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Suggestion Box
From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture. "Warhol Live" Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Now through Jan. 18th, 2009 the museum features an incredible Andy Warhol exhibition focused on the influence of music and dance on his art.
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Lloyd Webber to Pen Entry for Eurovision Song Contest — and Help Choose Artist to Perform It
Andrew Lloyd Webber has been recruited to write Britain's entry for next year's edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, a Europe-wide competition inaugurated in 1956 that is broadcast live across the world, reaching audiences that are estimated to be between 100-600 million.
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Major Punk/Rock Memorabilia Auction Hits Christie's
On November 24, fine art auction house Christie's will host an auction of punk, rock, soul, and reggae memorabilia called "Pop Culture: Punk/Rock" at its 20 Rockefeller Plaza location in New York City [via Idolator ]. Well-to-do aging punk rockers: Here's your chance to relive the glory days! Over 300 items will be up for sale, with estimated prices ranging from a couple ...
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Clamdigging Around Rowayton
The United Methodist Church Fair will be held Nov. 8, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the church grounds. Children will be entertained by the games, crafts, face painting and a bouncy tent.
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Bayer and UN Environment Programme Launch International Painting Competition in Elementary and Middle Schools
To help raise environmental awareness and foster science literacy among elementary- and middle-school students, Bayer Corporation and the United Nations Environment Programme's Regional Office for North America (UNEP RONA) have kicked off the second year of their partnership in the United States to bring the International Children's Painting Competition (ICPC) to schoolchildren nationwide.
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Same songs, new organ
The act of sex, particularly orgasm, is often associated with ecstasy — a feeling of being completely outside oneself. Lenka Klodová’s current exhibition at Hunt Kastner Artworks apparently and partly addresses this phenomenon.
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Adventures in electronica
Since 2003, Stimul Festival has focused on rock music that isn’t about head-banging until midnight and electronic music that delivers more than booty-shaking until dawn.
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Art and Soul
NEW YORK -- As one of the designers on the TLC cable channel's "Trading Spaces," Goil Amornvivat has to decorate rooms in 48 hours on a $1,000 budget. This often leads him to improvise on finishing touches such as artwork.
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Kodak to Cut Jobs; Reduces Sales, Profit Forecasts (Update1)
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Eastman Kodak Co. said it will eliminate more jobs and predicted a third-straight annual sales decline as Chief Executive Officer Antonio Perez reshapes the 128-year-old photography company in an ``increasingly difficult'' economy.
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Officials clean up after inferno
As demolition crews remove the last pieces of rubble from the Oct. 16 inferno that decimated the left wing of Industrial Palace at the Prague 7 Výstaviště exhibition grounds, officials have hustled to map out a plan for the historical building’s reconstruction.
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Kodak sees fall in 2008 revenues
Photography group Kodak reported a fall in revenues as global economic weakness took its toll and said it now expects full-year turnover to decline.
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Thursday Happenings
Creepy Robots -- Some people have a paralyzing fear of clowns. For Bostonist, it's animatronic robots. We're going to steer clear of Ghost Hunting at the Museum, a haunted house assembled by DorkbotBoston including nothing but mechanized ghosts, ghouls, and freakazoids. Charles River Museum of Industry, 154 Moody St., Waltham, 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (through Saturday). $7/$5. Cold ...
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Locust Grove to display long-lost painting of early resident
A painting of a long-ago resident of Locust Grove historic home that turned up for sale on e-Bay in Great Britain will be on view beginning Nov. 20 at the home, 561 Blankenbaker Lane near Indian Hills.
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ATA Responds To DOT Rationalization Of New York Airport Slot Auctions
Decries Assertion That Competition Warrants Controversial Plan The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade association for the leading US airlines, issued the following statement Wednesday in response to the Department of Transportation (DOT) claim that auctions will lead to more competition and lower fares at slot-controlled airports.
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Cedarhurst Center For the Arts readies for unveiling of renovations on Saturday
MT. VERNON — A festive atmosphere, with the help of a marching band and activities, is expected to permeate the ground of the Cedarhurst Center for the Arts on Saturday for the grand opening of the newly renovated museum and grounds.
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Kodak to Cut More Jobs; Reduces Forecast in `Difficult' Economy
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Eastman Kodak Co. will eliminate more jobs and said sales will fall for a third-straight year as Chief Executive Officer Antonio Perez struggles to reshape the 128- year-old photography company in an ``increasingly difficult'' economic environment.
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Beachwood: Maltz Museum to hold Superheroes Fantasy Workshop
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage is sponsoring a Superheroes Fantasy Workshop on select Tuesdays and Thursdays in November. The four classes will by led by artist and educator Melissa Nilsen and will include creative movement, costume making and theatrical...
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Award-Winning International Actress, Playwright and Director Esther Chae Gives One Night Only Performance of So The ...
LOS ANGELES----International actress, playwright and director Esther Chae continues to conquer her artistic goals by balancing a recurring role on The Young and the Restless and recently attending the Pusan International Film Festival, and touring both North and South Korea as a USC NetKal Fellow, www.netkal.org.
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Capitol displays photos of kids up for adoption
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A portrait gallery of children hoping to be adopted has made a visit to the Utah Capitol. The Utah Heart Gallery is a collection of 24 portraits showing 35 children.
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Audit: Mary Easley's Travel Expenses 'Unreasonable'
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Two cultural exchange trips to Europe led by first lady Mary Easley incurred nearly $46,000 in "unreasonable and excessive expenses" paid for by taxpayers, State Auditor Les Merritt said Thursday. The Department of Cultural Resources said Easley traveled to France in May 2007 and Estonia and Russia in May 2008 as part of efforts to recruit art exhibits to North Carolina.
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Riverside Studios Gallery to open Friday
ASHEVILLE – Riverside Studios Gallery, a gallery primarily established to promote River Arts District talent, as well as local and international artists, is opening at 6 p.m. Friday with a party and exhibit of local work in various media.
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Last Supper wax display comes out of hiding
FT. WORTH, Texas -- Stunning life-size wax figures of Jesus and his apostles patterned after Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece the Last Supper have been in a warehouse for 11 years.
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Icy warning: sculpture brings economic meltdown to New York
An ice sculpture of the word Economy has been constructed in New York to represent the world's financial meltdown
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Winter weather starts early
On a typical clear, autumn day the Garrett County Arts Council gallery is fairly busy with visitors shopping for local art pieces. However, only one had stopped by mid-afternoon Wednesday, thanks to 4 to 6 inches of snow that fell overnight throughout the county.
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Museum returns painting found to be Nazi loot
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has sent a painting by cubist Fernand Leger back to the heirs of a Jewish art collector in France, after concluding it had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
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