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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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Booth Summer Series Ends with Swing Dance Party for Museum's 10th Anniversary
Booth Western Art Museum's Summer Entertainment Series events happen the third Thursdays of June and July at the Cartersville museum.
For the fourth consecutive year, Booth Western Art Museum announces its Summer Entertainment Series, set for the third Thursdays of June and July, which will culminate with a Swing Dance Party to kick off the Museum’s 10th anniversary the first weekend of August, according to the press release. Guests and members are invited to enjoy An Evening with Cathy Smith: Artist, Costume Designer, and Historian on Thursday, June 20, at 7 p.m. in the Booth Ballroom. Smith designed the authentic costumes in films such as Dances with Wolves, Geronimo and Son of the Morning Star—for which she won the Emmy for Excellence in Costume Design. She has consulted on a majority of the Western genre films throughout the past 20 years. Growing up near two Sioux …
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Arts and Entertainment
Local Students' Artwork on Display at the Booth
On view through May 12, it features a number of pieces that are representative of the work at Cartersville City and many Bartow County elementary schools.
Booth Western Art Museum with a reception Thursday opened its annual Bartow County and Cartersville City Schools Elementary Art Exhibit in the Borderlands Gallery. On view through May 12, it features a number of pieces that are representative of the work from our local city and many county elementary schools. For the fifth year in a row, art teachers from 10 Bartow schools and Cartersville Elementary School have selected the best pieces from their school to be represented in the show. All of the artwork displayed are pieces that have been created by the students, kindergarten through fifth-grade, throughout the 2012-2013 school year. While selecting only a small number of pieces of artwork from the entire school year is not always a very …
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
NASA Astronaut, Atlanta Native Set to Speak in Cartersville
Shane Kimbrough will give children exclusive insight into life in space during a special Lunch and Learn at the Tellus Science Museum on Monday.
Pumphouse Players Presents Hilarious 'Play On!'
The story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play—in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script—is set for the Cartersville stage at the Legion Theater.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Arts and Entertainment
Should You Revisit Jurassic Park in 3D?
One critic calls the 3D release, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the film, "an absolute must-see."
"Jurassic Park 3D" is playing at Cartersville's Carmike Cinemas at various showtimes. From the film's official website: With his remastering of the epic into a state-of-the-art 3D format, Spielberg introduces the three-time Academy Award-winning blockbuster to a new generation of moviegoers and allows longtime fans to experience the world he envisioned in a way that was unimaginable during the film’s original release. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Attenborough, the film based on the novel by Michael Crichton is produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen. The film's premise, courtesy of IMDb: During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned …
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Arts and Entertainment
Look: 'Hamlet and Hutch,' Starring Burt Reynolds, Films in Cartersville
Local actor Alan J. Sanders will play Hamlet in the production filming at The Grand Theatre and featuring local residents as extras.
Movie legend Burt Reynolds has been in Cartersville working on Hamlet and Hutch, a film that will put local actor Alan J. Sanders as Hamlet, local residents as extras and The Grand Theatre on the big screen. Production started Tuesday, according to a NinaHoliday Entertainment ad for extras and stand-ins, and is set to continue in other Georgia cities, such as Blue Ridge, The Daily Tribune News reports. Hamlet and Hutch is about an aging actor, who may be in the early stages of dementia, but has been asked to help save a small theater by coming to town and performing in a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Sanders told the newspaper. In addition to directing local productions of Shakespeare plays, Sanders, a radio personality at …
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Arts and Entertainment
Booth Museum 'Covers' America with 'The Saturday Evening Post' Exhibit
'Covering America: The Saturday Evening Post in the 1950’s and early 1960’s' debuts March 30 and runs through Sept. 29 at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville.
Booth Western Art Museum announced it's partnered with The Saturday Evening Post Society to showcase art from some of America’s foremost illustrators who contributed to the covers of the magazine in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. Covering America: The Saturday Evening Post in the 1950’s and early 1960’s debuts March 30 and runs through Sept. 29, 2013, in the Special Exhibition Gallery. Featuring 30 original paintings alongside The Saturday Evening Post covers they graced, the exhibit showcases a magazine that captured the heart and soul of America. The art of Norman Rockwell, John Clymer, Stevan Dohanos, John Falter, George Hughes, Amos Sewell, Richard Sargent, Mead Schaeffer and Thornton Utz embodies everyday life in post-World War II …
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Booth's 10th-Annual Cowboy Gathering Starts Thursday
Booth Western Art Museum's Southeastern Cowboy Gathering is designed to celebrate our rich Western heritage and provide a unique opportunity for locals to explore the West without leaving the South.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Benji Wilhoite Tribute Concert Free, Set for March 23
Friends and colleagues of Cartersville native Benji Wilhoite, an actor and musician who died at the age of 41, will pay tribute with performances of his original music at the Legion Theater.
Debra Faaland
10:23 am on Friday, April 5, 2013
This is just great! It sounds like it will be a good movie! How can it not be with Mr. Reynolds presence. more ›