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ReutersDirector Costa-Gavras: European cinema could not survive without state protection By Steve Pond LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Filmmaking could not exist in Europe without the support of governments, veteran director Costa-Gavras told an audience at the Los...Tags: Christoph Waltz, Austria, Arts, Vladimir Putin, Downton Abbey (tv program)
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READER SUBMITTED: New Britain Students Win Award For Energy Efficiency
New BritainEnergize Connecticut, together with The Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund, Connecticut Light & Power and the United Illuminating Company, announced yesterday the winners of its ninth annual eesmarts student contest for students in grades K through 12....Tags: Apple iPad, Teaching and Learning, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Alternative Energy, Arts and Culture
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LETTER: Museums: Easy Pickings?
First there was the newly renovated Mark Twain Museum in Hartford that always seemed to be in the red. Despite large numbers of paying customers and generous corporate donations, its finance didn't add up until it was discovered that a trusted employee...Tags: The Amistad, Arts and Culture, Mark Twain
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"End of Serenity" to be displayed aboard USS Somerset
Daily American Staff Writer"End of Serenity," the famous photograph taken by Indian Lake resident Val McClatchey on Sept. 11, 2001, will find a home aboard the USS Somerset. The photo depicts a smoke plume above a red barn near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. A...Tags: United Air Lines, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Arts and Culture, New York City
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Doug Aitken's 'Nomadic Happening' calls on artists to hop the train
He is best known as a video artist, but Doug Aitken has a thing for "happenings." He brought street musicians and famous singers together for a "pop rally" at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He turned a barge in Greece into a floating theater for...
Tags: Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Arts and Culture, Artists
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USC-Coliseum deal robs museums of parking and money, critics say
A trustee of the California Science Center’s fund-raising arm denounced as a “robbery” Wednesday a revised proposal that would give USC control of the museum’s parking as part of a deal that allows the university to run the Los...
Tags: Science, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California Science Center, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology
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ReutersHas Jay-Z's 'Magna Carta Holy Grail' Album Gone Platinum Before Its Release? By Tony Maglio LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Jay-Z once spit, "I deserve platinum plaques, to match my bezel." And while the rapper's got a bunch of those (and plenty of bezels),...Tags: Havana (Cuba), Concerts, American Idol (tv program), Ayrton Senna, Animation (Movie Genre)
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At the Field Museum, visions of Dante
Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" stands as the greatest achievement in Italian literature and one of the most influential epic poems ever written. Even Don Draper could be found reading it while sunning himself on a Hawaiian beach in the season opener of...
Tags: Entertainment, Arts, Music, Thomas Masters, Poetry
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ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation 2156 N. Damen Ave.; 773-252-2232, arcgallery.org Through Saturday: "Restraint(S)": Amy Zucker explores the dichotomy of the word "restraint," with the work influenced by Zucker's other job as a nurse, where the...Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Arts, Michigan Avenue, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology
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In 'Fractured,' the effects of an oil boom
Some see North Dakota's current oil boom as economic salvation, others as a scar on the land. Now at the Field Museum, an exhibit of photographs by Terry Evans and writing by Elizabeth Farnsworth documents the impact of oil drilling and fracking on the...Tags: Field Museum of Natural History, Arts and Culture
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Speaking very quietly: Amalia Pica at the MCA
Museums are typically hushed places. Perhaps less today than in the past, but still. And yet it comes as a strange surprise to wander through the galleries of Amalia Pica's solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and find them silent. The...
Tags: Arts, Common, Agriculture, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Arts and Culture
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Best bets for the week
Rummage and Resale Extravaganza Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster St., Skokie, presents the Rummage and Resale Extravaganza, featuring gently used items for sale: small appliances, household goods, clothing, baby clothes/gear, accessories, DVDs,...Tags: Festive Events, Ruby Keeler, Arts, Nordstrom, Religion and Belief
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