Sunday, September 20th, 2009
If you’re wondering where old Colorado meets new, the 31st annual Holly Berry House Folk Art Festival has your answer. Not only does it provide a chance to tour the Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site (3202 Chambers Way, 633-2026) and visit ranch animals, but it’s also putting up some collectible Santas for sale.
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Current Temp: 53°F Sunday, September 20, 2009 (Colorado Springs Independent)
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Horace Walpole, connoisseur, art historian, gossip, and author of 4,000 of the bitchiest and wittiest letters of the 18th century, would have been mighty surprised to see a six foot gilded weather vane lowered from a crane onto the tower of his extraordinary home this week, 212 years after his death.
Continue here: Home of Gothic revival restored (Guardian Unlimited)
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
SIDNEY, British Columbia (AP) — Here, in this coastal Western Canadian town, it’s all about the books — thousands of them scattered throughout 12 stores. New books and rare books. Paperbacks and hardbacks. Children’s books, classics and mysteries. Cookbooks, gardening books, even comic books. For two days, I was in literature bliss, not knowing where to start, losing track of time, and …
Continue here: Canadian coastal community teeming in book titles (Newsday)
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Here, in this coastal Western Canadian town, it’s all about the books — thousands of them scattered throughout 12 stores.
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Canadian coastal community teeming in book titles (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
The four-legged, feathered and the finned folk have emerged as the theme for many pujas across town.
Continue here: It’s an animal planet at pandals (The Telegraph)
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
This summer I hit my four-year (and four-apartment) mark living in New York City, yet I admittedly feel no less wide-eyed about the city’s pop-culture offerings than I did when I arrived. With that in mind, I thought I’d take this opportunity to highlight a handful of worthwhile hot spots for pop-culture buffs, both visitors and residents alike:
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Guest blogger: A few pop-culture hot spots in NYC (USA Today)
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Amber delivers huge portions of delicious Eastern European specialties—with a touch of style by Rita Connelly Continental dining these days is often viewed as archaic. It’s what your grandparents considered fine dining. People say the food is old-fashioned; the décor is often dreary, and the wine list can be straight out of the time of Methuselah. But then there is Amber, an eastside …
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Updated Continental (Tucson Weekly)
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
A solo exhibition of paintings by Asim Goswami. Till August 7 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm – 8 pm: Vision 8 — a group exhibition of paintings by eight artists.
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Art Till August 7 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘A’ Gallery; 3 pm – 8 pm: (The Telegraph)
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
:This summer’s edition of the East Hampton Antiques Show, a benefit for the town’s historical society, offered a fresh approach to this annual event.
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Antiques Show Harvests Fresh Style And Antiques (Antiques and the Arts)
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
“Look, Spot! Look and see …” For many grown-ups, Indiana schoolteacher Zerna Sharp’s wholesome world of Dick, Jane, Spot and the rest was a comforting hallmark of childhood reading. And for a new generation of parents who didn’t grow up with the books, it’…
Continue here: See Dick and Jane … on a child’s bedroom wall (San Francisco Chronicle)
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