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csmonitor.com     Jul 25, 2008          

With some innovative – and ludicrous – new prizes, the writer honors, well, just about everyone By Chuck Cohen | July 25, 2008 edition The awards season – we hope – is over. (There’s usually a two-week break in July, although the Frida awards, given by the Mustache Association of America in honor of Frida Kahlo, are still to be handed out.) Once again, I have not been given a Tony, Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, or anything voted on by anyone other than my butcher. (My hopes for a Frida have been dashed by an inadvertent close shave on the left side of my lip, forcing me to walk around in profile.) This is why I would like to suggest some new awards, so that instead of a mere 50 million winners, each American, especially me, can hold a statuette and say, “I’d like to thank my agent.” The Foxies: In honor of perpetually upset Fox News... [read full story]                    


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Monkey On Restaurant Sign Stolen

ksat.com     Aug 18, 2008          

Burglary At Frida's Mexican & Latin Cuisine Caught On Surveillance Tape SAN ANTONIO -- A restaurant on the city's north side is missing its signature piece of art -- a monkey. The monkey belongs to Frida's Mexican & Latin...                    

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Arts education is in the eyes of the beholden

delawareonline.com     Aug 17, 2008   2 related          

Art history class, with those projector-slide pictures of paintings colorfully exploding on a blank screen, pointed Reese toward a career of teaching children how to appreciate art as more than just learning how to stop and...                    

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Flowers and a lot more in the land of the midnight sun

post-gazette.com     Aug 10, 2008          

By David Bear, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Though inside the Arctic Circle, Tromso's Botanic Gardens thrive during summer's 20-hour days. summer days. Like so many polar explorers before us, my wife and I had come to this port of...                    

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Depression, Creativity, and a New Pair of Shoes

psychologytoday.com     Jul 30, 2008   6 related          

After reading a newspaper article about some of the current research linking depressive disorders to creativity, an artist friend of mine commented, "Well, I guess now all I have to do is get depressed and my work will...                    

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