You Can Now Get a Nook HD For $150

Following last week's decision to make its tablet actually useful with the addition of Google Apps, Barnes & Noble has now slashed the price of its NookHD range.

Until the 12th May?yes, this is a Mother's Day offer?the price of the Nook HD line is cut both online and in-store. So, a 8GB 7-inch Nook HD will set you back $150, down from its usual $200, and a 16GB version is $180, down from $230. If you need something bigger, the 9-inch Nook HD+ is $180 for a 16GB version (usually $270) or $209 for a 32GB one (normally $300).

The Nook HD sure isn't perfect?its biggest crime is that it's a bit slow?but with Google Apps and a healthy discount, it might be worth considering if you're on a tight budget. [Barnes & Noble via Verge]

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Celebrate Star Wars Day By Blinding General Grievous, Losing R2

Beep boop boop bee squeee! Happy May 4th a k a Star Wars Day (say the date out loud and you'll figure out why). In celebration, quite a few hardware vendors have released special gear for the day, thereby allowing you to celebrate the magic of George Lucas in proper Mandalorian fashion.

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Calif. wildfire grows, but weather may aid fight

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) ? A wildfire tearing through a coastal region in Southern California nearly tripled in size as high temperatures fueled the flames, but an expected weekend change in the weather will likely give crews manning the fire lines much-needed assistance.

The fire 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles mushroomed to 43 square miles Friday as 900 firefighters used engines, aircraft, bulldozers and other equipment to battle the flames.

Forecasters said a weekend of increased humidity should help teams fighting the early-season blaze make gains Saturday.

"It's a total turnaround from what we had," said Kurt Kaplan, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard. "It should be a much better day for firefighters tomorrow."

Despite its size and speed of growth, the fire that broke out Thursday and quickly moved through the Camarillo Springs area has caused damage to just 15 structures, though it's threatening 2,000 homes.

Residents were grateful so many homes were spared.

"''It came pretty close. All of these houses ? these firemen did a tremendous job. Very, very thankful for them," Shayne Poindexter said. Flames came within 30 feet of the house he was building.

Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Bill Nash said parts of the Newbury Park community of Thousand Oaks were under mandatory and voluntary evacuations. Overnight, he said firefighters planned to stockpile resources along a road that lies between the fire and Malibu, protecting homes on the fire's eastern front. Its cause of the fire is under investigation.

The good fortune of the Camarillo Springs area wasn't the result of luck or clairvoyance by firefighters. It came after years of planning and knowing that sooner or later just such a conflagration was going to strike.

Camarillo Springs, which was nothing more than rugged backcountry when homes began to go up there 30 years ago, was well prepared.

Its homes were built with sprinkler systems and fireproof exteriors from the roofs to the foundations. Residents are required to clear brush and other combustible materials to within 100 feet of the dwellings, and developers had to make sure the cul-de-sacs that fill the area's canyons were built wide enough to accommodate the emergency vehicles seen on TV racing in to battle the flames.

Residents in the area are also particularly vigilant about clearing brush from the hillsides next to their yards, Kruschke said. Normally, firefighters remind people in such areas to do that every June, but in Camarillo Springs people do it every few months. The work paid off this week.

The type of blaze that hit the area usually doesn't strike Southern California wild-land until September or October, after the summer has dried out hillside vegetation. But the state has seen a severe drought during the past year, with the water content of California's snowpack only 17 percent of normal.

That created late-summer conditions by May, and when hot Santa Ana winds and high temperatures arrived this week, the spring flames that firefighters routinely knock down once or twice a year quickly roared up a hillside ? out of control.

On Friday, the wildfire stormed back through canyons toward inland neighborhoods when winds reversed direction.

After jumping Pacific Coast Highway 20 miles north of Malibu, the fire burned for a time on a beach shooting range at the Point Mugu Naval Air Station.

The blaze is one of more than 680 wildfires in the state so far this year ? about 200 more than average.

In Riverside County, a 4 1/2-square-mile fire that destroyed a home burned for a third day in mountains north of Banning. It was 75 percent contained.

Fifty-five miles away from Camarillo, in the hills above Glendale, a blaze broke out Friday afternoon, prompting evacuations and closure of a freeway as it quickly charred 75 acres.

In Tehama County in Northern California, the size of a wildfire north of Butte Meadows was revised down from more than 15 square miles to 10 square miles, state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said.

The fire, which was 20 percent contained, was burning in a remote area and wasn't posing an imminent threat to any structures.

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Associated Press writers Shaya Tayefe Mohajer and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this story.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/calif-wildfire-grows-weather-may-aid-fight-071128755.html

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Vega rocket poised for second launch

3 May 2013 Last updated at 07:10 ET By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

Europe's new small satellite launcher, Vega, is about to make only its second outing from the Kourou spaceport.

Lift-off from French Guiana is scheduled for 23:06 local time on Friday (02:06 GMT, Saturday).

The mission is part of series planned by the European Space Agency (Esa) to demonstrate the rocket's capabilities.

Vega will loft the Proba-V satellite, which will collect data on land cover and vegetation changes over the entire globe every couple of days.

It will also drop off two secondary "passengers" - an Earth observation spacecraft for Vietnam and a "nanosatellite" built by students in Estonia.

"Esa continues to offer European states easy access to space. Last time, we had the first Polish satellite launched into orbit," said Antonio Fabrizi, who is the director of launchers at the European Space Agency. "This time it will be the case for Estonia to have a satellite in orbit."

Telemetry fix

To get the three satellites into their correct orbits, Vega will have to initiate a number of burns of its Avum fourth-stage.

Esa believes this flexibility of handling multiple missions at once will prove attractive to future commercial customers, not least because sharing a rocket ride helps to constrain costs for all the payloads onboard.

The agency's member states, together with their industries, are investing about a billion euros in the introduction of Vega.

The maiden outing in February last year was all but flawless, but some changes have been made for this second launch.

Engineers have written new flight software for the rocket. They have also had an additional ground station built in the north of French Guiana to improve the reception of telemetry sent down from the vehicle. Drop-out was experienced for a short period during the first launch.

"There are no modifications on the rocket design that resulted from the first flight," explained Stefano Bianchi, Esa's Vega programme manager.

"The only point we noticed during the first flight was that we had a problem with the link between the launcher and the ground during the operation of the second stage and the start of the third stage. It was a temporary shielding due the physical effect of the [rocket] plume, which has a high aluminium content."

Debris limitation

The 30m-tall Vega comprises four stages.

The first three burn a solid fuel. Its fourth and final stage uses liquid propellants.

It is the re-startable capability of this fourth segment that allows Vega not only to put several spacecraft in different orbits, but enables the rocket segment also to bring itself out of the sky at the end of the mission.

This ensures Vega does not add to the growing population of redundant objects that now litter the space environment.

Friday's launch is part of what Esa calls the Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment (Verta) programme - a series of flights designed to test all the new systems and move the rocket towards full commercial service.

VNREDSat-1, which is being launched for the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, represents the first fee-paying payload on Vega.

The spacecraft will return images of the Earth at a best resolution of 2.5m for environmental monitoring purposes in the Asian country.

Flight rate

The main payload, Proba-V, is an Esa mission. It carries a vegetation imager that will provide continuity of data for the researchers who have been using the French Spot 4 and 5 satellites. The Proba instrument is smaller than its predecessors.

"For scientists, it's very important to have continuity and long time-series, and to carry on beyond Spot 5's vegetation observations. But for the requirements of our Proba missions, there has to be some additional performance," said Frederic Teston, Esa's Proba programme manager.

As part of Proba's aim to push satellite equipment in new directions, the 140kg platform will demonstrate a number of technologies that are likely to fly on future missions. These include space radiation monitors, fibre-optic wiring, and an instrument to track aircraft from orbit.

Vega is now one of three rockets launching out of French Guiana. The South American country already hosts Europe's workhorse heavy-lift vehicle, Ariane-5, and the medium-class Russian-built Soyuz rocket.

The Kourou spaceport is managed by Arianespace. Speaking about Vega's potential to win business on the international launch market, Louis Laurent, a senior vice president with the company, said: "The core of this market is Earth observation, but we have also opportunities in telecommunications and science.

"Our target, and we think it is feasible, is to increase the launch rate of Vega up to three launches per year."

• Vega lifts off from a refurbished pad formerly used by the Ariane 1
• Its four stages and satellite payload are assembled on the launch site
• Satellites will weigh from a few 10s of kg up to a maximum of 2,500kg
• The "reference mission" is a 1.5t satellite in a 700km-high polar orbit

Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22386621#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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Your Smartphone Just Diagnosed You with Postpartum Depression

Depending on your perspective, Twitter can either be a valuable source of breaking news, or a fire hose of miscellaneous, often dubious information. Microsoft researchers are investigating whether the microblogging service could serve another, more scientific function--to spot signs of postpartum depression in new mothers based on changes in how and what they tweet. The research is in its early stages and in some ways relies heavily on data that's easy to misinterpret. Yet the experiment is noteworthy both for its objective--to potentially identify and assist young families in distress--and for the idea that social media might be mined for the good of social science. An added benefit could be the development of apps installed on smartphones, tablets and computers that can monitor tweets, flag warning signs and discretely offer assistance to women who otherwise might suffer quietly. "What's exciting is that we could identify individuals potentially at risk for having an emotional downturn just by looking at streams of publically shared data," in this case Twitter feeds, says Eric Horvitz, managing co-director of the Microsoft Research lab. Horvitz and his colleagues presented the results of their efforts to predict postpartum emotional and behavioral changes via social media this week at an Association for Computing Machinery conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Paris. This postpartum study is part of a larger effort to use social media as a sensor network for public health, Horvitz says. In the past, Microsoft Research has helped create systems that can predict the likelihood a patient will contract an infection while in the hospital or that a hospital patient being discharged will soon be readmitted. Another project demonstrated the ability to detect previously unknown drug interactions by analyzing anonymized Web-search logs that include tens of millions of queries sent to search engines by millions of users. (pdf) The researchers are not claiming they can diagnose postpartum depression. However, Microsoft's team does say it was able to identify 376 Twitter users as new mothers and use machine learning software to predict--with 71 percent accuracy--which of these women would exhibit significant changes in their postpartum use of the social network. "We studied the language the women used as well as how many re-tweets they were involved in, whether they were actively re-sharing different external links to other Web sites or whether they were engaging in one-to-one interaction with folks on Twitter," says Munmun De Choudhury, a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research. "We also looked at the structure of their Twitter network--how many people they follow, how many people follow them and how much this changed following the birth of a child." To find women for their study, the researchers first created an automated process that sifted through thousands of tweets published between June 2011 and April 2012. The probramsearched phrases and keywords--height, weight and gender, for example--that suggested a woman had recently given birth. The software picked up on tweets describing labor andlisting the height and weight of a baby, for instance. After creating this initial pool of candidates, the researchers used a program to help identify the gender of the tweeter, discarding male names as well as those that could be either male or female. Then, to distinguish between tweets made by new mothers and those made by female family and friends, Microsoft Research turned to Amazon's Mechanical Turk digital labor marketplace, hiring workers to analyze a candidate's birth-announcement posting in the context of her tweets before and after the birth. Microsoft Research examined several months of tweets for each Twitter user they identified as a new mother. Not surprisingly, the new mothers didn't tweet as often (changing lots of diapers will do that), but the researchers also noted in some users a drop in positive expressions and an increase in negatives--words associated with anger, anxiety and sadness. Women that seemed to experience more profound behavior changes--compared with their prenatal selves on Twitter--also tended to use first-person pronouns more often in their tweets. This may be an indication of isolation and an increasing focus on themselves, says De Choudhury. The most interesting aspect of this project is yet to come, as Microsoft Research is now working with experts in postpartum depression at the University of Washington and elsewhere to see how their predictive modeling holds up in a population of women that includes those who have been professionally diagnosed with postpartum depression, Horvitz says. Acknowledging the limitations of this study (none of the new mothers were actually contacted to confirm any of the researchers' assessments, for example), Horvitz says the predictive models he and his team are testing could someday be used to help design new kinds of early warning systems for women at risk of postpartum depression, even though Microsoft itself would not necessarily develop such technology. "Postpartum depression is believed to be a very underreported condition," he says, adding that any efforts to help women recognize their situation and encourage them to seek help would be welcome. Image courtesy of Ambro at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Follow Scientific American on Twitter @SciAm and @SciamBlogs. Visit ScientificAmerican.com for the latest in science, health and technology news.
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Acorn image editor gets UI overhaul, non-destructive filters

Flying Meat Software (a.k.a. Gus Mueller) has released Acorn 4, the latest major update to its image editing software for OS X. Acorn 4 sports a new user interface, support for non-destructive filters, dramatically improved vector tools and enhancements to performance, among many other changes.

Acorn 4 is aimed at Mac users who need to edit images but don't necessarily need the extensive (and expensive) capabilities of Adobe Photoshop. It sports support for Macs with Retina displays, features masking, text tools, "Instant Alpha" for removing backgrounds and other content, multistop gradients, lots of nifty vector tools, PSD import and export and more.

To incorporate non-destructive filters, Mueller has merged layer styles and filters together. You can create chains of filters just like before, but you can remove them later if you change your mind, without altering the base image. And if you like to manipulate image tone and colors using curves, that's a new feature of Acorn 4 as well. New shape tools have been added, and a new filter HUD lets you manipulate radius and center points for filters.

Acorn 4 is normally $49.99, but Flying Meat is offering the app for $29.99 through May to give people an excuse to upgrade. The software's available both in the Mac App Store and direct from Flying Meat's web site.

If you've given it a try, let me know how you think it compares to the previous version, and to other photo editors you've used.

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Celluloid meltdown inspired painter Nicole Mauser's works ...

New abstractions by Nicole Mauser at the Beggars Table Church and Gallery top the list of May?s First Friday attractions.

Mauser has been an active presence in the KC art world since she moved here in 2006, teaching in the Kansas City Art Institute?s continuing education program, co-founding Plug Projects and participating in the KC PAC plein air painting group?s weekly sessions.

Locally, Mauser has shown work at multiple venues, including Dolphin, Paragraph and the Kansas City Artists Coalition. Her new exhibit at Beggars Table coincides with a recently opened solo show at the Gladstone Community Center and follows two one-person shows in Chicago in 2010 and 2011.

Titled ?Lacuna,? Mauser?s Crossroads exhibit includes a series of collages inspired by a film meltdown. According to the artist, a projector malfunctioned during a screening of a Joseph Cornell film, causing the film to ignite and melting the celluloid as the audience, including Mauser, watched.

The visual spectacle fired her imagination. ?These works are an elegy for the frames lost, or lacuna, from the Cornell film,? she writes.

The colors in the collages, applied with a squeegee, allude to the colored gels sometimes used in the projection of Cornell?s films. The contrasting black-and-white passages come from snapshots she took in Berlin, which she photocopied and enlarged and extracted details. They also incorporate scans of the sheets of paper Mauser uses as palettes.

She wants that ?blurring,? she says, ?between painting and collage? and ?object and reproduction.? She also likes the way that collage enables her to ?flatten dimensionality.?

Mauser?s exhibit will feature roughly a dozen works. In small paintings developed from the collages, she builds up color fields by putting down long swipes of acrylic and then applying oil paint. ?I think of them as having different speeds,? she said. ?I want to play each material off the other.?

The most recent pieces are paintings on paper. Evidencing a greater sense of motion and compositional risk than the previous works, they also fully realize her drive to activate blank space as positive space.

Abstraction often critiques or converses with its antecedents. Mauser is aware of her artistic precedents, but she?s more interested in abstraction as a record of her own experiences and creative life. A recurrent touchstone of her works is that residue of strokes and forms left on the sheets of paper she uses as a palette.

Joe Bussell and Calder Kamin exhibits

It?s a big weekend for Joe Bussell and Calder Kamin. Both artists will show new Artboards at the Missouri Bank Crossroads Branch. Bussell?s west-facing boards feature whimsical abstract forms based on microscopic images of pollen, Hubble Telescope images from space and colorful beadwork presented on stark white backdrops.

Titled ?Invaders,? Kamin?s east-facing boards feature images of starlings ? one shows a few birds; the other depicts a swarm ? and refer to the astronomical growth of the species following their introduction to the United States in 1890 and 1891.

Bussell also has an opening at City Ice Arts Friday night. His exhibit, ?Spit,? includes new acrylic and tempera paintings on paper and canvas with colorful biomorpic forms.

On Saturday at the Lakeside Nature Center, 4701 E. Gregory Blvd., Kamin presents her ?Impact Proof? project of vinyl decals, which are designed to prevent birds from crashing into windows. As part of the center?s Urban Bird Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Kamin will hold a workshop to make preventative decals from paper. She will also introduce her line of greeting cards of birds, which help raise money for the center?s hospital.

Kemper at the Crossroads

It?s Jim Sajovic?s turn to speak in the ?Be Inspired? series at Kemper at the Crossroads, where the Kansas City artist and long-time Kansas City Art Institute professor has a large painting of local philanthropist Scott Francis on view.

The image is a composite of multiple photographs Sajovic took of Francis and is overlaid with words from a T.S. Eliot poem, ?Little Gidding.?

The poem is important to Francis, Sajovic said, and is ?about the passing of time, the shifting nature of reality and the temporary nature of life.? It is also the source of the painting?s title, ?The Fire and the Rose? (2011).

Sajovic?s talk will contextualize the painting within the evolution of his work. The museum?s purchase of the 49 1/2 by 45-inch canvas, created with pigmented inks and acrylic, was made possible by a gift from J. Scott Francis, Francis Family Foundation Discretionary Fund.

Richard Berkley photos

Berkley buffs, as in former Kansas City mayor Richard Berkley, know he?s a shutterbug, and now they can take in his portraits of politicians and celebrities at the Buttonwood Art Center.

The exhibit also includes images from his travels to more than 70 countries, as well as shots by other photographers of some of the celebrities that Berkley and his wife, Sandy, met over the years.

Beggars Table Church and Gallery

?Nicole Mauser: Lacuna?

When: Reception 6-10 p.m. Friday. Open by appointment through June 29.

Where: 2010 W. Baltimore Ave., second floor

Info: 816-807-6455

Blue Djinn Gallery

?David Olson?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday through May 25.

Where: 1400 Union Ave.

Info: 816-518-4649

Buttonwood Art Space

?The Photograph Collection of Mayor Richard Berkley?

When: Reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. May 4 and by appointment through May 27.

Where: 3013 Main St.

Info: 816-285-9040

Centric Projects

Works by Kansas City Art Institute printmaking students

When: Reception and live printmaking event from 5-8 p.m. Friday. Open one night only.

Where: 2024 Main St., Suite One West.

Info: 816-802-3426

City Ice Arts

?Spit: New Paintings by Joe Bussell?

When: Reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open noon-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and by appointment through June 15.

Where: 2015 Campbell St.

Info: 816-820-4105

The Guild Event Space

Inaugural One Night Art Exhibition, a group show curated by Skyler Bieberly

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday with live music from the Conquerors, Your Reflection and Danny ?Dan Matic? Staton. Open one night only.

Where: 1621 Locust St.

Info:816-471-8550

Hilliard Gallery

?Guinette Wise: Cold Beer and Steel?

When: Reception 6-10 p.m. Friday. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon-4 p.m. Saturday through May 27

Where: 1820 McGee St.

Info: 816-561-2956

Kansas City Artists Coalition

Nelson Smith, Eileen Thomas, Cathy Deuschle, John Hare and Todd Peterson

When: Artist talks at 6 p.m. and reception 7-8:30 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday through May 31.

Where: 201 Wyandotte St.

Info: 816-421-5222

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

?Be Inspired!?

When: Conversation with Jim Sajovic at 6 p.m. Friday. Open noon-10 p.m. Friday through June 7.

Where: 33 W. 19th St.

Info: 816-753-5784

The Late Show

?Darwin Arevalo: New Work?

?Doug Schwietert: Assemblage?

When: Reception 6-10 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and by appointment through May 25.

Where: 1600 Cherry St.

Info: 816-474-1300

Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

?Jared Flaming: Parergon?

?Jared Green : A Coherent Story to Tell?

?Spring Group Show Highlighting: Angela Burson?

?Keith Young : Assemblage?

Continuing exhibits

?Ada Koch: La Piazza: Praising Architecture and a Balanced Life?

?Michael Stack: Eagleman & 9/11 Series?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday through May 25. Flaming exhibit through June 29.

Where: 2012 Baltimore Ave.

Info: 816-474-1919

Locust Factory

First Friday Art Fair

When: 6-9 p.m. Friday and noon-4 p.m. May 5

Where: 504 E. 18th St. (west end of the building)

Info: 816-716-5940

Main Street Gallery

?Hookin? Is Hard Work: Hooked Yarn Portraits by Omaha artist Wanda Ewing?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday through Sunday through May 31.

Where: 1610 Main St. (upstairs at Anton?s Tap Room & Restaurant)

Info: 816-210-6534

Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery

?Children?s Art Exhibition?

When: Reception 5-8 p.m. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday through May 23.

Where: 919 W. 17th St.

Info: 816-221-2349

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

?Tanya Hartman: We Write Ourselves Anew?

?Tracy Krumm: In the Making?

When: Reception 7-9 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment through June 29.

Where: 2004 Baltimore Ave.

Info: 816-221-2626

Slap-n-Tickle Gallery

?Ceramics by Paul Mallory and Jewelry by Melissa Moore & Julia Pitt?

When: Reception 6-11 p.m. Friday. Open noon-4 p.m. May 4 and by appointment through May 19.

Where: 504 E. 18th St.

Info: 816-716-5940

Todd Weiner Gallery

?Michael Young: This Is My World?

When: Reception 5-10 p.m. Friday. Open 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday through June 1

Where: 115 W. 18th St.

Info: 816-984-8538

Red Star Studios

?Jessica Brandl?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturdays through June 29.

Where: 2100 Walnut St.

Info:816-474-7316

Red Star Studios in Belger Crane Yard Studios

?Akio Takamori: Lust?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open by appointment through Aug. 24.

Where: 2011 Tracy Ave.

Info: 816-474-7316

Spray Booth Gallery

?Lovely/Lonely: Molly Kaderka?

When: Reception 6-11 p.m. Friday. Open noon-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon-3 p.m. Saturday through June 1.

Where: 130 W. 18th St., inside Volker Bicycles

Info: 816-471-5555

Vine Street Studio

?Cultures Without Borders?

When: Reception 5-8 p.m. Friday with music by Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle Jazz Group 8-9:30 p.m. ($5 requested donation). Open 3-5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 4-6 p.m. Friday and by appointment through May 31.

Where: 2033 Vine St.

Info: 816-645-1052

1714 Holmes St.

?From Castles to Sand : Claire Bryant Senior Thesis Exhibition?

When: Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Open noon-4 p.m. May 4 and 5 and by appointment through May 10.

Where: 1714 Holmes St.

Info:512-636-3410

Source: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/01/4210613/may-first-friday-guide.html

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