Carpenter Wax Museum: A walk through time
Sat, 19 May 2012 05:30:53 -0700

The gymnasium of Carpenter Street School transformed into a blast from the past -- at least for the afternoon -- on Friday when 58 fifth-graders impersonated everyone from historical figures to Michael Jackson during the annual Wax Museum.

An Unusual Proposal For Fixing Heathrow's Hellish 3-Hour Immigration Line
Thu, 10 May 2012 05:02:29 -0700

At every turn in the line there could be a Madame Tussaud wax figure with accompanying information. This seems like a better idea than hoping for a government bureaucracy to improve dramatically. [Could the process be speeded up if the government ...

Your Students, Your Schools -- Des Moines south
Wed, 09 May 2012 17:02:42 -0700

MARY HOHL/Special to the register howe Elementary School third- through fifth-graders researched people who had an impact on society and held a wax museum for families on April 19. The figures students portrayed came to life and told about ...

Werner Herzog, art-world insult-comic
Fri, 18 May 2012 14:02:24 -0700

There are a few tiny human figures in these strange scenes, but mainly they look like some alien landscape hewn from melted wax . They are okay. Reijseger plays passionately and beautifully, making the sort of faces that many musicians make when they ...

Former Prime Minister Paul Martin in Ottawa, on January 13, 2012. the canadian ...
Sun, 13 May 2012 16:12:43 -0700

Stephen Harper's Conservatives have been accused of using their majority to hide too much House of Commons committee business behind closed doors. But an analysis of Library of Parliament data for the last decade shows the championship title for ...

Artist's new pieces reflect experience during Japan's earthquake, tsunami
Wed, 16 May 2012 13:21:23 -0700

She was in the middle of Sendai, Japan, when the earthquake hit and watched the tsunami from their hotel room TV. They were unable to fly out for three weeks. She is currently working with a representative to find placement in Sendai for the three ...

[RIP] Adam Yauch and the Beastie Boys
Mon, 07 May 2012 10:26:19 -0700

Adam yauch, a/k/a MCA, was likely inspired to pen those words, that appear in a tossed off couplet in the middle of what would wind up being one of the band's final singles, by his immersion in the world of illness. He passed away last Thursday after ...

Best experiences with ephemeral art
Thu, 24 May 2012 22:06:18 -0700

What I remember was that the director, Carol Mac Vey, had smoothed out the dialogue and the action so it ran like clockwork, the set design was amazing, the comic business was beautifully timed, and the whole thing was more polished and professional ...

Art and Money
Mon, 28 May 2012 06:14:37 -0700

We figure our astute collectoress paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $12000 in the 50's. Ergo, Art is money. Somewhere in the Golden Age of American industry, around the 1890's, the so-called robber barons and industrial giants with names like Frick ...