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LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — A 58-year-old Kauai man sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for killing his wife by setting her on fire has had the minimum amount of time he must serve before he can request parole doubled to 120 years.
This weekend will mark the 12th year of Crabonanza, one of those only in San Francisco events that celebrates the start of local Dungeness season. And, well, drinking. On Sunday, Nov. 29, ...
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"It was a mistake not to see beforehand that this would be controversial," said an apparently tone-deaf Nigel Coleman, chairman of the Danville Tea Party....
Last season's "American Idol" runner-up, singing sensation Adam Lambert debuts his new album "For Your Entertainment" today.
The term "contemporary art" no longer refers to the art of the moment. It refers to a certain kind of art, born in the late 1960s, that's got a particular look and feel and way of doing things attached to it -- every bit as much as "Renaissance" or "baroque" art do. Watercolors of boats at anchor...
By MARY CALLAHAN THE PRESS DEMOCRAT The burgeoning arts community that’s grown up along South A Street near Juilliard Park in Santa Rosa is throwing its fifth annual Winter Blast on Saturday night.
As we’re all collectively counting down the remaining days before 2010, Google’s Dennis Hwang is busy tweaking the Google logo to mark the occasion, a job the talented designer has been enjoying since 2000. Unlike the vast majority of companies who never tinker with their visual identity, Google is well-known for playing with its brand logo [...]
Meet Rusty Oliver, the industrial artist behind "Smash Putt," a combination mini-golf course/art installation on Capitol Hill through Nov. 28.
Why, why, oh why does the president want to bow so much to foreign leaders? Is he that in awe of them? President Barack Obama decided earlier this year to genuflect to Saudi King Abdullah. And this week he bowed deeply to Japan’s emperor Akihito.
AMHERST -- When it was announced last month that the Feel Good Festival would end after five years, many were disappointed, but none more than Stevens Point businessman Jim Powell.
In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners to build out their anchor stores in the massive online shopping and lifestyle mall AOL became. Time Warner ...
What's Your Reaction? Barack Obama will be visiting China next week, and as this video report from Reuters shows, the Chinese are enthusiastic about Obama, if not in ways that always make immediate sense.
Steam junkies of all ages celebrated in West Oakland on Saturday at the “coming out” party for Kinetic Steam Works , a local collective devoted to steam-powered art.
Every Sunday at the famed Lighthouse Point surf spot in Santa Cruz, it's the well-buffed people on the bluff spinning iridescent plastic hoops around every body part from their necks to their toes '” while the waves crash behind them and techno music pulsates '” who mesmerize spectators with their muscular interpretation of what used to be called hula-hooping.
Please join us for the dedication of Tree Spire a permanent ...
There was a whole lot more proof on Friday night, even if none ...
The Black Rock Arts Foundation presents our third annual fundraising ...
We were traveling along Route 80, and for once, Reno seemed almost ...
Cardboardia one of Black Rock Arts Foundation s 2009 Grantees! ...
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid We finally lost ACE Junkyard to ...
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