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A different take on 'Romeo and Juliet'
Delaware Shakespeare Festival takes on classic story
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Rebuilding of Deer Lodge theater starts
A dinner and auction in Deer Lodge last month netted nearly $50,000 for the Rialto Community Theater restoration project.
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Jazz revival
ummertime is no time to chill out for Byron Stripling. The jazz trumpeter and singer is spending the hot months juggling national appearances with performances near and far by the orchestra he directs. On June 25, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra opened the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado with a New Orleans-themed show; this month and next, the orchestra will give outdoor concerts at ...
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Movie captures Alaska's light but not, alas, a tax credit
A crowd of local extras helped wind up the Alaska shooting segment of "Godspeed" on Thursday. The film, described as "an intense, dramatic thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun," is written and directed by Robert Saitzyk. Saitzyk's last film, "White in Winter," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Shooting in Alaska's green summer was, he said, "almost like a ...
Anchorage Daily News |
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Masks are highlight in exhibit that lacks focus
Inupiaq Eskimo artist Aakatchaq Schaeffer uses only her first name in her artwork. Born and raised in Kotzebue, she began her career in art by painting portraits and has worked professionally since 1999. She started with acrylics but has moved on to animal skins, metal and wood.
Anchorage Daily News |
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Festivals soaked up
They danced, they drank and they dripped. Thousands of people were drawn to London's festivals yesterday despite an afternoon downpour that brought a temporary halt to the celebrations.
London Free Press |
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Artscape a fun escape for many
City arts festival attracts performers, visitors from Baltimore and beyond, in spirit of joy and creativity As they meandered among paintings, sculpture and crafts, patrons of Artscape could also take in a street performance.
Baltimore Sun |
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Bicycle Film Festival hits San Francisco
In a way, the Bicycle Film Festival happened by accident. It was a bright and sunny New York day in 2000, when Brendt Barbur was riding around on his single-speed bicycle running errands. Having just moved from San Francisco, Barbur was thinking how...
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GAS PRICES GOT YOU DOWN? FORGET ABOUT IT WITH BICYCLE MOVIES
Today's cover story couldn't be more timely. With gas prices soaring, what better time to focus on the Bicycle Film Festival? Delfín Vigil provides an overview of the festivities, which include not only seven programs of screenings over two days but also a...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Coastal community news briefs for Sunday, July 20
Museum Star Ball set for July 26 OCEANSIDE ---- Oceanside Museum of Art's Museum Star Ball will be held July 26 at OMA's new Biogen Idec Terrace. There will be dinner, dancing, and a silent auction featuring the work of renowned artists.
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Auction's proceeds to help sick children
Several patients under treatment at Holtz Children's Hospital recently helped create a special painting with internationally known marionette artist Pablo D. Cano. The finished art will be sold in October at the International Kids Fund Latin American Art Auction.
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Walters presents new 'Faces'
Yemen exhibit shows public a little-known culture W hen University of Maryland medical school graduate Giraud Foster became the personal physician to the king of Yemen in 1961, he developed a strong interest in that ancient land and a passion for archaeology that stayed with him for life.
Baltimore Sun |
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Art: Call him what you
As I ambled through Garry Knox Bennett's exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum, I thought of Walt Whitman's lines from Song of Myself: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes."
Philly.com |
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Sondheim Prize gala
Scene & Heard P eople may come to the Baltimore Museum of Art to see the work of many internationally renowned artists, but a recent gathering there was to celebrate local talent.
Baltimore Sun |
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Sherman E. Lee, 90; former director of Cleveland art museum gave it international prestige
Sherman E. Lee, a former longtime director of the Cleveland Museum of Art whose keen-eyed collecting of old European and Asian masterpieces gave it international prestige, died of natural causes July 9 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 90.
Los Angeles Times |
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Clubs
SOMERSWORTH — The Woman's Club of Somersworth will be touring the Ogunquit Art Museum after lunch on Wednesday, July 23. Members interested in going should contact Robin Janetos at 749-5826, or be at her home by 11:30 a.m. to car pool.
Foster's Daily Democrat |
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Weekly entertainment calendar
Arab & Chaldean World Festival: Featuring live music and dance performances, noon-midnight Hart Plaza, downtown riverfront, Detroit. 248-960-9956. Free. Czech & Slovak Festival: 12:30-7 p.m. Sokol Cultural Center, 23600 W. Warren, Dearborn Heights. 313-278-9493.
Detroit Free Press |
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The Eye: Baltimore Museum of Art
Name: Theresa Colvin
Baltimore Examiner |
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Community Calendar
TODAY, July 20Art in the garden — 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Fremont Art Association and Regan's Nursery have teamed up for an art-in-action weekend. Artists will be drawing, painting and creating jewelry and exhibiting ceramic pieces, textile art and photography in a garden setting.
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Character of the city
Avid historian puts nuggets of history in Saratoga book Twelve years ago, Timothy Holmes moved from New York City to Saratoga Springs, and immediately immersed himself in the history of his new hometown."As soon as I moved here, I became very preoccupied with it," he said. "It's the character of the city." Holmes, an avid Saratoga historian and member of the Saratoga Springs History Museum, ...
Albany Times Union |
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www.myguitarspace.com Launches Today, July 18th, 2007
http://www.myguitarspace.com proudly announces its launching. For guitarists of all levels, this social networking site is niche-specific to guitar players. Provides opportunities to promote artists or bands, and highlight upcoming gigs. Also features guitar contests, guitar humor, free guitar stuff, guitar charity, and video tablature. (PRWeb Jul 20, 2008) Read the full story at ...
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W. Broward makes strong showing at pageant
West Broward was well-represented in the recent Miss Florida USA Pageant. Anastagia Pierre of Plantation beat out 48 other contestants to win the coveted Miss Florida USA title July 12 at Broward Community College's Bailey Concert Hall in Davie.
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Signposts: Hidden Afghan art travels to U.S.
Exhibit stops at National Gallery of Art and San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. Also, Pleasant Holidays offers great deal on Hawaii's Big Island and Hertz unveils big savings with new refueling policy.
Inside Bay Area |
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Brazilian police recover stolen Picasso print, as wiretap leads to arrest in museum robbery
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Police have arrested a suspect in the heist of two Pablo Picasso prints from a museum in Sao Paulo and recovered one of the works, police and a museum official said Saturday.
Arizona Daily Star |
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Band-Aids, zippers open up family discussion in Chenicek's work
On view at the Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery through Aug. 8, Laura Chenicek's mixed-media paintings offer a frank discussion of family — the ways that relationships are often defined not by nurturing, but by hurtful comments and behaviors. The artist paints alluring landscapes, then incorporates text, bandages and zippers as a way of inviting the viewer to consider the painful realities that ...
The Tennessean |
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