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Bridging History and Culture with Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry
SAN FRANCISCO----Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the San Francisco Public Library, and Litquake announced today the San Francisco International Poetry Festival—Flor y Canto en el Barrio: A Celebration of Latino Poetry.
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Most U.S. Stocks Retreat, Led by Financials on Credit Concern
June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Most U.S. stocks retreated, extending three weeks of declines, on a deteriorating outlook for bank earnings and concern higher oil prices will reduce profits at consumer and transportation companies.
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Review: Ring of Fire at Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber
Auckland Chamber Orchestra's Composer Portrait concerts are an invaluable contribution to the city's musical calendar, allotting our country's music the same contextualising we get from retrospective exhibitions in the visual arts.
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Celebrity briefs: Larry Birkhead and Timbaland
Larry Birkhead , the late Anna Nicole Smith's baby daddy, spent nearly $3,000 at a celebrity auction Saturday scooping up lingerie once worn in a Playboy shoot by Smith.
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Maserati Quattroporte has been Updated
Maserati Quattroporte, the model which established the category of “Luxury Sports Saloons”, can be considered something of a Maserati masterpiece.
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New figuration in Philippine art
FIGURATIVE paintings have changed so much in recent years. While most contemporary figural painters still conform to the anatomically correct style, others have started, so to say, to disfigure the figure and out right disregard anatomy.
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U.S. Stocks Fall, Led by Banks on Credit Concern; Merrill Drops
June 23 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks retreated, extending three weeks of declines, on a deteriorating outlook for bank earnings and concern higher oil prices will reduce profits at consumer and transportation companies.
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Historical society wins award
The enthusiasm and sheer effort behind the Catlins Historical Society's drive to establish a new museum and information centre in Owaka was recognised last night, as the group was named Clutha's top community volunteer organisation.
Otago Daily Times |
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Downtown ARTwall to get 'Liquid'
Kansas City's rollout of new outdoor artworks continues Friday June 20, with the unveiling of a billboard-sized abstraction by New York artist Amy Myers. The artwork, titled “Liquid,” will appear on the south-facing wall of the Town Pavilion parking garage at 13th and Grand.
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New Album From Jerry Douglas, "Glide," to Be Released on August 19, 2008
On Tuesday, August 19, 2008, KOCH Records will release GRAMMY® Award-winning Dobro master Jerry Douglas' new solo album, "Glide." Douglas will celebrate the launch of his latest recording as he headlines the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum's "2008 Artist-In-Residence" series in Nashville, TN commencing on August 19.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
The Discovery Group of Guam, which is working to open U'ZEUM, the Children's Discovery Museum of Guam, held its kick-off fundraiser "Coconut Jams: Art in the Park and Music Festival" on May 31 at the Plaza de España. It was a huge success!
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On the fridge
The Bank of Guam, in collaboration with the Chamorro Artists Association, The Guam Gallery of Art in the Chamorro Village and Prison Fellowship Guam, in cooperation with the Department of Corrections, will hold its group show of DOC inmates -- "God's Message of Love Through the Arts" -- at the bank's Hagåtña branch headquarters, first and second floors.
Pacific Daily News |
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Project: Top Secret Announces Contest Finalists
The winner will become director of a game project published by Acclaim and produced by Dave Perry.
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Art Workshops at Barefoot Cottages
All supplies are provided for you to create your own acrylic painting on 16 x 20 canvas, under the instruction of local artist, Heather Parker. Learn painting techniques, socialize with friends, and leave with your own work of art.
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Celebrating the gift of art : Local News
VICTORVILLE - Trinity Lutheran Church recently hosted a Spring Festival of Arts featuring paintings, photographs, wood and needle crafts.
Victorville Daily Press |
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From Pickles to Paintings in New York?s Lower East Side
In the past year, a torrent of galleries has landed in this historically immigrant area, carving out a pioneering district for emerging artists.
New York Times |
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Photographer Puts 189 Non-Existant Spy Satellites on Show [Spy Sats]
"Yesterday up in the air I snapped a sat that wasn't there,"— so might photographer Trevor Paglen say about his show at the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum. It's a series of...
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Fall exhibitions celebrate master potter Warren Mackenzie
This fall, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft celebrates ceramics and functional pottery with the arrival of “Warren MacKenzie: Legacy of an American Potter and Inspired: Students of Warren MacKenzie,” on view from Aug. 30 to Nov. 30....
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Celebrate 100 Years on Broadway
Come join the fun at the "Largest Free Festival in Texas" the 2008 Lubbock Centennial 4 th on Broadway Celebration!
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Voices for Change contest spotlights foster youth
Voices for Virginia's Children -- in partnership with the Virginia Poverty Law Center, FACES for Virginia's Families and ART 180 -- is hosting "Voices for Change," an art-writing-photography initiative designed to engage foster youth and carry their VOICES to Virginia policymakers. Foster youth ages 12 through 21 are invited submit an original essay, poem, painting, drawing or photograph that ...
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SILVERDOCS Announces Festival Winners
SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival announced its distinguished award winners, culminating the weeklong Festival activities that included screening 108 films representing 63 countries, free outdoor screenings and live performances, and a five-day concurrent International Documentary Conference attended by over 650 filmmakers, film and television executives and media ...
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Living sculpture to grace plinth in central London
LONDON, (Reuters Life!) - More than 2,000 people will take turns to occupy a vacant plinth on London's Trafalgar Square as part of a "living sculpture" project.
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'Smallville', 'Transformers', 'Wolverine: News round up for June 23rd
' Smallville ' season 8 episode titles. ' Transformers 2 ' photos and title info. ' Wolverine and the X-Men ' to get coverage at comic-con. ' Punisher War Zone ' director of photography talks film. More!
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Gen Art Fest Showcases Up-And-Coming Filmmakers
For the second year in a row, film buffs are converging in Chicago for premieres by emerging independent directors at the Gen Art Film Festival.
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January across the central desert of Iran with Benjamin Hewett
January 2008 we received British sculptor, Benjamin Hewett (Ben) who came to our Paradise. Ben participated in the; Dream of Peace, the 15th Environmental Art Festival in the Persian Gulf, working individually and helping us to realize other collaborative projects, supporting peace and a reaction against war. Then Ben traveled to different parts of Iran and exploring our country, in some areas ...
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