I heard from the AGO this morning that the museum will be shutting down early on Friday, June 25, and be closed entirely through the first weekend of the G20. Hard to blame them — right in the middle of the supposed hot zone, there could be pretty major disruptions along University Avenue, just a few blocks away. Nonetheless, visitor security is just one thign to worry about — the fancy new Frank Gehry facade has a lot of glass …
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AGO joins G20 jitters, shuts down for opening weekend
You can’t just build a website and wait for people to come. If you want more visitors, take a lesson from all the ways I direct you to ArtBizCoach.com (which is just one of my sites) and then adapt these to your situation. Shoshanna Bauer, Going Home
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Barbara Haviland Cheryl Ratcliff Mark Webster David Edwards Cheryl Pass AJ LaGasse Justin Clayton Becky Joy Coral Barclay Andrew Orr Karla Nolan Janice Warriner To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Paintings for Sale – June 7, 2010
This week’s installment of What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids is brought to you from Romy of DoughReMe Kids, a cooking school for children in Brooklyn, New York. She and I seem like two peas in a pod – both eager to get kids excited about eating fresh and healthy ingredients.
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What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids – Vietnamese Summer Rolls
A lot of people in the nation’s capital have baseball on the brain this week. Primarily because the Washington Nationals have the first pick in Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft this afternoon but also because tomorrow is the major league debut of last year’s first overall pick, Stephen Strasburg. I have baseball on my mind because of last week’s perfect game controversy.
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Want to Make the Call? Life of an Umpire
At first glance, one may well wonder how dry a book like this could be. But Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations by Liza Kirwin is the ultimate in trivial ephemera, and that can be…
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Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations by Liza Kirwin
These aren’t my pieces… but they do ‘give away’ the new series I’m about to start painting. My creepers have ‘joined the carnival’ and they are part of the side show attractions
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I’m Excited about My New Series
Jon McNaught ’s new graphic novella from Nobrow Press, Birchfield Close , is a most perfect little treasure of a comic. Printed with a restrained three colours, the short book is a gentle, unassuming reflection on time, place, and sound.
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Jon McNaught – Birchfield Close
Illustration: Lisa Chipetine Waves of Emotion: Relief 2008 Illustration: Lisa Chipetine Waves of Emotion: Relief (detail) 2008 The textile artist Lisa Chipetine is a woman who sees no merit in creative boundaries, frameworks and conventions. Her work is expressed by her belief in the limitless horizons of both self-expression and self-exploration.
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The Creative Free Form Textile Art of Lisa Chipetine
Everyone has dreamt of making millions of dollars and only a few of us that have really made it. The fact remains is that becoming a millionaire is very difficult to because you need to have the determination and the right idea to do so. What is common with the youngest millionaires is that they have found something that they are passionate about and they are actually good at it.
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Youngest Millionaire
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is India’s 3rd largest urban agglomeration with a population of 14 million and is a metropolitan city. Kolkata City is full of life and vigor, combining traditional occupations with ultra-modern industries.
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Kolkata – Attractive Investment Destination of Eastern India
On an already emotional day of service and community building, I nearly went over the edge when our school principal dedicated this song to me. He wrote the song after taking a tour of the farms in West Marin with MALT (Marin Agricultural Land Trust). He has been very supportive of my work trying to
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Powerful Lyrics: Mouths To Feed
I love summertime. I feel like after months of hibernation and hiding out from the cold and gloom, it’s finally time to be outside taking advantage of all the fun activities that I can only do three months out of the year. My latest kick is wanting to explore the national and state parks near me
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Explore National Parks on Trails Day
“Why buy it when we can make it?” -Alton Brown Right, so maybe AB was talking about putting Kosher salt into the food processor to make finer granules of salt to season his home-made popcorn, but the statement rang home to me… All over the internet are some amazing blogs involving sustainable living and less spending – sewing your own clothes , growing your own food , and making your own furniture – and gosh darnnit they’re onto something! However at this time I have no farm to grow things and no garage for tools but I’ve got my Singer! And I’m ready to commit. Now I’ve been super busy with working at K1 Yarns , designing knitting patterns , and making baby blankets but today I am committing myself to a more handmade wardrobe. And you can hold me accountable
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Make It, Wear It June & Self-Stitched September
It would be an understatement to say that I was excited to be heading to the White House for the launch of Michelle Obama’s new campaign, Chefs Move to Schools. I’m not sure the right words to express my enthusiasm are even in my vocabulary.
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Chefs Move to Schools – White House, Here I Come!
Have you recovered from the long weekend yet? Thrown off schedule by the holiday on Monday, I completely neglected to DVR this week’s episode of the Bachelorette. Curses! As I said last week , I spent the weekend in Chicago.
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Memorial Day Activities
The 2nd 1Malaysia International Dragon Boat Festival 2010 (1MIDBF 2010), to be held here from June 18 to 20, promises to be an even bigger event in terms of participation and spectator interest, Datuk Herman Chin, its organising chairman, said Tuesday. Chin, who is also the managing director of Mega Events …
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Bigger Dragon Boat Festival In Putrajaya This Year
The Festival Kuala Lumpur this year, KLFest2010, will have more than 140 activities throughout the month of July which will be more interesting than in the previous festivals. Information Communication and Culture Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Wira Kamarudin Siaraf said FestKL2010, with the theme ‘Where the Arts Come Alive!’, not only displayed …
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KLFest 2010 To Be More Interesting
Secondary school students on resort islands have been urged to join the tourist guide apprentice programme to be launched by the Tourism Ministry. Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said for a start, it would involve students on Pulau Tioman in Pahang, Pulau Redang and Pulau Perhentian in Terengganu.
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Students On Resort Islands Urged To Become Apprentice Tourist Guides
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Johnity Ongkili on Saturday called on the people of Kota Marudu to intensify efforts to develop the district as another destination for eco-tourism. He said over the past 400 years, Marudu Bay here had been known for the uniqueness of its beaches …
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Marudu Bay Has Potential To Be An Eco-Tourism Centre