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Festival season: besides art, there's wine, jazz, jugglers and jousters
By Mark Lowry It's no surprise that few festival organizers want to compete with the mammoth Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival, but there are a couple of other options. The major Tarrant County one is Grapevine's Blessing of the Vines and New Vintage Wine & Gallery Trail. This 16th annual celebration provides chances to sample the fruit of the vine at various wineries, as well as live music, ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Women Talk Business, Showcase Talent
Pam Kesselman of Westport taught ceramics and basic art for 20 years before she decided to further her education and get a degree in contemporary art.
Norwalk Citizen-News |
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Plan for Robson exhibition
STAFF AT Shetland Museum and Archives are appealing to anyone in Shetland who owns paintings by the late Adam Robson to help with an exhibition of the artist’s work to be held at the museum in July.
Shetland Today |
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Tip for PBS: If it isn't broken, don't fix it
Monet's water lily paintings. Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony. Ansel Adams' photographs.
The News-Press |
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City Shuts Down "Sex Palace"
Officials in Orange County have shut down an 8,000 square foot photography studio because they say it was being used as a "sex party palace." The underground club, known as "Club Amnesty" advertises weekly sex parties for couples.
KTLA-TV Los Angeles |
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Through April 27 — “Random Works – A Colorful Collection of Art” 21st annual Women’s History Month art show, featuring the art of Colorado women in two and three-dimensional forms in a variety of subject matter, style and techniques.
Estes Park Trail Gazette |
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Yale Student's 'Abortion Art' A Hoax
A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false, school officials said after her account was published in the student newspaper.
WCCO Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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Something to talk about: Interlochen offers everything from Raitt to Rogers
Interlochen Arts Festival audiences are in for an eclectic season. The roster for the 2008 summer music series features a mix of old favorites, up-and-coming artists, new twists on old standbys and even a few surprises.
Traverse City Record-Eagle |
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Editorial: Armory sign of D.U. growth
Many students knew the Armory as the home for the 103rd Engineering Battalion of the National Guard, Drexel's ROTC program. Or, maybe they knew it as the host of the Philadelphia Antique Show or Art Show. Or, perhaps they just knew it as an unsightly sore in the middle of campus.
The Triangle Online |
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The Sonoma Jazz + Festival Poster Art Available Now!
Rich Sigberman, illustrator and jazz enthusiast, has created this year's poster for the Sonoma Jazz + Festival. Rich has created some 18 other festival posters over the years, for Town Point, San Jose Jazz, and San Francisco's Treasure Island Blues among others.
All About Jazz |
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All that jazz By Glenn BurnSilver The Reporter-Herald
With a legacy as a musical innovator that will undoubtedly surpass the more than 55 years he has been making music, Ahmad Jamal remains one of the undisputed leaders of the genre. Jamal, headlining the Friday, April 26 Jazz Masters Night at the Greeley/UNC Jazz Festival, is consistently on the forefront of progressive jazz thinking that praises pushing music toward the teetering precipice, but ...
Loveland Reporter-Herald |
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Hyatt Hotels of Atlanta Signs on as the Official Hotel Sponsor of Fiesta Atlanta '08
Lanza Group, LLC, one of Atlanta's leading Hispanic market advertising and PR firms, today proudly announced that Hyatt Hotels of Atlanta will serve as the official host hotel of Fiesta Atlanta '08, an outdoor Cinco de Mayo festival celebrating Latino culture, music and food.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Community Calander
April 19th Cajun Country Dance and Auction Wayne and Layne’s, located on Hwy. 27 South, is sponsoring a fund-raiser on April 19th. All proceeds will benefit World Youth Day 2008 - St. Theresa’s Youth. There will be a cake walk, live auction, plates lunches and live music from 2 p.m. until. Scheduled to appear are Joe Simon and The Louisiana Cajuns, Saltwater Playboys, and Barry Badon and The ...
Southwest Daily News |
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A woodcarving club brings people of all ages together
Two rules: If you can’t whittle, you lie — say you can. And bring a knife. That’s it. The rest is up to your imagination at a Whittlers and Liars Club meeting, a gathering of creative woodcarvers held 7-9 p.m. the first three Tuesdays of every month in the basement of the Charles City Arts Center, located at 301 N. Jackson St.
Charles City Press |
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PARENTS & CHILDREN CALENDAR
The Louisiana Children's Museum offers special activities for children up to age 3 and their parents or caregivers.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Yale: Student's artwork purporting to show abortion a hoax
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false and is a piece "performance art,'' the school says.
Charleston Daily Mail |
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Miró: Driven by abstraction but tied to the Catalan soil
"Miró: La Terra," an exhibition that continues at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, Italy, until May 25, suggests that the key to understanding Miró lies in his attachment to the land of his native Catalonia.
International Herald Tribune |
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Memphians Premiere New Film at Nashville Film Festival
Memphian Brett Hanover's feature film Bunnyland will premiere April 21st at the Nashville Film Festival.
The Memphis Flyer |
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Exhibit addresses issues of war through photography By Jennifer Leigh Johnson The Reporter-Herald
Photographer Binh Danh brings his profound and compelling art to the Clara Hatton Gallery at Colorado State University with his most recent Vietnam War-inspired body of work “Life, Times and Matter of the Swamp.” Born in 1977, Danh immigrated to the U.S. after the Vietnam War with his parents at the age of 2. Hit hard by the war – from life as refugees to traveling to America as part of the ...
Loveland Reporter-Herald |
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Ordinance may put a halt to the Old Pecan Street Festival
AUSTIN New DNA in yogurt shop murders case A prosecutor in the yogurt shop murders case says just because DNA found on one of the victims doesn't match the suspects, it doesn't mean they're innocent.
News 8 Austin |
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Hundreds Volunteer In Balt. City Schools
After a Baltimore City art teacher was beaten by a student, City Schools CEO Andres Alonso made a public appeal for citizens to call in and volunteer in the city's 22 middle schools and 43 high schools.
CBS 13 Baltimore |
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Art auction features veteran and fledgling artists
Art collectors, mark your calendars: April 25 is your chance to bid on great art by local artists, from James Van Nuys to Dreylin Mailloux.
Rapid City Journal |
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Israeli Arab wins Haggadah art contest
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Big history fair at museum
The Simcoe County Museum plays host to the sixth-annual Simcoe County Historica Fair, Wednesday, April 30.
Simcoe.com |
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'Details from the Road' opens at PGSMA
An opening reception and ArtShare presentation features Tom Ferris’ “Details from the Road.” See pinhole photographs, color digital photography and more. Admission is free. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, 1400 1st Ave. N. 727-8255.
Great Falls Tribune |
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