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Charges dropped in raid at the CAID
Loitering charges have been dismissed against 116 people who were ticketed and detained in a controversial raid by Detroit police in May at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, the ACLU of Michigan said Monday.
Detroit Free Press |
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TWT 2008 Granny Smith Festival Queen Quest
$10,000 Record Prizes - Hurry! Entries Close Next Week This year’s TWT Miss Eastwood Granny Smith Festival Queen Quest grand finalists will share a record $10,000 in prizes including a Holiday for 2 to New Caledonia courtesy Harvey World Travel Eastwood and $2,000 cash prizemoney from Eastwood Shopping Centre plus scores of other valuable prizes.
Weekly Times |
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Smartparts Sets New Standard for WiFi Enabled Digital Picture Frames with Integration of Windows Live Photo Gallery
COLOGNE, Germany----Smartparts, Inc., a leading manufacturer and innovator driving the explosive digital picture frame market, today unveiled the eight inch SPX8WF, the company's first WiFi digital picture frame.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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WyoGuide
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Local events• Rendezvous Royale: A Celebration of Arts in Cody: Includes Cody High Style, Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale and Patrons Ball. 307-578-4025.
Billings Gazette |
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7Wonders Creation Museum celebrates 10 years Saturday
The 7Wonders Creation Museum will show off its recent renovations and celebrate its 10th anniversary with a full day of events Saturday in Toutle.
The Daily News |
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Ani DiFranco shows greater depth in new album
After 18 years in the music industry, folk artist Ani DiFranco is releasing her 16th studio album, Red Letter Year, recorded over the course of two years. This is much longer than it took to record her earlier albums. One reason for the delay was that DiFranco had a baby, Petah Lucia, now one year old.
Clarion Online |
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Local and live
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 • "MATERIAL TERRAIN: A SCULPTURAL EXPLORATION OF LANDSCAPE & PLACE": Yellowstone Art Museum, 401 N. 27th St. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Contemporary works by 11 artists. $5, adults; $4, senior citizens; $3, ages 6-18; free, ages 5, younger and YAM members. Up through Oct. 31. 256-6804.
Billings Gazette |
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Major Dali exhibition opens in Istanbul
The largest Salvador Dali exhibition outside Spain opens Saturday in Istanbul with 269 works by the Catalan surrealist and photos, movies and manuscripts shedding light on his life and artistic journey.
The New Sabah Times |
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Verge Ensemble, Pushing Sound Right to the Edge
The concert at the Corcoran Gallery of Art began with a duet for flute and electronic sound that was meant to expand the flute's acoustic space. It continued with a violin whose song was filtered through a computer into a prism of descending Doppler effects. Then there was the crash of a piano, and...
Washington Post |
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Mos Def's Big Band Vision Is Still Evolving
If there's one thing Mos Def has, it's ambition. The hip-hop superstar -- who's also an actor, musician and (like all good Renaissance men) a budding clothing designer -- has been trying to invigorate hip-hop by pushing out the boundaries into jazz, R&B and soul. Is it working? The results were...
Washington Post |
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Dali record a Turkish delight
The largest Salvador Dali exhibition outside Spain has just opened with 269 works by the Catalan surrealist plus photos, movies and manuscripts shedding light on his life and artistic journey.
China Daily |
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Painting goes for $5,000
The bidding was spirited and fast. After 10 minutes, it was over and Marianne Schweers of Eagle Ranch Pistachios was the winner at $5,000 of La Luz artist Ernie Lee Miller's "Mission Grapes of the Past," an oil painting depicting early grape farming in Laborcita Canyon.
Alamogordo Daily News |
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Exhibit kicks off festival celebrating mountains
By Cynthia RomeroEl Paso TimesEL PASO -- A night of fine art, music and food out in the desert might just be enough to get people looking at the mountains in a whole new light.
El Paso Times |
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Orientalist Photography: Japan in the Baumatsu-Meiji Period, 1868-1912 -- 09/24/08 at The Lab
Orientalist Photography: Japan in the Baumatsu-Meiji Period, 1868-1912 -- 09/24/08 at The Lab
Rocky Mountain News |
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Eureka man wins statewide art contest
Category: Local News Topics: Art Competition promotes prevention of sexually transmitted diseases
The Eureka Reporter |
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Sony Ericsson launches global blog partnership programme for mobile phone photography competition World View 2008
Sony Ericsson has launched a global blog partnership programme for its mobile camera phone competition World View 2008. For the first time a select number of bloggers will be invited to become exclusive partners of one of the world's largest mobile phone camera competitions. Blog partners can display a widget on their site stating that they are an official partner of the global competition. The ...
PhoneContent.com |
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Muscular dystrophy, negative comment fail to stop artist
When Howard Feigenbaum was in fifth grade, an art teacher told him he had no talent and that he shouldn't continue. "I believed because I was in the fifth grade," said Feigenbaum, 61, of Hemet.
The Press-Enterprise |
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Artist uses his gift to help benefit others
Raku artist Robert Sunday, 53, has developed a following across the Rock River Valley. He teaches art and an advanced ceramics class at Keith Country Day School in Rockford Monday through Thursday, then sets his weekend aside for his artwork.
Rockford Register Star |
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New SF Muni Bus Line Tours Cultural Landmarks
San Francisco city officials Monday unveiled the new "74X CultureBus," a new Municipal Railway bus line that stops at museums and cultural institutions throughout the city.
CBS 5 Bay Area |
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Museum installs sculptures
Beacon Journal staff report Where the rest of us see scraps of electronics, hardware or maybe even junk, the artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier sees the potential for art.
Akron Beacon Journal |
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City drops charges in art gallery party raid
DETROIT -- City attorneys have dropped charges against more than 100 people arrested and ticketed during a May police raid at an art gallery dance party.
Detroit News |
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Molecules That Make A Difference
In conjunction with the opening of its new museum and conference center, the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) announces the launch of the Molecules That Matter Lecture Series
ChemicalOnline |
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Odds and Ends: Elvis Is Alive Museum up for sale again on eBay
ST. LOUIS - The Elvis Is Alive Museum is once again for sale on eBay. The museum's collection includes photographs, books, FBI files, DNA reports and other memorabilia that aim to support the theory that Elvis Presley never died. Its owner, Andy Key of Mississippi, says military duties will keep him away from home for at least five months.
Daily Illini |
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Tasmanian furniture maker to speak today
CULLOWHEE - Sculptor and furniture maker Patrick Hall, the first artist to be designated a "Treasured Tasmanian" in his home country, will lecture at noon today in room 130 of the Fine & Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Louvre art still on display at OKCMOA
Less than a month remains before the “Roman Art from the Louvre” exhibit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art heads back to France on Oct. 12. Oklahoma City is the third and final stop on the exhibit’s American tour, which included museums in Indianapolis and Seattle.
The Oklahoma Daily |
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