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Restaurants, jazz clubs, art galleries, antique shops and craft stores are too numerous to name. Asheville also is home to the world-famous Biltmore Estate, built by George Vanderbilt and still owned by his descendants. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Skinner Offers Rediscovered Georgia O'Keeffe Painting in January Auction of American & European Paintings & Prints; Many Works From Private Collections Jan 13, 2010
BOSTON, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- -- Skinner, Inc., one of the world's leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will kick-off its 2010 season with a strong sale of on January 29th at noon in the Boston gallery ... Skinner, Inc. is one of the world's leading auction houses for antiques and fine art and the only major auction house headquartered in New England ... Skinner's regularly appear on the PBS-TV series, , and its specialty departments include American Furniture & Decorative Arts,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Police arrest suspected Porterville school vandal Jan 13, 2010
Gregory Chavarria, 37, was arrested near Clinton Avenue and Van Ness Boulevard about 2 a.m. after the windows were smashed at Echo Antique Gallery on the 1900 block of North Echo Avenue. Damage was estimated at about $1,500. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Interior Design for the Small Bathr... Jan 12, 2010
The mirror can be an antique or brand new. Basic framed mirrors can be found at most home improvement stores, but unique pieces can be located at small art boutiques and antique shops. (Suite101.com)
* FEATURE : Elvis still heartbreak king in outback Aussie town Jan 11, 2010
Every year we come and the crowd gets deeper and deeper and the route seems longer, said the company director, who swing dances and collects antique jukeboxes in his spare time. In just five days the festival brings in more than one-tenth of the 11,000-person towns annual tourism revenue, its third-largest earner after agriculture and mining. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Every bottle tells a story Jan 11, 2010
KING FERRY Blue, green and purple glass bottles caught the sunlight and glowed as antique bottle enthusiasts crowded the tiny Rural Life Museum in King Ferry to see some of Tom Kanalley's bottle collection ... Kanalley, of Cortland, has been collecting antique bottles since 1972, when Hurricane Agnes tore through Ithaca, where he was attending school at Cornell and revealed a hidden landscape of old, glass bottles in the eroded terrain ... A few of Kanalley's fellow bottle collectors showed up... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Timbuktu's legacy of ancient books Jan 10, 2010
"What I like most is the correspondence," Moure said, referring to antique letters. "They speak of walking to Bamako, or to Mecca ... mysterious things.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Painting remade at Flatbread Co. Jan 10, 2010
"Schadler said working on "The Peasant Wedding" has been such an exciting process that friend Christopher Cook crafted an antique door to serve as the tray carrying flatbread pizza.Karen Mountjoy of Portsmouth brought her family to the photo shoot because she thought it was a good way to stay involved in the community."I was pretty impressed with the idea and I thought it would be great for my kids to have the chance to come into the restaurant years later and see themselves," said... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Making scents in London Jan 10, 2010
English taxi cabs often leave trails of diesel exhaust; the red phone booths in Soho smell of urine; and sewage odors occasionally rise from antique grates. And then there is the Tube - the Circle and District lines spring to mind - where select carriages exude an aroma resembling hot rubber mixed with overtaxed truck brakes. (Boston Globe)
75 years on, Elvis still heartbreak king in Aussie town Jan 10, 2010
" White-suited lookalike contestant Graeme Mackaway, who has made the journey to Parkes four times on the "Elvis Express", said the Main Street parade is always his highlight. "Every year we come and the crowd gets deeper and deeper and the route seems longer," said the company director who swing dances and collects antique jukeboxes in his spare time. In just five days the festival brings in more than one-tenth of the 11,000-person town's annual tourism revenue, its third-largest earner after... (Channelnewsasia.com)
Places for warming up to winter’s mysteries and fun Jan 10, 2010
With the current American folk toys exhibit (through Jan. 18), each antique toy is presented with a reproduction for kids to try. When Paper Capers arrives Feb. 5, there will be stations throughout the gallery where visitors can make their own art from origami to paper silhouettes. (Boston Globe)
Bai Yiluo Solo Exhibit : Spring to Autumn Jan 10, 2010
And in the work entitled "Chieftain", a vulgar old wooden chair of modern times is engraved with many antique patterns. What matches the temperament of the artist is a tinge of sadness and quietness in these works, caring for the basic human emotions, just like the word "Chun-chiu" (literally meaning "spring and autumn" in Chinese) , implicating the passing of time with a kind of helplessness toward the irreversible past and full of stories and plaint. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Home Accents Today Jan 10, 2010
Watch as C&F Enterprises' Jennifer Sheridan works with a Williamsburg curator and product manager to begin the creation of a bedding ensemble inspired by a piece of antique textile from the Colonial Williamsburg Collections. Advertisements. (Variety)
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