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Jockstrip: The world as we know it.
Parrot credited with choking tot rescue … 11,256 sugar cubes go into sculpture … Weight violation prompts elevator rescue … Woman sues fortune teller for $13,200 … The world as we know it from UPI.
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Cameraman VSR Swamy has demised
VSR Swamy, a senior cinematographer in Tollywood over three decades has demised yesterday. Being a part of the divisions of cinematography, direction, and also in power department, he has a good name for his work in the industry. He did photography for number of block buster movies.
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Portraits of the fallen
Shawn Pahnke's portrait last graced the walls of an Aurora institution a year ago -- in fact, it was Nov. 2, 2007, his birthday. This is the sixth birthday that Pahnke's parents have missed celebrating with their son. Pahnke was killed by enemy fire in June 2003 in Baghdad. He and nearly 200 other fallen soldiers from Illinois are remembered in an exhibit of hand-drawn portraits of those who ...
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Art auction to aid needy families
Artavo Galleries is hosting an art auction and benefit for Lazarus House from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 21 at the gallery located in Naperville's new Design Pointe Center, 1320 N. Route 59, at the corner of Route 59 and Brookdale Road, Suite 122.
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Veterans honored with events today
The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, part of the McCormick Foundation, is hosting two special events today in observance of Veterans Day.
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Woman may appeal over 'lewd' statue of Jesus
AN outraged Christian is preparing for an appeal against the decision to drop a case against a gallery which displayed a lewd statue of Christ.
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Mendelssohn works top '09 classical Britt
Music from Mendelssohn to Stravinsky highlights the 2009 Britt Classical Festival, set for July 31 through Aug. 16 in Jacksonville.
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OSF chief receives grant of $50,000
ASHLAND — Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch has been named a United States Artists Fellow.
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Catch the Attention when taking Dog Pictures
When you are interested in photography, you can be assured that there are actually many people who are interested in the subject. Also, as a photographer, you can have a broad range of subjects that you can choose from and one of the favorite subjects of most photographers is taking dog pictures.
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Your Town: Scholarships offered for essay contest
PEBBLE BEACH Scholarships offered for essay contest Monterey County college-bound high school seniors are invited to participate in the 3M Scholarship Essay Contest.
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Soldier 'Portraits' exhibit stops in Fox Valley
It was a year ago when Shawn Pahnke's portrait last graced the walls of an Aurora institution. In fact, it was Nov. 2, 2007 -- his birthday. This is the sixth birthday that Pahnke's parents, Tom and Linda, have missed celebrating with their son.
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Centre glassblowing session will show maestro at work
Venetian glassblower Lino Tagliapietra has been hot stuff for a long time. A retrospective of his work at the Smithsonian Institution credits him as the 30-year-long impulse behind the renaissance of art glass in America. Tagliapietra visits Danville, this week to work at the Centre College hot shop.
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Library's new look an old story
Books aren't the only things that tell stories inside the newly renovated Dufferin/St. Clair Public Library. Nestled inside the building are a series of vibrant, multi-coloured wall paintings. For decades they were hidden gems, buried under coats of wall paint.
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Business Briefs: Nov. 11, 2008
Santa Cruz Gallery plans grand opening Community Chest Treasures plans a grand opening 6-9 p.m. Friday at its second gallery location at the Black China Bakery & Cafe, 1121 Soquel Ave.
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Lincoln statue captures a moment in time
For the first time in more than 143 years, Abraham Lincoln and his horse were standing yesterday in front of his cottage overlooking the nation's capital. A 2,500-pound, waxed bronze sculpture of the Kentucky-born president and a standardbred horse was lowered into place.
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Q-Tip: The Renaissance
After a ridiculously long and convoluted voyage, the former Tribe MC finally releases his first solo album in nine years-- and it's a tight refining of both classic boom-bap and fusion experimentalism. read more
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Vietnam – Russia cultural festival held
Nhan Dan- A Vietnam- Russian cultural festival was held on November 7 at the National Convention Hall in Hanoi to mark the 91st anniversary of the Russian October Revolution.
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Living their dream
At 47, attorney Frank Miele left a lucrative partnership at a law firm to open his own art gallery in New York City, a decision he says took him about "2½ seconds" to make and one he doesn't regret even in these tough economic times.
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MIA director takes on new plan to make museum more contemporary
Almost a year after the Minneapolis Institute of Arts hired its new director, Kaywin Feldman, she's filled several open positions, and created some new ones. The hires gave Feldman the opportunity to set a course for the future of the museum, a course aimed at taking it straight into the contemporary art world and into the national limelight.
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ART FOR THE MASSES
He can take your call now. The city's latest public art installation is a pair of colorful and cheeky prayer booths perched near the entrance to the Roosevelt Island tram in Midtown - replete with a "prayer" sign and an icon of folded hands...
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AGO bullish on attendance
Revamped gallery, which reopens to the general public on Friday, hopes to avoid ROM missteps
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Artist sculpts his gratitude
Think of those American soldiers at Normandy, Alfred Tibor says, beginning his story about the sculpture that sits in front of the new veterans clinic in Columbus.
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Calendar: Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008
LITERARY EVENTS The National WWII Museum 945 Magazine St. Veterans Day programming begins 10:30 a.m. with a performance by The U.S. Marine Forces Reserve Band, followed by a program, 11 a.m. Free admission all day to veterans, active military, Guard,...
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Eleanor Winkenwerder
A social worker at Johns Hopkins Hospital's sexually transmitted diseases clinic, she later turned to painting. E leanor Z. Winkenwerder, a retired social worker who helped research syphilis at Johns Hopkins Hospital during the 1930s and later became an artist, died in her sleep Wednesday at Roland Park Place. She was 99.
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Art review: Liz Magor and Richard Misrach at Henry Gallery
Sculptures by Liz Magor and photographs by Richard Misrach at the Henry Art Gallery shuffle realism and illusion, but deliver few insights.
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