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Ansel Adams Or Not? The Answer's Worth MillionsSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 3:07PMIt's an irresistible story. A building painter in Fresno, Calif., announces negatives he bought for $45 at a yard sale were taken by Ansel Adams. But the renowned photographer's family thinks the story is too good to be true, and the heat's on to prove the negatives' authenticity. read more

Plane successful: Broomfield airport turns 50Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 3:04PMDr. David D. Callender is a walking -- and flying -- encyclopedia of local aviation history. He remembers the day 50 years ago when President Dwight Eisenhower came to Colorado to mark the opening of Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, then known as Jefferson County Airport.

Ted Breaux Lectures on Absinthe History at SoFABSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:56PMLearn about absinthe's history on August 7.

Ansel Adams Or Not? The Answer's Worth MillionsSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:42PMIt's an irresistible story. A building painter in Fresno, Calif., announces negatives he bought for $45 at a yard sale were taken by Ansel Adams. But the renowned photographer's family thinks the story is too good to be true, and the heat's on to prove the negatives' authenticity.

The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today at MoMASaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:32PMLee Friedlander. (American, born 1934), Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. 1969. Gelatin silver print, 8 1/16 x 12 1/8" (20.5 x 30.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the photographer © 2010 Lee Friedlander.

Crocker Art Museum Announces Inaugural Exhibitions for Expanded MuseumSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:32PMWayne Thiebaud, Flood Waters, 2006. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in. Courtesy of Paul Thiebaud Gallery, New York. © Wayne Thiebaud, licensed by VAGA, NY. SACRAMENTO, CA.-

The lives of laborers and artistsSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:21PMComplex but manageable "I Hotel" contains 10 novellas and two comic strips about life in San Francisco's International Hotel.

The undercover guide to Britain's best stopoversSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:09PMFauhope House, Scotland Set back on the south-facing hillside overlooking the Tweed Valley, Melrose Abbey and the mystical Eildon Hills in the Scottish Borders, Fauhope House has one of the best locations of any B&B in the UK.

Prospect of pumping oil from Beaufort back in deep freezeSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 1:46PMLast summer, before “Deepwater Horizon” became shorthand for the worst oil spill in American history, two members of an Inuit wildlife-protection agency flew from the Canadian Arctic to the Houston headquarters of Cameron, one of the world’s leading developers of offshore-drilling technology.