The Artwoods

Hirschfeld Properties, LLC Announces Its Lease With Fred Astaire Dance Studios

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Elie Hirschfeld of Hirschfeld Properties, LLC announces their lease partnership with Fred Astaire Dance Studios. Located at 328 East 61st Street, the 3,000 square foot property was built to include a new, state-of-the-art wood dance floor built over foam construction to cushion impact for dancers and buffer sound below. For the past 60 years, the studio, which is part...

Compare and Contrast (An Occasional Series): Was Marvin Gaye?

PowerPop (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

From 1966, please enjoy the man himself and one of his coolest early singles, "One More Heartache." LOVE that guitar riff. And now consider if you will, from later that year, a cover of same by The Artwoods , one of the lesser known Brit r&b outfits of the day, but one of the best. (That's the late Art Wood on vocals, as in older brother of Ron Wood , BTW. The evocative organ noodling...

Clinton arts complex stage in need of repairs

The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

It’s been five years since the Clinton Central School District finished its $5.5 million Clinton Performing Arts Complex with a state-of-the-art wood stage. Now, thousands of dollars in maintenance is needed and officials are debating whether they should refinish or replace the soft pine wood stage floor.

Vote for Thomas Bewick

Tale-pieces (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009

BBC Radio Three is bringing its annual festival Free Thinking - A Festival of Ideas , to the Sage, Gateshead on 23-25 October 2009. You can find lots of information about the weekend's events on the Radio Three website here . They are running an online poll to find the "the Greatest North-East Free Thinker". The short list was drawn up with the help of the Literary and Philosophical Society....

Contents of The Hobby Book

Lunch Time For Bears (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009

Learning To Sail With Model YachtsModel AirplanesBringing Nature Into The Home (Plant Collecting)Learn How To Signal Messages In CodeMake Your Own Decorative Dishes (Pottery Work)Constant Friends And Pleasant Companions (Pets)Learning The Art Of Wood Turning Leads To Pleasure And ProfitA Masculine Clothes RackNovelties From NutsTwo Good Wall ShelvesDrum LampThe Gallumpin' BucephalusA New

Grape escapes: 10 French vineyard stays

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009

Alastair Sawday selects 10 great places to stay on French wine-producing estates, from châteaux to B&Bs La Colombière, Burgundy Tucked behind the town hall in the busy village of Vosne-Romanée is the maison d'hôtes of Anne Gros, a modern design that fuses stone, fired clay and ancient oak. Items like the state-of-the-art wood-burner and the modern art add a contemporary...

An Avian Extravaganza: Colin See-Paynton Exhibition enchants at The Brook

Budleigh & Brewster United - celebrating sisterhood! (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

Coinciding with the launch of Budleigh Salterton’s first Literary Festival http://www.budlitfest.org.uk/ on Friday 18 September the town’s Brook Gallery will be exhibiting until 19 October a wonderful selection of ‘Avian Alphabet’ woodcuts by a renowned artist viewed as a ‘national treasure’ for his skill and craftsmanship. “His delight in the lines of a bird...

Plovdiv: Deep Purple's Jon Lord opens the Autumn Salon in Plovdiv

Guide Bulgaria (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009

The keyboard player of the legendary English outfit Deep Purple will open the Autumn Salon in Plovdiv , according to a press release from Sofia Music Enterprises. ... Lord is widely recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering...

• Deep Purple's Jon Lord performs in Plovdiv on September 1 - The Sofia Echo

Custom Wooden Rings from Natural-Wood-Rings.com!

Ring-O-Blog - Directory of Wonderful Rings (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009

Hi, I would like to share this link with you and others. We are a small independent business, family owned and operated. Our love for Art and Wood is the motivation behind this effort. We live in Western New York, near Niagara Falls, and would like to share with you our love for this amazing craft by [...]

Mae Mercer: Blues singer and actress whomade her name in Europe and worked with Clint Eastwood

The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008

When the deep-voiced blues singer Mae Mercer ran away from her native North Carolina to New York in 1957, the 15-year old wasn't planning on going to Europe. Yet, within three years, she was a regular at the Blues Bar in Paris, and became the first blues artist to appear on French TV in a programme entitled Singing The Blues: Mae Mercer Blues, directed by Jean-Christophe Averty.

Sibling livelihoods

Listen Up (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

As I'd hoped, you supplied a bunch of hitmaking siblings that had escaped my notice first time 'round. Gotta give it up for the Van Zant brothers -- Ronnie scoring hits with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Donnie with 38 Special, and Johnny...