Iran cuts ties with British Museum (Times of Malta)
February 8th, 2010Iran has severed all cultural ties with the British Museum in protest at the delay of the loan of an ancient Persian treasure, it emerged yesterday.
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Tickets now available for “Sweetheart Dinner and a Movie” at Infantry Museum (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
February 8th, 2010On Sunday, Feb. 14, the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center at Patriot Park will present a romantic evening of dinner and a movie.
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Repairs start after museum fire (BBC News)
February 8th, 2010Thousands of items from a collection at a Gloucestershire museum that was badly damaged by fire are sent away while the building is repaired.
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TV hope for museum drama (Express and Star)
February 8th, 2010A theatre company is hoping to take its performances from the Black Country Living Museum’s cobbled streets onto the screen after producing a pilot programme.
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Canterbury’s Roman Museum could fall victim to the credit crunch (Independent)
February 8th, 2010Canterbury City Council is the latest local authority set to close museums as part of cost-cutting measures. It is wielding the budget axe and has decided that saving the city’s Christmas lights is more important than keeping the Roman Museum open to the public.
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Business News (Suburban Journals)
February 8th, 2010Antique Adventure opens for business Leigh and Noel’s Antique Adventure opened last week at 7319 S. Broadway in St. Louis. The business buys and sells antiques and can be reached by calling 314-488-4119 or 314-540-6472.
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Hilton Als: Charles Ludlam’s “The Sorrows of Dolores” and “Museum of Wax” at IFC. (The New Yorker)
February 8th, 2010In the nineteen-seventies, Charles Ludlam, the founder of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, started to make two films. But by the time he died, of complications from AIDS in 1987, the movies, both silent, were still not finished. “The Sorrows of Dolores” and “Museum of Wax,” . . .
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Foster families get museum membership (The Indianapolis Star)
February 8th, 2010More than 650 Indiana foster families from 72 counties have visited The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis over the past year under a program developed by the museum and the Indiana Department of Child Services.
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HUDSON VALLEY AUCTIONEERS ANTIQUE AND ESTATE AUCTION Monday, February 8th, 6:00 pm 432 Main Street, City of Beacon, NY … (Antiques and the Arts)
February 8th, 2010Featuring 500+ lots fresh to the market estate merchandise.
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A museum that rocks (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
February 8th, 2010By CHRIS SMITH THE PRESS DEMOCRAT As far as 74-year-old Kim Mosier knows, no one else is making hang-them-on-the-wall pictures from sawed rock — and it’s fairly certain there’s not another museum like his, filled with pictures made of stone.
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