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It'll be 'Some Enchanted Evening'
The Green Room Community Theatre's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" opens this week.
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SALT Block sculpture gets new home
It took about an hour to move a three-and-a-half ton sculpture on the SALT Block on Thursday morning.
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NC Arts Council seeks new poet laureate
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Blowing Rock arts center temporarily closes
A performing arts center in the North Carolina mountains that's been open about three years is temporarily closing because of the economy.
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Dancers tell how Jackson's great moves moved them
Growing up in Crown Heights, Anthony Rue II wanted to be like Mike.
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Wilson pays 'last' homage to ill Japanese dancer
During the 1960s, Suzushi Hanayagi ventured alone to New York, in an unusual act of courage for a Japanese woman of her generation, armed with training in traditional dance to forge a new form of Western-style modern dance.
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Smithsonian gears up for movie-inspired visitors
What happens after dark in the halls of a museum? A few lucky kids will get to find out in the months ahead, thanks to some big promotions and travel deals drawing on the buzz of Hollywood's new museum flick, "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian."
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Recession forcing museums to do more with less
The recession is hitting museums hard from coast to coast, forcing directors to boost admission fees, cut budgets and staff, and put ambitious projects on hold. But in a twist on the bleak economic news, museums are actually reporting an increase in attendance.
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Artist gives back by painting guitar for charity
Amanda Dunbar's life changed when she was 13 because of an after-school art class.
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Blue Ridge Mountain regional arts festival, ColorFest, call for artists
Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, Inc.invites regional Blue Ridge Mountain artists to display and demonstrate their art form in the 1st annual event, ColorFest, Art of the Blue Ridge.
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The Twelfth Annual Catawba Valley Pottery & Antiques Festival in Hickory this Saturday
The Twelfth Annual Catawba Valley Pottery & Antiques Festival will be held on Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 9 a.m. until 5 pm at the Hickory Metro Convention Center, located at 1960 13th Avenue Drive SE.
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How many souls can Hickory rescue from the Titanic?
To add to the drama of their upcoming production of Titanic – the musical, the Hickory Community Theatre is posing this question; and, offering businesses and private citizens the opportunity to, figuratively, rescue more people from the doomed ocean liner by sponsoring lifeboats and filling seats on them.
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Statue stolen in Italy surfaces in Charlotte
A 350-year-old statue disappeared from a Naples church in an elaborate heist of artifacts nearly two decades ago.
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Theatre Guild Brings Nora Brooks Back to the Firemen's Kitchen
The Hickory Community Theatre Guild and the Sons of Confederate Veterans present the living history event - Nora Brooks, "An Evening with Mildred Childe Lee" on Friday April 3rd at 7:30 in the Firemen's Kitchen at HCT.
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New exhibit showcases Washington's black history
From dances to demonstrations, street riots to sports fields, a photographic history of Washington's black community is on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The framed black-and-white images are the work of Addison N. Scurlock and his sons, George and Robert. For the better part of the 20th century, their studio was a Washington fixture and a thriving African-American business, despite legalized segregation.
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American painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91
Artist Andrew Wyeth, who portrayed the hidden melancholy of the people and landscapes of Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and coastal Maine in works such as "Christina's World," died early Friday. He was 91. Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford, according to Hillary Holland, a spokeswoman for the Brandywine River Museum.
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Listening to Schroeder: 'Peanuts' Scholars Find Messages in Cartoon's Scores
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — In a "Peanuts" strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. "Shh," Schroeder says, "I'm listening to Beethoven's Ninth." Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder's outfit. "In an overcoat?" he asks. Schroeder leans even closer to the speaker and responds, "The first movement was so beautiful it gave me the chills!"
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SLIDESHOW: Schroeder's (and Schulz's) Muse Charles Schulz's use of Beethoven in his "Peanuts" strips means more than a punch line
SLIDESHOW: Schroeder's (and Schulz's) Muse Charles Schulz's use of Beethoven in his "Peanuts" strips means more than a punch line
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SPOLETO: Festival in Charleston to say farewell to its chamber-music director
Tributes to longtime chamber-music director Charles Wadsworth, a return visit by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and an operetta inspired by movie actor Peter Lorre will highlight a more modest 2009 season of the Spoleto Festival USA.
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Dueling pottery festivals open in Seagrove
Dueling pottery festivals open in Seagrove
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Romance in any language
The romance of "Romeo and Juliet" can be understood in any language, even if you don't speak it.
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UNCSA film dean: Let's attract films
The dean of the School of Filmmaking at UNC School of the Arts wants to draw more filmmakers to make their movies in North Carolina.
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Smithsonian accepts Vale potter
Potter Albert Hodge only laughs a little when he suggests he was reincarnated.
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Brushy Mountain photographers host exhibit in Taylorsville
The Brushy Mountain Film Users Group, a collective of local photographers who still use film in this 21st Century, currently has its first exhibit of photographs on display for public viewing. This exhibit is located at The Spilled Bean Coffee House in Taylorsville and will be open for viewing through mid-November.
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