Graduation was an experience I wouldn’t have missed. So many people I didn’t know all dressed smartly, lots of smiling faces, and the whole event in such a lovely setting as the University of Hull chose to have the ceremony at the Spa in Scarborough, right on the sea front. The weather was bright and [...]
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Buy Art Online : Save and enjoy
Buy Art Online : A normal way to begin in the art business is by painting your own simple sketch. Pick a subject and a really nice day and off you go. The bits and pieces you need to begin are really only your materials and the subject matter. Of course you will need the [...]
The Smart Collector: Sometimes you’ll need a third opinion on value
Q: I took this small rocker to a local shop to have cane workreplaced, and people in the shop were very intrigued by it. Note”1695″ on the bottom of the seat. The shop owner told us he thoughtthe chair might be worth several thousand dollars. I then took the chair to a local antique dealer [...]
With a lick of his KISS guitar pick, singer Paul Stanley and his face-painted bandmates put on quite a show at Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre on Monday, June 27. As the band played, camera crews with the reality-TV show Family Jewels, starring KISS bass player Gene Simmons, worked to film his wife, Shannon Tweed, and children in the crowd.
White Rock Trad Jazz Society: Presents three-hour concert/dance events Sunday afternoons at Crescent Beach Legion with house band Red Beans & Rice, 3-6 p.m.; show dates this summer are July 10, 17, 24, and Aug. 7, 14, 28, at 2643 128th St., South Surrey. Admission: $8/10. Call 604-591-7275 or 604-536-1567, online at whiterocktradjazz.com. Red Hot [...]
iPhone Appidemic: PhotoTropedelic
This is the kind of iPhone photography app I can get into. There are probably hundreds of them available, most of which do nothing more than run your photos through the equivalent of a Photoshop filter, then make it easy to share the results. It’s the same with PhotoTropedelic, but I’ll this Peter Max pop [...]
