The News Review:

- Toshiba G450 Live Photo Gallery
- HTC P3470 Live Photo Gallery
- Vallivue girls punch ticket to 5A title game (with photo gallery)
- Not playing to the gallery
- Women’s Art Center Fusion Gallery & Interview
- HeraldTribune.com – Sports – Sports news stories about Sarasota…
- Spring has sprung at Pepperton’s gallery

Toshiba G450 Live Photo Gallery
Mobile Burn – Feb 16, 2008
It isn’t a device that is going to have mass appeal but I am pretty certain that it will find a good number of fans across Europe. This cool little device sports a small LED display that is very readable and a alphanumeric keypad that is passable in a pinch. The result? A modem that you can actually place phone calls on or use as an MP3 player.

HTC P3470 Live Photo Gallery
Mobile Burn – Feb 16, 2008
The P3470 has very clean lines and a matte finish that really stands out in a time when most new cell phones are covered in fingerprints thanks to their glossy piano black finishes. The P3470 comes equipped with a built-in GPS module and Tom Tom’s very popular mapping software for turn by turn navigation. A sure sign that camera technology in phones is maturing the P3470 also comes equipped with a 2 megapixel auto-focus camera even though the phone is only 16mm thick. That’s a decent bit of hardware in a pretty compact form factor and the entire package feels very nice in your hand.

Vallivue girls punch ticket to 5A title game (with photo gallery)
IdahoStatesman.com – Feb 16, 2008
District Three champion Vallivue High beat Post Falls 61-50 Friday night at the Idaho Center and advanced to the 5A girls basketball state championship against Coeur d’Alene at 8 p. “We were excited to get out there and show those girls from the North that we’re here to beat the big girls” said Falcons’ senior Callie Kautzmann who won the 2006 5A state title with Centennial before transferring to 2006 4A champion Vallivue.

Not playing to the gallery
The Age – Feb 16, 2008
r does the dignity with whichLerolle endows this casual scene show that the fundamental projectof the impressionists to paint modern life had sunk in?Surprise lurks at the other end of the new installation. Liftingyour head for air amid the Gauguins and the Van Goghs you lookahead and are shocked to see the Met’s marvellous early Picassos -Portrait of Gertrude Stein The Blind Man’s Meal TheCoiffure – looming. What are they doing here? The Met hascarved out new galleries to bring us right into the threshold ofthe 20th century – a most satisfying journey. Way downtown another surprise unfolds in the shape of the NewMuseum of Contemporary Art – just what New York needs huh? Wedgedbetween the Bari Cafe and a restaurant supply shop two doors upfrom the Bowery Mission the New Museum is one of the mostbeautiful new buildings in New York. Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from a youngJapanese firm and selected because they had never built in the USbefore the six translucent silver blocks rise gracefully andirregularly at the junction of Prince Street and the Bowery oncethe last resort of the homeless and the hopeless. Its chaste andmodest profile will become as indelible a part of the city as FrankLloyd Wright’s Guggenheim or Marcel Breuer’s Whitney and it’s onlyin its second month. Internally the blocks provide spacious but not overwhelminggalleries… Thethree-dimensional triumphs as though the work wants above all elseto exist in real space and time. The exhibition unashamedly aims to”embody an uncertainty about the past and a fear of the presentthat pervades contemporary society”. The shadow and the shame of Iraq hangs over many pieces mostnotably in Martha Rosier’s photo montages of GIs in night sightsand combat gear invading Home Beautiful drawing rooms. TheNew Museum wants to make it now as well as new. Judging bythe seething crowds on a cold and windy Wednesday afternoon theyare succeeding with the under-40s for whom one suspects Degas andMonet are as relevant as the man in the moon.

Women’s Art Center Fusion Gallery & Interview
KUTV – Feb 16, 2008
It is a place for art but we do focus on the outreach stuff specifically for women. We teach classes here too. I teach a class about once a year on photo shoot. We teach a variety of classes and every season it changes. We also teach Yoga classes here everyday of the week but Sundays. The schedule varies for people throughout the day who work and have lives. We used to have a boutique but we cleared that out it was hard to manage a gallery and yoga and classes and outreach programs and a boutique all in one.

HeraldTribune.com – Sports – Sports news stories about Sarasota…
Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Feb 16, 2008
“Houser expects to meet with Maddon and major-league pitching coach James Hickey today to discuss the left-hander’s role through camp. “He’s going to hear our philosophies now straight up” Maddon said. “It’s good to hear it from the manager and the coaching staff. So you know specifically and exactly what we’re expecting. “”That would make it easier for me” Houser said. Not one to overextend early Houser will take things slow physically. The six-year pro still is searching for the proper pacing out of the gates.

Spring has sprung at Pepperton’s gallery
Richmond and Twickenham Times – Feb 16, 2008
Twelve artists are on show at the Crystal Palace gallery showcasing a smorgasbord of styles and genres in painting print photography glass sculpture and installation. richmondandtwickenhamtimes… Here is a window into the art of some of the artists: Melanie Alfonso is a Norwood-based photographer who captivates some intriguing reflections from the waters of Norwood Lake and has captured aCrimson Dream (pictured) in the Japan trees at the Winkworth Arboretum Surrey. Gallery owner Bula Agbo elaborates on Alfonso’s snaps: “Being Japanese trees I was curious to see what they looked like in an English landscape so I look on the Arboretum’s website and there werea series of photos which has the browns and oranges but nothing like what Melanie got – she is the only one to have got that moment when everything was this incredible crimson. “Her photo of Norwood lake makes it look like an outer space constellation but it is just the sun’s reflection. Traditional portrait painter Carol Tarn’s has submitted Congolese Girl which was inspired by an article (and an original photograph by Aubrey Wade) about the Eastern Congo and Kindu a hospitalthat had been reduced to little more than a mortuary through the combined ravages of civil war disease and malnutrition. That was over five years ago and since then the UK rapid-action aid agency Merlin has supported the hospital and built a legacy of improved healthcare and hope. Tarn’s Congolese Girl captures alittle girl who has experienced life and reveals a wisdom that goes well beyond her infant years. Performing artist Jack Chapman allows the viewer a glimpse into his life’s journey as “Julie is slowly but surely becoming Jack” a moving experience of a friend who is undergoing a sexchange.