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...better than them because I had a job and money." Bright-eyed and polite, Wager is contemplating further hospitality training, modeling, obtaining her driver's license and buying a car. At the nearby Moree Panel Works, Joe Tighe, 19, is putting in another day as a spray painter. Winner of an Apprentice of the Year award, Tighe is an AES poster boy and a rare, non-sporting success story in these parts - in spite of a difficult upbringing, dropping out of school in Year 9, and little contact with working people. The AES mentored the quiet tradesman during his transition...
...Cornelio Zamora left his home in Zacapoaxtla, Mexico, paying a smuggler $2,500 to take him across the Rio Grande into the U.S. He had been unable to support his wife and four children on the $7 a day he earned as a bus driver. Working as a house painter in San Jose, California, Zamora, 48, now sends about $700 a month home. His wife says she has based all family decisions - where to send the children to school, what house to live in - on Zamora's monthly earnings "on the other side." In migrants' countries of origin, escalating desires...
...they slept and surrendered without a struggle, but in Sydney's southwest, Omar Baladjam allegedly shot at police when confronted walking near the Green Valley Mosque. Police say he pulled a handgun from his backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera to help locate father of five Mohamed Elomar, who hid in a park near his home in Condell Park. On Nov. 11, 25-year-old Izzydeen Atik was arrested...
...clearly not Kansas when Dorothy dons Balenciaga. Pride & Prejudice star KEIRA KNIGHTLEY and minimalist painter BRICE MARDEN are part of an Oz-themed pictorial in next month's Vogue. Annie Leibovitz also shot painters Jasper Johns and John Curren as the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man. Aren't artists supposed to be prickly, reclusive and, you know, serious? Not when Annie's folks call. "They just told me to bring hats," says Marden, a friend of Leibovitz's. "It was easier than a Gap ad I did once...
...hard to pin down: he does work in traditional media like illustration and cartoons but also uses more eccentric forms like painting on canvasses shaped like everyday objects and drawing on stickers rather than in a sketchbook. Nor is Frey what he calls “just a painter of ideas”—as a young artist skilled in many different areas, his main goal is simply to try out different techniques and define his artistic identity. His website, www.karlfrey.net, provides an interesting visual insight into his varied work, as well as exhaustive work statements that attempt...