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U.S. stocks trim gains as underlying credit, oil worries linger
Stocks remain higher, but shave earlier gains amid lingering worries over the high price of gasoline and the shaky economy, with April retail sales showing consumers still spending, but far more frugally.
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Trammell Crow Residential Announces its First-Ever Real Estate Auction for The Quarter Condominium Residences at ...
Accelerated Marketing Partners will conduct Trammell Crow Residential's first-ever real estate auction for The Quarter, a new luxury development that is the anchor residential component of Westgate City Center in Glendale, Ariz.
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Stocks Hold Modest Gains
The major averages in New York steady after the prior session's selloff. Wal-Mart is rising, but Gap is lower. Crude oil climbs again, and Treasury prices are sharply higher.
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Girls scout out perfect photo ops
Em Thompson, Samantha Gueuremont, Emma Lauriat, Caroline Moore and Bethany McCarron (not shown) of Carver Girl Scout Troop 107 took photos during school vacation week for their photography merit badge class.
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Students display their distinct artistic talents at Lindsay Gallery
The art world's future innovators are brilliantly on display at the Lindsay Gallery, courtesy of the fourth Annual Secondary School Juried Exhibition.
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Records for Munch, Leger at New York auction
NEW YORK (AFP) - Works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse have been sold at a Sotheby's sale of impressionist and modern art in New York, with new records for works by Edvard Munch and cubist Fernand Leger helping to calm some fears over the health of the art market.
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'Offspring of the Winds - The Horse in Art and Imagination' to Open at Reading Public Museum
Offspring of the Winds - The Horse in Art and Imagination exhibit opens at the Reading Public Museum on July 12 and continues through September 7, 2008. This exhibition will feature the horse as it has appeared in diverse cultures over the past 3,000 years. With works drawn primarily from the Museums permanent collections, visitors will experience the beauty, strength and vitality that the ...
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Artists of all ages shine at Rotary Art Show
For the first time in the 37 year history of the Rotary Club Art Festival, an amateur Saugus High School student captured the coveted Best in Show award. The winner, Janelle Downey, also won first, second and honorable mention honors in the High School competition at the annual Art Festival. VIDEO: Meet the Artists
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Boston Children's Museum Presents Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China
Opening to the public on May 14, 2008, Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China is an exhibition designed to engage children and families in learning about one of the oldest civilizations - and now among the most modern - in the world through some of its young people. Created by Boston Children's Museum (BCM) and sponsored by State Street and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), ...
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NEW: Tattoo art exhibit to leave mark on area
ALTON - A new art exhibit created by art students at Lewis and Clark Community College is looking to make its mark on the Riverbend.
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Angel delivers: 'Accessing the Mother Road'
A love of travel, photography, cooking and the quest for a college education brought disabled Amesbury resident Jason Angel to a crossroads at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting recently at the Sheraton Boston.
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Auction benefits therapeutic riding center
Ceramic artist Brad McNew has started something he expects to become big -- an art auction that will be free to everyone who would like to come.
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Brazos ISD voters face bond election, one contested
WALLIS - Brazos ISD voters Saturday will decide the fate of a $6.9 million bond package for renovations at the high school, as well as choose between two candidates to fill a vacant position on the school board.
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Winners of juried art show named
The winners of Cottonlandia Museum’s 22nd Biannual Juried Fine Arts Competition were announced at the opening reception for the exhibit on Sunday. Dr. Leslie Luebbers, who served as juror for the competition, chose 50 finalists out of more than 150 entries to display their work in the show.
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Grove prepares for ‘Second Saturday' event
GROVE - Art demonstrations, street performers, musicians, face painting and other festivities will line the sidewalks of historic downtown Grove as the community celebrates its monthly “Second Saturday” tradition.
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Boston Children's Museum Presents Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China
BOSTON----Opening to the public on May 14, 2008, Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China is an exhibition designed to engage children and families in learning about one of the oldest civilizations - and now among the most modern - in the world through some of its young people.
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Film Fest morphs to Film City Center
“I didn’t want to announce this quite yet,” said Owen Shapiro, artistic director of the annual Syracuse International Film Festival (SIFF), which just wound up its fifth year
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Arts attack: 2nd St. director abruptly resigns
Is there something in the nonprofit water that has directors of local cultural institutions dropping like cherry blossoms to pursue the ubiquitous “other opportunities”? Long-time Second Street Gallery executive director Leah Stoddard becomes the latest to mysteriously disappear, turning in a resignation May 5— without the usual two weeks or more notice that typically accompanies cordial ...
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WWE At GI Film Festival, Steve Austin Update Inside, WWE Ad's
PR Week in the UK reports that WWE is looking for an ad agency to work with them on building their brand in Italy and the UK next year. WWE will have a big presence at the GI Film Festival in Washington, D.C. next weekend.
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Homeless Portrait Gallery of Canada commissioning new works
The Portrait Gallery of Canada wants Canadians to decide whose portrait deserves to hang in its halls.
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Okinawa Art Auction set for Saturday night
The annual Okinawa Art Auction sponsored by the Naval Officers’ Spouses Club is ready for Saturday night.
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Contemporary Arts Center auctioning original works
The Contemporary Arts Center will auction new, original artwork by contemporary architects May 10 at the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art downtown, hoping to raise tens of thousands of dollars for its exhibitions and educational programs.
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Cannes Will Premiere Documentary on Legendary Cinematographers Kovacs and Zsigmond
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo and Vilmos" will premiere as an official selection of Cannes Classics at the 61st Annual Cannes International Film Festival on May 22. The documentary tracks the 50-year journey of Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond , beginning with their arrival in the United States as political refugees from Hungary in February 1957.
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South Allegheny families get creative
At the elementary school, one station had students decorate a time capsule jar, which related to Pittsburgh area native Warhol. "Andy Warhol had time capsules," Ungar said. "He didn't decorate them. I think it was a way for him to clear his desk or a surface.
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Leiper’s Creek Gallery Transforms Historic Village into Modern Sculpture Garden
Some 10 miles outside of Franklin, Tennessee, the little village of Leiper’s Fork recreated itself from a sleepy little southern town into a destination for visitors surrounded by splendid views of rolling pastured and forested hillsides.
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