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(04/19/07 4:00am)
"Miss Potter" was everything I didn't expect -- including imaginary animals, child-like themes and 1920s settings. But the movie takes an old-fashioned fairy tale, quirks it around a bit and even fits in the traditional chick flick components of love, silliness and heartbreak. It does this all the while telling a historical story and using typical story lines from modern-day movies to tell them in a new way -- which is exactly why it worked.
The film tells the story of Beatrix Potter (Renee Zellweger), who wrote "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and numerous other children's books. Set in London in the early 1900s, Miss Potter is unmarried, 32 and somewhat crazy. She spends her time painting and writing stories and finally lands a publisher in Norman (Ewan McGregor).
(04/12/07 4:00am)
I knew full well before listening to this album that Hilary's voice is more like talking than actual singing (think Mary-Kate and Ashley in the "Brother for Sale" days). Still, I was really, really hoping she'd be able to put something together that would show more maturity than her previous hits like "So Yesterday" and "Come Clean" (which was probably only a hit because it was the "Laguna Beach" theme song). I mean the girl is 19, after all.
But her fourth album is just as teen-pop and childish as the first three. What makes this one even worse is the lack of improvement in however many years she's been singing.
(04/05/07 4:00am)
Though much of the story is filled with heart-wrenching moments, "The Pursuit of Happyness" has found a unique niche in a realm of success stories.
It's inspired by the true story of Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith), who is forced to care for his son Christopher (Jaden Smith) when his wife (Thandie Newton) leaves them after months of unpaid rent, long hours at work and little money to get by on. He's living in San Francisco with barely a job -- the salesman sells bone-density scanners when he can convince doctors they're necessary -- and "home" for the pair moves from a dirty apartment to a motel and then to the streets.
(04/05/07 4:00am)
It all started in 1986 with an idea between two very different IU students: one wanted an outlet for local music, the other wanted to raise money to fight world hunger. When the two combined ideas, Live from Bloomington's first Club Night emerged.
On the floor of Assembly Hall, about 10 local bands jumped at the chance to play their music for the community. Live From Bloomington reached its peak in the late 1990s, when the event raised more than 13,000 pounds of food and $6,000. All proceeds go to Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Since that time, volunteers have seen those numbers sharply decline, and last year the campaign barely made a profit. Now, local bands and volunteers are looking for any way possible to restore this long tradition back to its heightened status.
(04/04/07 4:00am)
A 44-year-old woman was arrested Monday after punching a nurse at Bloomington Hospital who was trying to help her.\nSusan Merrill was arrested for battery on a health care provider, a class D felony, said Bloomington Police Department Detective Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from the police report.\nMerrill, who was transported to the hospital for being too intoxicated and causing a disturbance in the 3000 block of South Walnut Street punched the female nurse, 26, in the arm who was trying to get her into a hospital gown, Canada said. The nurse complained only of pain, he said. Merrill was then transported to the Monroe County Jail. Merrill told officers that she did not punch the nurse, and then accused the nurse of lying, Canada said.
(03/28/07 4:00am)
Police are still looking for a man who attempted to rob Cresent Donut, 231 S. Adams St., Monday night. \nBloomington Police responded to a call around 10:50 p.m. Monday, said BPD Detective Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from the police report. A female clerk at the store was working when a man dressed in dark clothes entered the shop and bought three doughnuts. When she placed them on the counter he told her he was robbing the store, Canada said.\nThe woman then looked at the robber and asked him if he was kidding, Canada said. The man repeated it was a robbery and told her he wanted all the money. As she questioned him again if he was joking, another patron entered the store and the man took off running when he saw the patron.\nPolice have no leads but are still searching for the subject, who was described as a 6-foot man in his early 20s with blonde hair.
(03/27/07 4:00am)
Police are still looking for a man who attempted to rob Cresent Donut Shops, 231 S. Adams St., Monday night. \nBloomington Police responded to a call around 10:50 p.m. Monday, said BPD Detective Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from the police report. A female clerk at the store was working when a man dressed in dark clothes entered the shop and bought three doughnuts. When she placed them on the counter he told her he was robbing the store, Canada said.\nThe woman then looked at the man and asked him if he was kidding, Canada said. The man repeated it was a robbery and told her he wanted all the money. As she questioned him again if he was joking, another patron entered the store and the man took off running when he saw the patron.\nPolice have no leads but are still searching for the subject, who was described as a 6-foot man in his early 20s with blonde hair.
(03/20/07 4:00am)
An autopsy was conducted late Monday night to determine the identity of a body that was found at Purdue University earlier in the day. \nInvestigators have not yet determined if the body is that of missing Purdue freshman Wade Steffey, 19, who disappeared Jan. 13, said Purdue spokeswoman Jeanne \nNorberg.\nA university utility worker entered a high voltage area in Owen Hall on the campus around noon Monday when she found the body, Norberg said. Steffey was last spotted near Owen Hall before he was reported missing more than two months ago, she said.\n“The body was found about 50 yards away from where Wade was last seen,” she said. “We don’t know if it’s Wade. We’re concerned for whoever it is – whether it’s Wade or someone else.”\nThe Tippecanoe County coroner could not make any comments on the individual’s condition, age or gender and expects to announce the name of the individual at a press conference Tuesday, Norberg said.\n“Because this is a suspicious death we want to keep the information close until we know what we’re dealing with,” she said.\nDale Steffey and Dawn Adams, Wade Steffey’s parents, were both notified after the body was found. They arrived around 4:30 p.m. Monday in West Lafayette to talk to police and a counselor, and they are staying overnight, Norberg said. \nBecause the room was locked and only certain employees had access to it, the room was not looked through during any of several searches in the past two months, Norberg said.\nUtility workers at the residence hall were alerted after someone reported a noise that was coming from the room that was described as a “popping” noise, Norberg said. The source of the noise was also unknown. The power was shut off until the coroner could enter the building and remove the body, \nshe said.\nNorberg could not speculate on the body’s identity but said she was surprised this discovery occurred today because nothing has led up to it. The latest search was conducted Sunday afternoon but concluded without results. \n“It’s certainly been a case concerning Wade where nothing really added up,” she said. “We had a lot of pieces of information. We don’t know if this is going to be a resolution to it or not.”
(03/01/07 5:00am)
If I had to watch this movie in a history class or if my parents took me to see it, I would have enjoyed it more, but as far as Friday night movies are concerned, it didn't quite capture me the way I was expecting.
Set in England in the late 1700s, this largely historical film centers around abolitionist William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), whose passion for the abolition of slavery drives his work to end the practice in the British empire.
Though Wilberforce is denied and ridiculed by Parliament again and again, his small groups of supporters -- including his former minister John Newton (Albert Finney), who was once captain of a slave ship and wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace" to help him go through with his desire to abolish the practice.
(02/22/07 5:00am)
The Oscars might feature movie stars who seem to live in a distant world, but Bloomington and Monroe County have so many connections to Hollywood that a local history museum decided to feature them in an exhibit.
(02/15/07 5:00am)
This relational mother/daughter movie is as cheesy and predictable as you'd imagine a Mandy Moore movie to be, but it's so funny I used this review as an excuse to see it two weekends in a row.
(02/14/07 5:00am)
This relational mother/daughter movie is as cheesy and predictable as you'd imagine a Mandy Moore movie to be, but it's so funny I used this review as an excuse to see it two weekends in a row.
(01/29/07 4:19am)
Icy roads might have caused a woman's car to slide off the road and sink to the bottom of a pond Sunday morning, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Faron Lake, reading from the police report. \nThe woman in her thirties, who could not be named because her next-of-kin might have not been notified, yet was believed to have lost control on Pete Ellis Drive at the entrance to Woodbridge Apartments near 10th Street at 11:39 a.m. Sunday, Lake said. \nAfter over-correcting, the four door compact vehicle ran off the road into a retention pond at the entrance to the apartment complex, and quickly sunk to the bottom of the pond, he said. Lake said he guessed the pond was 10 to 12 feet deep. \nThe woman was unable to get out of the vehicle as several people attempted to rescue her by jumping into the pond as the car was going down, Lake said. Though some people made it to the car they were unable to open the doors due to the temperature of the pond as well as a thin sheet of ice partially covering the pond, Lake said.\nIU Police Department Sgt. Chad Bennett said IUPD Officer David Winburn and Sgt. Andy Stephenson attempted to help get the car out by diving in the water. Stephenson went under the water to try and get to the car and attach a winch to the car to pull it out of the lake, Bennett said. Police had attached a harness to Stephenson to get him out of the water which was so cold he was unable to move, Bennett said.\n"I think those guys went certainly above and beyond," Bennett said. "It's a lot more than a lot of people would have done."\nThe Monroe County Dive Team was also called to the scene and used a wrecker to pull the car out of the pond, Lake said. The woman was taken to Bloomington Hospital where she was pronounced dead, he said.\nThe accident is still under investigation and an autopsy will determine the official cause of death, Lake said. \nNo one else was in the car or hurt in the accident, he said. The residence of the woman is also unknown.
(01/18/07 5:05am)
An IU student who was charged with raping a female student in October turned himself in Tuesday afternoon and was then freed after paying his bond, said Sgt. Jimmy Edwards of the Monroe County Jail.\nA warrant for the arrest of Santana Adame III, 20, was issued on Jan. 10. Adame is charged with rape, a class B felony, and could face several years in prison, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Faron Lake, reading from the police report.\nAdame was booked into the jail Tuesday afternoon but paid his $10,000 surety bond that night, Edwards said. \nThe 18-year-old victim, an IU student, told police she and Adame had been drinking at a party, but later went back to his residence in the 3000 block of East Morningside Drive, Lake said. The woman said Adame was trying to touch her inappropriately and she told him to stop, Lake said. The woman then went to sleep and "discovered after she went unconscious that he had had sex with her," Lake said.\nAdame told police that the sexual encounter was consensual and that the woman was the aggressor, Lake said.\nBPD received a call to go to Bloomington Hospital where the victim was taken after the incident, Lake said.
(01/18/07 4:46am)
Bloomington Police arrested two IU wrestlers Monday after more than a month of investigating a Dec. 3, 2006, incident in which the two were involved in a fight near Kilroy's Sports Bar, 319. N. Walnut St.\nTwo of the wrestlers have since been suspended from the team, said Frank Cuervo, an IU athletics spokesperson. \nBoth Jose E. Escobedo, 21, and Eric J. Cameron, 18, were arrested Monday. A arrest warrant for minor in a tavern has also been filed for a third IU wrestler, Ted Strychalski, who was also at Kilroy's during the incident, said BPD Capt. Faron Lake.\nEscobedo was arrested on charges of battery, a class C felony. Cameron, a freshman, was charged with illegal consumption, resisting law enforcement, criminal mischief and minor in a tavern, all misdemeanors, Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report. \nEscobedo was charged with hitting a 22-year-old woman in the eye after an argument involving her and several other women. The woman sustained a contusion to her right cheek as well as chipped and loose teeth, according to a Dec. 5, 2006, Indiana Daily Student article.\nCameron, a resident of McNutt Quad, was accused of punching the driver's-side window of a sport utility vehicle and then jumping over the wall of the three-story parking garage, according to the article.\nCanada said Cameron was "completely incapacitated by the fall."\nBoth Strychalski and Escobedo have been suspended from the wrestling team, and Cameron is "no longer active with the team," Cuervo said.\nEric Cameron's father, Don Cameron, said after talking to eyewitnesses at the incident that he believes, despite the charges, that his son was not drinking that night and simply "lost his bearing and ... jumped over the third-story wall."\n"That's the first thing I asked the people in the hospital," Don Cameron said. "I said, 'Was he drunk?' ... and they said, 'Well, we didn't find any alcohol in him.'"\nDon Cameron said he also spoke with Escobedo after the incident.\n"I said, 'I don't know if you hit that girl or not,'" Don Cameron said. "He said, 'Mr. Cameron, honest to God, I did not hit that girl.' So I said, 'Well, I believe ya.'"\nNeither are listed on the IU Athletics Web site, www.iuhoosiers.com.\nMonroe County Jail Officer Ross Holland said Escobedo was still being held at the Monroe County Jail with a bail of $10,000 surety. Cameron was released two hours after his arrival Monday with a bail of $2,000 surety, Holland said.
(01/16/07 1:48am)
Blood supply levels at the American Red Cross have dropped from a typical three-day supply to less than a one-day supply, said Don Creek, the donor recruitment representative for the American Red Cross in Bloomington.\nLevels are "critically low," with Type O, A- and B- experiencing the greatest shortage, according to a press release. As of Friday, the River Valley Region, which includes Bloomington, only had 0.83 days worth of blood, according to its Web site.\n"We're just on the edge, and we just need people to take that 45 minutes or an hour and find a blood drive," Creek said.\nPotential donors can go to www.givebloodnow.org to find upcoming blood drives in the Bloomington area. The next campus blood drive will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 16 at the Indiana Memorial Union.\nIU students now have an added incentive to donate, Creek said. If they give blood anywhere in Indiana, the donation will count in IU's "Battle for Blood" against Purdue. The contest will continue through Nov. 10, Creek said.\nLocal students, including those from IU and area high schools, provide 10 to 15 percent of the blood supply in Bloomington, Creek said.\n"The modern miracles are great, and when you think about being able to add years and years to people's lives," he said, "the demand for blood is going up"
(12/08/06 5:00am)
Oh, the holiday season. It's the typical dilemma -- does Dad really need another lame tie? Where would Mom really put another Yankee candle? What should I get for my new boyfriend -- will he like me enough? Or worse, what if he spends more money on me than I do on him? Oh! And it's only our first Christmas!\nRest assured, WEEKEND's gift guide is here. Whether you have $10 or $100, one or all of these gifts has the potential for perfection for someone in your life.
(12/08/06 5:00am)
Oh, the holiday season. It's the typical dilemma -- does Dad really need another lame tie? Where would Mom really put another Yankee candle? What should I get for my new boyfriend -- will he like me enough? Or worse, what if he spends more money on me than I do on him? Oh! And it's only our first Christmas!
Rest assured, WEEKEND's gift guide is here. Whether you have $10 or $100, one or all of these gifts has the potential for perfection for someone in your life.
(12/07/06 5:43am)
Police said they arrested an 18-year-old IU student Tuesday afternoon on charges of voyeurism, a class D felony. The student admitted Sunday to peeping in the women's showers of Wright Quad, said IU Police Department Capt. Jerry Minger.\nAt that time of his confession, IUPD filed an arrest warrant for Sung Hwan Byun after taking a statement from the man Sunday night. Later, at about 7 a.m. Tuesday, police were called to the student's Tulip Tree apartment in response to a suicide attempt, Minger said. When they arrived at the residence, the student was treated for his injuries. Officers then presented a search warrant and confiscated all his computer and photo equipment. At this point, the student admitted to trying to take pictures of the women.\nHe was then transported to Bloomington Hospital, where he was treated for self-sustained deep cuts to his wrist, Minger said. \nThe man received treatment, but just before noon the police received the warrant for his arrest, which was filed Sunday after the man's initial confession to the peeping incidents, Minger said. The timing of the arrest warrant had no connection with the suicide attempt or second confession.\nHe was then taken to Monroe County Jail but was released later Tuesday afternoon, said Monroe County Jail Sgt. Otto, who refused to give his first name.\nMinger said the student was not detained immediately Sunday because police were waiting on his arrest warrant to be issued from a judge.\n"It wasn't a danger to the community," Minger said of the student's original release Sunday. "The crime didn't involve anybody that would be in jeopardy. Voyeurs or people who commit this type of crime don't usually want to have personal contact with the people"
(12/06/06 3:48am)
The National Weather Forecast Office in central Indiana awarded the IU Physical Plant the 50-year Institutional Award in honor of the plant's half a century of collecting metereological data.\nJohn Ogren, a meteorologist from the forecast office, presented the award to Mark Menefee, assistant director of the physical plant, and the plant's employees.\nEvery morning, the Physical Plant records the day's high and low temperatures, the amount of precipitation and depth of the snowfall for the forecast office, which covers the central part of Indiana, said Ed Terrell, a hydrometerological technician for the forecast office.\n"We use this data every day," Ogren said. "It helps people every day."\nThe data is used for forecasting, publication and research, according to a National Weather Service news release. \nAbout 250 sites in Indiana are run by institutions like IU or private individuals, which keep the forecast office in Indianapolis aware of daily weather conditions, Terrell said. Only about 20 to 30 of these awards have been given out to institutions and individuals in central Indiana.\n"Even though it's been a different group of people over those 50 years, it's still a great event," Terrell said.\nThe stations are part of 11,000 networks across the country, Terrell said. \nBecause of the plant's performance, IU is part of the U.S. \nHistorical Climatological Network, "an elite network of stations," \naccording to the news release.\n"We're fortunate in this country to have one of the best climatological networks in the world," he said. "It's that type of spirit and dedication this program was built on."\nThe program, which dates back to the late 1800s, provides data that Terrell said is "the backbone of the climate (data collection) of the United States."\nMenefee said the physical plant is proud of its consistency and plans to continue collecting meterological data for another 50 years.\n"We didn't know the whole story of the program," he said. "It's great to be a part of that"
