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SRA to probe Da Vinci painting plot solicitor
One of the lawyers charged with attempting to extort £4.25m for the safe return of a Da Vinci masterpiece has had his firm closed down and is being investigated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). ...
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Cutting uncommon paths
Keith Jarrett's nettlesome reputation precedes him. He forbids photography during shows. He is not above losing his temper at audiences who, as he puts it, "get in the way of their own experience." This has been part of the Jarrett package since the '70s, and it's controversial.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Jewish festival gets great review
SPRINGFIELD - There was a little something for everyone at Sunday's first annual Western Massachusetts Jewish Music & Arts Festival at the Springfield Jewish Community Center on Dickinson Street.
The Republican |
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EDINBURG — Whether it's friends, family, food or the promise of fun, festival goers say there's plenty to keep people coming back to Edinburg's Ole Time Festival year after year.
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Hong Kong gallery brings Giclee prints to India
As art prices spiral beyond the reach of common buyers, dealers are improvising on trade practices and artistic tools to stay afloat. One such attempt is being made by a Hong Kong-based online art gallery that is entering the Indian market with Giclee or ink jet-prints of art works.
Calcutta News |
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ARTS 5:15 p.m. - Artwork wanted for veteran showcase
5:15 p.m., Sept. 22 — The sixth annual Guam veterans creative art showcase will be held Nov. 6 to 11, and works of art are being solicited. This year's showcase will include the performing arts/story-telling.
Pacific Daily News |
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Treasure Island Music Festival does it again
The west winds were relentless. The solar-powered generators kept dropping out, taking the audio with them. Worst of all, the promised views of the city were all but blocked by an unsightly chain-link fence, rows of Porta Potties and an extremely...
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Ramadan Exhibition 2008 opens at Sharjah Expo Centre
H.E. Sheikh Sultan Bin Ahmed Bin Sultan Al Qassimi, Chairman of Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority and Chairman of the Higher Organizing Committee for Sharjah Ramadan Festival 2008, recently inaugurated the 2008 Ramadan Exhibition as part of this year's edition of the annual festival at the Sharjah Expo Centre.
AME Info |
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Monday 'Photographic Works: 2000-2008'
See the peaceful but provocative images from Alex Heria, whose exhibit, Photographic Works: 2000-2008, is on display at the The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.'
Miami Herald |
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Lynn celebrates 'Meet Me Downtown' Festival
LYNN - Central Square came alive on Saturday afternoon. Hundreds of area residents attended the annual "Meet Me Downtown" Festival. The event included musical performances by The Mystery Tramps and the Crystal Steel PanJammers, which is the only youth steel orchestra on the North Shore.
The Daily Item |
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Light is fading on Kodachrome
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability. Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away.
The Oregonian |
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Hold your horses
This week’s crisis on Wall Street cannot be good news for the National Gallery of Art. The gallery, as we reported in March, wants to expand by pushing the Federal Trade Commission out of its home across the street.
BizJournals |
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Student art to be exhibited
SILVER CITY — Students from area high schools will have their artwork featured in the first exhibit of the Western New Mexico Francis McCray Gallery academic year. The exhibit opened Thursday and is titled, "Artists in Their Youth Exhibition from Area Classrooms."
Silver City Sun-News |
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Homeroom: Workshops illuminate ways to pay for college
Also: SAT registration deadline nears; Scholarship contest open
The Fremont Argus |
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Tucson Time Capsule : Designer attends benefit
Clothing designer Vera Maxwell attended "Fashion for the Arts" at the Doubletree Inn on Sept. 22, 1978. The fashion show was sponsored by Goldwaters department store and was a fundraiser for the Arizona Opera, the Tucson Museum of Art and Arizona Theatre Company.
Arizona Daily Star |
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PENTAX Announces K2000 Digital SLR System, Two DA Star High Performance Lenses and Ring Flash
PENTAX Imaging Company has announced the PENTAX K2000 DSLR system designed specifically for consumers who are ready to make the transition from a point-and-shoot digital camera to digital SLR photography. The PENTAX K2000 is an entry-level system consisting of the new PENTAX K2000 body, the smc PENTAX DA L 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL lens,(a) and the PENTAX AF200FG Auto Flash.
Centre Daily Times |
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Winchester
— Once the lifeblood of this community, apple harvest time to most people today just means there’s a festival to attend.
Winchester Star |
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'Alchemy' lights up Gallery 25
"Alchemy" at Gallery 25 is an art ex-hibit that spotlights work by 29 mem- bers, many of whom are well known in the Fresno-area arts community. Read comments
The Fresno Bee |
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PENTAX Announces K2000 Digital SLR System, Two DA Star High Performance Lenses and Ring Flash
GOLDEN, Colo.----PENTAX Imaging Company has announced the PENTAX K2000 DSLR system designed specifically for consumers who are ready to make the transition from a point-and-shoot digital camera to digital SLR photography.
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'Dialogue' is a journey into dark
Exhibit that renders sighted people blind aims to heighten sense of challenges facing the disabled An exhibit that renders sighted people blind aims to heighten our sense of the challenges facing the disabled, writes the Tribune's Dahleen Glanton from Atlanta.
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Mid-Valley briefs
"Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home," a traveling exhibit featuring California Native American art and poetry will open with a reception Friday at the Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County in Yuba City.
Appeal-Democrat |
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Palace Theater undergoes a rebirth
DANBURY -- The Palace Theater, which opened 80 years ago this month during the tail end of the roaring 20s, is experiencing a rebirth.Opened for the first time in years this past spring for the Connecticut Film Festival, groups can now rent the building for fundraisers and other events.
The News-Times |
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Around the Valley
Class shows how to cultivate roses SAN MARINO - Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, will present "Landscaping With Roses" at 2:30 p.
San Gabriel Valley Tribune |
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2 students win photo, cell-phone pic contest
EL PASO -- Two University of Texas at El Paso students have been announced as winners of UTEP's 2008 Give Us Your Best Shot photography contest.
El Paso Times |
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Angola: Bengo Province Holds Music Festival
The culture department of northern Bengo province will this Saturday hold, at the square of Africampos cinema, in Caxito city, a Rap and Kuduro music festival aimed at boosting the art of singing amongst youths, ANGOP learnt Friday from the local director of Culture, André Jorge Lobato.
AllAfrica.com |
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