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A world of features and shorts
The Independent Film Festival of Boston may have blown out of town, but two other area fests soon arrive to keep movie marathoners happy.
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With Piedmont off limits, few options for big events
Transplanting a city's heart is a tricky operation. Thus far, two major festivals have struggled with the ordeal, with others in waiting as Piedmont Park remains off limits to large-scale merry-making.
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Palo Alto Online's Master Community Calendar
Showing listings from May 31, 2008 to June 6, 2008 in all categories. Docent-Led Lompico Headwaters Hike Slow-paced two-mile hike. Sempervirens Fund docents guide and provide time at the turnaround spot for photography (low-light conditions), sketching or solitude. Reservations required.
Palo Alto Weekly |
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Voices from the past
Less story, more memory: new fiction looks back to re-imagine the past. Memory is in. It's the renaissance of the memoir, the biography and autobiography. Even fiction these days is read, and possibly written, as real life-stories transposed to a fictional context.
Business Standard India |
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Chuck Berry Plays Blues in Long Beach
Chuck Berry, Sly & the Family Stone Headline The Long Beach Blues Festival will get a face-lift this year with a new home and will feature an 81-year-old headliner who made musical history because he wouldn't play the blues.
All About Jazz |
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Elvis festival draws thousands
A special tribute for the King of Rock n' Roll in Lake George. Thousands of people from across the nation are participating in the fifth annual Lake George Elvis Festival this weekend.
Capital News 9 |
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Score one to Obama
Barack Obama selected St. Paul, Minn. , where Republicans will hold their convention, as the site for a rally Tuesday night marking the end of primary season in the drawn-out Democratic presidential contest.
The San Francisco Examiner |
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Charlie Daniels' band headlines Taylor festival 06/01/08
TAYLOR — Two days of country music performed by big-name stars will highlight Downriver's largest summer festival.
The News-Herald |
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Digital dangers
Undeniably, photography has undergone a mammoth change during the last few years. Photographers, both professional as well as amateurs, have had not only had to invest in new cameras and accessories, but have needed to adapt to the new digital technologies.
Malta Star |
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Art students' piece will look like picnic litter
An art exhibit at Black River Public School will look like picnic litter — but much bigger. A group of 23 high school and five middle school students from Black River are finishing a multi-media performance installation that will include foam sculptures of fast food and litter. The art exhibit, called “The Human Footprint,” will take place on Tuesday, June 3, at Sanctuary Woods, on ...
The Holland Sentinel |
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MCA Showcases Often-Bizarre Works Of Jeff Koons
Celebratory, kitschy and sometimes explicit, the works of Jeff Koons are on display in his first major U.S. exhibit in nearly 15 years. It opens today at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
CBS 2 Chicago |
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Some fancy footwork
Glenda Irwin has an interesting CV: oil painting restorer, prop buyer for U2 videos, art director on Smashing Pumpkins videos, Death Star decorator...
The New Zealand Herald |
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Michelin Challenge Design announces 2009 jury
Michelin Challenge Design, one of the world's top design competitions, has announced its panel of judges for 2009. The distinguished group of automotive design leaders will meet in July at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, to select the vehicle designs and concepts for special exhibition at the 2009 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit next January.
Car Design News |
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Minn. firm didn't pay taxes on Ky. hotel
A Minnesota firm that owned a western Kentucky hotel before it was auctioned in April failed to pay about $30,000 in hotel room taxes - an omission that has left a local government agency underfunded. Minnesota/Owensboro Executive Inn LLC's failure to pay taxes on the Executive Inn Rivermont for three-and-a-half months has left the Owensboro-Daviess Convention & Visitors Bureau with a ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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5 secrets for a fab living room
By AMY SPENCER It can be tough to become a decorating guru. So whatever your style and no matter where you live, here are some tips on how to make your living room look gorgeous and glamorous. Secret 1: Place the couch in a welcoming position Museumlike, look-but-don't-touch living rooms are so over. You want people to feel invited and welcomed into the room. Furniture placement says ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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Laughing Sal presides over new Playland museum
Laughing Sal is cackling once more. The gap-toothed, red-haired, plaster icon who terrified generations of kids at San Francisco's defunct Playland-at-the-Beach has resurfaced - maniacal laugh and all - in El Cerrito. Laughing Sal and thousands of other...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Arts camps for kids in Richmond, Berea
Arts organizations in Richmond and Berea will stage day camps this summer in which youngsters can develop creativity and appreciation for the arts.
Richmond Register |
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Cementing the Filipino presence in Cannes
Even as some of those at the gala premiere of Brillante “Dante” Mendoza’s Serbis competing at the 61st Cannes Film Festival with international filmfest masters kept stating this was victory enough, there was still that little part of us hoping and praying for the big prize, if not for director Dante, for the country whose ills and maladies he depicted so bizarrely in the film.
Philstar.com |
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Here's a list of Saturday things to do
OUT BUT NOT DOWN A GRATEFUL BASH, noon-4 p.m., Loodles Parking Lot, 1180 Main St., Windsor. Live music, food, silent auction. Benefits Windsor Community Foundation to help those impaced by the recent tornado.
Greeley Tribune |
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Lorne Shields Historical Bicycle Photography
Cinecycle Toronto presents a rare opportunity to see one of the world’s finest collections of early cycling history. Esteemed collector Lorne Shields will take viewers on a visual romp through the evolution of the bicycle when he presents a sampling of images from his private collection on Thursday, June 5th, at Cinecycle. Lorne Shields has donated [...]
Spacing Wire |
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Sage Silverstein: Painter's heart is in her art
Sage Silverstein did her first painting when she was one and a half years old. She got hold of one of her mother’s red lipsticks and covered herself with it from head to toe.
Weston Forum |
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Regional, Native American art show opens on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Saturday
PINE RIDGE--More than 100 works by Native Americans across the country, and on the Pine Ridge Reservation, will be on display with the opening of the 41st Annual Red Cloud Indian Art Show on Sunday at The Heritage Center on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Rapid City Journal |
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Pinoy strikes gold in Olympic art contest
A stainless-steel work by Filipino sculptor Joe Datuin won the prestigious international Sport and Art Contest in connection with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
ABS-CBNNEWS.com |
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SARAWAK, SABAH ATHLETES SACRIFICE TRADITIONAL FESTIVALS FOR GLORY IN SPORTS
KUALA TERENGGANU, May 31 (Bernama) -- Unlike the other athletes from peninsular Malaysia, the athletes representing Sarawak and Sabah in the 12th SUKMA in Terengganu have to sacrifice their traditional festivals, Gawai Dayak (Sarawak) and Kaamatan (Sabah) for glory in sports.
Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News |
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Vallejo commission to give scholarships to art students
Minus any financial support from the city, one Vallejo commission hopes to continue providing art-based scholarships to the city's youth. On Tuesday, members of the Vallejo Commission on Culture and the Arts will present seven students with $100 scholarships at the Vallejo
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