Fine Arts gallery paints picture of growth (Galesburg Register-Mail) Owners represent 59 artists in Western Illinois...more...Couple Envisions Creative Community (The Morning News) FAYETTEVILLE--Lyn Ulick fell in love with pottery making the first time she sat at a potter's wheel....more... The CNN Wire: Friday, Oct. 12 (CNN.com) Bomb blast kills 4, wounds 7 near mosque in southern Afghan...more... COMMUNITY BRIEFS (Asbury Park Press) MIDDLETOWN ? The Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell will be the keynote speaker at the closing reception of the Monmouth County Park System's 2007 African-American History Celebration, being held at 3 p.m. today....more... Giving artists a chance to show their talents (The Comet) AN ART gallery has launched a new programme to help creative students kick-start their careers. The Copper Beech Art Gallery, at Wymondley Hall Farm, in Priory Lane Little Wymondley, is donating gallery space to local artists who are seeking recognition for their masterpieces....more... Rhiannon opens 171 Cedar's performance series (Star-Gazette) It's a rare performer who doesn't mind sharing the spotlight, but Rhiannon has had a long career being collaborative and improvisational. The vocalist, performance artist and composer opens the Live @ 171! Performance series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday....more... Sound of a town (Boston Globe) NEVADA CITY, Calif. - In the toy-strewn living room of his small bungalow a few miles outside this former mining town, Aaron Ross is singing a song. It's a hard, weird ballad that draws on the young man's love affair with punk rock and Bob Dylan and the Sierra Nevada foothills. Ross's voice is brawny and tender. He sings with ......more... Movie review: Across the Universe * (The Toledo Blade) Help! When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Conscience comes to me,......more... Beauty and brains (The Australian) GARETH Sansom, for my money the most exciting painter in Australia today, has not shown a substantial body of work in Sydney since 1993. In fact, in all these years he has not shown much outside Melbourne....more... |