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(02/14/21 6:38pm)
It’s mid-February. It’s snowed again. You’ve built your annual snowman, used up your yearly capacity for snow photos and gone sledding on the one day there was enough snow to do so. Long walks in the snow are passé, you’re too old to catch another snowflake on your tongue and the skiing in Bloomington is subpar.
(11/20/20 5:32pm)
It’s Native American Heritage Month, Thanksgiving is right around the corner and people across the U.S. are partaking in their annual resurgence of interest in Indigenous cultures, often discussing “traditional Native American foods.”
(11/17/20 1:49am)
When I walked by the former Darn Good Soup storefront on College Avenue a few weeks ago and saw a giant poster advertising khao man gai, the Thai version of the classic Southeast Asian dish Hainan chicken rice, I knew I had to make an exception to my policy of avoiding American Thai restaurants.
(11/08/20 4:04pm)
The IU First Nations Educational and Cultural Center is hosting a series of three events, titled “Embodying Contemporary Native Identity: Mind, Body, and Spirit,” which will be held at 6:30 p.m. next Monday, Wednesday and Friday on Zoom and streamed through Facebook Live on the FNECC’s Facebook page.
(10/29/20 8:44pm)
Local bakers Kim Naseath and Dev Montanez, the duo behind Bloomington Bakers Against Racism, are organizing another anti-racist bake sale.
(10/22/20 2:12am)
Bloomington’s first-ever Restaurant Week began Monday and goes until Nov 1. The initiative, organized by Visit Bloomington, aims to support the restaurant industry that is struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic by encouraging diners to eat out and take advantage of Restaurant Week deals.
(10/16/20 3:28am)
While the 80-degree weather we've had this week might tempt you into thinking it’s still summer, you’d be wrong. Fall is here, as shown by the giant piles of dusty pumpkins in front of Kroger and the squash and gourds coming into seasonal abundance at local farmers markets and gardens. Savvy Instagrammers and the rest of us are buying the cutest ones to decorate dining room tables, bookshelves and front porches across the U.S.
(10/05/20 10:37pm)
As a child, I loved gathering wild plums and blackberries in my Berkeley, California backyard. As a teacher in Georgia — the country — I spent hours wandering the mountains behind my village collecting tiny mountain strawberries, purslane and feral mulberries.
(09/30/20 12:05am)
Indiana-born country musician Clayton Anderson will perform in Dunn Meadow at 8 p.m. Friday, presented by the IU Auditorium as part of IU’s Open Air Venues initiative.
(09/25/20 1:48am)
As students returned to universities around the country, there were reports of “nightmarish” meals that reminded people of the infamous Fyre Festival meals. IU’s last update of the COVID-19 dashboard said 21% of the more than 500 quarantine rooms on campus were full, meaning that at least 100 people are eating in Ashton this week.
(09/16/20 8:37pm)
The only thing keeping me going this year is forcing myself to find joy in small things. One small thing that has brought a disproportionate amount of joy, by weight at least, is the corona bean – a large, white legume originating in Italy.
(09/13/20 3:42pm)
Cori Sereni felt suffocated in New York City. When they moved to Bloomington 12 years ago with their 7-year-old daughter, they loved being closer to nature, but felt something was missing.
(09/08/20 12:38am)
Downtown Bloomington has a new addition: Nat’s Bakery and Cafe, a calm oasis of sugar and coffee hiding in the basement of Fountain Square Mall, at 101 W. Kirkwood Ave. #21. Nat’s opened Aug. 6 by Ivy Tech Community College baking and pastry student Natalie “Nat” Strauser.
(09/01/20 12:10am)
Sections of Kirkwood Avenue were teeming with IU students, Bloomington residents and out-of-town visitors at lunchtime last Sunday. After unanimous approval from Bloomington City Council, two parts of the street have been closed to automobile traffic on recent weekends to allow restaurants and shops more space for social distancing and outdoor diningin the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. While no shops have set up in the closed sections yet, many restaurants on Kirkwood between the Monroe County Courthouse and the Sample Gates have moved into the roadway.
(08/26/20 11:14pm)
It’s been a long, hot summer in Bloomington, and the area right around the courthouse had been weirdly lacking ice cream and other cold summer treats until Brilliant Coffee Company opened mid-June. While the name emphasizes coffee, it’s also a gelato shop with an in-house pastry chef, an unexpectedly diverse beverage selection, reasonable prices and friendly and helpful staff. The shop also sells coffee beans, canisters of tea and branded T-shirts.
(08/24/20 11:50pm)
As an off-campus student, I went to the IU Tennis Center for my on-arrival COVID-19 test Saturday to experience the profound discomfort of standing in a giant room full of fellow students spitting in tubes while cheerful staff gave instructions and judged the quality of our saliva.
(08/23/20 4:35pm)
Dev Montanez loves to bake, but found baking for money at their former job as an employee of local vegan establishment Rainbow Bakery unfulfilling. The Bloomington resident said while they didn’t have a problem working there, baking for money wasn’t enjoyable.
(07/24/20 3:39am)
IU is getting ready for students to come back to campus as COVID-19 cases rise in Bloomington, municipal employees are increasingly getting sick and local restaurants are shutting down due to outbreaks.
(07/22/20 3:51am)
In response to the increase in mental health-related issues that has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration Division of Mental Health and Addiction has created the Be Well Crisis Helpline according to a press release. The helpline which can be accessed by calling 2-1-1, allows Indiana residents 24/7 free and confidential access to trained counselors, according to a press release. The hotline is funded by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(07/21/20 1:23am)
About a dozen self-described “old punks” and members of the former Bloomington branch of the Anti-Racist Action network met at noon Saturday in Peoples Park to discuss their past activism, their present lives and concerns about the future.