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Wooden ships ahoy!
Wooden boats - old and new - on display. Boat racing and foot races in and along the scenic Yaquina River. Games and activities for children of all ages. Building a boat. Learning to play the fiddle. Great music, food vendors, Coast Guard displays, beer garden, silent auction.
Newport News-Times |
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Biz Buzz:New art exhibit downtown
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Sevens Ale House auction raises funds for Agape Inn
On Thursday, July 26, John D. “Jack” Kiley, owner of the Sevens Ale House on Charles Street in Boston, presented a check for $27,455 to benefit Agape Inn in Holbrook and two other programs of James F. Farr Academy, Inc.
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Artist of the week no 3: Pipilotti Rist
"I want to feel guilty," says the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, with the infectious, if mildly disturbing, energy of a born-again Christian. Over the years she has bombarded her viewers with videos, installations and sculptures that offer a surreal take on daily life.
Guardian Unlimited |
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Photography contest to highlight prairie
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Aberdeen American News |
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Control Room Presents Live Performances From Virgin Mobile Festival Exclusively Online at MSN Music in Concert
LOS ANGELES , Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- A diverse line-up of artist performances from this year's Virgin Mobile Festival, including Jack Johnson , Nine Inch Nails, Lil Wayne and many more, will be available for free to millions of fans worldwide via online broadcast at music.msn.com/virgin-festival1, Control Room and MSN confirmed today.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Caliente! A new Latin festival for City Hall Plaza
Mayor Thomas M. Menino, in collaboration with Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion, has announced the inaugural production of Caliente, celebrating Latin culture through music and dance.
Allston-Brighton Tab |
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Skip The Toast, This Butter's Headed For The Tank
What's better than butter? How about butter biodiesel? Wednesday, the butter sculpture is being unveiled at the New York State Fair. The nearly half-ton of butter will be converted into fuel when the fair ends.
KTHV Little Rock |
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75th Anniversary Orange Bowl's Halftime and Pre-Game Shows to Be Produced by ACT Productions
ACT Productions, the global Miami-based production company with more than 25 years of experience producing events, film, video and photography, has just inked its fourth contract for the legendary Orange Bowl Halftime Show and Pre-game ceremonies.
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Contemporary Christian Music Featured Sunday, Aug. 31 at Powers' Crossroads 3-Day Labor Day Weekend Festival in ...
The three-day Powers' Crossroads Country Fair and Art Festival, which opens for its 38th consecutive year on Labor Day Weekend, will feature an afternoon of contemporary Christian music on Sunday, Aug. 31.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Time's Richard Lacayo is the latest to knock the University of Iowa regents. LACMA scores this great, important Kienholz, reports LATer Suzanne Muchnic.
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Public Art Returns To Baghdad
Some statues are returning"The Iraqi authorities have no plans to rehabilitate statues that glorified the former regime but the municipality is restoring monuments that pay tribute to such figures as Abu Jaafar al-Mansur, the Abbasid caliph and founder of Baghdad."
Arts Journal |
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Final two Bill Reid art pieces have been recovered
Investigators have recovered the final two Bill Reid artworks stolen from the UBC Museum of Anthropology back in May.
Vancouver Province |
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All hail to 'Space Invaders' at Europe's biggest games show
A screen grab of the video arcade game "Space Invaders." Europe's biggest games convention in Leipzig, Germany, marks 30 years since "Space Invaders" this week with a homage to the alien 'shoot-em-up' as well as 500 exhibitors showing how far the industry has come since then.
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Acrylic Critique: "Canoe in Summertime"
Wow, this painting is nicely done! My only observation is that including the distant hills and their reflections draws attention away from the canoe and the tremendous foreground detail. The hills appear flat and not painted with the same sensitivity as the foreground.
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All hail to 'Space Invaders' at Europe's biggest games show
BERLIN (AFP) - Europe's biggest games convention marks 30 years since "Space Invaders" this week with a homage to the alien 'shoot-em-up' as well as 500 exhibitors showing how far the industry has come since then.
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It's Happening - Parkdale-Liberty Village
PARKDALE YOUTH FESTIVAL, focuses on raising awareness of youth service organizations within Parkdale, 2 to 10 p.m., Masaryk-Cown Park, 220 Cowan Ave. Day features music, art and information displays.
Scarborough Mirror |
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Sector Snap: Railroads
(AP:NEW YORK) Railroad shares gained in Wednesday trading, after the broader market rose as oil prices reversed course and headed down. West Texas crude lost $1.34 at $113.19 a barrel at midday on the New York Mercantile Exchange following the Energy Department's weekly petroleum inventories report.
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"Marge Fagan - An artist in retrospect" at Chiricahua Gallery Sept. 20
Watercolor flowers painted by Marge Fagan, who often paints on location near Portal. (Courtesy/Jean Bohlender) Songbirds sing as the breeze is warming through the summer sunlight, that blows gently through Marge Fagan's soft grey-white hair.
Arizona Range News |
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Former Willcox resident to hold art workshops at Best Western Sept. 20-21
Caroline Patrick, former resident of Willcox, works on a painting. She will hold two workshops in Willcox Sept. 20-21. (Courtesy/Caroline Patrick) Look who's back in town after 25 years!
Arizona Range News |
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This Week in Jazz
Christian Scott Hawaiian folk artist Gary Haleamau brings his slack key guitar prowess and his unmistakably Hawaiian falsetto style of singing to the Millennium Stage tonight. 6 p.m. Free Many consider alto saxophonist Shenole Latimer a jazz star on the rise. You can catch this up-and-comer tomorrow night at Twins Jazz . Call 202-432-0072 for set time and cover information. ...
DCist |
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Sector Snap: Railroads
Railroad shares gained in Wednesday trading, after the broader market rose as oil prices reversed course and headed down.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Northland Bluegrass Festival begins Friday
The ninth annual Northland Bluegrass Festival will be held from noon to midnight Friday and Saturday at Northland Ballroom, N10103 Highway 49, located between Rosholt and Iola. The event features traditional and contemporary bluegrass music, and old-time string bands. This years performers include: Art Stevenson High Water, Frank Ray and Cedar Hill, New Bad Habits, Rob Lumbard, Sloppy Joe, Spare ...
Stevens Point Journal |
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American Indian art exhibit travels to Plymouth County
Artist Robert Morris captures the faces of American Indians from across the country, something he began 10 years ago. "I want to paint one Indian from every tribe," Morris said. "I travel all summer and paint all winter."
Le Mars Daily Sentinel |
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Articulations: Inside Artists' Heads
Jeffrey Cortland Jones revels in the physical activity of creating a painting and in the endless design possibilities of the grid.
Cincinnati CityBeat |
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