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PetSmart Charities, the nation's leader in pet adoptions, and Match, the world's largest dating website, have teamed up to reveal what pet-loving singles want when searching for a two-legged companion. With over 80 percent of Match singles identified as pet lovers, "The Truth about Pets and Dating" survey of 1,000 singles helps connect the dots between dating and pets to give singles a new "leash" on love.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce its first exhibition with Gabriel Kuri. Bringing together the artist's recent explorations into the form, function, and materiality of everyday utilitarian objects, the show will feature a series of new sculptures composed of consumer materials and found elements that touch upon the relationship of value and exchange in contemporary global society.

The power of storytelling is paramount in our latest ACTING UP FRONT production, Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights. Director Jeff Mills (from BOXTALES Theatre Company) and his seventeen-member cast will amaze and beguile as they enact Scheherazade's tales of love, lust, comedy and dreams. Great storytelling needs nothing more than an empty space, the voices and bodies of the tellers and the engaged imagination of the audience. There is no more fitting material for our ACTING UP FRONT style than tales from the Thousand and One Nights.

Stacy London, best known for her co-host role for more than a decade on fashion reality show, What Not To Wear, and author of The Truth About Style, and Hollywood Fashion Secrets (HFS), the creator of Fashion Tape and the Style Essentials category with its range of beauty and fashion solutions to help women solve their pesky styling challenges, announced that they have signed an agreement for London to serve as its Style Ambassadress, a unique role to reveal well-kept style secrets to women everywhere.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce its first exhibition with Gabriel Kuri. Bringing together the artist's recent explorations into the form, function, and materiality of everyday utilitarian objects, the show will feature a series of new sculptures composed of consumer materials and found elements that touch upon the relationship of value and exchange in contemporary global society.

TrafficLand, the largest authorized aggregator of live traffic video in the U.S., is providing video from its national network of roadside Department of Transportation cameras on latest WeatherBug mobile app for the iOS platform.

On May 2nd, Flanders & Streb are convening Risky Talking #2: What Is A Risky Truth? Acclaimed novelist A.M. Homes and actress/dramatist Anna Deavere Smith will join action architect Elizabeth Streb and author/journalist Laura Flanders for more. Hear what they think, say what you think and watch out for the unique action moment created by the Streb team. The action and the conversation resume today May 2nd from 7 to 9 pm. Admission is $10 or $20-you decide. There's even food!

Springfield, Massachusetts accessories designer Michelle Provencher, owner of The Love, Mich Collection, will be putting her stylish Blush Dots Makeup Bag in the hands of Hollywood Moms as part of an exclusive celebrity gift bag being prepared by The Artisan Group for Mother's Day 2014.

Artistic expression in any form can have a profound effect on those who take the time to appreciate it. Stephen Sondheim took notice of the power of artistic transformation in 1984 when he, along with James Lapine, penned the Broadway masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George. Thirty years after Sunday won two Tony Awards, numerous Drama Desk Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, EPAC will once again reinvent a modern classic.

I hardly know where to begin in describing the beautiful, world-class, but dramatically uneven production of the beloved and immortal 'The Sound of Music' that opened at the Civic Opera House over the weekend. All the resources of Lyric Opera of Chicago have been brought to bear on a brand-new production of a title that is known throughout the world, and the result is occasionally thrilling--a feast for the eyes, and usually one for the ears as well.

Reinvention has always been a necessity for those with endless creative passion. When artist George Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, he employed a new and somewhat controversial method of applying small dots of pigment to the canvas. When observed from a distance, these pixels would create a shimmering combination of color and light in a way never seen before.

The Mori Art Museum is pleased to present 'MAM Project 021: Melvin Moti' from Saturday, May 31 through Sunday, August 31, 2014.

Following the success of the last auction, Tony Award-winning Broadway superstar Alice Ripley has kicked off yet another online auction featuring a wide range of intriguing musical theatre merchandise showcasing many remarkable shows from her long and unique career - NEXT TO NORMAL, KING DAVID and beyond.

Before 'save-the-whales' became the battle cry of the conservation movement, a couple of guys dropped a microphone into the sea to record the underwater sounds of mammoth marine creatures. And what they heard was nothing short of amazing: singing whales. One of those now-esteemed scientists is Dr. Roger Payne.

Reinvention has always been a necessity for those with endless creative passion. When artist George Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, he employed a new and somewhat controversial method of applying small dots of pigment to the canvas. When observed from a distance, these pixels would create a shimmering combination of color and light in a way never seen before.

Before 'save-the-whales' became the battle cry of the conservation movement, a couple of guys dropped a microphone into the sea to record the underwater sounds of mammoth marine creatures. And what they heard was nothing short of amazing: singing whales. One of those now-esteemed scientists is Dr. Roger Payne.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company has raised $2.5 million, or half of the goal of the fundraising campaign it launched 13 months ago, according to an announcement by Brown Board President Kirk Radke. The money is earmarked for programs that ensure the future of the company.

Artistic expression in any form can have a profound effect on those who take the time to appreciate it. Stephen Sondheim took notice of the power of artistic transformation in 1984 when he, along with James Lapine, penned the Broadway masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George. Thirty years after Sunday won two Tony Awards, numerous Drama Desk Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, EPAC will once again reinvent a modern classic.

The Department of Dance presents 'America to China and Back,' a stateside reprise of the contemporary dance program performed by Ohio State dance students as the Susan Van Pelt Petry Touring Company in China in March. The eight pieces will be staged at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, and Friday, April 18, in the Riffe Center's Studio Two Theatre, 77 South High St.

The power of storytelling is paramount in our latest ACTING UP FRONT production, Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights. Director Jeff Mills (from BOXTALES Theatre Company) and his seventeen-member cast will amaze and beguile as they enact Scheherazade's tales of love, lust, comedy and dreams. Great storytelling needs nothing more than an empty space, the voices and bodies of the tellers and the engaged imagination of the audience. There is no more fitting material for our ACTING UP FRONT style than tales from the Thousand and One Nights.