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Various factors influenced which performers to see
For Lavonne Maloney, choosing between the seven stages at the National Folk Festival was easy. “Shade is huge for me,” she said. She sat with her friend Sylvia Gobel under the tent at the Quartz Street stage on Sunday afternoon.
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Wildcat Glades hosts its first water festival
Carthage resident Christian King, 5, says he's going to be a zookeeper when he grows up, so his mother, Jennifer, is showing him what it's like to work with animals and nature.
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Strait to the top
Just when it appeared that things couldn't get any better for the Craven Country Jamboree, organizers unveiled their latest coup Sunday night -- country legend George Strait will be the Sunday night headliner for the 2009 festival.
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13th Annual Vince Koehler Film Festival Celebrates the Best of Japanese Anime
This month, the 13th Annual Vince Koehler Film Festival will feature a sampling of the best of Japanese Anime (animation) in English with our program: "Go Anime! Bambi Eyes and Robot Dreams"
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Call it the 'Road to Omaha Jr.'
The 13-year-old baseball players in their blue and orange uniforms climbed onto the "Road to Omaha'' sculpture outside Rosenblatt Stadium on Sunday and hammed it up for family members snapping pictures below.
Kearney Hub |
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Miss Venezuela is Miss Universe 2008
NHA TRANG, Vietnam (AP) -- Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2008 on Monday in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening gown competition for the second year in a row. The new Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza, was once kidnapped in her homeland and says the experience taught her to remain poised under pressure. Tension got under the skin of Miss USA, ...
The Oklahoman |
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Summer ARTs Camp for Kids
Each day will be a new project, with an exhibit of the children's work on July 18. Wire sculpture, painting, collage, and so much more. Instructors include Tony Davenport and photogrpaher and mixed media artist Jennifer Owens. Ages 6 and up.
Jackson Free Press |
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Zimbabwe: Manyonga to Exhibit at Richard Rennie Gallery
A COLLAGE of paintings dubbed Cattlescape - Abstracts of Wealth by renowned painter Percy Charakupa Manyonga would be mounted at the Richard Rennie Gallery in Alexandra Park in Harare on July 30.
AllAfrica.com |
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Sheppard to perform at Coutts
Take a nice refreshing break from the hot weather or a musical performance by Lemuel Sheppard Tuesday at the cool Coutts Museum of Art at 110 N. Main. Lemuel is an acoustic guitarist, song writer and vocalist who can move between traditional folk, spirituals and blues to his own urban folk originals.
El Dorado Times |
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Art proposals sought for NYC's Governors Island
NEW YORK (AP) - Officials are asking for proposals for art studios, exhibition space and a temporary entertainment and dining tent at Governors Island off lower Manhattan.
The Journal News |
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Libya: Al Ghurair Investment & ETA Ascon Star Group conclude US$2 billion deal with NOC
The Star Consortium comprising of the Al Ghurair Investments’ subsidiary TransAsia Gas International and ETA Ascon Star Group’s Star Petro Energy, have successfully concluded a deal with the National Oil Company (NOC) of Libya to set up a joint venture company to own and upgrade its Ras Lanuf refinery.
Mena Report |
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Miss USA falls down for 2nd straight year in Miss Universe pageant
Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2008 on today in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening gown competition for the second year in a row.
Courier-Post |
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Old Roadside Art to Be on Display at Randolph Museum
Thirty paintings will be on display at the Randolph County Museum in Beverly throughout the summer months on Fridays and Saturdays, beginning with Beverly Heritage Day on Saturday. The paintings will represent a period when a number of local artists were engaged in the production of artwork as an outgrowth of self-developed skills in oil painting.
The Inter-Mountain |
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Famed Authors to Participate in Eighth Annual National Book Festival
The 2008 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, rain or shine, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 3rd and 7th streets.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Good Day Baltimore: Ten fun things to do today
"The Thriftstore Mystery Paintings" by "Blaster" Al Ackerman - a series in acrylic that decorate the verso of Ackerman's first spoken-word album, "I am Drunk," for Stewart Mostofsky's EHSE label - are now on display for ArtScape. The backstory is that Mostofsky, a longtime Ackerman fan, commissioned the artist to decorate album covers with original acrylic paintings. Oh, and Ackerman has been ...
Baltimore Examiner |
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Miss Venezuela takes 2008 Miss Universe crown
Final five include four contestants from Latin America Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2008 on Monday in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening gown competition for the second year in a row.
Sun-Sentinel |
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Film shows conquistador statue fight
DALLAS - When a renowned artist proposed creating the largest bronze equestrian sculpture ever made, El Paso leaders thought the project would help beautify the border city while honoring a founding father.
Laredo Morning Times |
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Interactive Intelligence's "Outrageous Interactions" Contest Continues; Trip for Two to Hawaii on the Line
INDIANAPOLIS----Four months after its "Outrageous Interactions" contest launch, Interactive Intelligence continues to receive hilarious and wild stories from contact center agents, all vying for a trip for two to Hawaii.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Three Rivers Festival schedule
Highlights of this week’s Fort Wayne Newspapers Three Rivers Festival.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Art on the Ave festival in Tacoma turns 10
Tacoma’s Art on the Ave festival Sunday had something for everyone.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Exhibition Review: Fringe Benefits
The attention of Toronto’s “urbanist” community (myself included) tends to focus on the central part of the city, the old City of Toronto, which is the most traditionally “urban” in terms of layout and density and where we tend to work and live. Yet not only does the majority of Toronto’s population live in the [...]
Spacing Wire |
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Al Ghurair Investment & ETA Ascon Star Group conclude USD 2 billion deal with NOC, Libya
DUBAI, July 14, 2008: In a landmark achievement, the Star Consortium comprising of the Al Ghurair Investments Al Ghurair Investments ' subsidiary TransAsia Gas International and ETA Ascon Star Group ETA Ascon Star Group 's Star Petro Energy, have successfully concluded a deal with the National Oil Company (NOC) National Oil Company (NOC) of Libya to set up a joint venture company to own and ...
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60 mn Ravi Varma painting unveiled at Osian's
The historic painting by Raja Ravi Varma depicting a royal scene, the costliest ever of the well-known artist, was unveiled at the Osian's Cinefan festival of Asian and Arab cinema here today.
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Best small business
Castle Arts Foundry has won the thousand pound prize as the best small business in Wales in the British Small Business Champions 2008. Started in 1990, Castle Fine Arts is classed as one of the UK's leading bronze casting foundries and it has produced and installed sculpture all over the world.
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Al Ghurair Investment and ETA Ascon Star Group conclude $2bn deal with NOC, Libya
In a landmark achievement, the Star Consortium comprising of the Al Ghurair Investments' subsidiary TransAsia Gas International and ETA Ascon Star Group's Star Petro Energy, have successfully concluded a deal with the National Oil Company (NOC) of Libya to set up a joint venture company to own and upgrade its Ras Lanuf refinery.
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