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Quick Hits: Rage Against The Machine, Jerry Finn, Kid Rock, The Who, Ben Folds, VH1 Hip Hop Honors, David Gilmour
Rage Against the Machine has partnered with the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Tent State University to perform as part of the Tent State Music Festival To End The War . The event will take place during the Democratic National Convention on August 27 at Denver Coliseum.
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County News Briefs
Tickets for the inaugural concert of Concerts at the Adobe are now available at several locations in Nipomo, San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria. Ticket outlets include:
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Pencil This In: Thursday
FESTIVAL *: The first ever Downtown Film Festival – Los Angeles began yesterday and continues through the weekend with 23 feature and 180 short films at venues throughout Downtown L.A., from the historic movie palaces on Broadway Avenue to Barker Block and SCI-Arc in Downtown’s Arts District. Featured tonight are A Beautiful Life at the Laemmle Grand and Audie & the Wolf at the Los ...
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Africa on display through series of special events
The roots, rhythm, strength and pride of Africa will be celebrated in three independent events over the next few weekends. The Ghanaian-Canadian Achievement Awards; Toronto African Dance Festival a...
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Bring the French country romance into your bedroom with Maishaa's new Thread Art Collection.
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On A High Note
John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony, in its West Coast premiere at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Saturday night, revealed the difficulties the composer had previously admitted in making a symphonic synthesis from his opera of the same name.
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Branson Comedy Festival All Stars
The Branson Comedy Festival All Stars area coming to Grove, Oklahoma on Friday, August 22. The “All Stars” include some of America’s funniest (and clean) stand up comedians including winners of the 2007 Branson Comedy Festival.
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Zellweger Movie Finishes Shooting
Principal photography has concluded for a Renee Zellweger movie that was shot mostly in Baltimore.
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Sky Blue is on the Palette for Vermont Festival of the Arts
Now in its second week, the Vermont Festival of the Arts is enjoying whatever patches of sky blue may be found.
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211(me) and Showcase Live Team Up for the Pay My Rent! Comedy Contest Featuring Dave Attell
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All Points West: music and logistics
This past weekend's All Points West festival at Jersey City's Liberty State Park was a treat of mellow vibes and generally well-handled logistics -- with 80,000 people attending three 10-hour days of alt-rock music with the Manhattan cityscape and the Statue of Liberty in the background.
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Larger Than Life Painting
A larger than life painting is now on display in Terre Haute. The masterpiece is titled, 'Teaching The Young to Fly.' It's the third mural in the Gilbert Wilson Memorial Project. It was painted by Tom Torluemke, a renowned artist from the Chicago area.
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Female Racers Honored at International Motorsports Hall of Fame and Museum
TALLADEGA, Ala. August 14, 2008 - Patty Moise could wheel a stock car. For more than twelve years she competed in what are now the NASCAR Sprint Cup and NASCAR Nationwide Series.
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Michihiro Kosuge, Gina Wilson, Sally Haley at Laura Russo Gallery
It's been the paradox of the regional artist for a long time: You can have a quietly respectful career here, exhibit regularly at local commercial galleries and receive the occasional nod from a regional museum, too.
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Zellweger movie finishes shooting
Principal photography has concluded for a Renee Zellweger movie that was shot mostly in Baltimore. "My One and Only" stars Zellweger as a glamorous divorcee in search of a wealthy new husband in the 1950s. It's based on the childhood memoirs of actor George Hamilton.
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'Young Curators' take over Bond Gallery
"You have 10 feet to work with. Bring me something new," is basically all Bond Street Gallery's Amani Olu told the curators of the new photography show "Young Curators, New Ideas."
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Barbie gets a makeover
The iconic Barbie doll is the subject of artistic expression at the Altered Barbie exhibition in San Francisco.
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SAC nearly ready to unveil addition
OWOSSO - When Piper Brewer walks through the center's new 1,200-square-foot gallery with glass walls in three directions, she has little time to appreciate the beauty of the setting - she's too busy overseeing details as SAC's new addition prepares to open to the public.
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News, music, movies, events & restaurants in Santa Cruz, California from Metro Santa Cruz weekly
Oil and Water Thirty years after forming to fight oil drilling off the Santa Cruz coast, Save Our Shores is still battling to keep petroleum out of the ocean.
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Library forms its own Arts Advisory Committee
After the Barrington Area Arts Council shut down last year, staff members of the Barrington Area Library knew it wanted to continue displaying art in the library's gallery space.
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Production Designer Sarah Greenwood to Receive Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Production Designer of the Year ...
Academy Award-nominated Production Designer Sarah Greenwood, whose work will be featured in Dreamworks' upcoming "The Soloist" and Warner Brothers' "Sherlock Holmes," will receive the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Production Designer of the Year Award at the Festival's October 27 Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony.
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Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival kicks off Saturday
BRUNSWICK — The public is invited to the sidewalks of Maine Street for the second annual Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine.
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Arts around the Mid-coast; August 14, 2008
Roomful of Blues celebrates new CD in Auburn AUBURN — The horn-fueled award-winning band, Roomful of Blues, will celebrate the release of a new Alligator CD, "Raisin' A Ruckus," with a live performance on Sunday at the Great Falls Balloon Festival . Since 1967, the group's deeply rooted blend of swing, rock 'n' roll, jump, blues and soul has earned it five Grammy Award nominations and a slew of ...
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The Land of Hollywood—Eretz Hollywood
Recently, I met with a headshot photographer in the Hollywood hills, off Laurel Canyon. I had already taken headshots with another photographer, but I wasn't thrilled with them. They weren't cheap either, so I was frustrated to chart the photography frontier yet again and shell out more money.
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NCsoft Auctions Ability to Send Human DNA Into Space
NCsoft(R) announced today that it will auction an opportunity for one person to send their digitized DNA into space on a special Operation Immortality sale on the popular Internet auction site, eBay. The news comes just days after the company announced that an Immortality Drive, a time capsule with the digitized DNA of select video gamers and space aficionados, and a collection of humankind's ...
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