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It's an arty party and you're invited
If you think home is where the art is, you're wrong. Go to the museum today instead.
The Desert Sun |
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DATEBOOK
Children’s Art Making Corner: Saturdays, noon to 2 p.m., STAR Gallery, The Mall at Steamtown. $5, 344-3048 or 969-2537. Greater Scranton Area Roaring Ramblers Toastmaster’s Club: open house, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Abington Community Library, Grove Street. 587-0232.
The Scranton Times-Tribune |
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Palo Alto Online's Master Community Calendar
Showing listings from May 10, 2008 to May 16, 2008 in all categories. New Work - New Show Fabienne Bismuth (sculpture) and Evelyne Consorti (painting). Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated by the artists to Doctors Without Borders.
Palo Alto Weekly |
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Local Waste to Art winners announced
Tracey Lee from the Parkes Art Gallery and Bogan Gate artist Pol Cruz judged this year’s competition. They were joined by Mayor Robert Wilson and Library Assistant Eileen Newport in presenting the awards to the winning entrants.
Parkes Champion-Post |
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Our suggestions for your own visit to Bryn Athyn
Saturday is a good day to visit. There are regular tours from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. of the Glencairn Museum, a medieval-style Romanesque castle-cloister where the religious art collection is housed.
The News Journal |
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Healing through art builds an art gallery
On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m., Kathy Sanders’ life changed forever. Sanders’ grandsons, Chase Smith, 3, and Colton Smith, 2, were in the day care center in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City when Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices bombed it.
Sherwood Voice |
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People's choice award to highlight fireworks festival
VANCOUVER - Start staking out a patch of sand and prepare to be dazzled: the dates for this summer's HSBC Celebration of Light fireworks festival have been announced.
Vancouver Sun |
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Bill Reid Gallery opens with wall-to-wall attendees
VERY WELL MADE: B.C. Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point, native leader Miles Richardson, late Haida artist Bill Reid's widow Martine Reid and other dignitaries formally opened the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art on Hornby Street Thursday. Richardson told wall-to-wall attendees: "Bill was the champion of the well-made object, [who] built bridges between people, respecting our differences, ...
Vancouver Sun |
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Exhibit At Wesleyan Views Climate Change Through Art
It seemed an odd way for the trio of college students to show off their freshly-inked tattoos: posed dramatically on chairs and ensconced like museum exhibits in a display case.
Hartford Courant |
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Meet the dark spirits of Norwegian black metal
Dark images and even darker behavior is the hallmark of the pop-music subculture. Click here for a photo gallery. Four naked men and women covered in cows' blood hang suspended from crosses while a rock band plays, bathed in red light. At the edge of the stage is a phalanx of sheep heads, impaled on stakes and frozen in death grins. The slate-colored eyes of the singer, Gaahl, peering through ...
Los Angeles Times |
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Other states woo California teachers amid uncertainty over Schwarzenegger's budget plan
The potential loss of talented instructors prompts parents to gather near the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to protest. Drawn by pink slips issued to thousands of teachers, recruiters from school districts nationwide are wooing California teachers with greater fervor than usual.
Los Angeles Times |
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Countdown Begins For Malaysia-Melaka Festival In New York
NEW YORK, May 10 (Bernama) -- The countdown for the mammoth Malaysia-Melaka Festival (MMF) in New York, which kicks off on May 12, has already begun. The two-week MMF is being presented as a Malaysian and Melaka cultural and culinary extravaganza.
Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA) |
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On MotorCityMoms.com: Time is running out!
Our Mother's Day contest to win a free portrait session with Joey LuLu's Photography ends Sunday. Log in and enter now!
Detroit Free Press |
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Art event expected to bring 50,000 visitors to NoMa
Fire-dancing troupes and purses made out of encyclopedias are among the visual and performing arts exhibits expected to draw 50,000 visitors to the burgeoning "NoMa" neighborhood over the next five weeks for Artomatic.
The Washington Examiner |
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Edward Den Lau, 80; owner of L.A.'s Space art gallery
Edward Den Lau, whose Space gallery in Los Angeles was a center for art shows as well as performances, poetry readings and musical events, has died. He was 80.
Los Angeles Times |
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Journey from Nazi plunder ends in Greenwich
GREENWICH - Seven decades after art dealer Jacques Goudstikker had to leave behind hundreds of priceless paintings in Amsterdam, his heirs yesterday exhibited at the Bruce Museum more than two dozen recently recovered Old Master canvases looted by the Nazis during World War II.
Norwalk Advocate |
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05/10/08 Faith What's Happening
A local Oil Can Henry's is holding a fundraiser today for Life Choices, a Yakima organization that offers support to women who are dealing with an unplanned pregnancy or the aftermath of abortion.
Yakima Herald-Republic |
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Yep, we're WEIRD ... but in a good way A new book on 'Weird Washington' highlights the odd places and people of our ...
Consider it a place where "weird" is a compliment. That's how museum hostess Leah Huntington of Goldendale took it when she learned a bit of her community's folklore is listed in a new book outlining the state's odder places and people.
Yakima Herald-Republic |
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Saddling up for a weeklong festival
Crowds will watch bucking broncos at the Penn Valley Rodeo next weekend, but Wild Wild West Days will be celebrated all week leading up to the 51st annual event.
The Union |
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Artists recognized at 45th annual National Greeley Art Exhibition and Sale
For photographer Carleen Jackson, the simplest things in life can often be the most stunning.
Greeley Tribune |
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Photography company moves to Bellingham
Alan Majchrowicz Photography has moved from Camano Island to Bellingham.
The Bellingham Herald |
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Vote for your favorite political poster
It's time to vote. No, not that election. This one: the nationwide Art of Politics poster contest, launched by two Portland friends. Nearly 250 people submitted artwork with a message, representing every art form from painting to photography.
The Oregonian |
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Interfaith Calendar
ART AND EXHIBITS Second Presbyterian Church, 7700 N. Meridian St. Celebrating Mission Art exhibit, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. today. Photographs and other art from Kenya, Uganda, Quintana Roo in Mexico and Indianapolis. Call (317) 253-6461 or visit www.secondchurch .org.
The Indianapolis Star |
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Russian painter dedicates years of his life to painting ceiling of Orthodox church
High above the pews at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Fresno, a Russian painter is breathing new life into the church's sanctuary, creating inspiring images of Jesus, prophets, evangelists and angels on the ceiling and arched walls.
Ventura County Star |
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Volunteers begin setting up SculptureWalk 2008
Two dozen volunteers started working in the rain at 5:30 a.m. Friday to install the sculptures in the fifth annual, year-long outdoor downtown art exhibit. More of the 55 pieces are bigger than they have been in past years, like the seven-foot-tall pair of cowboy boots at 9th Street and Phillips Avenue called "Big Boots to Fill," by Texan Esther Benedict.
The Argus Leader |
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