Published Sunday, September 14, 2008
Performing Arts
Loving the edge
By LYNN ISRAEL of the Tribune's staff
Missouri Contemporary Ballet celebrates new rehearsal space, dancers, performances, energy.
ON STAGE
MUSIC
Sounds to float a boat
By JILL LAWLESS
of The Associated Press
LONDON - David Gilmour is sorry to disappoint, but there will be no Pink Floyd reunion. He’s having too much fun on his own.
LIVE MUSIC
Visual Arts
BEHIND THE SCENES
More MAC grants help boost Mid-Missouri arts
By LYNN ISRAEL of the Tribune’s staff
The Missouri Arts Council, or MAC, turned the tap on some serious cash this month for Mid-Missouri’s arts organizations - to the tune of $617,649 in grants.
Watercolor winners named at CAL show
Winners have been named in the Missouri Watercolor Society Members’ Invitational show at the Columbia Art League gallery, 207 S. Ninth St., after judging by fellow artist Jerry Berneche, this year’s judge and the first-place winner of the 2007 show.
EXHIBITS
Books
‘Brokeback Mountain’ author’s short stories offer rich views of life
By MICHAEL UPCHURCH
Seattle Times
"Fine Just the Way It Is" is the title Annie Proulx gives her new collection of Wyoming-set short stories. But "A Dozen Ways to Meet Your Doom" might be just as appropriate.
One Read program continues
One Read, a communitywide reading program for adults hosted by the Daniel Boone Regional Library, has selected "The Whistling Season" by Ivan Doig. In "The Whistling Season," the author explores small-town life by focusing on a family of men in rural eastern Montana. Three brothers and their widowed father respond to a newspaper ad for a housekeeper.
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