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To Stretch City's Budget for the Arts, Chicago Turns to EBay
Chicago will hold the first charitable eBay auction to be sponsored by an American city, to benefit the city's cultural programs.
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Hymn festival Sunday at St. Luke's
St. Luke's Episcopal Church will hold a hymn festival celebrating many well-known and beloved hymns, including "How Great Thou Art" and "Great Is Thy Faithfulness," during the worship service at 10:45 a.m. Sunday. The story of the writing of each hymn will be printed in the bulletin. For more information, call 843-785-4099 or go to stlukeshhi.org.
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Joel Plaskett, Metric announced for upcoming Summerset Music Festival: Alanis Morissette headlines show set for Sept. ...
The producers of next month’s Summerset Music Festival in Alexandra have confirmed the addition of two more acts to the festival lineup.
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Exhibition Gives Artists Chance To Display Work
A showcase for artists. This is how Ann Larsen, executive director of the Pasco Arts Council, describes the Pasco Art 2008 Exhibition, a judged art show and competition that will run from Sept. 12 to Oct. 24 at the council.
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Agenda: Aug. 23
Modern film The film festival "Still Moving: Classic Films From MoMA" winds down this weekend, but there are still four screenings left. Today, look for The Steel Helmet (1951) at 2 p.m. and On the Waterfront (1954) at 5 p.m. On Sunday, it’s Salt of the Earth (1954) at 2 p.m. and It Should Happen to You (1954) at 4 p.m. All are at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell ...
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Stars are in the sky at Kabuki
An artist responsible for working on several Disney projects is applying his talent at Kabuki in Roanoke. David Wallis is painting the night sky on the restaurants ceiling. He did the same thing for the owner at the Kabuki in Christiansburg, and 26 years ago in Roanoke.
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Art Auction To Aid Area Animal Welfare Group
Pinellas and Pasco county artists and musicians with a soft spot for the four-legged set have joined forces for Sunday's "Art for Animals," a live art auction in Tarpon Springs to benefit the Suncoast Animal League.
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REMSEN — The theme for this year’s annual Remsen Barn Festival of the Arts (Barn FOTA) Baking Contest is "Citrus-A-Peel." The contest will take place Saturday, Sept. 27. Once ...
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Abandoned prison turned into art expo
By Matt Grant Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:54 p.m. JEFFERSON CITY -- Jefferson City's annual outdoor art exhibit went urban this year. And it took place in an unlikely setting, an abandoned prison.
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Festival educates visitors about folk art, cultures
The 2008 FolkArt Family Festival at The Children’s Museum on Main Street aims not only to entertain but also to educate.
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Blue Devils open with an uneventful tie
WEST HARTFORD - It was far from the action-packed, offensive show Central Connecticut's women's soccer team hopes to deliver this season nor was it the type defensive masterpiece the Blue Devils have authored in recent years.
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Record-breaking ticket sales for the Wetlands Institute suggests that the 26th Annual Wings 'N Water Festival scheduled for the weekend of Sept. 20-21, will also catch the "green wave."
Cape May County Herald |
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Attornery General Issues Subpoenas
Kentucky's attorney general issues civil subpoenas to Marathon Ashland Oil Company as part of an investigation into price gouging.
WYMT Mountain News |
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Painters exchange art for moon cakes
Artists from Jiangsu and Yunnan province recently held an art exhibition to display their paintings and exchange them for moon cakes.
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Speaking of Patents…
Did you enjoy this week’s survey of Portland patent-holders? Check this out: patent artist Tom Giesler isn’t a Portlander (most people aren’t, apparently), but he does draw inspiration from his day job to create bizarro inventions and amazing/distressing anatomical illustrations. Nothing you have to do on a Friday is more pressing than checking out this artist.
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Dew Underground hits Portland
I suppose I represent the approximate target demographic for the Dew Underground action sports tour/contest/festival, hitting Portland this weekend. I’m white, educated, and youngish (28), with the scarred elbows and shins of a lifelong BMX rider. The amount of action sports media that I consume is enough to annoy my wife. And yet, when I go to watch the competition this weekend, I will feel ...
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Paulie Walnuts Of Bicycle Thieves Busted In Canada
“What exactly was he planning to do with 2,865 bicycles?” wonders The New York Times. As the police gathered the mounds of bikes, they also found cocaine, crack cocaine, about 15 pounds of marijuana and a stolen bronze sculpture of a centaur and a snake in battle. Well, that answers that question. He was obviously planning to move to Portland.
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More than 100 Perth artists flocked to the old gasworks building on Wellington Street this week to look at a new studio and exhibition space aimed at stemming the flow of talent to the Eastern States.
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On Photography: Passion for the experience
I've been watching a little of the Olympics, and I can't help but notice all of the photographers on the sidelines.
Summit Daily News |
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Harrisville ready for Harmony Weekend
Visitors to Harrisville over Labor Day weekend will have the chance to visit the displays of more than 400 exhibitors during Harmony Weekend. The event, sponsored by the Harrisville Arts Council, takes place Aug. 30-31. The arts and crafts show runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the southwest and northwest corners of US-23 and M-72.
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3:10 p.m. - Artwork by Arkansans Going on Display
The Arkansas Arts Council in collaboration with The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas is launching a new touring art exhibition, Small Works on Paper: Retro Works [1989-1997].
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Disadvantaged Children Exhibit Photos In Singapore
HANOI, Aug 23 (Bernama) -- Innocent smiles, a peaceful rice field on rvest, a salt-making field at dawn, sunset on the sea, and street life in Ho Chi Minh City are the focus of 45 black and white photos by Vietnamese children being exhibited in Singapore, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
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Regulator say investors should get US$7b from Merrill
US Federal regulators have assured investors who bought risky auction-rate securities from Merrill Lynch will be able to recover up to $7 billion, after the collapse of the securities.
Calcutta News |
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Photo show winners named
The Buchanan Center for the Arts announced winners of the 27th annual Security Savings Bank Photography Show.
The Galesburg Register-Mail |
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Brilliant 10th Anniversary - Winnipeg Graffiti Gallery Changing Lives for 10 Years
WINNIPEG.- Written By Zhenni Zhao - The Winnipeg Graffiti Gallery, a graffiti legend celebrated its tenth anniversary yesterday evening August 21, 2008, Thursday. For the interests in art, I attended the reception.
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