Craft fair listings (Rapid City Journal) Here is a listing of some of the upcoming craft fairs and bazaars in the local region....more...Keeping the arts alive behind the scenes (The News Journal) For every artist, actor or musician who gets a chance to share his or her creative pursuits with an audience, there are dozens of people contributing to the process that makes it possible....more... Animal attraction (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) By ANDREW MARTON If there is someone who epitomizes the young bad boys of British art who swaggered onto the international world stage in the early '90s and, with their sensationalist works, made everyone take notice, it would be Damien Hirst. Thanks to his penchant for taking animal carcasses -- sheep and cows, sharks and doves -- and fixing them in symbolic poses before preserving them in a ......more... The world of the graphic novel (Berkshire Eagle) STOCKBRIDGE ? Comic books show their grown-up side as adult tales of alienation, cultural identity, political injustice, fantasy and death in a new exhibition "LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel," opening tomorrow at the Norman Rockwell Museum....more... Civil War depicted in searing silhouettes (Boston Globe) CAMBRIDGE - "Everyone's a little bit racist" goes the song in the musical "Avenue Q." But many of us don't like to admit it. As long as we don't admit it, we don't have to plunge into a chasm of hurt that's aching and frightful....more... Sound Off! (Las Cruces Sun-News) Perhaps your newspaper can help. This is a complaint against Comcast. I have basic t.v, $54 in change per month. Comcast decided to remove channels 56 and 58, popular channels, off the air. I was told if I wanted to have the channels I'd have to get a digital, which is to me some form of extortion....more... These craft lovers click (Boston Globe) Starving artists have been around as long as people have been making art. Plagued by the challenge of turning their talents into cold, hard cash they've either surrendered - turning to more profitable pursuits - or went hungry. Until now. In 2005, a group of young New York artists created Etsy.com, an online forum where as many as 350,000 independent ......more... Weekend replete with art, music, dance (7:27a.m.) (Las Cruces Sun-News) LAS CRUCES - There's lots of music, dance and art on tap this weekend. The Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference culminates with a student showcase concert today, a Spectacular Concert Saturday, Sunday's Mariachi Mass and an expanded Parque Fiesta Saturday and Sunday....more... Scary Stories (Concord Monitor) A mansion ...more... |