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Carving still student favorite
Once a year, college students can relive their preschool days and work on a messy art project - carving a pumpkin. If only glitter was involved. "My favorite part has always been getting my hands messy with the pumpkin goop," said Phil Doyle, senior in FAA.
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Photo Red in the face, for a bit Columbus is in the red
Tiffany Hedrick, a conservation tech with Seattle's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, removes red paint from "Memorial to Christopher Columbus," a bronze sculpture along Alaskan Way at Union Street.
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Licensing system approved for gymnasts
Gymnasts now will have to start showing ID long before the Olympics. Beginning Jan. 1, all junior and senior gymnasts who represent their countries at most international meets will need a license from the International Gymnastics Federation. The licenses will include gymnasts' name, sex, country and date of birth, and be their proof of age for their entire career.
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Daily Planner
Dozens of local restaurants will compete for the title of best wings at the eighth annual Sertoma Wingapalooza, 5-10 p.m. Nov. 12 at Springfield Expo Center, 635 St. Louis St. Phoenix, Shallow Howl, the Sociables, Tripwire and Sequel Dose perform. Attendees can bid on donated items during a silent auction.
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Charity auction could net pretty special gifts
Two snakes were slithering down the road. One snake turned to the other and asked, "Are we poisonous?" The other snake replied, "I don't know, why do you ask?"
EdmontonSun.com |
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Kodak ending its NASCAR sponsorship
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Eastman Kodak Co. is ending its 22-year sponsorship in NASCAR and putting more sports marketing dollars into professional golf. The photography pioneer, betting its future on electronic imaging, said Monday the realignment fits better with a new effort to highlight its brand digitally, such as on PGA Tour scoreboards. Kodak also wants to engage more customers overseas since ...
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Art for a good cause
Bucky Hill looks at artwork Sunday during the Vine Arts benefit at the Inn at Redwood. The benefit raised more than $10,000, according to B.J. Harrington, vice president of the Culpeper Regional Hospital Foundation.
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Letting light into the 'darkrooms'
A four-storey house in Valletta, which has stood empty for decades, could end up an art gallery after it showcases its first photography exhibition, Redprints, by Alexandra Pace.
Times of Malta |
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Valletta to be Qormi for a week
The Qormi Wine Festival will be uprooted and taken to Great Siege Square, Valletta, for a special November edition, where a full week of events will be organised to attract wine and food lovers.
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Annual Heartwood Fine Arts Show offers region’s finest artists
If you are looking for high-end works of art, artisan jewelry, and beautiful, functional pottery all made by local artists from local materials, be sure to attend this year’s Heartwood Fine Arts Show on Saturday, Nov. 1.
Spooner Advocate |
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Target halts plan to rebuild Broadway store in Sacramento
An artist's rendering shows the building that would have replaced the Target store at Broadway and Riverside Boulevard. Target Corp. has withdrawn plans to build a new store at its Broadway and Riverside Boulevard site in Sacramento just months before a planned start date, officials announced. "Due to the current economic climate, we have decided to pull back our plans to tear down and ...
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Rays fans complain of treatment at ballpark
Tom Zobrist and his family saw the sights, including the Liberty Bell and the Art Museum. They dined at some fine restaurants.
Philly.com |
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S.F.: Ocean Avenue underpass is fixed
RESULTS: DAY 2 Underpass fixed in S.F.: The sun beamed through the openings of the metal fence, casting shadows that resembled shapes from a beautiful abstract painting by Richard Diebenkorn or Robert Motherwell. But this was no art project. It was an...
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ND's Snite Museum plans Day of Dead celebration
SOUTH BEND -- The University of Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art and Institute for Latino Studies will have their eighth annual Day of the Dead celebration Thursday.
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Gymnasts will have to carry licenses
Gymnasts will now have to start showing ID long before the Olympics. Beginning Jan. 1, all junior and senior gymnasts who represent their countries at most international meets will need a license from the International Gymnastics Federation. The licenses...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Wells Receives Museum Conference's Award
Heather Marie Wells, collections assistant and podcast producer at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History,
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Auction Site Status Irks Wales Board
Town of Wales officials seemed livid recently with Cheektowaga businessman Russell Scherrer over his allegedly failed attempts to finish work on a site development plan that would modernize his Auctions International, Inc. site on Route 20A in the western end of the town. Board members' outrage stemmed from a requested extension of his site development plan last month, at which time they chided ...
East Aurora Advertiser |
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EMW Club will Host Auction
The Boys & Girls Club of Elma, Marilla and Wales will host its annual Razzle, Dazzle WOW! Auction at the Boys & Girls Club at 2080 Girdle Road (across from Iroquois Central Schools) on Sat., Nov. 8 beginning at 6:30 p.m.
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Sports briefs
auto racing Kodak ends deal with NASCAR to put more money into golf Eastman Kodak Co. is ending its 22-year sponsorship in NASCAR and putting more sports marketing dollars into professional golf. The photography pioneer, betting its future on electronic imaging, said Monday the realignment fits better with a new effort to highlight its brand digitally, such as on PGA Tour ...
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Vietnam veteran captures images of visitors to memorial
The secret behind Tom Morrisey’s photography project is detachment from his own past and experience in the Vietnam War, and a strict focus on the faces of survivors and loved ones who come to pay their respect at the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Kingwood Observer |
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Lauderhill public artwork all about whirls and swirls and our money down the drain
The $332,000 sculpture looks lonely. It sits in the middle of a traffic circle, emerging from a shimmering pond, near the entrance to the Central Broward Regional Park.
Sun-Sentinel |
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South Jerseyans really get into pumpkin-carving competitions
Why bother sticking a knife into a jack-o-lantern if there is no one to witness what you've done?
Courier-Post |
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English chemist to film documentary on Rochester's Artisan Works
Sir Harold Kroto, a noted English chemist, presents a lecture on arts and science at Artisan Works while preparing to make a documentary on the art gallery.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
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Raphael painting returns to public
After 10 years of painstaking study and restoration that tested both cutting edge technology and human patience, one of the greatest masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance is returning to the public.
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Corrections
A 15-year-old art student in need of art supplies is Rachel Junkins of Spring Run. Her first name was incorrect in the Path Valley Journal column on Page 3A Monday.
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