Arts and Entertainment Links

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Local Arts and Music

• CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
• Cspot: Cultural Resources Council
  A central site for arts and culture in Onondaga County. Includes a directory of local organizations, a calendar of events, a portfolio for local artists to post their work, and information about programs and services offered by the Cultural Resources Council.
• Delavan Art Gallery
  A gallery on West Fayette Street with original art by area artists.
• Everson Museum of Art
• Landmark Theatre
• Light Work
  Photography gallery and community darkrooms.
• Open Hand Theater International Mask and Puppet Museum
• The Redhouse
• Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
• SyracuseArts.net
  A comprehensive directory of performances and performing arts organizations in Syracuse and Onondaga County.
• Syracuse Opera
• Syracuse Stage
• Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
• Syracuse University Drama Department
• Upstate NY Ballet
• YMCA Arts Branch

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Movies

• All Movie Guide
  A comprehensive database of movie information, including plot synopses and actor bios.
• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  The most comprehensive movie-related site on the Web.
• Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times
  A searchable database of Roger Ebert's full-text movie reviews since 1985.
• Syracuse International Film and Video Festival

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Music

• All Classical Guide
  Biographies of classical music composers, performers, and ensembles, as well as work listings by composer and descriptions of compositions.
• All Music Guide
  For all types of music other than classical. Information on styles, artists, and albums. Also includes a glossary of music terms.
• Allrecordlabels.com
  A comprehensive listing of over 10,000 record label web sites indexed by genre, format, and location. It can be searched by label name.
• Billboard Online
  Music news, charts, archives, and artist features.
• FestivalFinder: Music Festivals of North America
  A guide to upcoming music festivals in the U. S. and Canada. Search by genre, performer, location, festival date, and more.
• Historic American Sheet Music
  The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces of sheet music published in America between 1850 and 1920.
• Lyrics World
  Specializes in lyrics for rock and pop songs that charted in the Top 40 from 1930 to 1999. Browse by title or artist.

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Performing Arts

• The Internet Broadway Database
  The official archival database for Broadway theatre information.
• Live Broadway
  The official website of Broadway.
• Talkin' Broadway
  Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre news, discussion, and reviews.
• Ticketmaster.com
  Offers multiple ways to search for a happening: by category, by search engine, or by a geographic region.

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Television

• Encyclopedia of Television
  Examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, and topics such as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world.
• The Episode Guides Page
  Links to "breakdowns on virtually every TV show ever broadcast."(!) Also a large repository of trivia.
• TV Guide Online
  Television and movie news and reviews. Requires Flash Player.
• TV.com
  View episode guides and cast and crew information for current and classic TV shows.
• Zap2it.com
  Enter your zip code to see local TV listings.

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Visual Arts

• Artcyclopedia
  An index of online museums and image archives. Find out where the works of over 7,500 different fine artists can be viewed online.
• ArtLex
  Definitions for more than 3,300 art-related terms.
• artnet.com Research Library
  Articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art on artist's biographies, materials and techniques, and styles and movements.
• AskART.com
  American artists directory with biographical information, bibliography, images, museum holdings, dealer listings, and more.
• Impressionism from European Museums
  A virtual tour, based on an exhibit in 1999, that highlights the major themes of Impressionism. This site is created by The Seattle Museum of Art and includes images of paintings and downloadable lesson plans for teachers.
• Mark Harden's Artchive
  More than 2,000 scans of fine art from over 200 different artists.
• Virtual Library Museums Pages
  A directory of online museums around the world.

Last updated April 24, 2008