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How to enrich your life for free
Public education takes on new meaning at many area stores and community centers. From decorative painting to dance instruction, there are many free classes and events in our neighborhoods. What's more, public libraries offer free fitness, cultural and literary classes at neighborhood branches.
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Baghdad museum treasures still locked from view
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In Iraq's national museum a frieze shows Assyrian King Sargon II, who ruled an empire from what is now northern Iraq, storming a rampart as soldiers pile decapitated heads before him.
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Port Townsend Film Festival became tribute to Paul Newman
The blue-eyed shadow of Paul Newman fell across the Port Townsend Film Festival this year.
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Event brings artists from across the state to Muncie
MUNCIE -- Yvonne Williams heard it over and over again when she was organizing Gallery 308's Arts Kaleidoscope exhibit, a collaboration between poets and visual artists from across Indiana.
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footage showed ragged Iraqis carting off whatever they could find. "It was considered one of the most horrible cultural crimes in recent history," Eidan said. The Americans guarded the oil ministry but not the museum.
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Calendar: Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008
SPECIAL EVENTS Gretna Heritage Festival Huey P. Long Avenue, downtown Gretna. Rides, food, crafts, a German Beer Garden and Italian Village plus continuous music on six stages, 2-9:30. Bands today include The Radiators, Bonerama, Amanda Shaw, Rebirth Brass Band, Bucktown...
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Homes tour adds arts, signing
AUBURN - The Community Preservation Society teamed up for the first time with the Cayuga County Arts Council to combine an art festival and book signing with their biannual historic homes tour Saturday.
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Senior Traveler: Sizing up likely retirement spots
In the midst of your traveling - passing a villa in Sorrento, a cottage in Galway, a manor house in the Cotswolds, an adobe in Arizona - how often have you asked: What would it be like to live here?
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Unique US war painting gets epic restoration
GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (AFP) - After years of exposure to rot and mishandling, a US institution has been pulled back from the brink of collapse with the help of international experts who pooled their knowledge.
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Unique US war painting gets epic restoration
After years of exposure to rot and mishandling, a US institution has been pulled back from the brink of collapse with the help of international experts who pooled their knowledge.
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Christo, Jeanne-Claude want "Valley" exhibit to stay in state
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have worked in Colorado before. With nearly 100 construction workers and helpers, they strung a 142,000-square-foot orange curtain across a highway north of Rifle in 1972 for "Valley Curtain."
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LOG ON
Glasgay!, Scotlands annual celebration of queer culture, takes place from 12 October-11 November with an impressive number of performances, exhibitions, clubs, comedy and even a film festival that are sure to thrill it's 25,000 visitors (read our Top Picks feature).
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Famed and framed
The Denver Art Museum's new wing dropped jaws when it opened in 2006. What's the perspective now?
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Artists display nature-inspired works at event
An army tent set up for sculptors, sidewalks colored with chalk and ink renderings of animals and landscapes were part of the Nature and the Arts program Saturday.
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Art: Calder's ingenious jewelry; Neel's portraits
Alexander Calder created some of the most monumental sculptures of the 20th century, and also some of the smallest. It's a measure of his talent that his visual ideas not only proved to be adaptable to any scale, but also could comfortably straddle the divide between pure aesthetic statement and decorative embellishment.
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Madrid city worth exploring day or night
Spanish capital is a hot bed of museums, art galleries, eateries and night clubs.
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Canyon Lake girl, 8, sweeps to win in art competition
Kimberly Mulcahy, 8, of Canyon Lake, who is a student at Cottonwood Elementary, won the Sweepstakes Award in her age category for a painting she entered in the America's Kid art competition at the L.A. County Fair.
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SLO Gallery celebrates silver anniversary
A local gallery is celebrating its silver anniversary this month. Just Looking is looking good for its age. “We’ve passed the test of time in San Luis Obispo,” said owner Ralph Gorton, who has seen dozens of galleries come and go in the past 25 years. “I started the business with no gray hair and no ex-wives and no children,” Gorton says smiling. “Now I have all of it.”
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OWEN CANFIELD: Harwinton Fair: It must be fall
Country fairs like the one which concludes today at Harwinton Fairgrounds off Locust Road produce pleasing entertainment, great food and farm contests and exhibits, plus - for me at least - a touch of melancholy.
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Art, grapes mesh at festival
Early Saturday, Amber Francis sought cover from the rain under a tarp as she worked on her chalk drawing of Santa Maria Mayor Larry Lavagnino on the ground in the plaza named for the man.
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News of the Weird
The ashram-museum in Ahmedabad that is devoted to India's highly revered icon of freedom Mahatma Gandhi recently re-installed a replica of the spiritual leader's personal toilet. It seems Gandhi's own hygiene-consciousness was such a part of his legacy. It is said that he cleaned the toilet daily and referred to it as his "temple," but ashram officials had removed it in the 1980s as somehow ...
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Museum exhibit to focus on fashion
PASADENA - "The Fashion Art of Justine Limpus Parish" will be presented at 2 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Pasadena Museum of History, 470 W.
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'It's a marriage of marching, music'
High school band members with their distinctive uniforms and precision marching got a glimpse of what they can aspire to Saturday as they bracketed Augustana College's musical entrant at the combined Festival of Bands and Viking Days parade. The high schoolers got polite attention from the crowd along Main Avenue. But the Augie Band for All Seasons, sitting on a trailer and wearing jeans and ...
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Sunday New exhibit: Pablo Picasso, Carlos Luna
PABLO PICASSO, CARLOS LUNA Pablo Picasso Ceramics/Carlos Luna Paintings debuts at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. The exhibition pairs the editioned ceramic work of the Spanish modernist with the bold, politically charged paintings of Cuban exile Carlos Luna, the museum's artist in residence.
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