Art vandal fails to make new statement After vandalizing a canvas estimated to be worth millions, Vladimir Umanets has been called a “pretentious idiot” and a “coward.” Observers describe his actions as “violent” and “abhorrent.” I p...
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BY LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
Go Guide Thursday Celebrity Bartender: John Denton: 5 p.m., The Pasta House, 451 Jordan Dr. Ladies Night: 5 p.m., Casa Mexicana, 4793 Village Square Dr. Like Water: 6:30 p.m., JP’s Bar & Grill, 119...
The Go Guide Thursday n Celebrity Bartender: Lori Riley, 5 p.m., The Pasta House, 451 Jordan Dr. n Ladies Night: 5 p.m., Casa Mexicana, 4793 Village Square Dr. n Like Water: 6:30 p.m., JP’s Bar & Gri...
Art is for everyone to enjoy — except robots During my short-lived career as a museum guard, I overheard my share of absurd conversations. The worst came from the “progressive” parents, who would bring their 2-year-olds to look at abstract...
Oct 04, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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BY LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
In theaters this week... “The Master” Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, “The Master” unfolds the journey of a Navy veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future — until he i...
Hissing cockroaches join cause of first responders At a conference in August, researchers from North Carolina State University demonstrated their latest technological advance in aiding “first responders” to peacetime and wartime disasters: cockroac...
Oct 04, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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By chuck shepherd Universal UclickThe Paducah Sun
Figure drawing makes comeback at Yeiser A crowd is coming to the Yeiser Art Center on Saturday, but don’t expect many of them to talk to you. “Confrontations and Observations,” an exhibit by artists Christine Wuenschel and Denise Stew...
Oct 04, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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BY LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
Artist’s photographs prompt unexpected memories “What are you doing here?” That’s the question I most often heard when I traveled through the Caucasus, a region that lies just south of Russia, between the Black and Caspian seas. It took me...
Sep 27, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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BY LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
In theaters this week... ‘Trouble with the Curve’ Gus Lobel (Clint Eastwood) has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but his age is starting to catch up with him. The front office of the Atlanta Brave...
Sep 27, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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BY LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
What were Y-O-U doing when you were 14? Among the students featured in Popular Science’s September list of young inventors was Fabian Fernandez-Han, 14, of Conroe, Texas, who invented a bicycle that, when pedaled, also desalinates seawat...
Sep 27, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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By CHUCK SHEPHERD Universal UclickThe Paducah Sun