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Detroit museum: City can't sell art to cover debt
The Detroit Institute of Arts says the city can't sell its collection to cover long-term debt. The art museum released a statement Friday after word surfaced that officials are pondering whether the DIA's artwork could be sold to help satisfy creditors if the financially troubled city seeks bankruptcy protection. The ...
At a glance: Memorial Day gasoline prices
The average price of a gallon of gasoline is about the same as it was last year at this time, and could be slightly cheaper by Monday. But it's more than double what it was in 2000. Here's how the price of gasoline on Memorial Day has changed since then, ...
Fire official: 18 injured in crash between shuttle bus, tractor-trailer near Atlanta airport
Fire official: 18 injured in crash between shuttle bus, tractor-trailer near Atlanta airport.
MUSEUMS MOVE TO RETURN HUMAN REMAINS TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
c.2013 New York Times News Service BERLIN — Rows of gaptoothed human skulls and formaldehyde-soaked brains stock the Museum of Medical History here, where the popular exhibition “Beneath the Skin” can be so grim that visitors will occasionally swoon to the cold stone floor. For more than a century, the ...
Q&A: On Turkey's proposed alcohol restrictions
A look at legislation passed in Turkey's parliament early Friday that would ban all alcohol advertising and tighten restrictions on the sale of such beverages, and how such a law could affect tourists and liquor companies in the mainly Muslim but secular country. Q: What happened? A: Tempers flared and ...
NY's Main Beach tops annual survey of best beaches
This may be hard to believe in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, but an annual list of the best beaches in the country has a New York beach ranked No. 1. Less surprisingly, that beach is in East Hampton, the vacation playground for the rich and famous. In an announcement ...
Run ends for early ride at S. Ind.'s Holiday World
The ride is over for a miniature train, the last of the original attractions at the Holiday World amusement park that opened in southern Indiana in 1946. Maintenance workers found over the winter that the locomotive and coaches of the ride — called the Freedom Train since the 1980s — ...
ToonSeum hosts National Cartoonists Society meetup
Pittsburgh adds to its geek cred this weekend when the city is host to the National Cartoonists Society Conference, a dream come true for ToonSeum director and illustrator Joe Wos. He created a chapter of the society along with first a Children's Museum gallery and then the Downtown museum dedicated ...
Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. ...
Saratoga marks 150 years of thoroughbred racing
Mineral springs, gambling and horses. In this world-famous thoroughbred racing hotbed, the four-legged stars who have drawn people here since the bloodiest days of the Civil War actually took third billing coming out of the 19th-century tourism starting gate, trailing the resort spas and the casinos that offered visitors a ...
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