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John Muller a big fan of Idol contestant Roshani
ROSHANI Priddis has been doing exceptionally well on Australian Idol and John Muller is one of her biggest fans.
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News Briefs
The explicit exhibit, "AGENCY: Art and Advertising," will open the 2008-2009 season for the McDonough Museum of Art. It will run through Nov. 8, and will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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Boys & Girls Club: Have a great time, help a new ‘Crop of Kids’ at auction
You’ll have a great time while “Harvesting our Heritage for a New Crop of Kids” at Saturday’s Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clara Valley dinner auction at historic Teague-McKevett Ranch.
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Manitou art center marks 20 years
When Harriet Lee began sculpting at the Manitou Springs Business of Art Center about two decades ago, she dreamed of making it big. Literally. Lee said Dan Wecks, the center's former executive director, inspired her to realize her wildest artistic ambitions.
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The parents of schoolboy Rhys Jones went to court yesterday for the start of their son's murder trial.
Dozens of black taxi cabs have been taken off Glasgow's roads following a spate of mystery blazes within the vehicles across the UK. A high-class fraudster was jailed for six years yesterday after bouncing cheques worth around £2 million in some of Europe's top auction houses.
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Getting GO service in Niagara a slow go
Call it the latest Go Transit Tease. Last week, Niagara regional council approved $5,000 for public art at the GO Station at Casablanca Boulevard in [...]
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Berks Movie Madness Kicks Off Tonight
var nopreviewimage = "1"; if (nopreviewimage == ""){ document.write(' '); document.write(' '); document.write(' '); } It's a true case of life imitating art. As the curtain goes up on Berks Movie Madness Film Festival today, one of the featured films features a scenario familiar to one playing out right now in Reading. WFMZ's Melissa Batulis explains.
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Forging ahead, with art and determination
Christina Symanski had everything going for her: good friends, a job she loved as an art teacher in East Brunswick, and bright plans for the future. Unfortunately, a tragic diving accident would change the course of her life in June 2005. The accident caused injury to her spinal cord, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down, with extremely limited movement in her arms.
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County seeks area's best photos for exhibition
The Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission invites artists age 18-up who live, work or are members of an arts organization in Somerset County to submit entries for a Juried Photography Exhibition. Deadline is Friday, Oct. 10. Entry fee is $15...
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Charlie Porter on fashion blogs and the real trend-setters discovered by street style photography
Fashion weeks are all about the clothes on the catwalk, aren't they? Not for a new wave of fashion blogs that consider the people attending the shows to be the real trend-setters. Charlie Porter reports
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Gala to benefit center
LONG BRANCH — San Alfonso Retreat House will be hosting its annual gala "Autumn by the Sea" at the 8-acre oceanfront facility at 755 Ocean Ave. on Oct. 12 at 3 p.m. The benefit will feature live music, a buffet and a silent auction to raise money to help support the work of the Redemptorist Fathers who operate the spiritual center for thousands each year.
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The National Gallery in Wartime, By Suzanne Bosman
This picture book is one of the odder works that make up the infinite library of books about the Second World War. In 1940, Churchill told the National Gallery director Kenneth Clark: "Hide them in caves and cellars, but not one picture shall leave this island."
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First Impressions: Damien Hirst's first solo exhibition (1991)
Damien Hirst's In and Out of Love includes a large number of Malaysian butterflies which will live out their natural lifespan in a climate-controlled commercial art gallery in the West End of London. The show, like the butterflies, is scheduled to last for six weeks.
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Dozens of black taxi cabs have been taken off Glasgow's roads following a spate of mystery blazes within the vehicles ...
A high-class fraudster was jailed for six years yesterday after bouncing cheques worth around £2 million in some of Europe's top auction houses. A date has been set for the trial of a teenager who is accused of murdering Scots backpacker Karen Aim in New Zealand.
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Tom Sutcliffe: You can have too much Rothko
Visiting the Mark Rothko show at Tate Modern the other day, I felt there was something odd about the atmosphere of the large room in which the exhibition organisers have hung the famous Seagram Murals – the paintings that were commissioned and painted for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, before the artist decided he couldn't square the work's aesthetic seriousness with the ...
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Paris Hilton portrait shown in NYC is made of porn
NEW YORK (AP): A well-known British artist is exhibiting collage portraits of President George W. Bush and celebrity Paris Hilton he made out of porn magazine images.
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The wonder of Woodstock
Literary festivals are seldom held in grand surroundings. They're more likely to take place in candy-striped tents with flapping openings and duckboards flung across muddy fields. Or to be held in town halls, down-at-heel theatres, municipal offices and city garden squares. They rarely afford punters much spectacle of natural or man-made beauty. Book festival fans, as a breed, are inured to ...
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Music Review: TV On The Radio - Dear Science,
TV on The Radio is back with an art-rock masterpiece that might just be the album of the year. Calling all stations – TV On The Radio is back on the airwaves, and it's worth tuning in for this. The Brooklyn art-rock combo's third disc, Dear Science, is here (yes, the comma's part of the title), and it's a dazzling and inventive "letter to whom it may concern" that's funky, angry, and ...
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Close to Home : Mountains of music
Queenstown's ASB Jazzfest turns 30 in style with over 200 musicians from around the world performing at dozens of venues. The festival from October 18-27 and features ticketed concerts, themed events, youth competitions, master classes, workshops and free gigs.
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Leading article: Golden age
Maybe you thought all that had gone out with the credit crunch; that the Damien Hirst sale set the seal on the age of excess and a return to the spare lines of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore was just around the gallery corner. If so, you would be wrong.
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Bits 'n' Pieces of Nipomo: Plein Air Painting Festival continues through Sunday
The Plein Air Painting Festival sponsored by the San Luis Art Center is under way through Sunday. More than 50 painters from throughout the United States, including local artists, are expected to be featured.
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Two festivals planned in Manassas area
Two of Northern Virginia’s premier family-friendly fall festivals are expected to draw thousands of spectators to the Manassas area Saturday.
InsideNoVa.com |
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Exhibit celebrates wonders of Zion National Park
Travelers who love art and Zion National Park may want to check out a new exhibit at the St. George Art Museum, 47 E. 200 North.
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D.C. gets Crime and Punishment Museum
The new National Museum of Crime and Punishment will feature artifacts and instruments of forensics, investigation, enforcement and violence. The museum, at 575 7th St., has five galleries and 28,000 square feet of space.
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Big holiday weekend
FROM festivals to garden visits, markets to exhibitions, theatre to agricultural events, the Manning will be booming with activities over the long weekend.
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