VCU-Qatar is hosting an exhibit exploring lens-based self-portraiture and identity in the Gulf region. The exhibit was curated by Natalie Bailey and Sally Van Gorder who are both artists in their own right (and Sally’s a good friend of ours! YEA, Sally!) The exploration of personal identity, as well as the display of it through photographic imagery, is especially [...]

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There are some couples you just know are not meant to be, but they always go ahead with it anyway. And usually, one side gets all the advantages (what does she see in him?) and the other side, well, maybe it’s a confidence issue. Maybe she’s tired of waiting for the fairy [...]

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USA Today reported today that a Civil War Historian, John Richter, thinks he has found Lincoln in an incredibly small crowd shot shortly before his delivery of The Gettysburg Address. The power of the scanner is impressive. The dedication of the historian to comb through the details of it is even more impressive (and [...]

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MUJI SOHO opens at 12:00 noon on November 16, 2007. If you didn’t know about this its not too late to get in line. I think I speak for all my Gamil family when I say, I have a love/conflicted relationship with creating products. The conflict resides in a pursuit of the authentic. While [...]

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I would like to begin by saying I have never really felt unsafe in downtown Raleigh. Recently, I had my 94 Firebird (awww yeah!) broken into right outside my place of work. To set the scene let me tell you what was in my car: a pair of broken flip flops, maps, one [...]

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