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New Orleans museum exalts the art of the cocktail
Ted Haigh was fascinated by Hollywood's portrayal of cocktail culture even when he was well shy of legal drinking age.
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New Orleans museum exalts the art of the cocktail
Ted Haigh was fascinated by Hollywood's portrayal of cocktail culture even when he was well shy of legal drinking age.
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Aspen: Bear butters up monks
ASPEN, Colorado — An uninvited guest at The Aspen Institute insisted over the weekend on adding her signature mark to a butter sculpture created by a visiting Tibetan monk.
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Jennic to Demo Wireless near-Video over IEEE802.15.4
Jennic Ltd. continues to exploit the IEEE802.15.4 open radio standard by the demonstration of wireless "near video" transfer. Jennic will publicly show this for the first time at the Wireless Japan Show held at the Big Sight International Exhibition Centre in Tokyo this week.
Centre Daily Times |
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Business Tinkertown Museum
Visit Tinkertown and see the life work of Ross Ward, New Mexico’s most renowned folk art environments. See more than 40 years of wood carvings and collecting, including an animated miniature Western Town, Circus and Glass Bottle House.
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Brainwashed Recordings Releases Compilation
Experimental-leaning label, Brainwashed Recordings, has recently released a two-CD compilation, Peace (For Mom) , in memory of its founder's late mother, Marilyn Whitney. All proceeds go to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts, where Whitney often volunteered.
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Singing Butler artist to the rescue
Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, best known for his painting The Singing Butler, has donated a new drawing to help raise funds to keep the oldest art gallery in Wales open.
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Art of Photography show is presented by Arts Council
The Fulton County Arts Council’s Art of Photography show is presently on view in the lower level atrium space at Graham Hospital.
The Canton Daily Ledger |
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Jennic to Demo Wireless near-Video over IEEE802.15.4
TOKYO----Jennic Ltd. continues to exploit the IEEE802.15.4 open radio standard by the demonstration of wireless "near video" transfer. Jennic will publicly show this for the first time at the Wireless Japan Show held at the Big Sight International Exhibition Centre in Tokyo this week.
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Girl Scouts host art sale
Girl Scout Brownie Troop #65 will be hosting an art show and sale featuring original works of art with a Washington D.C. theme.
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The Hold Steady enjoy their status as the world's biggest bar band
Tad Kubler says it happened backstage at England's mammoth Glastonbury Festival last summer, when 177,000 attendees were introduced to the Hold Steady. 'We walked off-stage and the crowd noise was amazing,' he recalled. That's when the Hold Steady guitarist realized his Twin Cities-rooted, New York-based group was no longer just a bar band. "It was our first European festival, and we ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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The Hold Steady enjoy their status as the world's biggest bar band
Tad Kubler says it happened backstage at England's mammoth Glastonbury Festival last summer, when 177,000 attendees were introduced to the Hold Steady. 'We walked off-stage and the crowd noise was amazing,' he recalled. That's when the Hold Steady guitarist realized his Twin Cities-rooted, New York-based group was no longer just a bar band. "It was our first European festival, and we just stood ...
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Arts & Leisure: The sound of a photograph
Two unrelated solo shows on view at the Silverlens gallery, SymmetryDuality and Stranger, both raise the synesthetic effect of photography despite being products of contrasting creative processes. A person who has synesthesia, a condition that literally means "joined perception," might be able to taste a color or, in this case, hear a photograph. Although they aren't synesthetes in a strict ...
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Saba Institute discusses role of myth in painting
Iran - Culture - Mythology A panel discussion on the status of myth in painting was held at Saba Cultural Artistic Institute affiliated to Arts Academy on Tuesday.
Islamic Republic News Agency |
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Chinese Officials Nix Warhol Exhibition
Officials say there is no "Chinese art only" policy, but 18 Warhol works slated for a gallery exhibit will spend the Olympics in a warehouse
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The Hold Steady enjoy their status as the world's biggest bar band
Tad Kubler says it happened backstage at England's mammoth Glastonbury Festival last summer, when 177,000 attendees were introduced to the Hold Steady.
Belleville News-Democrat |
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First I Did...
4-H Clothing, Child Development, Interior Design, Consumer Education, Photography, and Computer projects were held Friday morning.
Shelbyville Daily Union |
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This Week In Hip-Hop
Wednesday: Following in her father's footsteps, Lalah Hathaway is a singer with a great deal of soul. She'll be at Wolf Trap 's Filene Center in Vienna. $25-$40, 8 p.m. Thursday: A few months back we visited the National Portrait Gallery 's continuing exhibit, RECOGNIZE! . The celebration continues with a "Hip-Hop Happy Hour" at the Gallery. The happy hour itself begins at 5 ...
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Calligraphy festival slated for October
Iran - Calligraphy - Festival Nationwide Calligraphy Festival will be held in Tehran in mid-October.
Islamic Republic News Agency |
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Artists Secret Society goes public in East Hampton
Last weekend in East Hampton, a man in a gorilla suit rallied support for an art movement and exhibition as colorful, unique and out of place as its conspicuous mascot.
Southampton Press |
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Helen Gardiner, 70
Philanthropist was co-founder of The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto
The Globe and Mail |
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Another view of life
Theyre creepy and theyre cute. Theyre mischievous to boot. The Herald-Mail gallery. Sometimes you just gotta be in the right place at the right time to photograph a quirky scene.
The Herald-Mail |
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Zara helps capture the sprit of adventure in giant portrait
Months after posing for her first official painting, Zara Phillips has unveiled a photographic portrait of herself. The four-metre-high work, which shows her gazing directly at the camera, her face bathed in light, is one of ten special portraits intended to capture the spirit of adventure.
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The Pawleys Island Festival of Music and Art lineup
The Pawleys Island Festival of Music and Art, a three-week long, multi-stage event is slated for September 12th – 28th. The Pawleys Island Festival of Music and Art line up includes such entertainers as Sam Bush, Barrage, the Waccamaw High School Chorus, the Hallelujah Singers, Chamber Music with Phillip Powell, Agnes Kael-Nagy and Erin Althoff, Chicago City Limits, the Litchfield Ballet ...
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Portland Museum receives $364,000 federal grant
The Portland Museum will receive a $364,126 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to install state-of-the art climate control systems to protect its collection, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth announced Monday.
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