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Folding bikes: a transit alternative
IT'S NOT JUST the money she saves on gas that makes her folding bike appealing to Ellen Babcock on her BART ride to work in Oakland.
According to some, the streets are at a crossroads. Not long ago, the art covering the bricks and blank spaces of the city was more likely to get you in trouble than in Christiea s, but todaya s take leans more ...
Photo exhibit at Summit Drive home Jacques Garnier and Douglas McCulloh will discuss and display works from their collaborative work and published book, "On The Beach: Chance Portraits From Two Shores," ...
A studio visit with MacArthur 'genius' and his pigeon in the Marin Headlands
When multimedia artist Walter Kitundu rescued a one-eyed pigeon in the Marin Headlands one day this week, he called his new pet MacArthur, a name inspired by the $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius" award ...
Annieglass celebrates 25th anniversary with special weekend event
Annieglass is raffling off this table setting to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank.
Taraya plans to make art her livelihood
Tabitha Taraya plans to make art her livelihood, and that's only natural, since its been an integral part of her life for nearly all her life.
MacArthur awarded to Walter Kitundu
San Francisco sound artist, instrument builder and composer Walter Kitundu, best known for his phonoharp, which makes the common record player a stringed instrument, was named a MacArthur Fellow on Monday ...
Contemporary artists could show the writer of Ecclesiastes a thing or two. They directly challenge the oft-quoted lament, "There's nothing new under the sun" by constructing eloquent and unexpected art out of ...
Lecture series brings big names to museum
The Muskegon Museum of Art has developed a fall Distinguished Lecture Series around its latest exhibits, featuring the artists and curators behind them.
University shuffles administration
After a year at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, David Phillips will be dean of the class of 2012 this year.
Spoiled Bastard: "The Shield," "Sons of Anarchy."
I won't be deconstructing either show but will make the effort to get up these Spoiled Bastard posts - where you can discuss the episodes without fear of giving anything away .
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Charmaine Vergez Pearson Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who Executive, ...
With more than 40 years of professional experience, Ms. Pearson specializes in bronze sculpture, watercolor and oil painting.
Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories
Anti-Globalism writes "In an age of digital manipulation, many people believe that snapshots and family photos need no longer stand as a definitive record of what was, but instead, of what they wish it was .
Software offers new (photo) reality
NEW YORK : Removing her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, an emergency dispatcher in Rochester, New York.
Visual art: Hunters and collectors
Tauba Auerbach's OKS from "The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers" REVIEW It wasn't so long ago that the term "curated" moved from dusty archive territory to popular lexicon.
Mayor Newsom City Commissions Appointments and Reappointments - August 19 2009
Today Mayor Newsom announced the following new appointments and reappointments to San Francisco's Commissions.
I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop.
REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester.
Art collector buys David Ireland's house
David Ireland's house at 500 Capp St., San Francisco - a contemporary art site like no other - has been saved.
Sigmund Freud had an interesting take on nightmares. He argued that not only were all dreams exercises in wish fulfillment, but that even nightmares showed us our desires....in reverse.
Exhibit showcases best in the Bay Area
THIS PIECE, by Joe Edward Cornett called 'Grubsteak,' is part of the 'Cream...from the top' exhibit at Arts Benicia.