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Gabriel Barredo: Breathing Angelic Life to Industrial Waste

MANILA, Philippines - Three years ago, sculptor Gabriel Barredo bought boxes of antique dolls (circa 1920) from a neighbor in BF Homes Las Pinas, who also unloaded a collection of Barbie Dolls to boot. With this treasure trove, Barredo started creating a series of scintillating art pieces inspired by the carousel. He attached the 1920 dolls to a makeshift conveyor belt that moved to the tinkling ...

Free and cheap things to do with the kids this week

Lots of events center around the date this weekend. You have Star Wars Day on Friday (As in, "May the 4th be with you") and both Cinco de Mayo (May 5) and the Kentucky Derby fall on Saturday. Luckily we have lots of wallet-friendly ways to fill out your dayplanner, no matter what the date, from Free Comic Book Day to family events in the local parks to lots of love for the humble blueberry. Look ...

Free Comic Book Day: 2 million will be given away

On the first Saturday in May, dinosaurs, superheroes and talking animals rule: It’s Free Comic Book Day. More than 2 million copies of 40-plus titles will be given away, starring everyone from Spider-Man to Elvis, dinosaurs to Donald Duck.

Exclusive First Read: 'Gone Girl' By Gillian Flynn

Darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will be published June 5. In this exclusive selection from the book's opening, we meet Nick and Amy, the seemingly perfect couple whose alternating chapters soon reveal them to be unreliable narrators — and spouses.