Rice fields
September 15, 2010
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espresso blue
August 27, 2010
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Shakespeare’s Birthday Open House
August 14, 2010The Folger Shakespeare Theatre makes the Bard’s B-day one of the city’s most enjoyable days by turning their venue into something Elizabethan. Jugglers and jesters wander around, plays are presented in every available corner, cake is served and crafts and games booths line the halls. There are also tours of the Folger’s reading rooms and gardens. And even though Willy never gave anything away for free, most of the events during this annual event are gratis.
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China Moon
August 12, 2010This is a generic Chinese restaurant that leans heavily towards Sichuan, Shanghainese and Cantonese cuisine. Don’t be too scared to try the spicy dishes, particularly the beef or chicken in chilli sauce, as they are among the best on the menu. Other adventurous dishes include shark’s fin, abalone and swallow’s nest. The major drawbacks are the prices and the lack of atmosphere associated with its shopping mall location. An old-style Shanghai songstress livens things up from Thursday to Saturday at 9pm.
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August 6, 2010
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Andrea Branzi
July 27, 2010Branzi is described as an architect, theorist and writer, but he’s above all an ideas man. He’s been designing all his life – everything from furniture and jewels to lamps and fountains. This exhibition gathers together works which he’s created in the past two decades. Branzi founded the Domus Academy in Milan in the eighties and his awards include the Compasso D’Oro, 1987, the International Prize at the First Biennial Design Exhibition in Buenos Aires, 1983 and the Robert Maxwell Prize awarded by The Royal College of Art in London, 1989.
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Bonomo Faita at the Gallery Hotel
July 24, 2010The Gallery Hotels’ sophisticated and minimalist public rooms are ideal backdrops for Bonomo Faita’s particular brand of art, known as ‘The Bonomo Effect’. Photographs, coloured drawings and polychrome canvases are all part of a vision of the extraordinary nature of life’s banalities. The artist photographs objects, landscapes and people and then paints them. Pistols, plastic bags, sheep…Bonomo’s art is an open space that unites heaven and earth in the palm of a hand.
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A Century of German Ceramic Arts
July 19, 2010The reason for this bizarre-sounding exhibition is that German artists working in ceramics at the end of the 19th-century suddenly came under a new set of influences from Japan. Experiments with oriental-style glazing eventually resulted in the refinement of a technique that ultimately led in to the influential Bauhaus and Jugendstil movements. This exhibition presents 190 works by 70 artists, spanning the whole of the 20th-century.
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Bob Marley Festival
July 16, 2010To his worshipful fans, Bob Marley was more than a great musician. He was a nearly religious figure whose pleas for brotherhood and justice achieved universal anthemic status. The Bob Marley Festival honours his memory with a number of performers, including Marley’s own children. Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers have had stupendous success, becoming the first reggae group to top the R&B singles chart and win two Grammys. Others acts at the festival include Hootie & the Blowfish, Dead Prez and T-Vice.
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Corky Siegel + Bonnie Koloc
July 12, 2010Composer, blues harmonica player, pianist, singer and songwriter Corky Siegel brings his innovative new sound to a stage he will share with Chicago icon Bonnie Koloc. Siegel’s newest project, Chamber Blues, with the West End String Quartet and Frank Donaldson on world percussion, blends classical and blues styles in a chamber music setting. Chamber Blues was honoured in Billboard’s Editor’s and Writer’s top 10 picks for 1998. The versatile voice of Bonnie Koloc has been heard in Chicago since 1968, as her folk-oriented style merged with jazz and blues.
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