Cashmore was the People's Prize winner in the museum's Open Art 2007 competition, after winning the most votes from the public. His ...
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Trodden grass at fest spurs no stress
City officials predict little more than trampled grass when an expected 5,000 or more people converge on downtown Des Moines’ Western Gateway Park for this weekend’s 80/35 music festival.
The Des Moines Register |
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Toledo gives $223,300 to arts commission
The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo is getting $223,300 from the city for this year's public art program.
The Toledo Blade |
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News to Yous
On Saturday, July 19, the Wildling Art Museum will host a Botanical Illustration Workshop at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in concurrence with its ongoing Endangered Species: Flora & Fauna in Peril exhibit.
Santa Barbara Independent |
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Exhibit showcases artist's nighttime photographs
When photographer Lynn Saville looks through her lens, she discovers beauty in what most of us miss.
Montgomery Advertiser |
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Orford, Quebec, and environs flush with summer music
ORFORD, Quebec -- Festival Orford offers music, master classes and a relaxing and artistic walk through the woods. "It's the 57th edition of the festival, and it's bigger, better, stronger than ever before," said Davis Joachim, executive director of the Orford Arts Centre.
Plattsburgh Press Republican |
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S. Booker "Finale" exhibition opens Saturday at NCCCA
PLATTSBURGH -- The big woman, black and pretty in pink, is singing at "Finale," the last solo show ever of artist S. Booker at the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts.
Plattsburgh Press Republican |
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The Corscaden Barn opening exhibition shimmers with talent
EENE VALLEY -- The lawn was freshly mown around the Corscaden Barn on an increasingly muggy Keene Valley day. The insect kingdom was out in full force, and Harry Matthews swatted away while trying to delicately balance stones one upon the other in the garden and through the woods.
Plattsburgh Press Republican |
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Oil surges to a new high
Stock markets are expected to come under more pressure after oil prices surged to a new record above $145 a barrel.
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Screaming meemies
Gottfried Helnwein’s exhibition “Angels Sleeping” is a cross-section of this provocative, hyper-realistic painter/photographer’s work in five thematic sections that span the late 1980s to the present.
The Prague Post |
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Artist turns 112
Frank Calloway, an artist living at the Alice Kidd Nursing Home, turned 112 Wednesday. His artwork, created primarily in crayon, has been featured at the Consumer Art Exposition and on the 2002 state phone book. -- Staff report
Montgomery Advertiser |
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Museum plans lecture, workshops, and teas
Six painters who use the classical techniques of old master’s realism continue...
The Toledo Blade |
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See For Yourself How Steiger Tops Deere
Compare Case IH Steiger® Series tractors and the John Deere® 9030 series with a new online tool at www.AdvantageCaseIH.com . This interactive tool allows head-to-head comparisons, with 360-degree interior and exterior photography, videos, animation and illustrations that allow users to interact with the tractors and explore their various features and attachments. In the process, it also ...
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Discovered Sword with Ties to the Battle of the Alamo at Frontier Times Auction
A sword with associations with the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto is going up for auction next week at the Frontier Times Western Auction in San Antonio, Texas. It is featured along with other major historical artifacts and documents including a shotgun and personal belongings of outlaw John Wesley Hardin, a Dalton Gang rifle plus a rare documented Colt .45 and gun rig ...
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14 Festival Award Winners Announced During the 2008 Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival completed a 4 day run with surging attendance and a real taste of Independent Film making. More than 60 film makers were in attendance throughout the Festival representing 20 countries. The intensity was high. http://PhiladelphiaIndependentFilmfestival.com (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at ...
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Area Museums Feature "2 for 1" Specials During the Month of September for Florida Residents
ResortQuest offers Longboat Key vacation rentals for out-of-town visitors, conveniently located near participating museums. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1072224.htm
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Reality bites - through the gloss of TV shows
Until a few days ago, 'Dhoom Macha Le Dhoom' was one of many dance contests aired on every television channel, paying obeisance to reality shows as the mantra to TRP nirvana.
Calcutta News |
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A race to the photo finish line
The marvels of digital photography have levelled the playing field somewhat between the professional and the "prosumer" with the fancy gear who may not be as skilled but is bound to find something frame-worthy on a 4GB memory card filled with several thousand snapshots. It's all about the odds.
Toronto Star |
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