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1,941 vie for $25K at Coconut Creek slot tourney
Frances Vorolieff and her family often visit Seminole Casino Coconut Creek to play the slot machines. Just not at 5:45 a.m. Once again proving that the magic word in South Florida is spelled F-R-E-E, 1,941 slot players lined up at the casino Monday...
Tags: Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Coconut Creek
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Paul Schimmel: Contemporary art's ideas man
Ninety-six works by 26 artists from the United States, Europe and Asia, brought together to illuminate a big — but overlooked — idea. "Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962" is vintage MOCA. A boldly thoughtful, revisionist...
Tags: Eli Broad, Fine Artists, Museums, New York University, Artists
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Oscar Niemeyer dies at 104; modernist Brazilian architect
Oscar Niemeyer, the architect whose soaring buildings form the heart of Brasilia, the instant modernist capital built in the wilds of Brazil in the late 1950s, has died. He was 104. Niemeyer, who had outlived his contemporaries to become the world's...
Tags: France, Hospitals and Clinics, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Cuba, The Washington Post
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Hector Tobar's recommendations
When my father was 13 his mother kidnapped him from a small town in Guatemala. This bold act liberated my father from a cruel and abusive stepmother — but it also brought an end to his education. My grandmother took her son to Guatemala City,...
Tags: Rome (Italy), Father's Day, World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Titian painted in a new biography
-------------------- Titian His Life Sheila Hale Harper Collins: 832 pp., $39.99 -------------------- This is a long book about a long life, a large volume about a large talent. Titian, its titular subject, was the most celebrated painter of his...
Tags: Artists, Robert Frost, Arts and Culture, Book, Fine Artists
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The serious charms of 'Hope Springs'
Liz Smith"ALWAYS A godfather; never a god!" said the late Gore Vidal, delivered in his usual pithy manner. More on this anon. BUT FIRST, let's give a thumbs up verdict to "Hope Springs" -- a rare little movie that is really about something, starring Meryl...Tags: Liz Smith, Nora Ephron, Entertainment, Tommy Lee, Ann Rutherford
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Robert Hughes dies; art critic and author was 74
Robert Hughes, a sometimes lacerating reviewer who may have commanded a larger audience than any other art critic in history, reaching the masses through 31 years as chief art critic for Time magazine and in a series of multi-part television documentaries...
Tags: Reviews, United Kingdom, World War I (1914-1918), Fine Artists, Julian Schnabel
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Notre Dame football recruiting: Chicago DL Smith surprised by offer
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterEnoch Smith Jr. had low expectations when he was asked to take his parents to meet with Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly in his office last Friday after performing in a one-day camp. He already held seven Division-I offers and thought he was just...Tags: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Brian Kelly, Football, Soldier Field, Sports
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Raymond L. Tolley, 63
Raymond L. Tolley, 63, passed peacefully Saturday, June 2, 2012, at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Frederick, Md. Born Sept. 19, 1948, in Alleghany County, Va., he was a 1967 graduate of Northeast High School in Pasadena, Md. Ray was self-employed...
Tags: Emmaus, Methodist, Middletown, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Religion and Belief
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Single Carrot Theatre checks into the shadowy 'Hotel Cassiopeia'
You might say that Joseph Cornell lived in a box within a box. From his early teens to his death in 1972 at the age of 69, the artist stayed firmly tied to a home in Queens he shared with his mother and invalid brother. When Cornell ventured out, it was...Tags: Hedy Lamarr, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Fine Artists, Charles Boyer, Arshile Gorky
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Elmhurst Cougars athletes to play high school baseball & softball this spring
TribLocal - ElmhurstThe Elmhurst Cougars Baseball and Softball Club announced that twenty six of their 2011, 14 year-old players will be playing high school baseball and softball …...
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