2023 Underground Art Market Report
Closing arguments wrapped up on Monday in the retrial of one of several suspects accused in the 2008 killing of a retired art dealer in Palm Springs. Daniel Carlos Garcia is charged with one felony count each of murder, conspiracy to commit a crime, using …
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Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) – A Rochester man has entered guilty pleas to multiple third-degree drug charges involving four separate drug busts over the past two years. 27-year-old Lance Giwa had faced at least 10 felony drug charges, including first-degree charges stemming from three traffic …
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MIDDLETOWN, CT (WFSB) – Should children under 18 be locked up? The CT Justice Alliance says no. The CT Juvenile Training school in Middletown cost 56 million to build; it was shut down about 6 years ago. Since then, those under 18 are sent to …
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LEAVENWORTH — Heavy contruction machinery did the real work in advance of Monday’s groundbreaking for a $532 million Leavenworth federal prison and satellite prison camp to replace an antiquated structure constructed in 1897 that served as the nation’s first maximum-security prison. After the speeches and …
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Book lovers will find plenty of what feeds their souls as November begins, when the Portland Book Festival brings more than 100 authors and presenters to downtown Portland on Saturday, Nov. 4. The event, presented by Literary Arts, includes work in genres ranging from children’s …
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On July 22, 2022 Texas prison authorities banned the second edition of Merriam-Webster’s Visual Dictionary, purportedly because there was an image of a weapon. This banned title was added to the 10,265 others that incarcerated people can’t read in Texas prisons. Unfortunately, dictionaries aren’t the …
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An Ocean County man who scammed nearly a dozen people out of around $220,000 is going to prison and he’s been ordered to pay back all of the money he stole. Late last week, 36-year-old Robert Cohan of Lakehurst was sentenced to eight years in …
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The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down. The statue was rendered into bronze ore Saturday at a foundry in an undisclosed …
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At demonstrations throughout the Bay Area, there’s been DIY posters, spontaneous spray paint and artists passing out silkscreen prints expressing rage, grief and calls for ceasefire. Saturday’s “Stop the Genocide in Gaza” rally at the Embarcadero was no exception, organized by 15 organizations including the …
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In one of the many playful moments in “The Delinquents,” a wonderfully uncategorizable new movie from Argentina, a man named Morán (Daniel Elías) reaches for a cigarette and a lighter. As he does this, the screen gradually splits in two, revealing another man, Román (Esteban …
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