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Book names America's 100 best burger joints -- two in Chicago
George Motz, who lives in Brooklyn and thinks about hamburgers most of the day, is composed of 95 percent water and 4 percent ground beef and 1 percent mustard and fried onion. He's 39, has two kids, and a wife (vegetarian, of course), and steady work as a director of photography; he's shot commercials for the New Jersey Lottery and music videos for LCD Soundsystem. But he's become the Hamburger ...
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Human anxiety takes animal form
For Heather Sherman, the rabbits in her paintings are a straight representation of Silke, her pet rabbit, and more besides.
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This game not win or lose, but how you learn
Lehigh Valley IronPigs' Education Day seeks to enhance students' knowledge of math, writing and science through nine innings of baseball at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown. Students are often called upon to find lessons from field trips, whether it's researching a famous artist before going to a museum or learning a foreign language before visiting another country.
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Kodak quarterly loss narrows
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Photography company Eastman Kodak Co on Thursday said its quarterly loss narrowed as improved digital cameras sales helped offset higher costs for raw materials and the roll-out of it printer strategy.
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Ongoing exhibits
'BlueNotes'; 'Concrete Abstraction'; Sculptures; Impact of Influences; 'Eclectic Visions'; Valley Art Association exhibit; Dream House Revisited; Western Maryland scenic photography; 'Forever Strong Womanhood'; Photo exhibit; On the Trail of New Treasures; Beaver Creek School Museum; Building America's Canals; Historic museum reopening
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'Art's a Ball!' project now under way
FREDERICK, Md. - The Frederick Arts Council, in collaboration with the Frederick Keys, will sponsor a public art project, "Art's a Ball!", featuring 1,000 baseballs that will be on display throughout the community.
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Museum ramble crosses the county
History buffs, train lovers, art lovers and education fans have a place on the Washington County Museum Ramble, which starts Saturday, May 3. The ramble, in its fifth year, is a self-guided, two-day tour of Washington County museums and historical sites.
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Top Youth Volunteers from Every State to Be Honored at Washington Award Ceremony on Sunday
WASHINGTON----Prudential Financial: SUNDAY, MAY 4, 6:00 P.M. - Top Two Youth Volunteers From Each State Honored WHERE: National Museum of Natural History, Constitution Ave. at 10th St.
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Johnson Shaw Museum focusing on unique historic display
So what is Meadville’s connection with the famous Norden bombsight, one of the most top-secret devices of World War II?
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May Day is Lei Day
Celebrate May Day with an all-day ho'olaule'a at Kapi'olani Park Bandstand featuring music from The Makaha Sons and the Royal Hawaiian Band, hula, lei exhibits and more. 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today. Free.
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'Museums on Us' comes to Charlotte
Beginning this weekend, Bank of America debit, credit and ATM cardholders can visit three Charlotte museums for free, part of a nationwide expansion of a bank program. "Museums on Us" allows card holders free attendance the first weekend every month at more than 70 cultural institutions in 28 markets. The bank will reimburse the institutions for any lost ticket revenue. Rene DeSisto, global arts ...
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Fine Arts Festival adds arts pavilion
The 2008 National City Birmingham Fine Art Festival will include a new feature this year, the Art Activities Pavilion, which showcases and teaches the process of making art. This is yet another facet of the annual juried fine art festival produced by the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center. The Art Activities Pavilion integrates two features: HAP Art Activities, taught by BBAC instructors, include ...
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Newspaper Has Nothing But Mug Shots
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- A new publication in the Upstate has plenty of pictures, but it won’t be winning any awards for excellent photography. Local Mug Shots is, as the name suggests, pages and pages of mug shots of people arrested and jailed by Upstate law enforcement.
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News & Star
THE 17th Jennings Keswick Jazz Festival starts on Wednesday. The five-day festival brings together some of the world’s finest jazz musicians, including Keith Nichols, Alan Barnes, Randy Sandke and Jeff Barnhart.
The News and Star |
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Ready for visitors
THE Ottersburn Gallery, Dumfries, having just returned from its successful showing at the Chelsea Art Fair is busy preparing itself for a welcome invasion from the west.
The Galloway News |
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Maryland Film Festival Opens
The Maryland Film Festival opened Thursday night. One of the most talked about movies is about a Baltimore artist and his pursuit of a dream.
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Village plans art show
ALGONQUIN – The village will host a fine arts show along the Fox River at the end of March. But before the show can go on, artists need to sign up to participate.
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"We want it to be remembered"
GALLERY: Photography Exhibit
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ARTS: State grant helps promote Aldrich exhibits
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum has received a $25,000 grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism to support marketing initiatives around the recently mounted exhibition Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture-presented by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum with the Yale School of Architecture Gallery.
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Prizes galore on offer at Senior Auction
KENNEBUNK — If you come to the Class of 2008 Senior Auction today, May 1, you can bid on everything from braces to beach vacations, a personal chef to hand-crafted pendants. And then there are the baskets — with themes varying from beach to...
York County Coast Star |
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Susan Wilder shows work at Kennebunk Free Library
KENNEBUNK — "Winter Into Spring," an exhibition of paintings by Heartwood College faculty member Susan Wilder, will be on display in Hank's Room at the Kennebunk Free Library throughout May.
York County Coast Star |
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Library opens exhibit of popular late artist
WELLS — An opening reception will be held at the Weymouth Art Gallery at the Wells Public Library at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 3. An exhibit of the paintings by George Carpenter will be on display from May 1 to May 31.
York County Coast Star |
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Kennebunk area arts and entertainment briefs
KENNEBUNK — Heartwood College of Art opens its new juried exhibition "The Anatomy of Trees" with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7. Running through June 6, the show includes work by both local artists and those new to the...
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Festival offers tours of local gardens
The Encinitas Garden Festival began three years ago with a sold-out tour of 30 gardens. It remains a popular event. This year's festival, which starts Saturday at 10 a.m., features a walking tour of 21 gardens in an Olivenhain neighborhood, a gardeners marketplace with plant and gardener booths, garden art, educational opportunities and refreshments.
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Things to do this weekend
Punk starlet Avril Lavigne and Grammy-winning R&B singer Alicia Keys perform, the Pacific Playwrights Festival hits the stage and two exhibits wrap up at the Discovery Science Center.
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