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Opening Reception Friday, Feb. 15, 6 - 8 pm.
http://saintasaphs.org/Current_Exhibit.html

Ed Snyder is having a show of his photography at St. Asaph Gallery, Feb. 17 – Mar. 16 2008. Twenty images spanning his 10-year study of cemetery statuary will be on display. The exhibit merges art and photography with society’s desire to come to terms with death and dying. Oh, and there will be wine and snacks to lighten things up a bit.

St. Asaph church, attached to the gallery, is sort of a miniature gothic cathedral, complete with gargoyles and Tiffany stained glass windows! It’s located one block off City Avenue, near Belmont Avenue in Philadelphia. Please see their website for directions: http://saintasaphs.org/Contacts.html

In a six year study lead by Dr. Keith Fox, a cardiology professor at the University of Edinburgh, researchers found that deaths from heart attacks have fallen sharply. The trends parallel the growing use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, blood thinners, and angioplasty, the procedure that opens clogged arteries. Read the rest

Here’s a case for the bizarre. Workers at a Co-op funeral home mixed the remains of cremation ashes with grit and scattered them on a disabled ramp outside to prevent customers from slipping on during wintery conditions, reports Sunday Mail. Read the rest

In 1979, Professor Robert Jahn, dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, opened the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab. Since then, he along with partner, Brenda Dunne, have run millions of trials on humans’ ability to alter a pattern of random events generated by a machine. The lab closed this month. Read the rest

It’s been settled. With all the craze this week, it has finally been decided that Anna Nicole Smith will be buried beside her son, Daniel, at Lakeview Memorial Gardens and Mausoleums in the Bahamas. Read the rest