Art Gala Planned for January 24 (East Aurora Advertiser)

The East Aurora Art Society will hold its third annual Crystal Moonlight Gala on January 24, 2009 at Absolut Care of Aurora Park in East Aurora. Members of the Gala Committee are putting together an evening for guests to remember. In the past two years the galas have been evenings of art, conversation and a time to break up the cold winter with a little color.

Unwanted Cell Phones Help Troops (East Aurora Advertiser)

Got a new cell phone for Christmas and don't know what to do with the old one? Since May of 2007, the East Aurora American Legion Post 362 has been collecting used cell phones and accessories. They are then forwarded to a recycling center in Michigan, which creates funds to purchase AT&T phone calling cards. These phone calling cards are then distributed to American troops serving in Iraq, ...

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Today's roundup of quick music news stories.. plus some stuff about poptards.

The Australian Art Auction Market - Statistics for 2008 (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Statistics from the Locker 227 database of Australian art auction records for the 2008 calendar year. Includes the top prices, the top artists by sales volume and total prices, and the biggest surprises of the year - the artworks and artists that exceeded the estimated prices.

Hubbard Lamp Sheds Light on Roycroft Founder (East Aurora Advertiser)

No one at the Rago Arts & Auction Center had ever seen anything like it before. An Arts & Crafts style table lamp, but only sort of--heavy and tall, with a finial of a jumping horse, medallions with the initials NHS suspended around the circumference of the bronze shade, and a copper band mounted to the base bearing yet other initials in script, AGV.

A look back at 2008 (Harlem Valley Times)

2008 may be a year to go down in national history, just as 1929 is a year remembered for the notorious stock market crash that sent both the nation and the world into a decade long economic depression.