Five years worth of work in nature photography will soon be on display on a mountaintop in the Ozarks.The Nelms Gallery in Jasper will host its grand opening from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.About 185 nature photos taken by Don Nelms have been printed on stretched canvas and will be available for viewing.The gallery and its contents are meant to foster affection for and awareness of the natural beauty in the area and the need to preserve such environments."This is something to bring people into the realm of what I see and what can be seen here," Nelms says. "The Buffalo River is one of the most unique places in America. In its own subtle ways, it has a tremendous beauty."In addition to the nature photos on display, the gallery has 3 miles of hiking trails, ponds and a picnic area to enjoy.

Chef Returns To City, Takes Over Time-Proven Restaurant

3/23/2008 - Anyone looking for a home-cooked meal in a welcoming environment, at a friendly price, need look no further than The Coffee Cup restaurant in Jamestown.

Recently, the business came under new ownership as one of Jamestown�s native sons returned home with professional experience, accreditations and a vision of a better Jamestown.

��This is a great city to live in and raise a family,�� said James Hanson, certified chef, certified nutritionist and new owner of the restaurant. ��I�m glad to be home and proud to be a part of a business that has such a long-standing reputation in our community.��

Hanson said that regular and new customers alike should be pleased with him at the helm of the city landmark. He explained that although the business will be undergoing some minor changes and expansions, he will not be making any drastic alterations to the time-proven formula of The Coffee Cup.

30 creative years Gaylen Hansen's neo-Expressionist style underscores his wit

There is something immensely satisfying about a bison, a fish and a red tulip, all of commensurate size, standing on their heads next to each other.

While this scene obviously cannot occur in real life, it can in art: "Bison, Fish & Tulip," one of 41 large-scale artworks in "Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings" at the Salt Lake Art Center through May.

This whimsical exhibit introduces viewers to an outlandish mise-en-scene where clusters of incongruous characters interact in the most unexpected and visually peculiar ways.

Hansen's world is populated by an assortment of animals, insects, fish and a recurrent bearded frontiersman named Kernal Bentleg. The paintings, executed in his spontaneous, raw, neo-Expressionist style (reminiscent of Phillip Guston and Susan Rothenberg) — together with his employment of distortion of scale — are powerhouses of design, figure/ground relationship, color, line and texture.

Blow to the head was cause of woman's death, medical examiner says

The death this month of a 49-year-old San Angelo woman was a homicide, a medical examiner's preliminary findings say.

Leonardo at the movies

For five centuries Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has stood majestically still on the walls of a Milanese friary's dining hall, the only disturbance the slow flaking of its priceless paint.Now British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has been granted permission to wheel in projectors and bring to life the hidden stories he sees in the wall painting.Greenaway (65) announced last month that he is planning to use dramatic lighting, projections and recordings of actors' voices to transform the 9m-wide depiction of the moment Christ announced that one apostle would betray him into something close to a film.Instead of capturing just one moment, as Da Vinci did, Greenaway will turn The Last Supper into a narrative that stretches from Christ's birth to his crucifixion, with voice given to each disciple's thoughts.Unsurprisingly for a film director who served up a dead man at a different kind of dinner party in his 1989 film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Greenaway is courting fresh controversy when his project goes on show in April and May.

Al Copeland dies in Germany

Al Copeland, a hard-charging, high-living entrepreneur who built an empire on spicy fried chicken and fluffy white biscuits, died Sunday in Munich, Germany, of complications from cancer treatment. He was 64.

He had gone to Munich for treatment of his illness, which had been diagnosed in November, said Kit Wohl, his spokeswoman. .