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Teenager Karen wins Music Means Life contest
A NEW star was crowned last night as thousands of pounds was raised to help young cancer sufferers across the region. The Journal
Paolo Nutini: These Streets (Festival Edition)
This week on Music Across Borders, it’s Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini and tracks from his debut album “These Streets.” Paolo Giovanni Nutini hails from the town of Paisley in Scotland. Radio Singapore International
Museums & Galleries
AerieArt Gallery — Wilmington. "Many Faces of Portraiture," original oils and watercolors, through Wed. By appointment. Park Plaza, Suite 25, 1100 Lovering Ave. 657-0445. Free. The News Journal
Linda McCartney's photos focus on her life, illness
LONDON -- An exhibition of Linda McCartney's photographs, picked by her husband, will open today at the James Hyman Gallery. The Columbus Dispatch
Chapel Hill names public arts chief
Town Manager Roger Stancil has hired Jeffrey York, director of public art and community design for the N.C. Arts Council, as Chapel Hill's new public arts administrator. He starts June 15. The News & Observer
THE SKINNY ON FREE STUFF OLIVIA FORTSON
TODAY ARTS Elizabeth Ross of Central Piedmont Community College debuts "Mother Earth/Father Time." It's billed as a celebration of the arts and includes Ross' paintings, photographs, films and prayer flags. The exhibit expresses her vision of the cycles of nature. It's divided into the four seasons. Each season has music and some dance from a variety of performers. There's a reception ... The Charlotte Observer
Portola Art Gallery show celebrates elements of spring
"A Day in May" exhibit includes a wide variety of plein air paintings, watercolors and photographs. Contra Costa Times
Nashville Film Festival Wraps with Patricia Neal, William H. Macy, Al Gore, Vincent D'Onofrio, Big Kenny and More; Box ...
The 39th Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) ended yesterday, smashing all previous attendance and ticket sales records after once again setting up shop for eight days at the Regal Green Hills Cinemas and spreading out throughout city with over 200 films and dozens of events. Steven Schachter's THE DEAL kicked off the festival on Thursday, April 24 with Schachter and the film's star William H. Macy ... PRWeb
New Innovative Solution for Modern Flash Photography
The VerteX™ can project diffused and specular light at virtually any angle, in multiple directions simultaneously from a single flash unit. This introduces on-the-go lighting solutions never before possible. (PRWeb Apr 25, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb889224.htm PRWeb
Summer festivals
Downtown Hoedown: featuring Josh Gracin, Jewel, Chris Cagle, Trisha Yearwood, Lonestar, Gretchen Wilson and more, May 9-11. Hart Plaza. Detroit Free Press
It's a clash of the jazz titans — Konitz and Ullmann play separate venues on the same night
The Ballard Jazz Festival climaxes Saturday with a main-stage concert featuring alto saxophone icon Lee Konitz. (See sidebar on page 5 for... Seattle Times
Q&A with graffiti artist GHOST, whose work is in a Seattle gallery
New York City graffiti artist GHOST, or "Cousin Frank" to his friends, is a long way from stumbling through the dark recesses of New York's... Seattle Times
Friday Melton Mustafa's Jazz Quartet
MELTON MUSTAFA'S JAZZ QUARTET: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), 770 NE 125th St., Joan Lehman Building, North Miami; 305-893-6211 or mocanomi.org. Local combo continues the tradition of Count Basie, blending swing and blues with a taste of bebop and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Miami Herald
Off the Grid
(92 mins, No Rating, ). Less is more at the 51st annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Noise Pop celebrates its sweet sixteen with expanded coverage of art, film, comedy, and a whole lot of noise. A look at how the music fests's indie empire has grown. East Bay Express
The Golem
(75 mins, No Rating, ). Less is more at the 51st annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Noise Pop celebrates its sweet sixteen with expanded coverage of art, film, comedy, and a whole lot of noise. A look at how the music fests's indie empire has grown. East Bay Express
NOW SHOWING
Less is more at the 51st annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Noise Pop celebrates its sweet sixteen with expanded coverage of art, film, comedy, and a whole lot of noise. A look at how the music fests's indie empire has grown. East Bay Express
Aspen's Young Curators present Wasted
ASPEN Among the first lessons learned by the 12 participants in the Aspen Art Museum's Young Curators of the Roaring Fork program was a potentially disappointing one. The Aspen Times
Critic's Pick Quisqueya Henríquez
Cuban artist Quisqueya Henríquez, who lived in Miami from 1993 to 1997, has earned international accolades for a wide range of work that seeks to bridge Caribbean culture and 'the world outside.' Now living in Santo Domingo, Henríquez's work of the last two decades is the subject of Quisqueya Henríquez: The World Outside, A Survey Exhibition 1991-2007, which opens Friday at the Miami Art Museum. Miami Herald
FEST TRAIN ROLLIN'
Music festivals are hotter than ever as a pop-culture force -- they even play near Peoria. This weekend, Coachella Valley kicks off the season. More than 300 music fans, some of them dancing in the aisles, rode this chartered Amtrak train Thursday from Los Angeles' Union Station to the low-desert city of Indio where this weekend they will join thousands of others for one of the signature ... Los Angeles Times
Steadzinger
They might seem a bit of an odd couple at first -- one a painter and the other the creator of kinetic mobiles, the former known for his idyllic nature watercolors, while the latter works in metals and plastics to produce his contemporary, often humorous sculptures. Erie Times-News
Museums, exhibits
NOTE. Museums and exhibits are listed alphabetically within main sections. Erie Times-News
Mississippi River Valley Scenic Drive scheduled for this weekend
The Mississippi River Valley Scenic Drive carves a path through Southeast Missouri as far south as Commerce and north to Perryville. Several rural communities and towns along the way will have festivals, music, dancing, crafts, living history events, camping and more. Southeast Missourian
Gallery starts with founder's vision
Sandra McCullough is not afraid to take risks, either in her artwork or her life. Ventura County Star
Shows of note
Northwest Masters The Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery has assembled this small but impressive show that pulls together work by some seminal Northwest artists: Guy Anderson, Louis Bunce, Kenneth Callahan, Clifford Gleason, Paul Horiuchi, George Johanson, Amanda Snyder, Jay Steensma and Milton Wilson, among others. The Oregonian