Current Temp: 53°F Sunday, September 20, 2009 (Colorado Springs Independent)

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)

Home of Gothic revival restored (Guardian Unlimited)

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.

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Canadian coastal community teeming in book titles (Newsday)

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 …

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Canadian coastal community teeming in book titles (AP via Yahoo! News)

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)

It’s an animal planet at pandals (The Telegraph)

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

The four-legged, feathered and the finned folk have emerged as the theme for many pujas across town.

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Guest blogger: A few pop-culture hot spots in NYC (USA Today)

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)

Updated Continental (Tucson Weekly)

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)

Art Till August 7 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘A’ Gallery; 3 pm – 8 pm: (The Telegraph)

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)

Antiques Show Harvests Fresh Style And Antiques (Antiques and the Arts)

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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See Dick and Jane … on a child’s bedroom wall (San Francisco Chronicle)

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’…

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