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Preserve Educational Choice, the group fighting to prevent Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va. from auctioning off paintings from its Maier Museum announced today that it has posted the first half of a one million dollar bond. That was the amount required of them by the Lynchburg Circuit Court while they press their lawsuit to block [...]

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If I’m a little late posting today it’s because I got lost surfing around art related sites this morning. I started out looking at this piece on the New York Times website about high resolution digital photos of paintings that are available on line. That article led me to museumlink.com, an aggregator that links you [...]

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Heroes: Someone! Will! Die! Or Something!

NBC Photo: Paul Drinkwater Tonight, as NBC is promo-ing, “two heroes will fall” as “Volume 2: Generations comes to an explosive, bloody finish.” Judging by recent history, I think we can definitely take that as an ironclad promise that two characters will fall, downward, and substantial portions of their body will come in contact with [...]

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NBC: Deadliest Network

Discovery Channel The New York Times reports that NBC has struck a deal to acquire a ton of programming from outside producers including Thom Beers. You probably don’t know who Beers is, but you very likely know his shows: he specializes in cable shows about people in extreeeeeeeeem circumstances, like Deadliest Catch and Ice Road [...]

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The Morning After: On a Scale of One to Tin

SCI FI Channel Photo: Art Streiber I panned Tin Man, the Sci Fi Channel adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, in the print TIME magazine this week. But as you know, I write all kinds of asinine crap, so Tuned In’s substantial sci fi contingent may well have disagreed with me. Did you watch the [...]