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Pageant Of The Masters
The Pageant of the Masters is an annual festival held by the Festival of the Arts (California), Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, California, United States. The event is known for its ''tableaux vivants'' or "Performance art, living pictures" in which classical and contemporary works of art are recreated by real people who are made to look nearly identical to the originals through the clever application of costumes, makeup, headdresses, lighting, props, and backdrops. The first Festival of Arts was produced in 1932, and the first presentation of the Pageant was done in 1933. Since then, the two events have been held each summer, apart from a four-year interruption caused by World War II, and another one-year interruption in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 91st season of the Pageant of the Masters opened on July 6, 2024 and will run until August 30, 2024. The pageant hosts more than a quarter million people each year. History In 1933, at the second Festival of Arts ...
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Laguna Beach, California
Laguna Beach (; ''Laguna'', Spanish language, Spanish for "Lagoon") is a city in Orange County, California, United States. Located in Southern California along the Pacific Ocean, this seaside resort city has a mild year-round climate, scenic coves, and environmental preservation efforts. The population in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census was 23,032. Historically settled by Paleoindians, the Tongva people, and then Mexico, the location became part of the United States following the Mexican–American War. Laguna Beach was settled in the 1870s, officially founded in 1887, and in 1927 its current government was incorporated as a city. The city adopted the Council–manager government, council–manager form of government in 1944. The city has remained relatively isolated from urban encroachment by its surrounding hills, limited highway access, and dedicated Green belt, greenbelt. The Laguna Beach coastline is protected by of state marine protected area, marine reserve a ...
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Arrested Development (season 1)
The first season of ''Arrested Development'', an American Satire, satirical sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz, premiered on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox in the United States on November 2, 2003, and concluded June 6, 2004. It consists of 22 episodes, each running approximately 22 minutes in length. The first season was released on DVD in region 1 on October 19, 2004, in region 2 on March 21, 2005, and in region 4 on February 23, 2005. The show's storyline centers on the Bluth family, a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family and is presented in a continuous format, incorporating hand-held camera work, narration, archival photos and historical footage. Production Development Discussion that led to the creation of the series began in the summer of 2002. Ron Howard had the original idea to create a Television comedy, comedy series in the style of handheld cameras and reality television, but with an elaborate, highly comical script resulting from repeated rewriting ...
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Annual Events In California
Annual may refer to: * Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year ** Yearbook ** Literary annual * Annual plant * Annual report * Annual giving * Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco * Annuals (band), a musical group *Annual, every once in a while See also * Annual Review (other) * Circannual cycle, in biology {{disambiguation ...
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Arts Festivals In The United States
The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices involving creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive range of media. Both a dynamic and characteristically constant feature of human life, the arts have developed into increasingly stylized and intricate forms. This is achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training, or theorizing within a particular tradition, generations, and even between civilizations. The arts are a medium through which humans cultivate distinct social, cultural, and individual identities while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life, and experiences across time and space. The arts are divided into three main branches. Examples of visual arts include architecture, ceramic art, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpture. Examples of literature include ...
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Susan Cox (artist)
Susan Cox (born 1952) is an American painter. She is completed work in oil, acrylic, and watercolor mediums. Her work focuses on City Scenes and life and Landscapes en plein air. Her work has been showcased across Europe and the United States. Education and Teaching Susan Cox received a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Fine Arts and Ceramics from California State University Long Beach. During her time as an emerging artist, Cox worked as an art gallery sales consultant, interior design apprentice, and floral designer. Cox has also served as a juror for the Festival of the Arts in Laguna Beach in 1999 & 2006. Cox's art focuses on oil mediums and plein-air painting. In Winter 2009, Cox was a professor of plein-air painting at the Oceanside Museum of Arts. Her course was titled "A Breath of Fresh Air". In this course, she lectured on the fundamentals of plein-air painting, included an introduction to the genre, and its history. Students and Cox also spent time going out on locati ...
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Mike Rowe
Michael Gregory Rowe (born March 18, 1962) is an American television host and narrator. He is known for his work on the Discovery Channel series '' Dirty Jobs'' and the series '' Somebody's Gotta Do It'' originally developed for CNN. He hosted a series produced for Facebook called '' Returning the Favor'' in which he found people doing good deeds and did something for them in return. He also hosts a podcast titled ''The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe''. Rowe has narrated programs on the Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, and National Geographic Channel such as '' Deadliest Catch'', '' How the Universe Works'', and '' Shark Week''. He has also appeared in commercials for firms such as the Ford Motor Company. Early life Rowe was born and raised in Baltimore County, Maryland, to John and Peggy Rowe, who were both teachers. In commercials for '' Dirty Jobs'' he stated that the show is a tribute to his father and grandfather. He became an Eagle Scout in 1979 in Troop 16 in su ...
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Somebody's Gotta Do It
''Somebody's Gotta Do It'' is a program that originally aired on CNN and later aired on TBN with host Mike Rowe. The show premiered on October 8, 2014. On May 13, 2016, Mike Rowe announced on his website MikeRowe.com that he and CNN had agreed to end production of the show after three seasons. A fourth season was picked by TBN. Format According to the CNN press release on the show, the show ”brings viewers face-to-face with men and women who march to the beat of a different drum. In each episode, Rowe visits unique individuals and joins them in their respective undertakings, paying tribute to innovators, do-gooders, entrepreneurs, collectors, fanatics–people who simply have to do it. This show is about passion, purpose, and occasionally, hobbies that get a little out of hand." History The show has its origins from a KPIX-TV news magazine segment on '' Evening Magazine'' titled "Somebody's Gotta Do It" which Rowe hosted. That segment was pitched to Discovery Channel in ...
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List Of Gilmore Girls Episodes
''Gilmore Girls'' is an American comedy drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino. Sherman-Palladino served as executive producer, alongside Gavin Polone, Daniel Palladino, and David S. Rosenthal. It is produced by Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, Hofflund/Polone and Warner Bros. Television. The show follows single mother Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her daughter Rory Gilmore, Rory (Alexis Bledel) in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, a close-knit small town with many quirky characters, located roughly thirty minutes south of Hartford. From 2000 to 2006, the first six seasons of ''Gilmore Girls'' originally aired on The WB, before it later merged with UPN to form The CW for its Gilmore Girls (season 7), seventh and final season. All seven seasons were released on DVD in DVD region code, Regions 1, 2, and 4. Over the course of the series, it averaged 5 million viewers per episode over its seven seasons. The series originally aired on Thur ...
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Gilmore Girls
''Gilmore Girls'' is an American comedy drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. The show debuted October 5, 2000, on The WB and became a flagship series for the network. The show ran for seven seasons, with the last being aired on The CW, and ended on May 15, 2007. ''Gilmore Girls'' received critical acclaim for its witty dialogue, cross-generational appeal, and effective mix of humor and drama. It was a great success for The WB, peaking during season five as the network's second-most-popular show. The series has been in daily syndication since 2004, while a growing following has led to its status as a 2000s American Cult following, cult classic. Since going off the air in 2007, ''Gilmore Girls'' has been cited in ''TV (The Book)'' and ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine as one of the 100 greatest television shows of all time. It has also become one of the most watched shows on streaming platforms since it became availabl ...
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Arrested Development (TV Series)
''Arrested Development'' is an American satire, satirical television sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz. It follows the Bluths, a formerly wealthy, dysfunctional family and is presented in a Serial (radio and television), serialized format, incorporating handheld camera work, voice-over narration, archival photos and historical footage, and maintains numerous running gags and catchphrases. Ron Howard served as both an executive producer and the omniscient narrator and, in later seasons, appears in the show as a fictionalized version of himself. Set in Newport Beach, California, the series was filmed primarily in Culver City, California, Culver City and Marina del Rey, California, Marina del Rey. ''Arrested Development'' received critical acclaim. It won six Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, and attracted a cult following. It has been widely regarded as one of the greatest TV shows of all time. It influenced later Single-camera setup, single-camera comedy series such ...
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Festival Of The Arts (California)
The Festival of Arts is a seasonal art festival in Laguna Beach, California, United States. The festival, which occurs annually in the summer, is home to a collection of booths operated by local painters, sculptors, photographers, and other artists. The festival grounds are also home to the Irvine Bowl, where the Pageant of the Masters is performed. On most evenings, the festival will offer live music, typically before a showing of the Pageant of the Masters. The festival currently holds a 40-year lease with the city of Laguna Beach and is scheduled to remain in the city through at least 2041. History The artistic foundation of Laguna Beach was marked by the arrival of San Francisco artist Norman St. Clair. His art inspired many residents of the area to start painting the landscapes of Laguna Beach and Laguna Canyon. The community's later desire for art-based gatherings later led to the formation of the Festival of Arts. The first Laguna Beach art gallery opened in 1918 to much e ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ...
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