Arts Council of Temecula Valley's Visual Expressions Art Show opens Dec. 12
The Arts Council of Temecula Valley's Visual Expressions Art Show will open on Dec. 12. Original works by artists from Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties will be shown through Jan. 11 at the Gallery at the Merc, at 42051 Main St. in Temecula.

Support the arts
All that glitters will definitely be gold during Support the Arts in Style when The Republic Group, a Dallas-based insurance provider, will host a benefit luncheon for Chamberlain Performing Arts and Cross Timbers Youth Orchestra.

Simpson named executive director of Arts project - UPDATE
Former Frisco Mayor Mike Simpson was hired Monday as the executive director of the Arts of Collin County, replacing James Baudoin who resigned in July. The board of directors for the arts project make the announcement at the Allen City Hall.

Burnsville District 191 school board split on sites for performing arts magnet
Where to teach performing arts remains an elusive decision for the District 191 Board of Education. The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage school board is divided on where the core courses (math, science, language arts) for the magnet school will be housed.

Simpson to direct arts project
ALLEN - Former Frisco Mayor Mike Simpson has been hired as the executive director of the Arts of Collin County, replacing James Baudoin who resigned in July.

Advent of an arts tradition
The work of Gloucester painter Bruce Herman merges contemporary art with faith ? two terms not always used together. His newest work will be unveiled this week during the Advent Festival of the Arts at Gordon College in Wenham, where his exhibit celebrates the birth of Christ and honors his mother, Mary. Herman, a Gordon art professor for 24 years, plays a leading role in this expanded Advent ...

Ctix kicks bucket, but cheap seats still plentiful at Cleveland-area performing arts venues
James A. Ross Just when you'd think we need it most, Cleveland's central discount ticket vendor for performing arts events died Monday. The good new is, there are more tickets at more deeply discounted prices than when Ctix launched seven...

Lyric Arts troupe to present classic Christmas tale
Each year millions of children ask their parents if there is a Santa Claus, and the Lyric Arts Main Street Stage's latest holiday production should answer that question for young and old alike.

Plano: Chamberlain Arts to present the ?Nutcracker?
More than 220 dancers are dressed in costumes with vibrant shades of sapphire, scarlet, jade and snow white with their hair set in spiraling curls. They are ready to perform when the curtain goes up on another Chamberlain Performing Arts production of the ?Nutcracker? at the Eisemann Center.

Wanted: Quality arts center
With all the recent recreational progress in Lone Tree, it?s easy to forget voters also approved construction of a cultural arts center.

Sidekicks Martial Arts class members learn to fend off an attacker (VIDEO)
Little Elm Sidekicks Martial Arts studio held a womenâ??s self defense seminar on Nov. 22. Martial arts instructor Steve Williams taught the class and then donned a blue man suit. Class members then got an opportunity to put into practice a few of the things they had just learned.

Councillor to move against Ottawa arts cuts after hundreds protest
An Ottawa councillor says he will move to take $4.1 million in arts and culture cuts off the table for the 2009 city budget, after hundreds of arts supporters turned out to protest the proposed cuts.

Kemp Center for the Arts offering art classes, exhibits
The Kemp Center for the Arts is adding a little artistic panache to the holiday season with a few events.

The guide to local arts and craft shows
ARTS AND CRAFTS | Highland Highland Parks and Recreation Department's winter arts and craft show with vendor fair is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 29 and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 30 at Lincoln Center, 2450 Lincoln St. Handmade items as well as products from direct sales will be available. Applications are available at highland.in.gov/parks.

Inspired Acoustics Releases Palace of Arts Budapest Pipe Organ Samples
Palace of Arts Budapest Pipe Organ Samples is a fully playable, freely configurable, intuitively manageable and MIDI-controllable virtual pipe organ, delivering every nuance of the authentic sound of the 92-stop Pecsi-Muhleisen pipe organ of the Bela Bartok National Concert Hall of the Palace of Arts ? Budapest, Hungary.

University graduate student makes sport of Mixed Martial Arts fighting
In the '80s there was boxing, in the '90s wrestling was popular; and in this new century there is Mixed Martial Arts, or MMA. The new combat sport has grown in popularity substantially since its rebirth in the 90s and its growth has spread all the way to Bowling Green and the Toledo area.

Durham Performing Arts Center Officially Opens
You could barely see the red ribbon that city and county officials were about to cut. So many people had crowded into the first floor of Durham's Performing Arts Center that children climbed on shoulders to see and even adults squeezed where they could to get a glimpse. "A theater adds to our ?coolness,' if you will," said Bill Kalhkof, President of Downtown Durham Inc. "Therefore, it's easier ...

Stewart Martial Arts students move up in ranks
Here is the results of the November karate/Ju-Jitsu testing at Stewart Martial Arts.

Arts and entertainment
Musicn Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet: Performances with Yoko's Dance and Performing Arts Academy and the Fremont Symphony Orchestra, at 7 p.m. Friday and Dec.

Straight to Video: Grizedale Arts on film 2000 - 2008
LONDON.- Before embarking on a year of solo shows in 2009 tank.tv will, this month, take a look at videos made and commissioned by Grizedale Arts - an organisation where collectivity and participation are central to the production of work in communities both in the UK and abroad.