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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day Art Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a successful benefit auction and the Holidays Society Promotions' next event is a Valentine's Day Art show with a few of our favorite artists]]></description>
		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/news/artnews/valentineartshow/</link>
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		<title>Carbon Neutral Art - Silent Auction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_279" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="<b>Photos of <br />Auction Items</b>"]<a class="thickbox" href="http://www.societypromotions.org/wp-content/gallery/auction-photos/neutral.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-279" title="thefestfl" src="http://www.societypromotions.org/wp-content/gallery/auction-photos/neutral.jpg" alt="The FEST" width="100" height="100" /></a>[/caption]

Silent Auction, Nov. 18th, Tuesday, *8PM. The Sharab Lounge downtown, Gainesville.
<br />New Flyer for the show!
<br />See photos of the auction pieces here... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/news/artnews/carbon-neutral-art-silent-auction/</link>
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		<title>Continued Carbon Compensation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[singlepic=127,100,100,,left]SP had about twelve community artists come to downtown Gainesville to collaborate on the mural associated with neutralizing carbon footprint of THE FEST. It was a wonderful time. We constructed three  8' x 8' panels using recycled wood from previously demolished structures and the artists used reclaimed, donated house paints. When the artists finished on Sunday night, the pieces had been transformed from eclectic-looking wood panels to beautiful, colorful art reflecting of the common good of our environment. On Tuesday, November 18th, at The Sharab we will auction-off each of these pieces. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/news/artnews/continued-carbon-compensation/</link>
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		<title>Carbon-Neutral FEST</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_279" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="The FEST"]<a class="thickbox" href="http://www.societypromotions.org/wp-content/gallery/links/fest7_poster.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-279" title="thefestfl" src="http://www.societypromotions.org/wp-content/uploads/thefestfl.jpg" alt="The FEST" width="100" height="100" /></a>[/caption]

Society Promotions is partnering with the promoters of The FEST to make this huge 3 day music festival a carbon-neutral event. The carbon-neutral folks are going to have a booth advertising/educating about what they do and how others can participate. To promote all this, we have asked a handful of amazingly talented local artists to come out and, over the course of the three days, create a huge collaborative mural.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/uncategorized/thefest/</link>
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		<title>Paxico via Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paxico via Mexico is a new band with the familiar lyrics of lead singer Ricky Kendall floating over a whole new sound. Samples available on Facebook and MySpace, and a live concert at Gainesville's 1982 (Oct 21)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/news/musicnews/paxicoviamexico/</link>
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		<title>Officer Flossie on the rocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[singlepic=41,100,100,,left]Have you ever watched professional ice-skaters in intense competition? As I drove away from the triple-header event, hosted by Society Promotions at Vineyard of Gainesville, featuring the haunting stylistics of Ricky Kendall and The Spooky Divide, a jam-packed art show featuring the art of Evan McIntyre, Mike McVicar, Ricky Kendall and Delmaris Villafane, and the final performance of a Gainesville favorite, Officer Flossie, I was reminded of Ice-skating competitions I had seen in the Winter Olympics a few years ago.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/news/musicnews/farewell-flossie/</link>
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		<title>Fiddling Around With History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gene Weingarten got his Pulitzer Prize, by being so original. So should he now turn his prize back in?  &#8230;read more
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		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/wordideas/fiddling-around-with-history/</link>
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		<title>John McWhorter: the most unpopular black man in America?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John McWhorter: the most unpopular black man in America?&#8230;.Political
rappers recycle clichés about &#8216;the ghetto&#8217; and fail black aspirations,
says John McWhorter, but is the American academic overlooking the rise of the bling thing?

]]></description>
		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/musicideas/johnmcwhorter/</link>
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		<title>Admit it, you&#8217;re as bored as I am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 40 years and 1,500 concerts, Joe Queenan is finally ready to say the unsayable: new classical music is absolute torture - and its fans have no reason to be so smug

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		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/musicideas/joequeenan/</link>
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		<title>Can Poetry Matter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America. If poets venture outside their confined world, they can work to make it essential once more &#8230;read more
 
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		<link>http://www.societypromotions.org/wordideas/can-poetry-matter/</link>
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