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Lost dogs and enchantresses make for a strong Booker list, but where is Kelman?
Let's get the annual squall of outrage over first. Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman deserved at least a shortlist place in this year's Man Booker contest. Indeed, the beautifully observed, deeply affecting first-person portrait of a Glasgow childhood outshines Roddy Doyle's Dublin equivalent, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – which won the prize in 1993.
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A fresh Canvas
Opening a new three-storey art gallery during an economic slump takes guts. Thankfully, the Inglebys have plenty, finds Tim Cornwell
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Woman Finds Jesus in Bag of Cheetos
(High Point, MO) -- A Missouri woman says she has found Jesus in a bag of Cheetos. When Kelly Ramey opened a snack-sized bag of Cheetos, she felt something unusual and checked it out. Most of her family and friends believe it looks like a mini orange sculpture of Jesus on the cross.
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Gallery board backs feuding execs
The chairman of the board of the National Gallery of Canada has issued an unequivocal statement praising the federal institution's two top executives, who mere days ago were in Federal Court throwing mud at one another.
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Preview: The Big Chill, Eastnor Castle, Malvern
The Big Chill – a multi-media festival – is held in the Eastnor Castle Deer Park in the Malvern Hills in Herefordshire. The eclectic line-up this year includes Martha Wainwright, Lykke Li, Beth Orton, Portico Quartet, Don Letts, The Orb, Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Witt and Norman Jay, as well as spoken word performances from Apples and Snakes, moonlight cinema screenings of Dracula and Oliver ...
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Flora & Fauna, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
Richard Woods is a furniture designer, a floor maker, a printer and a sculptor. He's part of a new group of artists who refuse to be defined by one term like painter, sculptor or film-maker – hybrid artists, who explore the potential of a wider choice. Woods is best known for his floors; boldly wood-blocked and hand-made, each is different in some way – colour, grain or size. Woods calls them ...
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A landmark European peacekeeping mission had to be funded by a whip-round of staff and a loan from a British ...
Patients at a secure hospital staged a rooftop protest after a smoking ban was introduced. Calls for Alistair Darling to slap a multi-billion pound windfall tax on the oil companies intensified last night.
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Gallery board backs feuding execs
The chairman of the board of the National Gallery of Canada has issued an unequivocal statement praising the federal institution's two top executives, who mere days ago were in Federal Court throwing mud at one another.
Canada.com |
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Artists give their impressions of Olympic host
With the Olympics around the corner, artworks inspired by the Games, host city Beijing and Chinese culture are on display at the City Art Gallery, Jalan Ampang until Aug 3.
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Presidential letters planned for display in East Cleveland library
EAST CLEVELAND -- An unusual collection of letters is about to become a public exhibit here.
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Partnership fosters arts and creativity
Students of Molong Central School and Canowindra High School will open an art exhibition at taste Canowindra this Friday 6:30 pm.
Canowindra News |
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The History of Street Art
As the Tate's Street Art show draws to an end, street art legend Blek Le Rat tells the story of street art and talks about how New York graffiti inspired him.
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Grand Island marketing itself at the State Fair
Grand Island has its own logo now to market itself to State Fair participants and exhibitors.
Grand Island Independent |
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Arts as an extension of identity
The Sabes Jewish Community Center in St. Louis Park will host an international arts festival for Jewish teens.
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Changing face of art
No longer a pastime for the champagne-sipping elite, art galleries and museums are attracting people from a wide variety of community sectors ... and Maitland Regional Art Gallery is no exception.
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85 Famous Works of Art 'Improved' via Modern Technology [Photoshop Contest]
For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to put modern technology in famous works of art. I've got to be honest, these might be the best results from a Photoshop Contest yet. The wide range of...
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Hollywood takes a back seat at Venice film festival
ROME (Reuters) - Big Hollywood studios will take a back seat at this year's Venice film festival, with the competition lineup highlighting independent U.S. cinema, Italian productions and Japanese animation movies.
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Faulty air conditioning puts Warhol show on ice
BRATISLAVA (AFP) - An exhibition of Andy Warhol prints in the only museum in Europe dedicated to the US pop artist is being put off until September due to defective air conditioning, the venue in Slovakia said on Tuesday.
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Monkey from Mars: A Ga. crime lab's museum oddity
Tucked away in a glass cylinder are the preserved remains of a monkey that three pranksters passed off as an alien 55 years ago in a UFO hoax that drew headlines worldwide.
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`Monkey from Mars' at home in crime museum (w/pic)
Only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars.
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Crime museum flaunts monkey from Mars
DECATUR, Ga. - Other museums might have more or flashier items to display.
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Monkey from Mars: a Ga. crime lab’s museum oddity
Tue, Jul 29, 2008 (3:03 p.m.) Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars.
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Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival
8:15 tonight Glenn Miller Orchestra More than 60 years after the public first embraced the Miller sound, both the legend and the music live on. The most sought-after Big Band in the world, the Glenn Miller Orchestra is still considered the greatest band of all time. Larry O'Brien, music director. Co-sponsored by Tom and Mary Vessey.
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Local calendar, July 29
T0NIGHT Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival presents Glenn Miller Orchestra, 8:15 p.m. at the Redlands Bowl. Community Sing at 7:15 p.m.
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Rare Rupert & Rothschild wine, food and art experience at Winchester Mansions
Winelovers can feast their senses this Woman's Day on the prestigious wines of Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons at the Grapes, Gourmet and Gallery evening at Winchester Mansions Hotel on Saturday, 9 August.
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