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Cooper Young Fest to be held Sept. 13
The Cooper Young Business Association is putting on the 21st annual Cooper Young Festival on Sept. 13.
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Summer Company program assists enterprising young people
Tyler Bertrand has an eye for business. So much so, the 25-year-old budding entrepreneur submitted a business proposal to the Summer Company program at the Niagara Falls Small Business Enterprise Centre (NFSBEC). His business plan - a multi-media business that offers photography and videography [...]
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Sir Sean on golf and The Herald Diary
Like most birthdays, it was an opportunity to reflect on every aspect of the life you have led. Sir Sean Connery, in that respect, did not disappoint, in a varied, discursive, packed event held at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on his 78th birthday yesterday.
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CD To Benefit Negro Leagues Museum
A museum dedicated to a baseball league that few thought would last is getting a boost from a musical genre that was expected to have a similarly short existence.
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Sao Paulo Acts To Protect Graffiti
Sao Paulo artists Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo obliged London's Tate Gallery by painting their distinctive yellow graffiti on outside walls of the museum. Just a month later, their hometown began rolling gray paint across one of the brothers' murals as part of cleanup efforts. Officials did an abrupt about-face after the Pandolfos and other artists complained both to the city and in the press. ...
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Tattoos come out of hiding
'There are tattoos that you can show and ones that you should hide," says Shura, an Osaka tattoo artist. "Traditional tattoos are only OK to show at festivals, certain public baths and during fights. "The cute, fashionable ones, they are OK to show whenever." Read the full story
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Poster competition in Rmeileh draws on participants' talent to promote a peaceful Lebanon
The La Voile beach resort on Sunday was not your regular Rmeileh beach. As the sun set, booths were set up and canvases were displayed making way for what was billed as the first poster contest ever to be held in the Middle East. ArabAd and Art Lounge invited people from all walks of life to submit their visions.
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Shopping at the haat
Ideas, products and people have come together at the Dastkar Nature Bazaar that is on in the City. The exhibition, that reflects the culture of India, comes with the elephant theme this year.
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Vintage photos of Hollywood film sets on display at Toronto gallery
TORONTO - Movie fans in town for the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival may want to drop by the Stephen Bulger Gallery to take in an exhibition of classic Hollywood photos.
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Metromix: Odd, odder, oddest -- museums you never heard of
So, how about the food museum? Or the doll museum? Or the urban reliquary? An introduction to lesser-known galleries.
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Algonquin Park site marks location where Tom Thomson sketched famous work
ALGONQUIN PARK, Ont. - The tree is no longer there but the place where Tom Thomson sketched his famous painting "The Jack Pine" can still be appreciated as an important site in Canadian art history.
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Poetry peepshow staged for literary voyeurs at Toronto arts festival
TORONTO - The 16th annual Junction Arts Festival is offering what it calls a "Poetry Peepshow," giving participants the chance to "peer into an open window of a poet's soul."
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Outside Lands '08 Video: The Black Keys
When we last caught up with power-blues duo the Black Keys, they were tearing up the racetrack at this year's Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore. This past weekend at the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney braved much lower temperatures as they shred through tracks new and old. Below, check out video of the Keys playing the raucous ...
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Tapestry ‘radiates hope, joy’
AND God said let there be light — and light bathed Wangaratta Cathedral in a pool of colour with the installation of its new $240,000 tapestry. The piece, Into The Light, was finally lifted into place on Monday and the scaffolding removed yesterday, revealing the artwork in all its glory.
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Ukrainian artist couple falls in love with UAE
ABU DHABI — There are no palm trees or pools of water in this 'Oasis Dreams'. An art exhibition, it rather has rich, brightly coloured flowers and countryside landscapes from the green and beautiful Ukraine.
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Variety in September at CrossRoads
CrossRoads Gallery is pleased to announce that September’s featured artists will be Randy Baker, Jeni Bate, Joan Gonzales and Kathleen Levenson, four of the gallery’s finest artists who will offer a variety of distinctive and unique works of art. Randy Baker, a relatively new Tehachapi resident (a Bakersfield man who is finishing building his own house here in the mountains), has been a ...
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Photographers capture unique wedding experiences
ALTON - With their urban, hip, high-fashion style of photography, Diane and Coby Maxeiner have carved a niche that recently landed them the cover work and fashion spread for the newly-released fall/winter 2008 edition of Saint Louis Bride magazine.
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UWSP Arts Culture Outreach to offer fall classes for youth and adults
Mosaics, Dr. Seuss Day, Ballroom Dancing and Oil Painting are just a few of the classes offered this fall through the UW-Stevens Points Arts Culture Outreach. A UWSP Continuing Education program, Arts Culture Outreach offers classes in art, music, drama and dance for all ages. Two programs for young children will begin in September, including Music and Motion, a seven-week dance class for ...
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Boy Scout Reaches For Stars Through Sculpture
Colin Foreman, a Boy Scout From Windsor, unveiled Monday the sculpture he created as part of his requirements to become an Eagle Scout.
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Get 3G Right 26 Aug 2008, 0002 hrs IST
On August 1, the Department of Telecom (DoT) announced that third generation (3G) spectrum auctions will be held by the end of this year. Both Indian and global stakeholders waited to be blown away by their first glimpse into a global showcase economic event.
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TODAY'S EDITORIAL: Don't Give In 26 Aug 2008, 0003 hrs IST
It’s happened once again. Vandals smashed prints and photographs of M F Husain’s paintings which were on display at an exhibition in Delhi.
The Times of India |
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Musicians, story tellers entertain
Five years ago, Bryan Bowers was at a music festival when he heard a song that sounded familiar, the auto harp artist of nearly three decades told an audience gathered Saturday in Lee Richardson Zoo.
Garden City Telegram |
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Another Wagner joins leadership bid for Bayreuth
As the annual Bayreuth Festival moves toward its conclusion later this week, the real drama is unfolding behind the scenes over a successor to 89-year-old director Wolfgang Wagner.
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Day 79: Museum of American Glass
Museum of American Glass The museum in Millville has a collection of glass that has expanded to more than 12,000 pieces. The collection is arranged in chronological order beginning with glass from the first successful glass factory in America, dating back to 1739, to contemporary art glass.
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Leachman, Lucci to compete on 'Dancing'
This year's contestants on Dancing With the Stars include daytime star Susan Lucci and 82-year-old actress Cloris Leachman, the Fox show's U.S. producers say.The lineup of 13 contestants is certainly eclectic, ranging from veteran actress Leachman -- who won an Oscar for 1971's The Last Picture Show and an Emmy as the nosy landlady Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moore Show -- to 18-year-old Hannah ...
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