Hurricane Earl's winds and driving rains churned over the North Carolina in the dark of night, leaving residents and officials to wait for daybreak to assess the damage.
Private employers added 67,000 jobs, more than forecast, but governments shed jobs in August, the Labor Department reported, as the jobless rate rose to 9.6 percent.
The explosion, two days after an other attack, led to further protests as grieving mourners went on rampage, clashing with the police and setting fire to vehicles and motorcycles parked nearby.
Visit some of Santa Fe's finest homes and gardens on a private tour -- offered mid-April to mid-October to small groups by the Santa Fe Garden Club.
Enjoy up to 3 beautiful residences on a 3-4 hour tour hosted by Garden Club members.
By reservation only.
The Museum Store and Lloyd Kiva New Gallery host celebrated jeweler Denise Wallace (Chugach Aleut) in this annual show. Special guests to be announced! Opening reception August 19 from 4-7 p.m.
This festival is the oldest art festival in Taos, starting in 197X. It includes two major art shows ñ an invitational titled Taos Invites Taos and a juried show called Taos Open. There are museum and gallery openings, a huge arts and crafts fair, and other events and concerts presented by local businesses. Each year a limited edition poster is printed to commemorate the arts festival. Taos Convention Center
We conduct free and low cost public classes and workshops in Spanish and English at our Albuquerque store. Space is limited, so please be sure to sign up well in advance.
For more information or to sign up for a class, please call us at 505-266-8443. Parents and kids, note our newly added summer classes for kids!
(Jewelry Making, Beading, Wire Wrapping, Geology Lessons, Rock Carving, Flint Knapping, Metaphysical Workshops, Metal Detecting for Beginners, Pearl Knotting, Beading Demos)
The Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as lakes, streams, and inland seas provide subject matter for this luminous exhibition of 20th century landscape art by Charles Partridge Adams, Bernard Corey, Frank Cuprien, David M. Reid Henry, Alfredo Ramos Martinez, Jack Okey, Ogden Pleissner, and Paul Wescott.
* Awaken and Free creativity ñ everyone is creative!
* Enjoy play, magic, unexpected surprises.
* Learn tools to move beyond the critic, boredom, fear, and perfectionism.
Unlike regular art classes, there is no emphasis on product, technique or criticism. Experience the power of a new aliveness and expansive creative flow.
When asked to create a show for the Wheelwright, Cherokee artist Stephen Wood knew exactly what he would title it. "I just turned 30 at the end of January. ... It has caused me to take stock of myself and my art and just exactly where they belong in relationship to each other. ... I really want to use this show as an opportunity to make a statement, not a political one, an artistic one. One that shows where I'm at, what I've learned about my art, and hopefully where it's going."
Internationally recognized as a “visionary artist, Virginia Maria Romero’s works consisting of contemporary religious retablos inspired by the culture of New Mexico were just as strongly driven by her own experiences, setting her works apart from others of that genre. “Romero has taken an ancient art form and redefined it, reinvented it, and made it her own.” “Virginia Maria Romero’s art speaks a language unlike any other…it is a language of the heart, of the soul, of life...
A yellow art-studio-in-a-van first headed over the New Mexico border in the summer, around 1975. Artist Stede Barber pulled over, got out, and stood mesmerized by the beauty and profound peace of the New Mexico landscape. Since then she has visited, moved here, moved away, and finally returned to paint this place that captured and delighted her heart. See her paintings of a 35-year love affair, "The Enchanted Landscape," daily at Mirador Gallery, through September 6, 2010.
Join us for the family opening of this exhibition of art from our award-winning Art & Leadership Programs for Girls and for Boys. Witness the talent of the 11ñ14-year-old students, and enjoy music and refreshments, at our annual celebration of the Museum’s summer youth programs.
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta Friday, killing up to 43 people in the second major attack this week, piling pressure on a government struggling with a flood crisis.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Wildfires swept through dozens of villages in southern Russia, killing at least eight people and reducing more than 400 homes to smoldering ruins, officials said Friday.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 25 suspected drug gang members were killed in an army raid in rural northeastern Mexico on Thursday, the army said in a press release.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the commandant of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public since falling ill in 2006 on Friday, warning of the threat of nuclear war.
Private employers hired more workers than expected in August, lifting hopes for the weak U.S. economy, but the nations unemployment rate rose for the first time in four months.
Flirting, after all, is one of the oldest tricks in the book. But how do you use it to your professional advantage without crossing the line or inviting unwanted advances?
More than a quarter of employed U.S. workers suffered a bout of unemployment during the Great Recession that took many of them on an emotional roller coaster ride.
To most Americans, at least to those who are aware of the brand, Kia is still associated with the cheap-and-cheerful products. That's an image the automaker is out to transform.
The U.S. service sector, the nation's predominant job generator, expanded for the eighth straight month in August although the pace of growth slowed, according to a trade group survey.
It was a glass-half-full day for economic data on Thursday ... sort of.The upbeat news was tempered by worries about what Friday's unemployment report will say about the state of the labor market.
The plunge in interest rates has put the nations public and private pension funds badly underfunded, leaving pension fund managers with a giant hole to fill.
[at Reuters] - Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Friday the path of the economy will determine whether the central bank needs to ease monetary policy further or not.
[at MarketWatch] - Growth slowed in the U.S. non-manufacturing sector in August, hitting 51.5%, compared with 54.3% in July, the Institute for Supply Management reports.
[at MarketWatch] - There has been too much alarmist discussion of recent economic indicators and the outlook is not as pessimistic as some have suggested, said Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank on Friday.
[at Reuters] - Overhauling the U.S. financial system after the worst crisis since the 1930s will not be easy, but it is critical, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said on Friday.
[at Reuters] - U.S. short-term interest rate futures traders raised expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike next year, after a government report showed the economy lost fewer jobs in August than expected.
[at MarketWatch] - The U.S. economy shed 54,000 nonfarm jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday, a much slower decline than economists anticipated as the health care and temporary staffing industries expanded.
[at MarketWatch] - The U.S. economy shed 54,000 nonfarm jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday, a much slower decline than economists anticipated as the private sector created employment.
[at Reuters] - The U.S. Treasury is concerned about how many foreign investors it should allow to buy big stakes in General Motors Co s proposed initial public offering, the Wall Street Journal said.
[at Reuters] - The White House stressed on Thursday that no second economic stimulus package is being considered as part of new measures under review by President Barack Obama s team.
[at CNBC] - Friday s jobs report is expected it to be pivotal not only for stock and bond investors but for the Federal Reserve, which is weighing whether to take further steps to boost the struggling US economy.
