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New Harmony — Former Terre Haute artist Mary Ann Michna will exhibit a series of mixed media artworks titlted The Good Housewife at the Womens Institute and Gallery in New Harmony.

The artwork was created between 1997 and 2001 when Michnas studio was located in the historic Sutz Building in downtown

Indianapolis.

The public is invited to an opening reception for the artist from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday.

The event is a part of the Winter New Harmony Arts Stroll, during which several other New Harmony galleries and downtown businesses will be open.

Michna studied at Pratt Institute in New York and received an MFA in 1978. S

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I’ve only seen 3 of the 5, which makes this a very easy choice for me!

Who I Want To Win – ‘Midnight In Paris’. Best film of 2011 deserves a best screenplay award!

Who I Think Will Win – ‘The Artist’. Because it’s the show piece film of the awards season.

Dark Horse – ‘Bridesmaids’.

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When digging through the history of film, very few filmmakers had quite the career of one Luis Bunuel. The surrealist icon first started in the short film medium (giving the world classics like Un Chien Andalou) only to get behind some of the most intriguing pictures of his generation, none of the cult auteur’s canon may be quite as beloved as his fantastical Belle De Jour.

Featuring Bunuel’s patented themes of human desire and pleasure, Belle feels like the physical manifestation of each and every single aspect of the surrealist belief structure, all in the guise of one of the most beautiful and complex pieces of narrative from one of film’s most interesting directors.

Starring the equally enticing and always breathtaking Catherine Deneuve, the film finds our lead in the role of Severine, a housewife with a penchant for daydreaming about some rather, well, erotic ideas. Dream

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Title: Deep Sky

Author: Patrick Lee

Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller

Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: January 2012 Paperback: 384 pages

The anomaly called the Breach is the government’s most carefully guarded secret.

But there is another secret even less known . . . and far more terrifying.

As the U.S. President addresses the nation from the Oval Office, a missile screams toward the White House. I

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That’s it. 1984 and 1Q84 are fundamentally the same in terms of how they work. If you don’t believe in the world, and if there is no love in it, then everything is phony. No matter which world we are talking about, no matter what kind of world we are talking about, the line separating fact from hypothesis is practically invisible to the eye. It can only be seen with the inner eye, the eye of the mind.

Haruki Murakami doesn’t lend himself to easy categorization. Thoug

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