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Best of Day 2
This gallery contains the best photos from Day 2 of the Beijing...
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Senate passes AGIA; bill sits on Green's desk
TransCanada could begin aerial photography, satellite imaging of potential natural gas pipeline routes and preliminary environmental work this month, now that the Alaska Senate approved the company's exclusive license for pipeline work.
Alaska Journal of Commerce |
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Best of Day 1
This gallery contains the best photos from Day 1 of the Beijing...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Best of Gymnastics
The U.S. gymnastics team is up against the wall without the Hamm brothers. Explore this photo gallery for all the thrills and spills of the gymanstics...
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Sniffing for oil
An Ojai-based oil company could start drilling in San Benito County within months, if county planning commissioners approve the project. Five Oaks officials own the land, a 13,000-acre cattle ranch near the Monterey County border south of Pinnacles National Monument.
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Regal Fox Run theater features Cirque du Soleil, Rent
NEWINGTON – Regal Entertainment Group, a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating the largest theater circuit in the United States, will present two digital projection special events through The Hot Ticket by Sony Pictures Releasing at Regal...
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Defcon opens with a bang, contests, and intrigue
Hacking conference begins with the usual lockpicking contests, software hacks, and target shooting, but also three fewer journalists.
CNET |
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Arts for ACT brings in celebrity auctioneer
Arts for ACT named its celebrity guest auctioneer for its major fundraiser. Television personality Niecy Nash will do the honors.
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Regents consider selling Pollock painting
A University of Iowa regent's plan to sell a painting by Jackson Pollock has sparked an outcry among critics of the plan.University Regent Michael Gartner says the painting could be sold to help pay for $16 million in damage to the school's arts campus sustained in June's flooding of the Iowa River, The Des Moines Register reported Friday.In all, the university has an estimated $232 million in ...
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Regents consider selling Pollock painting
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A University of Iowa regent's plan to sell a painting by Jackson Pollock has sparked an outcry among critics of the plan.
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Steve Carr: A Shot in the Dark
Michael Lett is pleased to present A Shot in the Dark, a new exhibition by Steve Carr.
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Tate Britain: Art with legs
In Martin Creed's Work No. 850, the neoclassical expanse of the Duveen gallery will be filled with the sound of pounding feet
The Globe and Mail |
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Bird's Nest turns into cauldron of Chinese civilization
The rich tapestry of Chinese civilization came alive in a constantly evolving and abstractly fascinating scroll painting.
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The Launching Allee Party
Things were jumping last night at "Willis Wonderland", Alle Willis' super-cool party pad. The party was in celebration of the launch of "Bubbles and Cheesecake's" new video, "Editing is Cool". "Bubbles" is Alle's singing, painting alter-ego, and "Cheesecake", Bubble's collaborator, is the alter-ego of Holly Palmer, who recently spent some time on the road with Gnarls Barkley. The video, a ...
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Downtown Gets Its Close-up
Among the stars appearing in features and shorts at the Downtown Film Festival-Los Angeles are Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Harry Shearer, Andy Dick, Dan Castellaneta and... Downtown Los Angeles?
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'Rockefeller' saga a tale of multiple identities
Clark Rockefeller may not really be a descendant of the oil tycoon, but if authorities and reports are to be believed, he sure was a lot of other things: Read comments
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Summit County Fair plans to end with a bang
Bulls, barrel racing, dance troupes, quilts, art exhibits, a hypnotist and a professional rodeo and firework show will bring an end to another season
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The End of John Edwards
In the three national campaigns he has run - two for the Democratic presidential nomination and one as the party's vice presidential nominee - John Edwards won a grand total of one contest -- the South Carolina primary in 2004. But amazingly, he managed to emerge from each losing effort with his political standing not only unharmed, but actually enhanced. His 2004 primary bid, which peaked ...
The New York Observer |
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Two-Lane Blacktop, London
Serpentine Gallery, W2, Fri 15
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Gone to pots at Anderson Ranch
SNOWMASS VILLAGE - At the Anderson Ranch Arts Center's campus in Snowmass Village, the painting department and the photography department have relatively modern, spacious buildings. The galleries in the main building fairly sparkle.
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Sept. 13 is the date for the first annual Art for History Fine and Decorative Arts Auction for Historical & Genealogical Society. Funds raised will be used to make needed repairs to the 1780’s barn at the Cape May County Museum and to install a handicapped access ramp to the barn.
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Lapeer Days set for Aug. 15-17
LAPEER -- Billed as one of the state's premiere festivals, Lapeer Days returns to downtown Lapeer Aug. 15-17 offering free admission and non-stop entertainment.
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Will Self: PsychoGeography
This is a prescient image; Ralph drew it in the early 1970s during the Opec-organised oil price hikes. At that time, those with their field artillery positioned on the commanding heights of Western economies sold us the line that all we were seeing was a flexing of the Gulf rulers' muscles, entirely to be anticipated in the post-colonial era, and so nothing to fret about. Ralph – and some ...
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Di Suvero, Wagner works make lasting impression
We encounter and recollect artworks one at a time. So I have chosen three favorites among things now on view in three San Francisco gallery shows. These choices do not purport to represent the shows in which I found them. Instead, they mark what lingered in...
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Demystifying Hex Signs, the Colorful Soul of Pennsylvania Dutch Decor
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Dutch influence on the Lehigh Valley shines through in any number of ways: the food, the festivals, the language.
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