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'Bachelor' house price cut 33 percent
ABC's “Bachelor” pad is now available for 33 percent off. The owner of the Los Angeles-area house, where contestants on the popular reality-TV show competed
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Celebration of Berkeley Big People on Saturday
If you've looked up recently and seen the new Berkeley Big People sculpture from your car while sitting in gridlock on Interstate 80 and wanted to get a closer look at the large folks cast in fiberglass, steel and bronze, Saturday is your chance to take a look.
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A Singapore artist's spilled milk
The installation "A Day without a Tree" by the sculptor Yeo Chee Kiong, is a beautiful, yet effective, indictment of the ravages of climate change. It won the Asian Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize.
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A place of refuge
'Iolani School art teacher Cheri Keefer packs 20 children into an 8-by-10-foot canvas tent.
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William Armstrong's art teaches how to "see" color
William Armstrong's eye is always tuned to the changing scene outside. "I can sit here and I can see the color changing in the trees, and I can see the shadows move," said Armstrong, a painter, during an interview at his studio and gallery on Habersham Street. "I'm a lover of nature, really. This is basically what I do. Whether I was in Nassau on the Bahamas, I lived in Nantucket, another ...
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Romance on the Ruby contest finalist Sara DeWitt
Sara DeWitt Herriman, Utah In the early nineties my husband and I had been married for three years. His dream had always been to design bicycles. He had decided to take the leap and open his own bike shop. We...
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Romance on the Ruby contest finalist Marlene Sweeney
Marlene Sweeney Hanover Park, Il. I will be packing my heart long before my bags if my husband and I are chosen to be part of the inaugural cruise of the Ruby Princess! The month of November brings my 60th...
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Museum bash will mix some bugs with 'Beetle-mania'
LEWISTON -- First Fridays at Niagara University's Castellani Art Museum have been reinvented as “Mixers at the CAM” and will open today from 5 to 8 p. m. with “Beetle-mania.”
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Community Calendar
The Arts Alliance of Hudson and other town organizations are sponsoring a free exhibit of recent artwork by Marlboro artist Randi Isaacson at Town Hall, 78 Main St. The exhibit, "Transitive," includes impressionistic seascapes of the Outer Cape and floral close-ups of people in their interior surroundings. The exhibit will remain through the first week of December.
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'Action/Abstraction' exhibit to open at St. Louis Art Museum
Take a fresh look at work that transformed the art world after World War II when "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976" opens Sunday at the St. Louis Art Museum.
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Art show in Dunn House to feature railroad replica
A model railroad depicting early Hamburg will be on view during an arts and crafts show and sale this weekend to benefit Dunn House, a historic landmark.
The Buffalo News |
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Oil at $70, just as local author predicted
In May, Ronald Bailey, the top science writer for Reason magazine, scoffed at fears of impending “peak oil” and explained why oil prices were destined to fall— and fall they did.
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Photography exhibition to celebrate Paris
PHOTOGRAPHY students from Stevenson College celebrate all things Parisian in a new exhibition launching in the Capital next month.
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Photo exhibit at Contemporary School for the Arts and Gallery Inc.
Photographer Samantha Brown and Ron Lytle, director of the Contemporary School for the Arts and Gallery Inc., are shown Oct. 4 at a reception to unveil an exhibit of Brown's photography. Samantha is the daughter of Cathy and Mike Brown and the granddaughter of Williamsport resident Phoebe Mills. She is a freshman at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Md. Her exhibit will be on display ...
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Find treasures without a map at Washington County museum fundraiser
The Singer Society is accepting donations through Friday, Oct. 31, for its treasure sale at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, City Park, Hagerstown.
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Festival brings redemption for 'the Man in Black'
The second annual Pardon Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival takes place this weekend in various locations around town and on campus. Festivities begin Friday night at Rick's Cafe and continue throughout the weekend, concluding Sunday afternoon at Lee Hall Auditorium.
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The Week[end]: October 17-19, 2008
Abundant spreads for the mind and stomach will make for a fine feast this weekend at the Wisconsin Book Festival and the Madison Food ' Wine Show, respectively. Those hungry for theatre can devour productions of The Love of the Nightingale and Waiting for Godot, meanwhile, with the arts menu also featuring the Jin-Wen Yu Dance Company and the opening of Mami Wata at the Chazen. Live music is as ...
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Home and garden calendar
THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM GARDEN ART SALE, offering works by regional artists, including garden sculptures and ornaments, bird baths and houses, plant pottery, lanterns, wind chimes, rain chimes, herb gardens, floral cards, garden stakes, flower starter kits, 2009 garden calendars and more, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 17-31; free gift-shop admission; museum admission applies; 237-5223, www.tcmhi.org.
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Stereotypes confronted head-on in Spertus show
Visitors to the Spertus Museum will do as much nose-ogling as navel-gazing when they tour the latest show at Chicago's only Jewish museum, which, among other works of art, uses a diverse display of 49 oversize nasal sculptures to bust one of Judaism's most despicable stereotypes.
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The Art Of Chalayan
HUSSEIN CHALAYAN 's complex and intricate designs are often considered art - and London's Design Museum will next year fete them as just that when it opens the first ever UK exhibition dedicated to the designer's work.
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Video: Franklyn world premiere at the London film festival
Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green and Sam Riley took to the red carpet in Leicester Square to promote Gerald McMorrow's urban fairytale
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London News and Reviews
Every year for the past quarter century or so, I have in some sense discussed the origins and purposes of portraiture, the trigger for the annual prize for it at the National Portrait Gallery . As I have nothing new to say of it and am weary of rejigging my arguments so that they seem fresh, it has been with misgiving rather than the customary thrill of anticipation that I have prepared for this ...
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Club News
CHELMSFORD ART SOCIETY: Meets Tues., Oct. 28, 7 p.m. at Old Town Hall, 1 North Road, Chelmsford. Nita Casey demonstrates oil painting. All welcome. 978-251-3971 CHELMSFORD SENIOR CITIZENS: 75 Groton Road.
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Gastro-pub satisfies pallet
Benjamin Franklin once said, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Kite & Key, a new gastro-pub in Fairmount's Art Museum area, lives by that motto. The all-embracing beer list is separated by drafts, with local choices from Victory to Yards; imported bottles from Belgium to Mexico; local bottles from the tri-state region; several domestic bottles and the "Usual ...
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Revitalizing a church and its congregation
An 1883 altarpiece glows after a painstaking restoration at a downtown Episcopal church. The mother of pearl, the gold-leafed opalescent glass, the colors of an Impressionist painting were there all the time, hidden under four layers of retouching and crude repainting. The sculptural panel depicting the Virgin Mary and St. John is the centerpiece of a six-month refurbishment at Mount Calvary ...
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