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Rock out this weekend at Penny Road's Fall Fest
Summer officially isn't over for another week or so, as the outdoor festival season fills up before the fun finally heads indoors.
The Courier News |
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Festival of the Vine autumn harvest celebration features wine tasting, more
Aline Leboulanger greets a regular customer by name, asks if her dog would like a bowl of water, then runs off behind a counter to retrieve it.
The Courier News |
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'Man on Wire' captures Petit's fearless walk
Philippe Petit is alive. Alive and quite well, in fact, nearing 60 but exhibiting the strength and enthusiasm of a man half his age. That in itself is a bit of a miracle, considering the myriad death-defying acts the French high-wire artist has pulled off . "Man on Wire" focuses on his most dangerous and dazzling feat of all.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Champlain Lighthouse anniversary observed
CROWN POINT -- The 150th anniversary of the Crown Point Lighthouse will be celebrated this weekend during the Festival of Nations here.
Plattsburgh Press Republican |
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Cheap thrills
Ice cream at 'The Light Project' 12:30—3:30 p.m. Tuesday—Sunday through Oct. 17 — Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 3750 Washington Boulevard — Free — 314-535-4660 — contemporarystl.org As part of the artistic series, "The Light Project," Grand Center visitors can enjoy free ice cream made by a machine powered by solar panels mounted on the art museum.
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Visual arts best bets
contemporarystl.org Contemporary Art Museum openings are always packed, and this first one of the season should be particularly so. Featured will be two artists who work outside the box — San Francisco conceptual artist Lutz Bacher and New Yorker Aida Ruilova.
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Best Bets: Out and About
'BAG and Beyond: Old and New Friends' Today—Sunday — Nu-Art Series' Metropolitan Gallery, 2936 Locust Street — $20—$40 — 314-535-6500 The Black Artists Group (BAG) was one of the most progressive cultural forces in the U.S. in the 1960s.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Fallen trees rise as striking sculpture
BURNABY - A group of seniors has turned an uprooted sequoia tree and a storm-damaged Stanley Park cedar into a towering eight-metre sculpture for their housing complex.
Vancouver Sun |
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Committee seeking art nominations
Iowa City's Public Art Advisory Committee would like to recognize residents who have invested in and contributed to the local arts culture by selecting works of art for awards through the Program for Recognition of Art in Non-Public Spaces.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen |
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Phoenix Festival changes purpose
UXBRIDGE - A year ago, people looking to help the businesses and artists burned out by the Bernat Mill fire pitched in to raise $1,300 with the Phoenix Festival, featuring music by local bands and a firefighters' chili cook-off.
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Library accepting entrants for contest
The Iowa City Public Library now is accepting slides and digital images of original artwork for the 2008 Art Purchase Prize Contest.
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Art museum site for 4-H Club meeting
The Desert Sandblasters 4-H Club will have its first meeting of the new school year at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 N. Museum Drive.
The Desert Sun |
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Museum gets new flooring, renovations
New wood flooring has been laid in the Margaret and Michael W. McCarthy Mezzanine of the Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive.
The Desert Sun |
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La Grange rosy for Garden Spot Festival
More than 30 years ago, La Grange farmers and resident began commemorating the annual end of harvest season with a community gathering filled with games, vendors and all-out celebration. They called it "The Golden Jubilee."
Kinston Free Press |
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Hexham Courant
A NEW £25million mental health hospital planned for Prudhoe is another step closer to reality. Plans for the 40-bed complex in the grounds of the old Prudhoe Hospital were unveiled at a public exhibition last week.
The Hexham Courant |
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Fallen trees rise as striking sculpture
BURNABY - Twenty-five seniors have turned an uprooted sequoia tree and a storm-damaged Stanley Park cedar into a towering eight-metre sculpture for their housing complex.
Vancouver Sun |
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My Things: Kathleen Bryson
The phenomenally talented and go-gettin' Kathleen Bryson is not the kind of woman to let her life stagnate. At any one time she has a handful of exciting projects on the go, including novels like Girl On A Stick and He's Lucid , painting, acting and singing.
RainbowNetwork.com |
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Rock goes green
Ball State University senior James Nimmer hatched the idea for the Wuhnurth music festival by combining two of his greatest interests: live entertainment and love of the environment.
Ball State Daily News |
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Calgary hopes for new world-class art gallery
CALGARY -- The Glenbow Museum's pitch for a world-class art gallery has received backing from provincial and federal politicians who said they'll ask their governments for cash if the idea materializes.
Vancouver Sun |
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Isle of Wight: Sculpture by John Atkin heading for San Francisco
THERE was an eye-catching sneak preview this week of a huge sculpture by an Island artist with an international reputation. Sculptor John Atkin called on the craftsmanship of a Bembridge engineering company to manufacture his five-metre-tall stainless steel sculpture, entitled Hard Bop.
Isle of Wight County Press |
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South Africa: Pierneef Work Breaks Record for Local Art
AUCTION house Bonham's has asserted London's control over the South African art market, selling a Pierneef painting, The Baobab Tree, for a record £826000 on Wednesday evening.
AllAfrica.com |
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Flowery Murakami sculpture to adorn Asia art auction
SINGAPORE, Sept 12 (Reuters Life!) - A huge, whimsical floral sculpture by Japan's Takashi Murakami is set to steal the show at Sotheby's Hong Kong auction of modern Asian art in a region apparently unfazed by the global economic slowdown.
Yahoo! Asia News |
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Around Delaware
The 48th annual Brandywine Arts Festival is set for this weekend in Wilmington.
The News Journal |
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Dance group to perform at Malian festival
This December, Brown's Mande dance company New Works will perform in the biennial arts festival in Mali.
Brown Daily Herald |
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Metzgar '86 now leads Chicago LGBTQ theater
Bonnie Metzgar '86, former professor of literary arts and artistic director of the New Plays Festival, has become the artistic director of Chicago's About Face Theater, which focuses on gender and sexual identity. She began her work at the theater - which she described as the highest-profile lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning theater in the country - in mid-July, and hopes to ...
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