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| | USATODAY.com - Book chronicles artful towns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Villani planned to announce his new top 10 lists — one for towns with fewer than 30,000 people and another for towns with a population between 30,000 and 100,000 — on Feb. 22 in Sarasota, Fla., which came in at No. 3 on the list for bigger towns. |
 | | Also on that list are Santa Fe; Loveland, Colo.; Hot Springs, Ark.; Asheville, N.C.; Boulder, Colo.; Portland, Maine; Lawrence, Kan.; Bellingham, Wash.; and Chico, Calif. |
 | | Villani's criteria for evaluating towns included the number of local art galleries, affordability, natural beauty, frequency of arts festivals, and the quality and quantity of museums, art schools, theaters and alternative arts venues. |
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