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Serial killer wrestles with his crimes
Elmer Wayne Henley, his once-long hair now cropped closely and flecked with gray, shakes his head three times. "No. No. No," he mutters softly, as his ice-blue eyes study the artist's renderings of three unidentified murder victims. "I don't recognize any of these people." Henley, who turned 52 in May, sits behind a glass divider in the visiting room at the Michael Unit, a Texas prison set amid ...
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Questions/Answers
Questions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. The exhibit is "Postmarked 2008" and ready for your inspection.
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A newspaper - and then some
Newspapers have always been an obsession of mine. I was seven when I first started grabbing the Vancouver Sun. when it was an afternoon paper, and turning to the kids' page, which included comics, Canadian facts and contests.
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"Watercolor" 2008 Cover Competition Finalists
Winner: Deborah L. Chabrian “I push the medium of watercolor to create paintings that are perhaps richer and denser than one would normally expect from a watercolor painting,” Connecticut artist Deborah L. Chabrian says. The artist does this in two ways. First, she works on Bristol board.
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Festival honours Emperor Quang Trung
VietNamNet Bridge - Visitors to the on-going Hue Festival relived the crowning ceremony of National Hero Nguyen Hue when the ancient rite was re-enacted last night in the ancient imperial city of Hue.
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Edward Curtis' 'Head Hunters' takes another bow with film festival screening
A special screening of Edward Curtis' "In the Land of the Head Hunters" is a landmark moment for Northwest filmmaking and the Seattle International Film Festival.
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Weather even won't let the dogs out
The weather has been so bad it's not fit for man nor beast. The Marquette Waterfront Festival cancelled its events today and moved the music indoors. Organizers of Madison's 12th annual Dog Fest also cancelled today's event, which anticipated about 6,000 people and 3,000 of their four-legged friends at the Alliant Energy Center's Willow Island. Pat Reilly, president of the Home Talent League, ...
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Insiders pick the hot summer events in Aspen
ASPEN, Colorado — Everybody and their brother knows what goes on in Aspen during the summertime. Theater, dance, gallery and museum shows, movies, talks on literature and politics. And music, of almost every variety.
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Cliburn winner Kern, five others add touch of gold to annual three-week event at TCU
By CHRIS SHULL Over the next three weeks, Tamas Ungar will present concerts by six remarkable pianists under the auspices of the PianoTexas International Academy and Festival. And he hopes classical fans take notice. "We have put together concerts that exceed by far anything you can get [elsewhere] in the country," says Ungar, who's on the piano faculty at Texas Christian University and runs ...
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About this Entry
Visiting Oakland Museum of California isn't like visiting other major museums in the Bay Area like the de Young and SFMOMA. Oakland doesn't attract much of a tourist contingent, so on any given day, the museum's visitors are locals.
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Indian bandit queen-inspired dance show a hit in Canberra
By Neena Bhandari, Canberra, June 8 : Blending dance forms, the weeklong Utsav 2008 festival here choreographed by Indian dancer Padma Menon highlights issues of social justice for women. And it includes a sell-out performance inspired by the original Indian bandit queen.
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Briefly in the arts
Denton artist Rachel Fischer won the people’s choice award in the 2008 Visual Arts Society of Texas’ 40th annual Visual Arts Exhibition for her painting, Sonny in Mourning Light.
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2008 Photography Contest for Teenagers
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Gallery calendar
Center Of The Earth Gallery 3204 N. Davidson St., Charlotte. 704-375-5756. www.centeroftheearth.com. Granite minimalist sculpture by Paul Sires. Davidson Town Hall 216 S. Main St. 704-892-7591 Artist June Roberts, who studied at the Art Students League of New York, celebrates her 90th birthday with a show of landscapes and portraits in oil and pastel, created from the 1930s ...
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Howlin' Mad about the Blues
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art held its annual Blues Bash Friday night on the lawn of the museum, on Fifth Avenue and the lawn of the Rogers-Green House. Some couples danced, some kids sat on the sidewalk listening to Bill “Howlin’ Mad” Perry and his band, and others ate barbecue.
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What's on this week
• 3 pm. Art for pupils, creative drawing and painting. Inquiries: 033 342 1638. • 5.30 pm. Yoga in Hilton. Phone Moira at 084 555 9320. • 5.30 pm — 7 pm. Beginners t’ai chi classes at the Lexden Scout Hall, Hosking Road. Contact Nico at 082 825 7412.
The Natal Witness Group |
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Jewish museum sees light after years of delays
A decade after architect Daniel Libeskind began his dramatic design for San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum - rising from the red-brick shell of an abandoned landmark languishing behind a Mission Street parking lot - the new museum finally opens its...
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Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon said of his photography: "A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks."
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Museum's bold design vibrantly blends old, new
The surprising thing about the new home of the Contemporary Jewish Museum is how smoothly it fits into the landscape - even with angled walls of brushed blue steel. Yes, the metallic form of the museum tumbles like a pair of dice from the aged brick that...
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Arkansas Arts Center presents 'Hot Color Cool Glass'
The Arkansas Arts Center presents an exclusive three-part exhibition "Hot Color Cool Glass" on view through July 27.
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Festival uses art to spread message of peace
By TIFFANY MAYER Standard Staff It was their peace de resistance. And a work of art with a simple message: peace. As Marina Seneca and Amy Ballett glued sayings and colours on a painted slab of plywood to form the word PEACE, they [...]
St. Catharines Standard |
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ĐỀ TRẮC NGHIỆM 2
1. A. cosmetics B. economics C. photography D. experence 2. A. lemon B. physics C. decay D. decade 3. A. modernise B. vaporise C. organise D. deliver
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Theater Review (NYC): Three on a Couch by Carl Djerassi
A nervous shrink, a devilish plot, revenge, and a mango fuel the American premiere of Carl Djerassi's dark comedy. Scientist-playwright Carl Djerassi's fourth play premiered in 2003 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (under the title Ego) but has not received an American production until now. I'm delighted to report that Redshift Productions' new Off Broadway staging does absolute justice to this ...
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Travel Calendar: 06/08/2008
The Henry Ford Museum, admission $10/$14, free for children younger than 5 and members; Greenfield Village admission, $14/$20, free for children younger than 5 and members; www.thehenryford.org .; 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn.
Traverse City Record-Eagle |
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The View from Sunnybank: Invention duds
Catalogs offer seemingly bright ideas for gardeners. I found a photo of a fellow from the shoulders up, with his back to the camera, the better to exhibit the latest die-fly idea. He wore a hat favored by fisher folk, with a large rectangular strip of special sticky tape secured to its back. Fascinated, I read on. This, I learned, was a black-fly snagger.
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