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Swing sets: Fifth-annual Gypsy Swing Festival finds home in Madison-area barn
Got some gypsy in your soul? Next weekend is the time to take it out dancing. This Friday and Saturday mark the fifth-annual Midwest Gypsy Swing Festival, the only event of its kind in the region. Performed just south of Madison in a barn wired for sound, the former one-day celebration this year has grown to two days and will include a dance tent along with the concerts, workshops and late-night ...
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Journey Back To Woodstock, The Museum
Over the past four decades, thousands of Woodstock alumni have made the pilgrimage back to Max Yasgur's dairy farm to stand on the hill and remember the magical, mystical event.
Hartford Courant |
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Weekend bursting with live music
ASPEN - The Aspen Music Festival offers its final weekend of performances this season and Basalt River Days brings plenty of live music to Lions Park.
The Aspen Times |
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Aust capital spends up big on NZ's sculptures
The Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, Jon Stanhope, has waxed lyrical about a New Zealander's $A140,000 ($NZ175,680) kinetic sculpture -- bought with taxpayer funds.
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Sculptor's works ruined by copper theft
Easton (AP, Aug. 16, 2008 4:12 PM) -- Authorities say one or more copper thieves have destroyed some of the best pieces of a renowned sculptor from Easton.
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DINNER AT THE MOVIES
Film and food have long made a perfect pair. Starting in the 1970s, enterprising exhibitors allowed patrons to take their pilsner and pizza inside the picture show. The Brew'n'Views and Cinema Drafthouses were born.
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The Perfect Storm of Hipsterdom
Today's Star has a great article about hipsters (thanks Mark Jull for sending it in), which quotes Stillepost, cites Vice 's Gavin McInnes , and contests an Adbusters article declaring that "the hipster represents the end of Western civilization."
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Jewish German dynasty seeks Picassos lost in Nazi era
BERLIN (AFP) - A Jewish German banking dynasty is demanding that New York museums return two Picassos lost during the Nazi era that are worth 400 million dollars (270 million euros), a spokesman told Der Spiegel.
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Jewish German dynasty seeks Picassos lost in Nazi era
A Jewish German banking dynasty is demanding that New York museums return two Picassos lost during the Nazi era that are worth 400 million dollars (270 million euros), a spokesman told Der Spiegel.
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Old Woodland photo collection shown at county fair
Edward and Bill Hollingshead get together at the Paul W. Hollingshead Photography Exhibit in Waite Hall. Their mother and father, Vera and Paul, operated their Woodland photo studio from 1932 to 1967. Bill has been organizing the 5,000 photos and negatives the brothers inherited.
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Aust spends up big on NZ's sculptures
The Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, Jon Stanhope, has waxed lyrical about a New Zealander's A$140,000 (NZ$175,680) kinetic sculpture – bought with taxpayer funds.
Stuff |
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African World Festival draws crowds to Hart Plaza
DETROIT -- A man wearing a multi-colored outfit banged a djembe drum in Hart Plaza, and the exotic rhythm competed with the cool jazz radiating from a pair of large speakers nearby.
Detroit News |
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Photo Expo: Applications close on Aug. 31
The National Photographic Art Society of Sri Lanka which will hold its 14th International Photographic Exhibition 2008 shortly, calls for applications from interested photographers, freelance professionals and amateurs.
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Fireman is ultimate tribute artist
Brandon Bennett of Ponchatoula, La., turned out a high-energy version of "Polk Salad Annie" that convinced judges to name him winner of the 2008 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest Thursday night.
Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Renowned sculptor's works ruined by copper theft
A sculptor who came to the United States in the 1960s from Poland for artistic freedom is trying to repair some of his best pieces after they were destroyed by one or more copper thieves.
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The economics of the art fair
Several art dealers have told me in recent years that they foresee a time when art fairs will make the retail gallery financially impractical. This strikes me as a dire, even if implausible, forecast, considering the largely unacknowledged public service that...
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Longtime racing executive Benoit dies at 81
Robert P. “Bob” Benoit, founder and president of the racetrack photography group Benoit & Associates, died from pneumonia on Friday at Centinela Valley Hospital in Inglewood, California. He was 81.
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Exhibit chronicles American Indians in baseball
HOWES CAVE, N.Y. (AP) — Long before Jackie Robinson endured torrents of racial taunts in breaking baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Louis Sockalexis had a bull's-eye on his back.
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Denver: The lowdown on LoDo
DENVER — As we walk from Union Station to the city's new Museum of Contemporary Art, my husband and I have to stop chatting. We just can't hear each other.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Cannes awash in stars during famed film festival each May.
CANNES, France — The south of France oozes international movie glamour like no other place on Earth.
Austin American-Statesman |
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Mount Gretna Arts Festival
John C. Whitehead/The Patriot-News Artist, Jenae Michelle left, of Berwyn Heights, Marland shows a hand bag she made from vintage fabric to Jane Ziegenfus-Martin of Lancaster. Jenae who titled her 2008 line of bags "make bags not war" actually shot holes in the fabric with an AK-47.
The Patriot-News |
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Choctaw Nation Labor Day to be filled with music
The Choctaw Nation Labor Day Festival is just around the corner. Kicking off the weekend’s events will be the Choctaw Nation Princess Pageant at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, at the amphitheater on the Tribal Capitol grounds at Tuskahoma.
Durant Daily Democrat |
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Picturing the Process: Landscape Through Time and Space
Since its invention in 1839, the unique power of photography has been utilized to record, report, and inform.
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles |
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FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS TODAY!
The 15th Annual Festival of the Arts will again fill the boardwalk at the Port of Brookings Harbor with the work of more than 125 artists today and Sunday, Aug. 16 and 17.
Curry Coastal Pilot |
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Turkey Hunters to Meet August 22
The Tcheminahaut Spurs chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will hold its membership drive, auction and dinner on Friday, August 22, in the Hamburg Elementary School cafeteria.
Ashley County Ledger |
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