The Delaware Gazette

Disco Queen Donna Summer dies at 63

NEW YORK — Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Sum­mer was bestowed a title fit­ting of musi­cal roy­alty — the Queen of Disco.

Ohio man’s luck changes with signed Picasso print

COLUMBUS — An unem­ployed Ohio man was brows­ing at his local thrift store for items he could restore and resell when he spot­ted a Picasso poster with the word “Expo­si­tion” writ­ten across the front, some French words, and the image of a warped round face. He handed over $14.14 for what he saw as a nice com­mer­cial print.

Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The name still res­onates and gen­er­ates goose bumps like few oth­ers in the world of spaceflight.

Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in US

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LOS ANGELES — Etta James, the feisty rhythm and blues singer whose raw, pas­sion­ate vocals anchored many hits and made the yearn­ing bal­lad “At Last” an endur­ing anthem for wed­dings, com­mer­cials and even Pres­i­dent Barack Obama, died Fri­day. She was 73.

Arena Fair creator begins film festival project, seeks volunteers

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One man is try­ing to bring more per­for­mance art appre­ci­a­tion to Delaware by chan­nel­ing the Hol­ly­wood suc­cess of Delaware-raised Vin­cente Minnelli.

Crackdowns reach epicenter of Wall Street protests

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NEW YORK — Crack­downs against the Occupy Wall Street encamp­ments across the coun­try reached the epi­cen­ter of the move­ment Tues­day, when police rousted pro­test­ers from a Man­hat­tan park and a judge ruled that their free speech rights do not extend to pitch­ing a tent and set­ting up camp for months at a time.

Delaware artists inspired by books

“Delaware Artists Are Inspired by Books.” What a lovely idea! And what a lovely exhibit of sev­eral pieces of art cre­ated by mem­bers of the Delaware Artists Guild that is cur­rently on dis­play at the Delaware County Dis­trict Library’s Main Library, 84 E. Win­ter St. Fea­tur­ing sev­eral dif­fer­ent types of media and artis­tic tech­niques, the exhibit high­lights books that gave the artists inspi­ra­tion to create.

2-month downtown Delaware art gallery opens today

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A tem­po­rary art gallery fea­tur­ing the work of area artists opens today in down­town Delaware. Long­time Sun­bury res­i­dent Car­olyn Hef­felfin­ger is the artist behind the Wing­spread Gallery, which will fea­ture her nature-themed oil paint­ings, as well as the work of 13 other Cen­tral Ohio artists. The gallery is located at 29 N. San­dusky St., Delaware, between Bee­hive Books and Whit’s Frozen Custard.

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