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  • Ansel Adams Or Not? The Answer's Worth Millions Saturday, 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 50 Saturday, 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 SoFAB Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 2:56PMLearn about absinthe's history on August 7.
  • Ansel Adams Or Not? The Answer's Worth Millions Saturday, 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 MoMA Saturday, 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 Museum Saturday, 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 artists Saturday, 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 stopovers Saturday, 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 freeze Saturday, 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.
  • Historic Sitka painting of ship gets new life - Navy News, news from Iraq - Navy Times Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 2:28PMSITKA, Alaska — A painting from the early days of Sitka under the U.S. flag has been restored to its former glory after years in a back room of the Sitka Historical Society Museum.
  • What's on this weekend? Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 2:22PMWhether it's an indoors event you're looking for, or something with a bit of fresh air attached, there's always something for you to do.
  • Drag Quartet Sings About Oil Disaster Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 2:06PMThe Kinsey Sicks, the popular a cappella quartet that performs in drag, has released a video in which the members sing out their frustration with the Gulf Coast oil disaster.
  • Officials tell hopes for Evanston building Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 2:01PMIf the city improves it, people will come.
  • Huge New Update for Distant Worlds Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:57PMDistant Worlds (PC) A huge list of improvements and changes coming with this capital ship-sized update.
  • In-Depth: Al Lowe Talks Early-Days Adventure Genre Challenges In New Book Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:51PM[Gamasutra is pleased to present this excerpt from the full Al Lowe interview found in the new book "Graphic Adventures: Being a Mostly Correct History Of the Adventure Game Classics By Lucasfilm, Sierra and Others, From the Pages Of Wikipedia", available at http://blogoscoped.com/graphic-adventures.] Al Lowe, born in 1946, is a musician and games programmer & designer ...
  • Out and About: Weekend Picks Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:42PMPhoto by erin m FRIDAY COMEDY: What will Tom Green put his bum on tonight? Find out at D.C. Improv (1140 Connecticut Avenue NW), where he'll be performing stand-up at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 with a 2 food/drink item minimum order per person. MOVIES: Check out six Latino films that are part of The Maya Indie Film Festival playing at E Street Cinema (555 11th Street NW) tonight through ...
  • Bells ring out over Lake Elmo Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:33PMLAKE ELMO - They slow you down at 8 a.m. during the fast dash to get kids out the door to school. They make you pause and listen for a familiar tune while running errands in town at noon. They welcome you home at 6 p.m. after a stressful day at work.
  • AMC Theatres® Offers ETX™, an Enhanced Theatre Experience for Guests in Kansas City Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:24PMKANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AMC Theatres® (AMC), a leading theatrical exhibition and entertainment company, announces that guests are now able to see movies like never before when the AMC Enhanced Theatre Experience (ETXTM) opens with “SALT” today at AMC BarryWoods 24 in Kansas City, Mo. ETX includes a 20-percent larger screen, 3D technology, digital projection and an upgraded sound ...
  • Katzka named 2010 Main Line Media News Baseball Player of the Year Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:21AMHAVERFORD — The Haverford School baseball squad, which won its first outright Inter-Ac title in nearly four decades, had a potent everyday force in senior second baseman Will Katzka, the 2010 Main Line Media News Baseball Player of the Year.
  • New Brownsville museum well received Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:17AMBROWNSVILLE - The new Frank L. Melega Art Museum in Brownsville received positive reviews Wednesday from public officials and members of the Greater Brownsville Area Chamber of Commerce. Brownville Mayor Lester Ward and his wife Kasandra hosted a reception at the newly renovated first-floor location of the museum. The local art museum, previously located on the upper floor of the Flatiron ...
  • Arts group says China pressuring L.A. to thwart its theater bid Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:13AMLocal officials dismiss Shen Yun's claim. The group wants to build a complex on a site designated for Eli Broad's art museum. The Shen Yun performing arts organization went aggressively on the offensive Thursday, claiming it is being stonewalled by government officials as it tries to pursue building a huge theater and residential complex on a redevelopment site in downtown Los Angeles that's now ...
  • Louisiana Cares for Kids, BROWN! Improv and more for Friday, July 30 Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:11AMWhat's happening in and around New Orleans on Friday, July 30, 2010
  • Building character (and characters) Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:11AMATTLEBORO - There was the time (well, more than once) that Bruce Carlson found himself in the woods, in a sand trap, in some god-forsaken spot on a golf course and wondered whether he might be able to hit the next shot safely.
  • A 'Dinner' Invitation You Can Safely Decline Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:03AMOn paper, Dinner for Schmucks seems to have it all: a star-studded cast that includes reliable funnymen like Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, a veteran comedy director (Jay Roach) at the helm, and a premise lifted from a great French farce. But in reality, Schmucks is much less than the sum of its parts.
  • Plenty of laughs over 'Dinner' Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:01AMSteve Carell and Paul Rudd -- previous co-stars in such frat-pack comedies as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and The 40 Year-Old Virgin -- have teamed up again for the black comedy Dinner for Schmucks, opening Friday.
  • Dirty Hippie Radio: Kid Infinity makes musical history Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:30PMIt is not the intent of this column to cover the musical happenings beyond the borders of our hometown; however, nowhere throughout the annals of musical historiography has this ever been done.
  • Penn Law building to open in 2012 Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:28PMVictor Gamez Penn Law’s Pepper Hall has been ground up to make room for a new law school building on Sansom Street. The construction job for the new Golkin Hall ­­— known as the Sansom Street Project — will complete a “10-year transformation of the Penn Law campus,” stated Penn Law Dean Michael Fitts on Penn Law’s website. The new law school building, will connect the existing Silverman and ...
  • ‘Like family’: Teachers, immigrant students in English program develop a special bond Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:19PMCarlo Crespo knew only Spanish when she arrived in Henderson in 2001.
  • King calls for judge to probe closed meeting Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:11PMCoun. Art King wants a judge to look into a closed meeting South Bruce Peninsula councillors held in the absence of Mayor Gwen Gilbert last September.[...]
  • The RIFF takes on the world Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:51PMRoxbury Conglomerate Nothing brightens a neighborhood's outlook quite like the illumination from movie screens.
  • See You There! Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:45PMArtvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: the last days of the Infringement Festival, ongoing through August 1st.
  • Mark Goldman: Restaurateur Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:44PMGet to know a Buffalonian... Often cited as the visionary who imagined — and then helped make real — a revitalized Chippewa Street, Mark Goldman’s knack for staying ahead of the local curve may be rooted in his deep understanding of our regional past.
  • Free Will Astrology Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:44PMARIES (March 21-April 19): Success coach Tom Ferry says our ability to pursue our dreams can be damaged by four addictions: 1. an addiction to what other people think of us; 2. an addiction to creating melodrama in a misguided quest for excitement; 3. an addiction to believing we’re imprisoned by what happened in the past; 4. an addiction to negative thoughts that fill us with anxiety.
  • The Arcade Fire, a Thriving Throwback Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:32PMThe Arcade Fire has thrived in the digital age, but it takes its inspiration from the era of album rock.
  • Dispute over 'Ansel Adams' negatives Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:59AMThe family of American nature photographer Ansel Adams has cast doubt on the authenticity of a batch of negatives brought at a garage sale but since valued at $200 million.
  • Ohio News Roundup: State Fair opens; woman run over by police car; a Rolling Stone art gig Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:41AMWhat's happening around the state today.
  • What I trade for love Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:39AMI gaze up at the flourescent strip lighting in the surgeon's office, willing the Beatles on my iPod to keen even louder for Dear Prudence to "come out to play."
  • TWU Briefs Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:38AMTWU Briefs
  • Prosecution: Defendant in rape case kept journal Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:37AMNORRISTOWN — A Rosemont man accused of raping a model after a photo shoot kept a graphic journal outlining his penchant for exposing himself to females at libraries, pools and art classes, according to prosecutors.
  • JPMorgan Chase opens Net Plaza global service center Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:34AMJPMorgan Chase & Co., a leading global financial services firm, yesterday formally dedicated its new Global Service Center in Taguig City, the 23-storey Net Plaza Building, is located in the eSquare Zone, Bonifacio Global City.
  • Historic Salisbury Holley House Is Sold-With Conditions Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:32AMSALISBURY—After a wait of several years and a search for just the right buyers, the Salisbury Association has finally sold the venerable Holley-Williams House, an icon of the local iron industry that first made the town a prosperous destination.
  • Caskeys set to ‘joggle’ at Steve’s Run Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:43PMPosted 10 minutes ago at 8:33 pm. Steve’s Run this year will hold special significance for Kay Caskey, her son, Michael, and other members of her family when they participate in the 36th annual run/walk July 31.
  • Rich palette of desert life Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:36PM'We want to tell you fellas about things been happening in the past that hasn't been recorded, what old people had in their head. No pencil and paper. The white-man history has been told and it's today in the book. But our history is not there properly. We've got to tell them through our paintings."
  • Study: The Health Risks of Late Preterm Births Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:28PMIn the largest study of its kind, researchers find that the risk of health problems rises significantly in babies born prematurely, even those born in the so-called late preterm period
  • Pac-10 unveils new logo and brand Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:25PMNEW YORK - At the launch of its first-ever bicoastal Media Tour, Commissioner Larry Scott today unveiled a series of new initiatives designed to reflect an increasingly fan-friendly, innovative future for the Conference of Champions.
  • Teens improve public speaking skills at Temple Ambler camp Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:22PMIt ranks right up there with snakes, spiders and extreme heights — public speaking.
  • "Cremaster Cycle": Matthew Barney exposes himself at the Roxie Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:17PMNamed for the muscle that turns your nutsack into a walnut when it gets cold, The Cremaster Cycle swings the biggest dick in contemporary art. Produced from 1994 through 2002, and last screened in conjunction with a hilariously overwrought retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2003, Matthew B...
  • "Orlando" Returns: Sally Potter and Tilda Swinton interview Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:17PMAlmost unthinkable now, 18 years ago, a writer-director and a performer made career breakthroughs with a film based on a 1928 novel by a titan of modernism about a character who changes genders and lives through four centuries. In her nimble adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando , Sally Po...
  • Charter school may get second chance under proposed 'action plan' Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:17PMPalm Beach County 's only charter school with an African-centered curriculum may get a second chance at turning around its long history of financial and academic problems.
  • Tengku Marina (right) elaborating on the design aspect of songtik, together with her sister Tengku Eliza, Pink Jambu’s ... Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:15PMTengku Marina Ibrahim of home-grown fashion label Pink Jambu has done it again. She captivates with a creation that marries two Malaysian crafts — songket and batik, writes INTAN MAIZURA AHMAD KAMAL