In the Arts
     Music lovers who head over to Riverside Gardens Park on West Front Street in Red Bank tonight will catch the jazz sounds of The Wolverines and the funk, boogie-woogie and honky-tonk music of The VooDUDES at the Comcast Jazz in the Park concert beginning at 7 p.m.
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     Days Awake and Andrew Holtz, winners of the 2005 Asbury Music Awards for top rock band and top jam band, will present a night of acoustic rock at The Canning Company at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts in Long Branch Friday at 8 p.m.; $10 cover. On Saturday at SICA, 20 Third Ave., anothe...
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     Provocative singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins will appear at Pollak Theatre, Monmouth University, 400 Cedar Ave. in West Long Branch, on Friday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. Also appearing is vocalist April Smith. Tickets for the concert, presented by the university's Performing Arts Series, are available t...
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Osborne photos at Oceanic Library
     An exhibit of photographs by Ebba Osborne is at the Oceanic Free Library in Rumson for the month of August.
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That's amore!
     A celebration of all things Italian, "Adoriamo gli Italiani! (We Love Italians!): A Joyous Festival," will take place at Monmouth County Library headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. The festival will consist of Italian films, a concert and a daylong festival.
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Making the arts accessible
     "Access for All: A Cultural Accessibility Conference" will be held Thursday, Aug. 10, 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m., at the Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Ave., Red Bank. The free event is co-sponsored by the N.J. Theater Alliance and the N.J. State Council on the Arts.
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How feminist artists shook up the art world
In art, women's movement gave rise to Postmodernism
BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer
     The art world today is a very different scene than the one that existed before the early 1970s. Back then, art exhibitions were dominated by male artists and it appeared that women artists did not exist in any great numbers.
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