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Po-Boy Festival expands to meet the demands of po-boy lovers
Ellis Lucia / The Times-PicayuneParkway Bakery will be selling their roastbeef po-boys. If you went to the first New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival last year on Oak Street, you witnessed the rapid depletion of food, fest T-shirts and artists' wares...
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Philadelphia Marathon keeps getting bigger
Thousands of marathon runners have finished their journey just beneath the Rocky statue by the Art Museum's steps, and each one's story has been as inspirational as their movie counterpart's.
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SMF, Children's Book Festival continue educational programs
At last week's exuberant party accompanying the announcement of the 2009 Savannah Music Festival schedule, the Morris Center crowd applauded vigorously when director Rob Gibson mentioned the economic impact of the event.
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The school of Leibovitz
American photography legend Annie Leibovitz wants her most recent book, "Annie Leibovitz at Work," to serve as a teaching mechanism for young photographers.
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Angola: Fernando Alvim Suggests More International Exhibition Halls
Angolan plastic artist Fernando Alvim on Wednesday here said that the Natural History Museum has been hosting a high number of exhibitions of quality, but lately it no longer has conditions to respond to the requests for expositions in that venue.
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Seniors residence host art show
It seems an unlikely venue for a wide-ranging exhibition of contemporary art. Charlotte Villa is a retirement residence on Darling Street, its central location allowing [...]
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OUT AND ABOUT -- THIS WEEKEND
Fall Bazaar, coffee hour 9--10 a.m., bake sale 10 a.m., lunch 10:30 a.m., auction 1:45 p.m., First Lutheran Church, Britton....
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A FIVE-metre tall heron could soon be winging its way to the Northenden riverbank. One of the fish-loving birds which have made their home on the River Mersey has become an unlikely muse for a sculpture intended as part of the massive regeneration work in place along the waterside.
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Museums Expand, With Trepidation, In Hard Times
The economic downturn is creating concern among museums that have begun building projects or want to do so. Even the most affluent art institutions in the Boston area are concerned.
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Local News In Brief
ST. GEORGE - Family and friends of Toni Kaonohi, who is recovering from brain surgery, will conduct a benefit dinner for her on Dec. 11. The Gray Tie Gala will be at Dixie State College's Gardner Center at 6:30 p.m. There will be a variety of donated items for the live and silent auctions.
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Hospital adds artistic flair
Michigan-based artwork will greet patients and visitors at the soon-to-open Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital.
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Students think big in logo contest
In one corner, the official logo of Greater Montreal, crafted by marketing experts for $487,000, and in the other, the (free) drawings by high school students about their city's essence.
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All of Birmingham becomes a canvas
Tim Hill believes an outdoor sculpture has the ability to grab your soul.
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In Mexico a new and frightening cult spreads among the wretched
A report from the drug wars in last week's New Yorker (the issue that is not about the parousia) starts with an art exhibition and ends with an account of a grim and spontaneous religion emerging there: On the first day of every month, at the Tepito metro stop in downtown Mexico City, a new breed of pilgrim can be observed inching his way on his knees out of the stop and down a filthy ...
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Galleries : Rocco Vitelle: Right Time, Right Place
Oak Bluffs artist Rocco Vitelle is ready to put rumors to rest and answer the question plaguing many of his fans: Who is the ragdoll, that small carefully rendered little figure that, although tucked away, routinely appears in his ornate illustrations?
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True (mostly), weird holiday stories wanted
Do you have a bizarre, amusing or funny holiday story? If so, you could be the winner of Honolulu Lite's Weird, Strange or Funny (Mostly) True Christmas Story Contest. The best stories will be printed in a special Christmas edition of Honolulu Lite on Dec. 23, richly illustrated by the paper's crack cartoonist and artist Dave Swann. (He's not on crack, he's just really good at what he does.)
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Buffalo Grove artist to be featured in gallery
The work of Buffalo Grove fiber artist Shelley Brucar will be displayed at a gallery exhibition at The Gallery at The Garlands of Barrington. Brucar's brilliantly colored, hand-died quilts and fiber art can be viewed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily from Dec. 12 to Jan. 12 at The Garlands, 1000 Garlands Lane, Barrington. The show is free and open to the public, as is the artist's opening reception ...
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A Whitchurch gallery is hosting a special exhibition of work by portrait artist Paul Wright and photographer Jonathan Worth. Their work forms a large exhibition devoted to portraiture and landscape paintings and photography, including rugby star Austin Healey, left, and actor Casey Affleck, right.
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Exhibition of Chinese clay warrior statues opens in Atlanta
ATLANTA - An exhibition of the famed clay statues of Chinese warriors has opened in Atlanta.
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Area poet to display work
Park Ridge poet Ron Deverman will have work on display at the Northwest Cultural Council's latest exhibition, "Life's Unique Journey."
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Art exhibit, auction to help Brickton Center
The fourth annual Benefit Art Exhibition and Auction will be at Brickton Art Center, 308 Busse Highway, Park Ridge (east of Greenwood) from Friday to Dec. 6, featuring works donated by professional artists for a silent auction and art exhibition.
Niles Herald-Spectator |
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Middle schoolers draw their peace
Tekeyia Roberts, 12, has considered world peace, and it's done her well. She won first place in the local division of the Lions International Peace Poster Contest.
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Carr painting tops $1 million at auction
A private Canadian collector bought Emily Carr's Alert Bay Burial Ground for $1,053,000 at Heffel's Fine Art Auction House in Toronto last night.
Victoria Times Colonist |
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Contest Fosters Artistic Expression
Put a camera in Tyrell Waller's hands, and he has a way of looking at the world differently.
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Olustee poster unveiled
Lake City Artist Duffy Soto unveiled the 2009 Battle of Olustee Festival and Re-enactment poster titled, ‘When Johnny Come Marching Home,’ Wednesday night. Soto said that the idea for the poster was simple, ‘but it was the most difficult to express.’
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