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Despite its glass towers, sophisticated downtown eateries and swish nighttime skiing, Vancouver still has a frontier-town feel, and you can sense the culture clash in the work of artist Brian Jungen. On display in Jungen's hometown solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Danezaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia...
Gomes now spends part of every weekend in Plymouth, antiquing and gardening in the spring. “It’s my hometown. I know everybody, and everybody knows me,” he says...
DIED. BIRGIT NILSSON, 87, international opera star whose rich timbre, dramatic interpretations and unrivaled stamina made her the finest Wagnerian soprano of her generation; on Christmas Day; in her hometown, Vastra Karup, Sweden. Level-headed and sharp-witted, Nilsson thrilled audiences from New York to Milan in operas by Verdi (Aida), Strauss (Elektra, below) and Puccini (Turandot) but won her most enthusiastic fans with dynamic lead performances in such Wagner works as The Ring of the Nibelung and Tristan und Isolde. Asked to name the primary requirement for playing Isolde, a punishing role she sang some 200 times, she said...
...Maximum years in prison faced by Justin Wilkerson, 18, if he is convicted of starting three fires in his Oklahoma hometown...
...point out players' faults. We convinced her that she's a winner, and she started acting like one." Peng transformed from a top-300 to top-100 player. But within two months of her arrival in the U.S., Peng was recalled by the local tennis team from her adopted hometown, Tianjin. Though she did spend nearly two years overseas, frequent trips back to China to compete in various domestic tournaments made it near impossible to focus fully on improving her game. "A lot of the people who run tennis in China are appointed officials who don't understand the sport...