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SINGfest set to play on and on
SINGAPORE: Fans of SINGfest, get ready for a new era of live music entertainment! Already touted as the biggest contemporary music festival in Singapore, producer Midas Promotions is already setting sights on creating an even bigger SINGfest come 2009 and offering not just an outdoor extravaganza.
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Urmila comes barefoot on Waar Parriwar!!
Tuesday's (July 15) episode of Waar Parriwar is based on the theme 'Religion'. All the contestants were dressed according to their respective religion and also sang songs representing their culture.
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Crowd gets fired up over rare pottery sale
ZANESVILLE - More than 700 pieces of pottery were on the auction block Sunday at the Zanesville Muskingum County Welcome Center.
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60 seven-foot vases up for auction this week
ZANESVILLE - Around 60 vases are scheduled to be auctioned off July 18 during Vase-apallooza.
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Wudinna sculpture in place after 16 years’ work
Sixteen years after a committee was formed to find an attraction for Wudinna, the Australian Farmer sculpture is now in place.
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Angrogna brings Alpine traditions to Festa Italiana
This year, Festa-goers are transported to the Alpine valleys west of the Piedmontese capital of Turin as the Gruppo Teatro Angrogna arrives to perform two shows a day each day of Festa Italiana, which runs July 17-20 at the Henry Maier Festival Park.
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Local artist's work speaks to vulnerable planet
often for the worse -- inspired local artist Linda King. The St. Joseph Island resident created an exhibit of mixed media collages, which debuted at the Art Gallery of Algoma Thurday night. With chemical spraying, pollution and other human activities, plants and animals are disappearing at an [...]
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Pop Art’s James Gill resurgent at Milan
Milan Gallery has landed a resurgent pioneer of the 1960s’ Pop Art movement, Texas-born James Gill, for an exclusive premiere beginning July 22. Gill will attend two 7 p.m. receptions, July 25 and July 26, at the gallery’s 505 Hous-ton St. showplace.
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Masters of sand make sculptures worth a long look
Thousands of people strolled in the sand at Imperial Beach over the weekend to view the entries in the U.S. Open Sandcastle Competition, one of the largest of its kind in the country.
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Press tour offers closer look at upcoming TV season
REALITY CHECK DeAnna Pappas chose Jesse over Jason on the finale of "The Bachelorette." And Christina outlasted Petrozza to win "Hell's Kitchen." Other reality show contestants getting the boot last week include:
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Sailfest: Something For Everybody
New London - The 31st annual Sailfest concluded Sunday with a celebration as varied and diverse as the city itself - a festival that
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The Bulletin brings home 21 awards
The Baxter Bulletin earned 21 awards — including seven first-place awards — at the Arkansas Press Association's News-Editorial 2008 Contest Saturday at Little Rock.
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Security and Fire Exhibition IFSEC India 2008 in Conjunction With FIREX India 2008 Brings to the Indian Consumer a ...
UBM India, a subsidiary of United Business Media Ltd. , has today announced IFSEC India 2008. To be held between 16 and 18 October 2008 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India, the event is one of South Asia's leading trade fair of its kind, which will deliver to end users and suppliers a unique communication platform which includes an exhibition and conference.
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Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport Team Up with OurStage.com to Select Performing Artists
OurStage , a music discovery destination providing professional opportunities for up-and-coming talent, has partnered with Festival Network's Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport to help identify best emerging artists for the 2008 line-ups.
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Aboriginal art decorates Games
The Vancouver 2010 Olympics has already started a public art program that will eventually result in works by aboriginal artists permanently installed at all 15 Olympic and Paralympic venues.
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Suzanne Koan captures Big Isle scenes
Hilo photographer Suzanne Koan has been shooting scenes around the Big Island for a number of years, and loves coming upon objects and moments. "It's my favorite use of photography - just being at the right place at the right time and seeing something beautiful and capturing it," she says.
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Of photographs that simultaneously convey distance and proximity
Can a photograph simultaneously convey a sense of distance and proximity? If it's been taken by a student of prominent German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, it most certainly can - as is evident at an exhibition underway here.
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Miss USA Falls, Miss Venezuela Takes Crown
Miss Universe Contest ends in a fall for Miss USA again.
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Miss Venezuela crowned Miss Universe 2008
Nhan Dan Online - Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza won Miss Universe 2008 pageant at a contest which closed on Monday morning July 14 at the Crown Conventional Centre in Nha Trang city. Miss Vietnam Nguyen Thuy Lam managed to make the final 15 contestants.
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IslamExpo has gained the moral high ground
Comment is free: Seumas Milne: Politicians who failed to attend the four-day festival arranged by British Muslims have been left looking craven and small-minded
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Kenya: City Slum Artist to Sell Kenya in the Czech Republic
Twenty-three-year-old Kenyan artist Adam Masava this month heads to the Czech Republic for an exhibition based on the plight of Kenyan people living in the slums and at the camps for the internally displaced.
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Seumas Milne: IslamExpo has gained the moral high ground
Seumas Milne: Politicians who failed to attend the four-day festival arranged by British Muslims have been left looking craven and small-minded
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Miss USA Goes Down, Miss Venezuela Crowned
Miss Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe 2008 in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening gown competition for the second year in a row.
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Former Joliet man changes career path and still spreads a message
Former Joliet resident Eric Raddatz was working as an extra on the set of the Matt Damon-Jim Carrey movie "Stuck on You" when he decided it was time to make his own independent films. His first film was accepted by the New York International Film and Video Festival. He's producing his newest film in conjunction with the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking.
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Johnnie Johnson Fest draws large crowd Johnson Fest draws large crowd
It wasn’t along the Mississippi Delta, but the sound of blues music resounded along the Monongahela River throughout the weekend when musicians from around the country struck a cord for the annual Johnnie Johnson Blues and Jazz Festival. A temperamental Mother Nature cooperated for the majority of the weekend as approximately 1,200 people filed into Palatine Park for the annual event. Those ...
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