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Reuters Entertainment Summary
Grim Brazilian drama opens Cannes film festival
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Life on the Illinois Frontier returns to museum Saturday
MUSEUM GROUNDS - This Saturday the Saline County Historical Society is going back into the broom business.
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It's indie movies vs. Indy's movie at Cannes fest
The Cannes Film Festival usually starts with a movie that's light and goes down easy. So Wednesday's dark, apocalyptic opening film seemed a puzzling choice - even to the movie's director. "Blindness" by director Fernando Meirelles, whose films include "City of God," and "The Constant Gardener," is about an epidemic of blindness that strikes suddenly and inexplicably, with victims shunted off to ...
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Behringer-Crawford seeks artwork
COVINGTON – September 13 will be a day for paint brushes and other art implements amid the scenery of Devou Park.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Canadian polygamist sect under pressure
LISTER, British Columbia -- Fluorescent lights cast a yellow-green pall on the posted student artwork. Children's voices recite lessons behind closed doors. A group of middle school girls giggle and whisper as they wander back to class.
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Cannes opens with indie glitz
Smaller, art films compete against blockbusters at the world's best-known film festival.
Orange County Register |
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It's indie movies vs. Indy's movie at Cannes fest
By ANGELA DOLAND The Cannes Film Festival usually starts with a movie that's light and goes down easy. So Wednesday's dark, apocalyptic opening film seemed a puzzling choice - even to the movie's director. "Blindness" by director Fernando Meirelles, whose films include "City of God," and "The Constant Gardener," is about an epidemic of blindness that strikes suddenly and inexplicably, with ...
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Indicted Museum Director Found Dead At Sea-Tac Detention Center
SEATTLE -- A Thailand museum director who was indicted as part of a federal investigation into looted antiquities died Wednesday at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, apparently following a heart attack.
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Courthouse murals go up 70 years late
NEWARK, N.J., May 14 (UPI) -- Seventy years after a federal judge declared two murals too controversial for his New Jersey courtroom, copies of the banished artworks have been installed.
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AIDS Portrait Exhibit in Russell Rotunda Highlights Need to Preserve AIDS Treatment Focus in PEPFAR - ´AfricAlive: ...
AIDS Healthcare Foundation: AfricAlive: Portraits of Success Who: -- AIDS
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Big crowd expected at 'Day in the Country'
Country music lovers will converge on Rosenberg by the thousands Saturday as radio station The New 93Q and the Fort Bend Society for the Arts present the annual “A Day in the Country” music festival.
The Herald-Coaster |
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Courthouse murals go up 70 years late
Seventy years after a federal judge declared two murals too controversial for his New Jersey courtroom, copies of the banished artworks have been installed.The murals by New Jersey artist Tanner Clark were meant to suggest the importance of federal courts in protecting children, with one showing kids playing basketball and the other a child injured in an industrial accident, The Star-Ledger of ...
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Tattoo art on display Friday at Drive Agency
On Friday from 5:30-11:00 PM, Drive Agency will open its doors for the Sailor’s Grave Tattoo Art Show. We will be featuring original works submitted by tattoo artists across the nation.
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Cannes rolls out the red carpet for opening
US actor and director and Cannes Film Festival Jury President Sean Penn(L) arrives with jury members Romanian born actress Alexandra Maria Lara and French actress Jeanne Balibar(R) at the festival's opening ceremony.
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Art, seafood and wine festival this weekend
The 21st Art, Seafood and Wine Festival will take place this weekend at the Event Center on the Beach.
Curry County Reporter |
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Local talent will shine at Art Fest
With the first-ever Piggott Art Festival less than a month away, the final plans are now falling into place. The event will be held throughout the day on Saturday, May 3, in downtown Piggott, with the "show and sale" from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. inside the north entrance of The Piggott Diner.
The Piggott Times |
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Students prepare for upcoming Art Fest
One of the many attractions of the upcoming Piggott Art Fest will be the sidewalk art competition. The competition will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3, as part of the first-ever art festival in downtown Piggott.
The Piggott Times |
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Chamber of Commerce hosting Art Fest Saturday
The Piggott Area Chamber of Commerce will present the first-ever, Piggott Art Festival from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday, May 3 around the downtown courtsquare.
The Piggott Times |
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Inaugural Piggott Art Fest
Downtown Piggott took on a deepened air of culture over the past weekend, as the Chamber of Commerce hosted the first-ever Piggott Art Festival. "We had 18 different artist booths set up in the Piggott Diner building," chamber secretary Sharon Bellers noted.
The Piggott Times |
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Town council reconsiders sign policy
The recent controversy over roadside signs in Cochrane got its hearing in front of Cochrane Town Council on Monday. The issue came before council because of the confusion after the confiscation of signs for garage sales and the art show over the past few weeks.
Cochrane Times |
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B'ville's Baker Studio awards top photos
Exceptional photos were recognized during a library reception May 7, marking the conclusion of the 16th annual Baldwinsville Public Library Photography contest sponsored by the
Cnylink |
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Towell trades wheelchair for camera
If anyone had told Larry Towell of Manila three years ago he would be out of a wheelchair, involved in a fast paced exciting new career in writing and photography, he would have found it difficult to believe.
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Crumbs
* Urban Wine Company , 1037 Jones St., will host its first Urban Wine Festival Saturday, May 17. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the gate. Attendees will receive a wine glass and a dozen sampling tickets redeemable for tastings.
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Floyd County Schools art on display
Artwork from Floyd County Schools students is on display through Saturday at Mount Berry Square mall on Martha Berry Highway. The art ranges from drawings to ceramics.
Rome News-Tribune |
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Art gallery hosts free fine arts appraisals
Plaza Art Gallery in Paris hosts its free Fine Art Appraisal Days on Friday and Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Russell Tether, vice president and managing partner of Gallery 2 David Dike Fine Art and Estates in Dallas, will be on hand to verbally appraise paintings and sculptures.
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