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(08/06/07 12:24am)
As IU students move back to Bloomington this month and reunite with friends, they might realize they shouldn’t “socialize” as loudly as they did this past spring.\nThe Bloomington City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Wednesday evening creating an escalating scale for noise violations. \nThe usual fine of $50 now applies only to the first offense. The next offense will cost $100 and any further violations after that will cost $500 – 10 times the amount students saw in the spring semester. The ordinance will apply to the Bloomington community and not violations that occur on campus, Kevin Robling, corporate council for the City of Bloomington, said.\nViolations can include using lawn equipment late at night, driving a “boom car” that can be heard more than 30 feet away or hosting a loud party, said Margie Rice, assistant city attorney.\n“This is clearly a boiling point issue for all of the citizens,” Councilwoman Susan Sandberg said. \nRobling said an educational campaign is in the works to get literature to students about the revisions when they return to campus. However, Councilman Chris Sturbaum said the deadline for getting literature in student welcome-back packets is Aug. 15, and the information has not been filed. \nThe most vocal council member on this issue was Stephen Volan, representative for District 6, which includes the IU campus. He believes it is important for the students to be educated properly about these changes as they return to campus.\n“I think that the word will spread pretty quickly that the third offense is $500,” Volan said. “It’s a shame that it has taken this long.” \nDuring council comments, Volan quoted former IU President Herman B Wells and his efforts to keep socially inclined students zoned together away from residential neighborhoods, including the Jordan Avenue extension.\n“Dr. Wells even said that students will inevitably party,” Volan said.\nBloomington resident Phil Worthington, an outspoken advocate for the increase in fines, spoke during public comments.\n“This has been going on for (way) too long,” Wurthington said.
(07/26/07 12:47am)
Forget about the usual peanuts and Cracker Jacks. It’s time for the fair. \nBloomington residents can finally enjoy elephant ears, local farm-raised animals and trucks covered in mud all in one place at the week long Monroe County Fair.\nThe festivities began July 21 with the always popular queen contest, where 33 young ladies competed for the title of 2007 Miss Monroe County. Alyssa Lampkins, 16, won the title and will preside over various events at the fair. \nThe demolition derby is another popular event of the fair, said David Smith, fair board secretary and chairman of the entertainment committee. The derby will be in the mud-filled Grandstand area Friday and Saturday evenings at the Monroe County Fairgrounds.\n“You go out there, and you pretty much just crash the daylights out of each other,” Smith said. “The winner is the one that is still running at the end.” \nSmith said the talent and baby contests will be held Saturday in the auditorium. The baby contest features children of all ages from around the county.\n“It is a three-ring circus,” Smith said. “I mean we have babies out the wazoo. Let me tell ya, they just flock in here. That is the big event.” \nThe fair has been held at the Monroe County Fairgrounds since 1955 but was originally located at Dunn Meadow on the IU campus, Smith said.\n“People took their animals, and they showed their animals right down there on campus,” Smith said. “They had cows, pigs, everything was right there.” \nBloomington resident Kathy Hainey attended Tuesday’s festivities with her grandson. Hainey said she has attended the fair for nearly 40 years, and the tradition the fair brings to the community motivates her to attend year after year. The poultry barn is currently her favorite attraction, she said.\n“I just like to look at the different types of chickens, hens and roosters,” Hainey said.\nRobin Johnson, 13, said she has been attending the fair ever since she could walk and has also been in the 4-H club for nearly six years. \n“I want to show everyone that I can (succeed in the fair),” she said.\nFor Johnson, watching her animals win is the most rewarding aspect of the fair. This year her goat “Waylon” won grand champion, she said.\nThe fair will continue through the week, ending Saturday.
(07/26/07 12:23am)
Closure: something I never wanted. I expected unwanted closure when I picked up my copy of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” However, I didn’t expect to feel so nervous and uncertain at the end of every chapter.\nLong lines packed every bookstore across the nation as anxious readers counted down to 12:01 a.m. on July 21. As I waited for the book, I reflected on the past ten years of my life. The past six school years at Hogwarts have been filled with O.W.L examinations, Quidditch matches and obviously the suspense of Lord Voldemort’s many attempts at returning to power. \n“Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows” is not about passing a test or helping house elves with their civil rights but about finding the truth in the past and the future, not to mention cheating death on several occasions. \nHarry has learned that things aren’t always as they seem. People in his life upon whom he once wanted to seek vengeance have turned out to be his saviors.\nIn the months prior to Saturday’s book release, rumors circulated in interviews and articles that there would be a major death in “The Deathly Hallows” and that Harry himself might die. Instead, I found that people and creatures close to Harry die throughout the book, and not just in its final chapters.\nThis book is the climax of a war that had been in the making since before Harry was born. His whole life and purpose are realized in the end, right before he faces Lord Voldemort for the final time.\nHarry’s seventh year at Hogwarts is not truly at Hogwarts at all. He and his two trustworthy friends do not even return to their school until Chapter 29.\nAs I began to read the dreaded epilogue, I found myself wanting the closure that it would bring to the Harry Potter saga. The wizard world that thrived in Rowling’s books and my imagination is not really over. I’m sure that someday I will relive Harry’s world all over again when my children experience it for themselves. \nDon’t cheat yourself by waiting for the movies. Read the books.
(07/16/07 6:34pm)
Auer Hall filled with the delicate sounds of the harp and resounding applause as harpists from around the world took the stage Tuesday and Wednesday during stage three of the seventh annual 2007 USA International Harp Competition.\nLike clockwork, the competition begins every three years on the IU campus to help bring harp music to a wider audience through its educational outreach activities, according to the event program. Five presentations were held at elementary schools throughout the Bloomington and Spencer areas.\nColine-Marie Orliac of France, Hanako Hirano of Japan and Maria Krushevskaya of Russia were chosen from ten semifinalists in stage three to commence Saturday’s finals. The four-stage competition began with 36 contestants from 13 countries all vying for a gold medal.\nThe three harpists will perform a harp solo by E. Walter Küne and a piece with the IU Festival Orchestra by G. Pierné, conducted by David Effron, said Aaron Kercheval, executive director of the International Harp Competition.\nKercheval said he was taken aback the first time he attended the finals.\n“You will be surprised at how different three performances of the same piece side by side can be,” he said.\nFounded by Susann McDonald, distinguished professor and chair of the Harp Department at the Jacobs School of Music, the competition attracts world-renowned musicians and instructors to Bloomington and is the only international harp competition to be recognized by the World Federation of International Music Competitions, according to the event program. \nMcDonald will speak at the finals, as will IU President Michael McRobbie and Gwyn Richards, dean of the IU Jacobs School of Music.\nKathlene Smith, mother of 2004 silver medalist and 2001 bronze medalist Julie Ann Smith, is attending the competition for the third time. \n“It’s just a well-run competition and one that I enjoy every time I come,” Kathlene said.\nJulie was recently awarded the position as principal harpist with the San Diego Symphony and performed July 7 at the competition’s Laureate Recital, Kathlene said.\nThe contest continues at 7 p.m. today in Recital Hall during “Stars of Tomorrow,” a concert featuring teenage winners of the 2005 American Harp Society National Competition and the International Harp Competition. The Konghou Troupe of Beijing Union University and 2001 gold-medal winner Dan Yu will perform during a guest concert at 8 p.m. on Friday at Alumni Hall.\nThe 14-day competition will end with the Competition Finals and Awards Ceremony at 7 p.m. this Saturday at the Musical Arts Center, where a $55,000 Lyon & Healy Gold Concert Grand Harp will be awarded to the first place winner.
(07/16/07 6:26pm)
Maria Krushevskaya is finally going home. But now she will be returning to Russia with a $55,000 Lyon and Healy gold concert grand harp and a first-place medal from the USA International Harp Competition. The win also includes thousands of dollars in cash prizes, a CD recording and recitals in New York, London and Taipei.\nThirty-six participants were narrowed down throughout three stages of competition to three finalists to compete during Saturday’s finals in the Musical Arts Center. Hanako Hirano of Japan placed second and Coline-Marie Orliac of France placed third in the competition.\n“I was dreaming that in a couple of days I could return to Russia,” Krushevskaya said.\nFollowing the competition, the winner plans to return to her home country, where she hopes she can get some much-needed rest for her fingers, she said.\n“I took the first prize because (for) 17 years I have worked hard,” she said.\nThe stressful 10-day competition has been a challenge for the winner. Krushevskaya, 23, has been playing the harp since age 7 and placed fifth at the 2004 competition.\n“I was just happy because the first and second stage was difficult for me,” she said. “I’m happy that the competition is over. It was a very long and hard competition.”\nKrushevskaya may have won first prize, but audience member Carol Isaacs of Bloomington thinks nobody really lost.\n“Beautiful and inspiring, they are extremely talented, and I wouldn’t want to be a judge,” Isaacs said.\nShe said the competition benefits the Bloomington community and IU.\nEvery three years, the competition has brought musicians and instructors from around the world, making it the world’s only harp competition to be recognized by the World Federation of International Music Competitions.\nEach finalist performed Elena Walter Kune’s solo piece “Fantaisie sur un theme de l’opera Eugene Onegin” and Gabriel Pierne’s “Concertstuck for Harp and Orchestra, Op. 39” with the Jacobs School of Music Festival Orchestra. \nJim Allen enjoyed the competition while he and his wife, Ann, hosted competitor Zhiyang Sung of China during his stay in Bloomington.\n“It’s a new experience, and we’ve enjoyed it,” Allen said. “In fact, at the end of stage one, Sung said that (Krushevskaya) would win.”
(07/02/07 12:59am)
INDIANAPOLIS – As Independence Day draws near, citizens across Indiana are preparing for the time-honored tradition of blowing up explosive material.\nDuring the weeks prior to July 4, red and white tents pop up in many shopping centers and brilliantly colored billboards litter the Indiana highways.\nThe state is also home to Shelton Fireworks, which claims to be one of the largest fireworks warehouses in the world. The business includes 12 retail stores that can be found in four states with six locations in Indiana.\nPaul Shelton helps manage the store’s Web site and blog from the Fremont, Ind., branch. His son Greg started the business 33 years ago in Eaglesville, Mo.\nThe store sells consumer fireworks ranging from sparklers to grand finales. Their most popular products are mortar kits ranging from six to 120 shells, Shelton said during a phone interview.\n“Really, if you’re going do a good show, twenty minutes is long enough; (otherwise) you lose the tension.”\nHowever, the biggest seller at the Richmond, Ind., store is the simple and cheap bottle rocket, head cashier Jennifer Fischer said in a phone interview.\nTNT Fireworks operates about 30 tents throughout Indiana, including a stand in Southport, Ind. Chris Moore has owned and operated the tent for six years and also says bottle rockets are the most popular item in stock.\nMoore offers a variety of “manager’s specials,” as well as his favorite, the small and low-priced Mini Artillery Shells.\n“It’s a decent explosion and has a variety of colors and shots,” Moore said during an interview.\nThe largest explosives that TNT Fireworks sells are made from 500 grams of gunpowder. Examples of such fireworks include those named Star Struck and America’s Best, Moore said. \nHe also plays a DVD for three hours in the evening that demonstrates how the fireworks work.\n“That always helps them to know what they’re really buying.”
(06/27/07 10:50pm)
The smell of pizza filled the air as The Art Deco Quartet took the stage with special guest and tenor saxophone player Alex Beltran on Tuesday evening at Max’s Place. The band was led by trumpet and flugelhorn player David Miller as they performed a variety of cover compositions and original music.\n“I write a lot of the original compositions, but we do a lot of music by other composers, a lot of music by Ornette Coleman,” said Miller.\nMiller has been performing on and off with acoustic bass player Steve Johnson for 47 years and with the band since last August, \nMiller said.\n“Ornette Coleman had a jazz group in the late ’50s and the early ’60s that pioneered this kind of pianoist combination of saxophone, trumpet, bass and drums,” said Miller. “So really we’re trying to play in the vein \nof that.”\nGuest tenor saxophone player Alex Beltran, a recent graduate of the Jacobs School of Music, said he has been playing the saxophone for six years and has performed with The Art Deco Quartet \nseveral times. \n“Anyone who has an original voice inspires me, anyone who is not being fake and is being themselves. Everyone inspires me in that sense,” said Beltran.\nBill Hubbs, a customer of Max’s Place, described the evening as “food meets entertainment” and enjoyed that the band played mid-week and earlier in the evening during dinner hours. \nMax’s Place server Katrina Perry also enjoyed the music of The Art Deco Quartet.\n“They are one of the most passionate (perfromances) that we have here. They really put their heart into it,” said Perry. \nThe restaurant features a variety of music for its customers on a nightly basis. \n“We do bluegrass, folk music, hip-hop, rock and reggae, pretty much a little bit of everything. Anyone who wants to play here can. I’ve seen everything form hip-hop to good old boys with a banjo and a washboard,” said Perry.\nAs the restaurant began to close, the performance became more of a rehearsal for the band. They closed out the evening with their calypso rendition of “Ghosts” by Albert Ayler.
(06/20/07 8:36pm)
Stewed Muskrat, Mock Oysters and Cinderella Cake are a few recipes that can be found in the Lincoln Room of the IU Lilly Library. The current exhibit, “Liberty Recipes to Betty Crocker: American Cookbooks, 1918-1950” features a variety of cookbooks. \nExhibit curator and graduate student Jodine Perkins used cookbooks from the large number already located at the Lilly Library.\n“Every single thing in the exhibit was in the library. They like to feature some of the things that they actually hold. It gives people a chance to see what they have,” Perkins said.\nThe collection’s prized piece is a privately published first edition of Irma S. Rombauer’s 1931 cookbook “The Joy of Cooking.”\nThe Lilly’s copy is one of 3,000 printed by Rombauer and contains recipes, including tartar sauce, made completely from scratch, Perkins said.\nThe beginning of the book includes a variety of cocktail recipes. However, the book was written and published during Prohibition, said Becky Cape, head of public services for the Lilly Library.\n“They really give you a good context of the social custom of the time,” Cape said. “People were obviously using alcohol beverages to the point that it would not be unusual to have a cocktail section.”\nWorld War I and World War II cookbooks are also featured in the exhibit. Cape said these World War-era cookbooks specialize in teaching cooks how to prepare quality meals with rationed ingredients and instruct women how to cook food quickly while they are working for the men at war. \nCookbooks for men are also featured in the collection. These books provide instruction for the simplest of techniques, including how to boil water and what you can do with it once it is boiling. Cookbooks for children, cooking on the go and promotional cookbooks are also on display.\n“It was interesting. I have several of my own and my mom always collected cookbooks,” said Ken Veron, a father visiting the library while his daughter attended orientation.\nOne of Perkins’ favorite recipes in the exhibit is one for Chocolate Crunch Cookies, the name of the original Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie before it was bought by Nestle.\n“That’s probably the only one that I’ve ever cooked,” she said.
(05/31/07 1:24am)
Fried eggs, glow sticks and an accordion were just a few of the elements that made Monday evening’s “The Magic Theater, A Curious Rock Show” at the Bloomington Cinemat \nso peculiar. \nThe show began with the acoustic stylings of “Uno Moss” as it performed original songs like “Binocular” and “Starfish.” Band members Vincent Uno and Pete Moss graced the dark stage with glow sticks around their wrists and necks.\nThe second act featured Phyllis Chen and her toy pianos as she performed “The Memorist.” Chen combined the use of multimedia, a stuffed animal and fried eggs to create a “curious wonderland” on stage.\nLouisiana band Juan Prophet Organization rounded out the curious evening with their Vaudeville-style music and various instruments. The vocals of singer and violinist Grayson White helped further shape the evening into an unusual rock show.
(05/14/07 1:17am)
Veronica and Wilson Yeakle begged to dance when they saw the Windfall Dance Company\n take the stage to perform their interpretation of Arabian Nights on Saturday evening at the Owen Valley High School auditorium. Their mother, Angela Yeakle, said she took her children to the show to expose them to different cultures. \n“We try to expose them to any arts that we can and it’s nice to not have to drive into Bloomington,” Yeakle said.\nYeakle is planning on enrolling Veronica in fall youth classes with the Windfall School of Dance. Windfall also offers a variety of classes for adults, including ballet, Irish step and hip-hop\n. \nAs a part of the Owen County Public Library’s monthly Family Night, the Windfall dancers performed two acts, filled with Middle Eastern influences and colorful costumes. Dancer Kay Olges has been with the company since 1995 and choreographed the segment “The Man Who Stole the Golden Dish.” \n“I loved the opportunity to work with musicians live because the energy from the dancers and the musicians is something that you just don’t get any other way,” Olges said.\nAfter reviewing the Arabian Nights stories, members of Windfall, ranging in ages from 20 to 51, worked together to incorporate modern dance techniques with the text, Olges said.\n“Since it was Middle Eastern, we wanted to bring in Middle Eastern and belly dance styles more,” Olges said. “We didn’t want to try and make it a belly dance show, but we did want to recognize the influences.”\nWindfall is accustomed to choreography with a central theme and sometimes text. Past performances include “Legends,” “Myths and Other Flights of Fancy” and “Nocturne.”\n“We have the literacy project where we help kids develop movement with text. We have also collaborated with music before,” Olges said.\nLive music for the performance was provided by Salaam, a world music ensemble that uses a variety of instruments including the joza, two dumbeks, and a tuppan, said Dena El Saffar, who played the violin, joza and veolla for the show.\n“A lot of what we do is with belly dancers.” El Saffar said. “Doing it with modern dance is different.”\nWindfall will be holding a summer dance camp for kids ages 8-14 beginning June 11.
(10/09/06 3:21am)
SERVED -- Sophomore Sigrid Fischer serves the ball at the Hoosier Classic Sunday morning. Fischer and senior Cecile Perton closed out the Classic with two doubles victories at the Varsity Tennis Center.