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	<title>KERA Art&#38;Seek Blog &#187; Arts Funding or Budgets</title>
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		<title>Wednesday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/03/10/wednesday-morning-roundup-64/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STOP SITTING ON YOUR HANDS: When to applaud? Theatergoers freely clap when a star first walks onstage, at the end of acts or even after musical numbers. And people at pop music concerts are free to hoot and holler whenever the spirit moves them. But classical music concerts are a whole different affair. And Alex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Up on &#8216;All Things Considered&#8217; &#8212; D Arts v. FW Arts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting some calls already on this one  because of the promos that have aired.
You can see the story listed in our front-page &#8220;NPR Arts headlines.&#8221;  But you won&#8217;t be able to hear the story by John Burnett and Wade Goodwyn until &#8212; well, now &#8212; during All Things Considered.
So here&#8217;s the summary from NPR: &#8220;There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Nice Thing About the Downturn in Real Estate . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/03/01/one-nice-thing-about-the-downturn-in-real-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=15039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[. . .  it means an art organization might be able to get a good deal on a new home. After 25 years in the same office/rehearsal space in Fort Worth at 6845 Green Oaks, Texas Ballet Theater is moving to a new home at 1600 Green Oaks Road, right alongside Ridgmar Mall near I-30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museums: Attendance Up, Money Down</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/26/museums-attendance-up-money-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports that in tough times, Americans head to museums &#8212; children&#8217;s, science, history or art museums. One good reason for that you won&#8217;t find until the bottom of the article:  &#8220;Many museums&#8217; admissions fees remain free or are relatively inexpensive. &#8230; The average price of admission was $7, the same as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/25/thursday-morning-roundup-57/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=14967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[GRANTING WISHES IN FORT WORTH: The Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County handed out more than $1 million in grants Wednesday to 43 arts groups. That&#8217;s about half a million less that the council distributed last year. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra received about a quarter of this year&#8217;s money with a $243,600 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arlington Photographer Raising Money for Haiti Through His Images of the Country</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/18/arlington-photographer-raising-money-for-haiti-through-his-images-of-the-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti. On January 14, Arlington photographer Lawrence Jenkins was on a plane on his way to document the destruction.
“I document black history – whether it’s African-American, or Haitian or African – I document black history. So it just fell in line with what I do,” Jenkins said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Stewpot Art Program Director Cynthia Brannum</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/18/qa-stewpot-art-program-director-cynthia-brannum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Guest Blogger Tina Aguilar teaches Humanities and Cultural Studies at Brookhaven  College School of the Arts.
If you don’t know the corner of Young Street and Park Avenue, it is part of the heartbeat of Downtown Dallas. That is where The Stewpot Art Program is located. The day I went to The Stewpot, it had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joan Davidow to Retire from Dallas Contemporary</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/17/joan-davidow-to-retire-from-dallas-contemporary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having successfully &#8212; finally &#8212; brought Dallas Contemporary into its large new warehouse-industrial space, executive director Joan Davidow will retire from her position at the end of May.  A bit of a surprise, to say the least &#8212; but that delay may have been the last straw, as it were.
The former head of the Arlington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know a Business that Supports the Arts?</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/10/know-a-business-that-supports-the-arts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/10/know-a-business-that-supports-the-arts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Council for the Arts (a.k.a., the organization formerly known as North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts) is looking for nominations for the 2010 Obelisk Awards. The Obelisks &#8220;honor business volunteers and businesses in North Texas whose support has had  significant impact on the region&#8217;s arts and cultural environment in 2009.&#8221;
If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lillian Moore Bradshaw: Toughest Librarian I&#8217;ve Known</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/10/lillian-moore-bradshaw-toughest-librarian-ive-known/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news came in late last night &#8212; while I was still finishing the story about SMU&#8217;s new drama department chair &#8212; that former Dallas Public Library director Lillian Moore Bradshaw had died at 95. Robert Wilonsky provides a good obit at Unfair Park for the woman who more or less made the downtown library [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DMA’s Decision to End Free Thursday Nights is Shortsighted</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/09/dma%e2%80%99s-decision-to-end-free-thursday-nights-is-shortsighted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lanie DeLay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogger Lanie DeLay is a Dallas-based artist and has recently been living and working in New York. 
Having been to the Dallas Museum of Art twice in the last couple of weeks, I have been reminded of Jerome Weeks&#8217; recent post regarding the museum&#8217;s decision to end its free Thursday evenings.  In particular, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Philanthropists in Slate&#8217;s Top 60</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/09/texas-philanthropists-in-slates-top-60/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/09/texas-philanthropists-in-slates-top-60/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=14557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Slate has published its list of America&#8217;s top 60 givers, and the expected individuals appear (Bill Gates, $350 million; George Soros, $150 million) generally donating money to advance medicine, education, science and technology research and social causes. But there are also plenty of names we admit we&#8217;ve never heard of. When it comes to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/02/02/tuesday-morning-roundup-58/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=14299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW MIDLAKE DROPS TODAY: Denton&#8217;s Midlake releases its latest album, The Courage of Others, today. And if for some reason it doesn&#8217;t sell, it won&#8217;t be for lack of press. Dallasnews.com checks in with the band&#8217;s songwriter, Tim Smith, as the band preps for a European tour. The reviews have been spotty, though. The Onion&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossed Fingers: The Dallas Contemporary Is Going to Open</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/28/crossed-fingers-the-dallas-contemporary-is-going-to-open/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/28/crossed-fingers-the-dallas-contemporary-is-going-to-open/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall that the new artspace, the Dallas Contemporary, was all set to open last month to a lot of attention. But then it didn&#8217;t. Talk about anticlimactic. When we spoke with Joan Davidow on Think TV, she explained that it was the last-minute delays in getting the building ready for inspection and certification [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Art (and Insults) Traded Over the Super Bowl</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/28/big-art-and-insults-traded-over-the-super-bowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Green over at the Modern Art Notes blog, has deviously managed to insert fine arts news into the massive media obsession and extravaganza over the Super Bowl: He&#8217;s goaded the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art to wager the loan of some major paintings on the game&#8217;s outcome. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fort Worth Opera, AMP Win In Vegas (Or How Opera Whipped Roller Derby)</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/25/lone-star-opera-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/25/lone-star-opera-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on the feature side, we reported this morning about the pitch that Dallas-area Abernethy Media Professionals is making today in Las Vegas at the annual conference of television programming executives. Abernethy won the opportunity in a national competition, and they were going to try to sell the media judges on &#8220;Lone Star Opera&#8221; &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/15/friday-morning-roundup-51/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLLIN COUNTY INCHES CLOSER TO GOAL: Arts of Collin County sends word that it raised more than $135,000 in December. The money will go toward the construction of the 2,100 seat performance hall and adjoining park to be built at the intersection of Sam Rayburn Tollway and Exchange Parkway. In February, the group will announce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thriving Minds to Thrive &#8212; Thanks to New Multi-Million Dollar Grant</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/14/thriving-minds-to-thrive-thanks-to-new-multi-million-dollar-grant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/14/thriving-minds-to-thrive-thanks-to-new-multi-million-dollar-grant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city-wide arts-education partnership among Big Thought, Dallas Independent School District, the city&#8217;s Office of Cultural Affairs, the Wallace Foundation and some 100 area arts organizations will continue &#8212; and head to the next level. That was the good news announced this morning at the Charles Rice Learning Center: The Wallace Foundation is handing over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AT&amp;T PAC Still Being Observed</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/12/att-pac-still-being-observed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/12/att-pac-still-being-observed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Michael May of the Texas Observer visited both the AT&#38;T PAC and the Cowboys Stadium (specifically its modern art), asking the question, &#8220;Can extravagant, cutting-edge art and architecture transform Dallas?&#8221;
Perhaps only in Dallas could the Super Bowl prospects of the home team get weighed in the answer:
Jones [Gene Jones, wife of Cowboys owner Jerry, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Art Collectors in the Wall Street Journal</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/06/texas-art-collectors-in-the-wall-street-journal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/06/texas-art-collectors-in-the-wall-street-journal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the WSJ, Willard Spiegelman reviews the Kimbell Art Museum&#8217;s current exhibition, &#8220;From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern.&#8221; He calls it not so much another of the Kimbell&#8217;s &#8220;elegantly didactic&#8221; efforts &#8212; a description one might apply to the entertainingly waspish Spiegelman himself &#8212; but a celebration, &#8220;a giant Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Free Thursday Nights at the DMA</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/06/no-more-free-thursday-nights-at-the-dma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/06/no-more-free-thursday-nights-at-the-dma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=13634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New year, new rules. It&#8217;ll be general admission, $10, from 11 am to 9 pm from now on. Too bad, because those Thursday nights were pretty happening events.
Of course, there&#8217;s still the free first Tuesday of every month. But damn, my ironic karma hits hard and fast. This news came out just when I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Living Memorial for Horton Foote</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/06/a-living-memorial-for-horton-foote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/06/a-living-memorial-for-horton-foote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A playwriting prize has been named for the late Texas dramatist, the NYTimes reports. Mercifully, it&#8217;s not going to be entirely New York-centric. The Horton Foote Prize will be awarded every other year to &#8220;an American playwright who has written an original work of exceptional quality.&#8221; The choice will be based on submissions from 65 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Kaiser On Ticket Prices for the Arts: Lower &#8216;Em</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/05/michael-kaiser-on-ticket-prices-for-the-arts-lower-em/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2010/01/05/michael-kaiser-on-ticket-prices-for-the-arts-lower-em/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kaiser &#8212; non-profit management  expert and president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts &#8212; was in Dallas a month ago talking to arts leaders about the recession-related difficulties the arts are facing. He was actually pretty upbeat &#8212; arts organizations have not failed in anywhere near the numbers that were feared a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Your Shopping; Help The Writer&#8217;s Garret</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/12/21/do-your-shopping-help-the-writers-garret/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/12/21/do-your-shopping-help-the-writers-garret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Becker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=13383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the last day to take part in The Writer&#8217;s Garret&#8217;s Winter Wonder Auction. The event raises money for The Writer&#8217;s Garret and includes some fun items, such as:

A trip for two to Kennedy Space Station, lunch with an astronaut, airfare and four-night stay.
14 tickets to A Burl-ES-Q Nutcracker
One-on-one manuscript consultation with novelist and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looks Like the AT&amp;T PAC Made It Under the Wire &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/12/14/looks-like-the-att-pac-made-it-under-the-wire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/2009/12/14/looks-like-the-att-pac-made-it-under-the-wire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerome Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kera.org/blogs/culture/?p=13271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; before the bubble burst on new culture palaces. According to the NYTimes, arts organizations, just like everyone else in real estate and construction, got giddy with dreams of fame and fortune (a.k.a., the &#8220;Bilbao Effect,&#8221; the Guggenheim-like launch into stardom thanks to a major chunk of architecture).
Now the economic downturn has reined in a [...]]]></description>
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