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The 2008 Munich Opera Festival kicked off last week with the June 28 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust.
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Local artist on display at Great Ponds Gallery
LAKEVILLE — During the month of July, the Great Ponds Gallery in the Lakeville Public Library will display still life in oil paintings by Lakeville resident Vincent LoPiccolo.
The Standard-Times |
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Celebrate summer creativity in the library
LAKEVILLE — Throughout the summer the Lakeville Public Library will be hosting a series of Creative Hours. The art work that the children create will be on display in the Great Ponds Gallery in the library for the Lakeville Arts Festival and during...
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Mavericks Sign Gerald Green
An injection of youth and athleticism arrives in the form of Gerald Green, a former Slam Dunk Contest champ who signed a one-year deal with the Mavericks on Wednesday. The former first-round pick is only 22 years old and averaged more than 10 points per game just two seasons ago.
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In the eye of the storm
The Arab stars, among them theatre actress Samiha Ayoub, 76, actor Ezzat El-Alayli, 74, and TV script writer Mahfouz Abdel-Rahman, 75, sashayed in the hotel lobby where participants at the 8th Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam (AFFR) were lodged, as well as in the halls and corridors of the Cinerama cinema four blocks away.
Al-Ahram Weekly |
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Bouncing on a hot stage
What a debut for Jordan's Festival for Culture and Arts, due to start official on 8 July. The pre- festival activities have already been marred by an angry public, civil society boycotts and cancellations by many Arab and Jordanian artists.
Al-Ahram Weekly |
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Redlands Summer Music Festival
Friday, July 4 Dark for the 4th of July Tuesday, July 8 The Four Preps Original lead singer Bruce Belland, along with Bob Duncan, former leader of The Diamonds, and his fellow members from The Crew Cuts, perform some of America's favorite old Pop hits.
Redlands Daily Facts |
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Scranhattan Festival Premieres in Downtown Scranton
The city of Scranton is preparing for it's first arts festival in many years. It's called " The Scranhattan Festival " and its kicking off with a premiere Thursday night in the Electric City's downtown.
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Visas Denied to Bushmen Building Mud Huts in Virginia
Three West African bushmen recruited to build a mud-hut village at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia have been denied visas because officials say the men were poor, didn't speak English and failed to convince them their visit would be temporary.
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America's love-hate affair with freedom
Readers of The Saturday Evening Post would have had no trouble interpreting the magazine's cover for Feb. 20, 1943. The country was at war, and there was no ambiguity clouding Norman Rockwell's painting of a working-class man rising from an audience of suits and ties to speak at a town hall meeting.
Miami Herald |
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"The empire struck back and laid me off" [Photography]
A couple months ago we brought you the elegiac newsroom photography of Martin Gee, a designer at the San Jose Mercury News who picked up a camera one day and documented the ghostly quality atmosphere...
Gawker |
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Damp start for O2 Wireless Festival
Rain failed to dampen the spirits of music fans at the start of the four-day O2 Wireless Festival.
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Phillyist Framed Was a Success!
We're thrilled (and slightly relieved) to report the success of Friday's gallery opening, Phillyist Framed 2008 ! (If you're not sure what we're talking about, refer back to our original request for entries .) Our winning photographers rose to the challenge and supplied 24 beautifully framed pieces for the walls of Studio 34 . They also did a great job promoting their show and bringing ...
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Today Lawn concerts The free annual Summer Sunday Lawn concert at the Museum of the Southwest, 1705 W. Missouri Ave., continues today with Manda Hill, sponsored by Corey Sly Electrical Service and Lite Rock 98 KODM.
Midland Reporter-Telegram |
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Rantoul firm's work on display from museums to battlefields
RANTOUL – When the kids point out the "hairy elephants" on a trip to St. Joseph, Mo., later this year, you will know. A museum guide might say they are woolly mammoths that most likely came from the Arctic or the areas that now are Europe and Siberia.
The Champaign News-Gazette |
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Other screenings
AFI Friday Nights at the Nasher This week : Field of Dreams 8pm Friday at Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St, Dallas. Free. 214-242-5100; www.nashersculpturecenter.org Bollywood Films at FunAsia FunAsia has theaters in Irving and Richardson that show current films from the Indian subcontinent, in several languages. Most films have English subtitles and intermissions. Shown ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Residents flock to festivals, flea markets, concerts
Despite temperatures soaring toward the 90s, Lower Valley residents have little excuse for wasting away summer days inside. read more »
The Herald |
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Time Myth sculpture
A sculpture that had been proposed at the Open Space could be headed for a school for the arts after public outcry.
WPBN Traverse City |
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BamaJam May Stay in Coffee County
In the wake of the enormously successful BamaJam music festival, Enterprise developer Ronnie Gilley said he hopes to keep the 3-day event in Coffee County in the future.
The Enterprise Ledger |
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Museum unveils wax Hitler
Berlin's new waxwork museum has unveiled a figure of a glum-looking Adolf Hitler during the last days of his life, with some calling it distasteful.
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Pentax K200D gets reviewed
Filed under: Digital Cameras Pentax's K200D has been out and about for a little while now, but if you're still undecided about taking the plunge on the mid-range DSLR, you may want to pay a visit to Photography Blog, which has just put the camera through its paces. On the whole, they seem to have come away pretty impressed with it, saying that it offers a "substantial number of ...
Engadget |
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Watercolors by 13 artists, fine wine photos, and more
"Thirteen," works (watercolors, acrylics, oils, photographs, prints, sculptures) by 13 artists ... "The Fine Art of Wine," fine art photographs by Richard Ritter.
Newsday |
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Photo: Essence empowerment seminars start with youth rally
MICHAEL DeMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Artist Jarvis performs for about 5,000 youngsters from area camps during the Youth Empowerment session at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Thursday, part of this weekend's Essence Music Festival activities.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Performing arts
JULY Music Mimir Chamber Music Festival Through July 11. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. $25 per concert. 817-257-5443; www.mimirfestival.org Concerts in the Garden Through July 5. Forth Botanic Garden. $15-$18 for lawn; $22-$45 for reserved seating. Gates open 6:30pm, shows at 8pm. 817-665-6000; www.fwsymphony.org July 4: "Old Fashioned Family Fireworks Picnic" ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Tucked inside the serene, light-filled Kimbell is a buffet with more than one masterpiece
By CATHY FRISINGER The Buffet Restaurant at the Kimbell Art Museum has somehow always managed to be both simple and sophisticated, smart and serene. The setting has a lot to do with the restaurant’s success. Louis Kahn’s vaulted-ceiling museum is famous for the quality of the light in the galleries, and that same silvery light infuses the restaurant’s dining room. It would be hard, no ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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