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Books in Brief: Local
There's no one right way to write a life story. You can arrange it in chapters or as a series of vignettes. You can present it with or without illustrations. You can approach it from the outside looking in, as found in most biographies. Or you can tell it from an interior perspective, as in most memoirs. But whatever you decide, you must make the people, who are the subjects, come alive. To do ...
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Art gallery may close
EXETER and#8212; With a struggling economy, the Seacoast Artists Association is facing the potential closing of its Water Street gallery and looking for community support before its lease runs out in September.
Exeter News-Letter |
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Man Arrested for Photographing Topless Women at Lake Travis
On Saturday a Travis County park ranger arrested and charged Phu Ban Nguyen with improper photography for taking inappropriate photos of two topless women on Lake Travis. According to the arrest affidavit, the park ranger spotted Nguyen hiding in the bushes watching two women sunbathing topless. One of the women told the park ranger Nguyen was taking pictures with a telephoto lens.
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Cycling 'wheely' good for Sault residents
More Sault Ste. Marie residents are learning what Monica Vaes has known for quite some time. Riding a bike is not only good exercise. It's wheely fun. The interim curator, registrar and installation officer at Art Gallery of Algoma keeps her Norco street bike by her [...]
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YOUNG TALENT
Indi Kids Day Care recently held an art show at Ben Franklin Elementary School. The children of Camp IQ have been working all summer on various artistic techniques to provide an art show for their families and friends. The event is one of several to celebrate the end of the summer.
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Backstage at Virgin Mobile Festival '08: Chromeo
After showing the crowd at the dance tent their 'fancy footwork', hip synth-rock duo made their way backstage to show SPIN.com some interview love. Below, check out a clip of SPIN.com's Peter Gaston talking with Chromeo about the nature of remixes, and how British festival culture is different from U.S. attitudes. More on SPIN.com: Artist of the Day: Chromeo
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Customer Service
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces have inspired both young artists and prospective forgers seeking to recreate his vivid landscapes and portraits.
Brandon Sun |
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Smithsonian tries cell phone ads to draw tourists
The Smithsonian Institution will try luring tourists into an upcoming art exhibit by sending advertisements to visitors' cell phones.
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David Simon and Stars of HBO'S 'The Wire' Speak on Free Podcast at movingimage.us
A lively and candid panel discussion about HBO's The Wire, with series creator David Simon, writer Richard Price, and stars Seth Gilliam, Clark Johnson, Clarke Peters and Wendell Pierce, is now available online at the Museum of the Moving Image website Pinewood Dialogues Online .
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Dentist branded a terrorist after taking pictures of landmark shopping centre
When dentist Andrew Medina travelled to Birmingham for a photography exhibition, it was perhaps only natural to take a few pictures.
Daily Mail: World News |
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STYLEist: Talent Alert!
I met this young artist named Julian walking down Fairfax Ave. checking out the new hip stores that are popping up along Fairfax Ave between Beverly & Melrose. Julian and his mom were both wearing t-shirts hand painted by Julian and each shirt was a work of art. I wouldn't be surprised to see his designs being featured in a store or two along this avenue. There is an image gallery to this ...
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Scene invites interpretation
One exceptional piece of art can attract many visitors to an art center or museum.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Painter captures Ohio countryside in documentary style
Self-taught painter Michael Hoza, who bases his landscapes on the varied geographies of Ohio, is having his first solo show, at the Sharon Weiss Gallery.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Court of eye appeal
The business of the Ohio Supreme Court is legal, but its pleasure is artistic. More than 170 artworks -- with more on the way -- grace the Ohio Judicial Center at 65 S. Front St., Downtown.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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That Bear Isn't Art, It's Real
A small black bear may have been among those checking out the artwork at the annual Loveland sculpture show over the weekend.
KMGH 7 Denver |
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Painting preserves a landmark for senior center fundraiser
Holly Buxton remembers riding her bike to the swinging bridge in Crawley Bottom in the summer when she was a young girl.
Park Hills Daily Journal |
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
This is the first extended interview with University of Iowa Museum of Art interim director Pam White about the University of Iowa regents' plans to explore the potential sale of Jackson Pollock's 1943 Mural.
Arts Journal |
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Smithsonian Tries Cell Phone Ads To Gain Tourists
The Smithsonian Institution will try luring tourists into an upcoming art exhibit by sending advertisements to visitors' cell phones.
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SEENEWS – news report of 11.08.2008
Updated news from Balkan Europe powered by www.seenews.com Monday 11 August 2008, by Emanuele G. - 0 letture Albania To Auction 2.2 Bln Leks (18 Mln Euro) of Two-year T-Notes on Thursday Aug 11, 2008, 11:15 CET Story SeeNews TIRANA (Albania), August 11 (SeeNews) - Albania’s central bank will auction on Thursday 2.2 billion leks ($27.8 million/18.2million euro) in two-year Treasury notes, ...
Girodivite |
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Smithsonian tries cell phone ads to draw in tourists
Associated Press - August 11, 2008 12:45 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - The Smithsonian Institution will try luring tourists into an upcoming art exhibit by sending advertisements to visitors' cell...
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HBO filiming comedy shows in Mandeville
HBO is coming to Mandeville. Its mission, to film the Black Renaissance Comedy Tour at Benedict’s Plantation at 1144 N. Causeway Blvd., and you’re invited.
St. Tammany News |
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Travel: Holidays
A sand sculpture created to congratulate Abhinav Bindra for his Olympic feat, in Bangalore. (PTI Photo)
The Times of India |
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Smithsonian tries cell phone ads to draw in tourists
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Smithsonian Institution will try luring tourists into an upcoming art exhibit by sending advertisements to visitors' cell phones.
WAVY 10 |
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Naturally Beautiful
Although Tom Price is proud of his photograph of a fawn, which took third place in the Outdoor Alabama Photo Contest and is now on display in the Junior League Gallery at the Bama Theatre, another of his nonwinning entries shows the aims of the exhibit equally well.
The Tuscaloosa News |
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Pencil This In
FILM: Starting tonight BAMcinématek presents The Films of Azazel Jacobs . "Jacobs has spent the last few years forging his cinematic vision—he is a unique independent filmmaker in an age when American independent cinema is faced with a creative drought. This series gathers three features by Jacobs— son of famed avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs—including his recent Sundance Film Festival hit ...
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