| The Once Juggernaut: Rising Quickly
Instead of the 75-seat clubs and bars The Swell Season played last year, they'll be headlining venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Coachella Music Festival. There was one other blessing the film wrought Hansard and Irglova fell in love while promoting Once last spring. "They're a great story," says Steve Feldstein, a spokesman for Fox Home Entertainment, which released Once on DVD in December and expects to see a spike in sales at retailers mimicking the movie's ascent on Amazon. "There's nothing quite like the Oscars as a promotional vehicle. Their performance was wonderful. Their speeches were honest and fresh." Fox Searchlight launched the film in limited theatrical release in May with a 16-city bus tour. Screening the movie for local press and closing with live Swell Season performances, the tour built on the goodwill the film had established with critics at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
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KARACHI: Blaze ravages paint factory in Site
KARACHI, Jan 23: A manufacturing unit of the Berger Paints went up in flames on Wednesday when the blaze blamed on chemicals stored in the factory turned into an inferno and made firefighting an uphill task.
Two of the employees with severe burns were admitted to the Civil Hospital Karachi, whereas five others were released after being treated at the Imam Zainul Abideen Hospital.
Gul Mohammad, a worker of the Berger Paints, said the fire started when two chemicals were being mixed in the production section of the factory. He and other workers rushed out of the factory when the fire alarms began ringing.
The blaze was so huge that clouds of thick black smoke billowing from the factory could be seen from all over the city.
Almost all the fire tenders of the city district government with the snorkels were employed in the fire-fighting operation.
SCERA honors local art scene
At a $95-a-plate fundraiser in Orem on Saturday, supporters of the arts gathered for dinner, a silent auction and a live auction to benefit the SCERA's Endowment for the Arts and its arts programs. Last year's event garnered more than $25,000. This year's black-tie gala was emceed by retired KSL-TV newscaster Dick Nourse. Roasted chicken breasts and herbed new potatoes, followed by blueberry cheesecake, were served on black table clothes overlaid with metallic silver. During the live auction following dinner, participants, using star-topped wands to bid, paid $525 for an autographed lithograph of John Stockton, $350 for an iPhone, $500 for a Liz Lemon Swindle print, and $300 each for two family portrait packages, among other items sold. More than 20 people were honored with Star awards for their contributions to the arts in Utah County.
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