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Friday Happenings
Taste Test -- ICA's Talking Taste brings Boston's chefs to the South Boston waterfront to talk about their trade. Acclaimed chef Jody Adams of Rialto restaurant takes the dais tonight to discuss her approach to regional Italian cuisine. Institute of Contemporary Art, South Boston, 6:30pm. Free with admission; limited space. Trunk Sales Bias Design, a screenprinting shop in JP, ...
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Art School students display their work at Faulkner County Library
Works of art by students of the Art School of Conway will be on display at the Faulkner County Library throughout the summer. Winning entries from the Arkansas Arts Center's Young Aartists Exhibit and the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute's Art competition will be shown, as well as other works by students. The art exhibit includes pastels, pencils, charcol, watercolor and many other media.
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IN BRIEF
Someone broke into an auto body shop early Thursday, city police said. Officers responded to an alarm at 3:50 a.m. at Maaco Collision Repair & Auto Painting, 2330 E. High St., Lt. Aaron Kantor said.
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News: iLounge posts iPhone 3G unpacking, comparison photos
Though you’ve already seen the numerous casing shots we’ve featured in our First Look at the iPhone 3G, as well as the world’s first unpacking pictures taken in the wild, we have just posted our gallery of iPhone 3G comparison and unpacking photographs for your enjoyment. Available from our Flickr account, the set of photos shows off the iPhone 3G by comparison to the iPhone, iPod touch, ...
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Hot Entertainment Picks: 07/11/2008
To celebrate 10 years of Manitou Music Festival Dune Climb concerts, cellists Crispin Campbel and Eugene Friesen, plus a six-piece string and percussion ensemble, will perform a free concert Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Dune Climb located on M-109 between Glen Arbor and Empire.
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Labour coy over Tony Blair tennis match auction
LONDON (Reuters) - Labour remained coy on Friday about just how much the chance to play tennis with former Prime Minister Tony Blair is worth.
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MARKET SNAPSHOT: U.S. Stocks Drop Sharply Amid Rising Oil, Fannie Freddie Woes
U.S. stocks opened steeply lower Friday, retreating as oil eclipsed $147 a barrel at one point and worries intensified that a government bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would leave shareholders of the mortgage buyers with nothing.
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The Museum of Art and History hosts art display and sale to raise money for art education fund
Scattered along the perimeter of an open field at Quail Hollow Ranch in Felton, hidden by a thin veil of floating dandelions, there are painters at work, squinting through the morning light at their easels, dabbing swaths of color on blank canvases.
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NOT YOUR AVERAGE CHALK BOARD
Granard Middle seventh grade students drew their own chalk art May 30 for a final project for art teacher Noah Lindemann. Each art student had the opportunity of drawing a three-foot square design in the chalk art gallery.
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'Sgt. Pepper' drum sells for $1million
A drum pictured on the cover of an iconic Beatles album has been sold at an auction in London to a private collector for $1 million.The hand-painted bass drum, which appeared on the cover of the 1967 LP, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, went for four times the estimated amount at a Christie's sale of rock memorabilia Thursday, the Daily Express reported.A pair of glasses worn by John ...
Moldova.org |
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U.S. stocks drop sharply amid rising oil, Fannie Freddie woes
U.S. stocks open steeply lower, retreating as oil eclipses $147 a barrel at one point and worries intensify that a government bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would leave shareholders of the mortgage buyers with nothing.
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Art gallery considers post-Burtch future
Art Gallery of Algoma's board of directors meets later this month to lay the groundwork for the search for a new curator. Michael Burtch resigned June 1 after 27 years as the gallery's director. The 10-member volunteer board meets in about two weeks to "decide exactly [...]
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Local news
City council reversed its June 5 decision vis-a-vis getting a new art gallery back on track.
Woodstock Sentinel-Review |
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Local news
City council reversed its June 5 decision vis-a-vis getting a new art gallery back on track.
Woodstock Sentinel-Review |
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The Face: Vernon Ah Kee
ONLY one word can describe the response of Vernon Ah Kee's fourchildren to his artwork: "Underwhelming." When he asks one of them: "What do you think of this, mate?", the reply is a variant of: "Oh, it's good, Dad."
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Richard Dresser's 'A View of the Harbor' Premieres at WV's Contemporary Fest
The world premiere of Richard Dresser's A View of the Harbor is one of five plays being seen in rotating rep at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, WV, located 90 minutes outside of Washington, DC.
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From 'Bee Man' to 'Wiener Sausage', Capital Fringe Fest Begins in DC
The 2008 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC, runs July 10-27, when hundreds of creative and innovative performers, directors, designers and writers strut their stuff in numerous venues in the nation's capital.
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Students Win When Tennessee Museums and Schools Partner
Seven Chattanooga museums, working closely with school principals, teachers, and parents, are using museum collections to enhance and energize the curricula of two museum magnet schools in Magnifying the Museums: Enhancing Chattanooga’s Museum Magnet School Partnership.
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Artcirq brings new life to old Inuit diversions
Artcirq, Igloolik's circus troupe, have put on shows as far away as the deserts of Timbuktu, but there was something special about their performing for a home crowd inside a real, big-top tent during the Alianait Arts Festival in Iqaluit recently.
Nunatsiaq News |
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Diaspora London music village back to Hyde Park
North African bands and artists feature among line-up in festival of world cultures held 12-13 July.
Middle East Online |
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Mayo’s exhibit opens at the Cummer
The Mayo Clinic and the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens presented to the public a true combination of art and science when the exhibit “Scalpel to Sketch: The Science and Beauty of Medical Illustrations at Mayo Clinic” opened Thursday.
Jacksonville Daily Record |
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Labour coy over Tony Blair tennis match auction
Labour remained coy on Friday about just how much the chance to play tennis with former Prime Minister Tony Blair is worth.
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Four days of freedom, fun and frivolity
The wide-ranging amount of global talent and genres on display at the Winnipeg Folk Festival was neatly summed up during the opening night's mainstage programming. There was the mellow Tex-Mex pop of Carrie Rodriguez, energetic bluegrass from Nashville's Infamous Stringdusters; world music from Africa's Dobet Gnahore; literate indie-rock from Winnipeg's Weakerthans; and the mash-up of reggae, ...
Winnipeg Free Press |
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Artists in the frame
Howard Simpson of Stannington hangs his paintings ready for the Great Sheffield Art Show. (11/07/2008 14:24:52)
Yorkshire Post Today |
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Photo artistry in Nature with interest
Alan Casey works as a banker by day, but his interest in capturing nature in photographs and on canvas will be the subject of an exhibition at Bank of North Georgia.
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