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Arts Fest 2010

Plans are speeding along for the upcoming Shelby County Arts Fest in downtown Shelbyville on Oct. 9. Arts Fest committee members met outside Panzarotti Italian Restaurant on Monday for al fresco dining and updates on progress on the fall festival.

Out there in Katter country

Bob Katter seems destined to reshape the political landscape. Jo Chandler visited his home turf to discover what shapes the man.

It's that stein of year again: German-American Festival

By GARY T. PAKULSKI BLADE STAFF WRITER If you joke with your iron-pumping pals that you prefer to limit your weight-lifting to 12-ounce brewskis, then it's your time to go for the gusto. The German-American Festival will host what it is billing as northwest Ohio's first ever formal Masskrugstemmen contest in which entrants compete to determine who can hold a one-liter stein of beer straight out ...

A 'Bigger, Better' show

Viola Frey's ceramics at the Arkansas Arts Center are the commonplace made monumental. by Leslie Newell Peacock Viola Frey fixed her star in the (mostly male) galaxy of American ceramic artists with monumental ceramic figures and assemblages of kitsch figurines. "Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey" brings to the Arkansas Arts Center Frey's work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the ...

How to Enjoy Being By Yourself

Recently, I have been hearing adults complaining that they are bored even on vacation. While new studies assert that it is vital to keep busy to feel happier, many of us might be taking busyness to a new level.