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Social Scene: Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008
A SALUTE→Event: Oklahoma Navy Birthday Ball at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. →Scene: Celebration of 233 years of the Navy. Ball hosted by the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, U.S. Navy Strategic Communications Wing One (TACAMO) and Oklahoma City Navy League. GOOD COOKS→Occasion: Nichols Hills Kitchen Tour patron party. →Party hosts: Charlotte and Jerry Hess. →Tour: Given by the ...
The Oklahoman |
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Bruce Museum displays vintage posters
A "fascinating and insightful" glimpse into the history, art and mores of World War I America is reflected in an exhibition of vintage posters on view at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich.
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Peggy Gandy's Datebook: Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008
FUNDRAISERS →Kappa Alpha Theta Flaming Festival, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 12, Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club; luncheon with guest speaker Charles Faudree, noon; festival ticket, $5; luncheon ticket, $50; preview party ticket, $100; 843-4914. →Christmas Connection Winter Ball, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 15, Beacon Club; $80, patron tickets available; 634-2006. →Oklahoma WineFest ’08 with Oklahoma Wines and ...
The Oklahoman |
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Country Fair with flair at Cypress Point!
Noreen Hyslop photos Residents at Cypress Point Healthcare recently held their own "Country Fair," with exhibits from quilts to canned food judged by area experts. The week was celebrated with funnel cakes and corn dog days and other treats pertaining to the Country Fair atmosphere.
Dexter Daily Statesman |
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Shopping of different sort
NEW ULM - While others were shopping at traditional stores during New Ulm's shopping "opener" this weekend, those with a taste for a special, possibly more intimate type of gift were ringing artist Robyn Sand Anderson's door bell. Anderson has been painting, mostly in watercolor, for 25 years, and over the years, it's turned into a home business for her, as well.
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Original art is lasting pleasure
In an age of “disposable,” the trend for wall décor has been taken over by “posters.” We tend to think that we will only find original art in a museum. We think of classic artists and how expensive their works can be.
Muskogee Phoenix |
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Fine inspiration for your inner-Martha
The Gentle Art of Domesticity is filled with beautiful photography and crafty inspiration for the inner-Martha in all of us. However, Jane Brocket is not Martha Stewart, and her book is not a guidebook to achieving domestication. It is a 288-page ode to domesticity, with several references to the art, music and literature that represent Brocket's ideals about being a "domestic artist." ...
The Florida Times-Union |
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Defense steps up again as Berwick blanks Coughlin
BERWICK - Next weekend, when the Berwick Bulldogs are on the field competing for the District 2-AAA championship, how they got there won't matter. The 12-0 win over Wyoming Valley Conference rival Coughlin Friday night wasn't a masterpiece, but they will certainly take it.
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A new book on interior design color schemes shows that a neutral color palette can stretch beyond bland beige. The woodwork of Alvin Thomas and Haywood Community College employees Caryl Brt and Journel Thomas are on exhibit now through Dec. 15 at the North Carolina Arboretum.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Spring Mill offers trails, caves and a museum
Nestled in the Hoosier Hills in southern Indiana is Spring Mill State Park, about halfway between the basketball meccas, Bloomington and French Lick. The nearest town is Mitchell, home of former astronaut Gus Grissom, and about 420 miles from Asheville.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Nature's 'Views' on full display
Westmoreland Museum of American Art displays 23 artists who ventured into the woods capture Western Pennsylvania's fading countryside
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Briefs: Picture yourself in the south of France
Brush up on your painting technique during a 10-day, 11-night workshop in Dorgdogne, France. The course will be taught by Carol Duchamp, who has been leading outdoor painting classes for 20 years with her company, Art Trek.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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All deco-ed out for Miami's Art Basel
MIAMI, Fla. - Art Basel Miami Beach, the annual art show and sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, is scheduled for Dec. 4-7 in the city's Art Deco district. ...
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Legendary designer's clothing at museum
What makes a frock rock? Taffeta and tulle will take you only so far, say organizers of a new exhibit celebrating the work of visionary designer Yves Saint Laurent. "If you want the dress to be not only a dress ... you need an artist," said Pierre Berge, Laurent's longtime partner and one of the people behind the retrospective which opened at San Francisco's de Young museum this month. Saint ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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Ned Jordan's car company failed, but Jordan Model Z Speedway Ace is restored
Western Reserve Historical Society This quintessential Jordan ad from 1924 is for the Jordan Playboy, a car designed to appeal to women. ON VIEW 1930 Jordan Model Z Speedway Ace Where: Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum at the Western Reserve Historical Society,...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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'Monitor' awarded general excellence
The Concord Monitor has won first place for general excellence in the New Hampshire Press Association's 2008 better newspaper contest. The Sunday Monitor won first place for general excellence among Sunday papers. And Monitor columnist Ray Duckler was named New Hampshire Writer of the Year.
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Music and art enthusiasts attend festival at Docks
The afternoon of Nov. 2, the tried and true art and blues lovers turned out at Docks at the Capitol on Hay Street, where the free Bohemian Art & Music Festival was going on from noon until 7 p.m. It was originally planned to take place at the Headquarters Library, but the location was switched after the library was damaged by fire.
The Fayetteville Observer |
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Spice it up
Culinary creations will add spice to this year's Creative Spark Center for the Arts' fundraiser. The event, formerly "Art on the Beach," is called "Art on the Beach and Chefs in the Kitchen." Today, about 30 local artists and six chefs from some of Charleston's best-known restaurants will showcase their work during tours of Sullivan's Island homes, its lighthouse and an island gallery.
The Post and Courier |
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High hopes for art destination
ROANOKE It was a fortuitous circumstance: An aging medium-sized city was the right place at the right time for a bequest of coveted art that led to its new avant-garde museum. American realist Thomas Eakins did most of his work in Philadelphia, but his last living heir lived in Roanoke and had some of his portraits and personal effects. Museums elsewhere had designs on the 19th-century ...
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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The Knight Campus Art Gallery at the Community College of Rhode Island Presents: HOLODOMOR: Remembering the Ukrainian ...
The Art Gallery at the Community College of Rhode Island, Knight Campus in Warwick, Rhode Island will host an exhibit of art, film and history on the theme of the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933.
BRAMA |
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[PHOTO GALLERY] AFI Talk Show
The AFI Talk Show series continues with a discussion about Gaming: Art or Commerce?
LA.com |
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Spring Hill student wins place in art exchange
World Awareness Children's Museum of New York picked Ashlynn Harris's oil pastel of a rooster to be in its International Youth Art Exchange traveling exhibition promoting children's artwork.
The Longview News-Journal |
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Art notes: Nov. 9, 2008
Artist Mark Tobin Moore to discuss work at Clay Charleston artist Mark Tobin Moore will discuss the process and inspiration behind his work in the Clay Centers current art exhibition, Autobiographies: Six West Virginia Artists, when he pre...
The Charleston Gazette |
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Entertainment
SUNDAY"THE CAMERAMAN" LakelandNot rated. From 1928. 69 min.WHEN: 2 p.m.TICKETS: Free with museum admission.LOCATION: Polk Museum of Art.PHONE: 688-7743.FESTIVAL MUSIC SERIES Winter HavenCollaboration between First Presbyterian Church and Beymer Memorial United Methodist Church.WHEN: 4 p.m.
The Lakeland Ledger |
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Bringing peace to Sierra Leone
Burlington’s Major Gerry Howe, the author of the following soldier’s journal, is a Canadian Forces member currently deployed in Sierra Leone as part of the Canadian Task Force Freetown (Operation Sculpture).
Burlington Post |
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