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Days of division over, historical society says (Asbury Park Press)
The Ocean County Historical Society is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and inside the pale green Victorian house it calls home on Hadley Avenue in Toms River, members are partying like it's 1899.

Local artist featured for Culture Walk (The Marion Star)
MARION - Downtown Marion Inc., announces the Art and Culture Walk's featured artist for March is Robert Bishop.

Russian culture personalities oppose handover of museum items to Church (Itar-Tass)
Russian government's plans to return the properties of religious character to the Russian Orthodox Church, including the one kept in museum collections, evokes frantic protests in some sections of society.

UK society selfish, say Catholics (BBC News)
British society suffers from a lack of trust and neighbourliness, the Roman Catholic Church says.

Paul Loeb: 'Soul of a Citizen' Excerpt: What Cynicism Costs Us (The Huffington Post)
A long-powerful strain in our culture posits all businesspeople and politicians as corrupt, all religious leaders charlatans, all journalists hacks--and all who'd dare to try to work to change their society naïve fools.

Matt Saunders At The Renaissance Society (Chicagoist)
Matt Saunders, Passageworks, 2010, still from animation We’ll just come out and say it, cliché and all: Berlin artist Matt Saunders’ exhibition Parallel Plot at The University of Chicago’s The Renaissance Society is one of those rare displays of an artist who manages to successfully convey ideas through a smart, graceful, and meaningful convergence of form and function. Saunders creates images ...

Jesuit priest James Martin moves in Mass, mass media (USA Today)
James Martin blogs about pop culture, appears on The Colbert Report and takes on a Jesus-dressing Lindsay Lohan.

Chinese New Year platform for a more united society (The Borneo Post)
KOTA KINABALU: Chinese New Year celebrations not only promote Chinese culture but also provides a platform to share joy, thus building a more united society, said Minister of Resource Development and Information Techno logy Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai.

'Enlightened Sexism' explores image of women (AP via Yahoo! News)
"Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work Is Done" (Times Books, 368 pages, $26), by Susan J. Douglas: The title of Susan Douglas' newest work on women and their images in pop culture cuts brilliantly to the chase.