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14th Annual Houston Women's Festival
Men run Houston's music scene for 364 days out of the year. But the 14th Annual Houston Women's Festival keeps it from being a clean sweep. The women-centric event showcases the talents of independent up-and-coming artists. One of this year's headliners is multi-instrumentalist songwriter Carrie Rod ...
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Lawndale Art Center's "Día de los Muertos" Gala/Exhibit
Sure to be a highlight of the season, the Lawndale Art Center's 21st Annual "Día de los Muertos" is a celebration of Mexican cultural traditions of Day of the Dead - as seen through the eyes of Texas artists. The centerpiece is an exhibit of retablos, or tin devotional paintings. Bringing a d ...
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Plensa sculpture pitched for Durham
The Capitol Broadcasting Company has offered to commission a sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa for the new Durham Performing Arts Center. Two years ago, Raleigh officials scuttled plans to install a Plensa sculpture in the Capital City's downtown after its design sparked controversy.
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Holy Land Over Hollywood
This year the Nashville Jewish Film Festival has two milestones to celebrate: its own eighth birthday, and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. Iran's national cinema may have dominated film discussion over the past decade, but the films from Israel showcased in this year'...
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For downtown Millburn's future, pretty pictures just aren't enough
MILLBURN -- With beautiful artistic renderings, the Downtown Redevelopment Plan was presented to the Township Committee for its review and approval. Committeeman Dan Baer tried to assure the skeptics that the $100-120 million, four-story development plan is only a "concept."...
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Tracing Music City's Family Tree
In Nashville Music Before Country (Arcadia, 128 pp., $19.99), Tim Sharp, dean of fine arts at Rhodes College and author of Memphis Music Before the Blues , takes a long view of history. Returning to the city's origins as a pioneer town in the late 1700s, he traces the subsequent effe...
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10 Tips & Tricks from the Tasmanian Adventure
As some of you may know, one of our authors, Mikkel Aaland, recently returned from a trip to Tasmania with a group of photographers and a team from Adobe. Below are tips & tricks regarding Photoshop Lightroom 2, as well as Mikkel's reflection on the trip.
O'Reilly Media |
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Solving stability problems in power op amps (Part 1 of 3)
Understanding the basic guidelines for evaluating stability and employing a Bode plot--as well as knowledge of some proven techniques--will enable rendering a power op amp circuit unconditionally stable.
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Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - Floodwater
Floodwater by Barry J Dobson Floodwaters provide an extra reflective surface for capturing gorgeous sunsets. ________________________________________________________________ If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining a whole bunch of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group . Each day, Houstonist chooses a Photo of the Day and ...
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Kate Bosworth is Chanel
Kate Bosworth poses with Karl Lagerfeld at the opening party for Mobile Art: CHANEL Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid at Central Park in NYC on Tuesday. Also on hand for the event were Sarah Jessica Parker, British model Agyness Deyn, and Helena Christensen. Kate, 25, was most recently in 21, the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting ...
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Animoto launches site for professional photographers
Company that creates high-quality video slideshows with user-uploaded images and music announces new Animoto for Photography service.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
When I saw Doug Wheeler's Eindhoven, Environmental Light Installation (1969) at the Hirshhorn yesterday, I was confused. The documentation I had from the museum said that the work was made of nothing but neon.
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Just For Kids Calendar
CHILDREN'S MUSEUMWACKY WEDNESDAY LakelandIn Cup Cooking, kids can mix and create simple recipes. Activity is "Edible Bread Bowls."WHEN: 10:30 a.m. WednesdayTHRILLING THURSDAY LakelandSession focuses on early science and math. Topic is "What Comes Next."WHEN: 10:30 a.m. ThursdayFUN FRIDAY Lakeland
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GOOD NEIGHBOR: JACQUIE OLIVERIUS -- Diablo Valley Chorus to raise its a capella voices
FOR AN AFTERNOON of a capella singing, plan to attend "Under a Harvest Moon," a fall festival and musical celebration by the Diablo Vista Chorus, a Walnut Creek-based women's barbershop chorus.
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Two nights of dazzling dance
The Fourth Annual Provincetown Dance Festival gets underway at The Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford St. in Provincetown, at 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24-25.
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Leibovitz revisits photo shoot with British queen
LONDON (AP) -- Annie Leibovitz revisited a tense moment last year with Queen Elizabeth II as the celebrity photographer showcased a new exhibit of her work in London on Wednesday.
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USD 443 patrons join district in celebrating Ross Elementary School
Ross Elementary School opened its doors to the public Tuesday to celebrate its first school year. "It turned out quite well," said Ethel Peterson, a member of the USD 443 Board of Education. "I couldn't wait to see it with the kids' artwork up."
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Cineaste Asia
Reel Asian is a festival that, we must admit, we've never made it out to before. Along with a couple of the other fall festivals ( imagineNATIVE , Planet in Focus ), we make a point of browsing the lineup for something worth making an appointment to see and then, whether we find something or not, inevitably forget about it.
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Artist to see his works at Bleu for first time
COLUMBIA — Before construction began on Bleu Restaurant and Wine Bar last year, owners Travis Tucker and Tina Patel knew they wanted artwork in the restaurant. They talked about installing revolving art — art that is changed periodically — "but so many places do," Tucker said. "We decided it would be better to stick with a theme and color palette and use (the artist's) creativity," he said. ...
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Visual art: Jim Henson's Fantastic World
Mon., Oct. 27... By Cinque Hicks Those of a certain age may get misty-eyed when we recall the phrase "Pigs in Spaaaaaace!" but most of us never saw the thinking that went on behind Jim Henson's creative empire. The Atlanta History Center aims to set that deficiency right with JIM HENSON'S FANTASTIC WORLD, continuing Mon., OCT. 27. The exhibition – sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution – ...
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Le Flash sheds light on public art in Atlanta
By Cinque Hicks If you head out to Castleberry Hill the evening of Oct. 24, beware: You may get mobbed. A nomadic band of paparazzi photographers may accost you, detonate flashbulbs in your face, stick microphones at you and then turn suddenly to swarm the next unsuspecting noncelebrity. If you're fortunate enough to be caught in the melee, then you've stumbled into "Paparazzi Flash Mob," a work ...
Creative Loafing Atlanta |
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A Long Exposure: 100 years of Guardian photography
Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe and northern editor Martin Wainwright discuss an exhibition of pictures taken by the paper's staff photographers
Guardian Unlimited |
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Tour de Tempe bike tour Sunday
A free, leisurely 10-mile non-competitive ride that weaves through diverse neighborhoods, public art projects and other Tempe sites.
The Arizona Republic |
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Sarah helps welcome Chanel travelling art show to New York
22 OCTOBER 2008 Sex And The City actress Sarah Jessica Parker was one of the stars helping launch Chanel's unusual fashion-meets-art project in the Big Apple this week.
Hello! |
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Range News snares honors at Better Newspapers Contest
From left, holding some of the individual and newspaper awards, are Steve Reno, Dave Brown, Carol Broeder and Ainslee Wittig. (Maxine Carter/ARN) Community Service and photography were the strong suits for the Arizona Range News in the 2008 Better Newspapers contest sponsored by the Arizona Newspapers Association.
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