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(10/19/10 2:38am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The martini bar located on College Avenue and Fourth Street is anything but a mistake, as its name suggests, though it started out that way.“This place took me about two years to fix up. I almost didn’t buy it. It was a nice accident, but I took my time. I wanted to do it right,” owner Tariq Khan said, “There was a lot of pressure.”The building, which used to house Second Story and Bullwinkle’s Nightclub, had a change of pace about two years ago. It is now home to Serendipity, an upscale martini bar that houses live bands, usually associated with the University. Bands perform every weekend without cover charge. “I don’t like the idea of paying up front to see a live show. I think people should come and enjoy and if they like it, should stay and even come back. A lot of bands are student bands too, or professors. There’s a big spectrum of music,” Khan said. Hostess and senior Samantha Grimes has been working at the bar for two months. She has noticed that the majority of the students who visit the bar are students who are looking for a little reminder of home. “It’s a nice and fancy place, not a stereotypical bar. This isn’t a place to blackout. There is a decent amount of students who show up, mainly out-of-state students like those from Chicago and New York who are used to places like this back home,” Grimes said.Server Adam Tinsley grew up in Elletsville. He saw an ad in the paper that Serendipity was hiring and applied for the job. He was one of the first hired employees and helped bring in new people. “I used to come here when it was Second Story and Bullwinkle’s. It’s so much nicer than it was then. It’s classier. It’s fun to work here, fun to get dressed up,” he said.Khan’s fiancé, Tammy Schoch, was head of decorations. Schoch is a nurse at Monroe Hospital in Bloomington. “There is definitely pressure to dress nicely when you come here,” Khan said. “The decorations are very fancy. The whole idea is to dress nicely, and I have found that the students who come here have very sophisticated tastes and palates.”Though Serendipity is primarily a martini bar with 80 percent of sales being martinis, there is also a large selection of beer, wine and appetizers to choose from. “The appetizers are meant to be large enough for people to share. We have everything from seafood to sautéed vegetables,” Khan said. “We’ve only been open about a month, and we’ve gone from 10 different kinds of martinis to about 25.”Martinis range from the ever popular “City of God Martini” to the classic “Dirty Martini” to dessert martinis such as the “Chocolate Godiva Martini” and “Cookies and Crème Martini.” Each martini is priced between $9 and $12, with the “Chocolate Godiva Martini” as the most expensive at $12.
(09/17/10 2:14am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Professor Andy Hollinden has been playing concerts he calls his “end of the semester blowouts” at the Bluebird Nightclub for the past three years.Hollinden said these Bluebird shows don’t allow many of his students who are not 21 years of age to see him perform. However, Hollinden will perform an all-ages concert similar to his end-of the-semester show with his band Atom Heart Mother at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Monroe County Fall Festival in Ellettsville. “I wanted to see him at the Bluebird when he did ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ last semester because he mentioned it in class, but I couldn’t go because I wasn’t 21. It’d be kind of cool to see a professor put on a show,” said sophomore Zach Trozenski who took Hollinden’s ’70s and ’80s rock class.Atom Heart Mother will perform Pink Floyd’s 1973 “Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety as well as other Pink Floyd covers, ranging from the albums “Wish You Were Here”, “The Wall” and “Animals”.Hollinden said he and his band mates decided to cover “Dark Side of the Moon” on a whim for the 2010 spring semester Bluebird concert.“We knew we wanted to do an album, and we chose ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’” Hollinden said. “The point being that the response was so overwhelming that we’ve been asked to do this on a much larger and more sophisticated scale.”Ellettsville resident Chuck Gillespie, who did video and lighting for Atom Heart Mother’s Pink Floyd tribute at the Bluebird last spring, helped book the band for the Fall Festival.“Chuck and the other people who also decide what bands play at the festival came to see us at the Bluebird,” Hollinden said. “That concert was so successful — people went so crazy for it — that they said, ‘This is the band that we need to get.’” Hollinden said the Ellettsville concert will be an elaborate reproduction of the Bluebird concert with all the technology made available to the band at the Fall Festival.“Atom Heart Mother exists to perform Pink Floyd. It has a Pink Floyd tribute name. It’s the name of a Pink Floyd album,” Hollinden said. “If a person shows up to this concert who is a hardcore Pink Floyd fan, they will come to the concert with those albums kind of in their ear. We want that to match up to what people are hearing live.”Hollinden, who teaches a class about the history of rock in the ’70s and ’80s, said Pink Floyd is one of the big iconic bands of the ’60s and ’70s. He said he is not surprised that Pink Floyd is one of the more popular bands among kids today.Graduate student and longtime Hollinden fan Allison Hendricks said she encourages students to see Hollinden if they get the chance.“He really cares about what his students think of him, not like having to keep up his reputation,” Hendricks said. “I’ve never seen anyone walk out of the ’Bird without a smile on their face.”
(09/14/10 4:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Music professor Glenn Gass is not surprised by the number of blank stares he receives from his students when he announces that Todd Rundgren will be lecturing during class, even though Rundgren is considered one of 1970s most successful rock stars. But the ’70s producer, songwriter, overall rock star and studio wizard will be joining the IU faculty as the Class of 1963 Wells Professor in late October. Rundgren is the ninth person to have this prestigious position.Gass said Rundgren is well qualified to talk about The Beatles because he’s done many covers and tributes associated with the band. He has also toured with Ringo Starr, worked with George Harrison, knows Paul McCartney and worked on and off with John Lennon in the ’70s.Rundgren is best known for his songs, “Hello It’s Me” from his 1972 album “Something/Anything?” and the party anthem, “Bang the Drum All Day” from his 1983 album, “The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect.”“He had fame handed to him on a silver platter and he gave it up to do his own thing, like producing,” Gass said. “I’m not surprised that a 20-year-old college student wouldn’t know him until you play his biggest hits.”During his gig as a professor, Rundgren will make two public appearances on campus. The first will be a public lecture, “LONGHAIR: Todd Rundgren on The Beatles Effect,” at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 in Ballantine Hall 013 during Gass’ The Music of The Beatles class. Sophomore Brittany Tempest, who is enrolled in Gass’ Beatles course said she is excited about having the opportunity to hear Rundgren lecture during class. “Todd Rundgren is pretty much my hero,” Tempest said. “He’s been through it all, he’s not an outsider looking in. He’s lived it. He really knows what he’s talking about.”Rundgren’s other public appearance will be at 8 p.m. Oct. 31 in Auer Hall where Rundgren will give a public recital entitled, “CLUSTER: The Birth of the T Chord.” Both events will seat about 400 people and will be free and open to the public.Gass said Auer Hall will be a great setting to see Rundgren perform.“It’ll be just him, a guitar and maybe a piano,” Gass said. “He has a spectacular voice. I was stunned with his voice; he didn’t change the key or anything during his [Clowes Memorial Hall] performance.”Gass is referring to Rundgren’s recent performance at Butler University’s Clowes Memorial Hall on Sept. 11. Butler senior Jackie Gredell, a member of the Jordan Jazz vocal ensemble, shared the stage with Rundgren during parts of the second half of his show.“When I found out we were singing back up for him,” Gredell said, “I googled him and found out that he sang ‘Bang the Drum All Day’ and ‘Hello It’s Me,’ which are very popular songs, so I was excited.”Rundgren and a full band performed each and every song from 1974s “Todd” album and 1981s “Healing” as well as an ending with audience participation on the song “Sons of 1984.”“The Butler concert showcased his back catalogue, which shows his depth,” Gass said. “Healing was perfect for 9/11. Him, the band, the choir, the students really nailed it. It was great.”The four-week Wells Scholar course, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren: Musical Journeys of a Lifetime, will be instructed by Rundgren, Gass and contributing faculty; Bernice Pescosolido, distinguished professor and chancellor’s professor of sociology and Nick Toth, professor of anthropology and co-director of the Stone Age Institute. Director of the Wells Scholars Program Tim Londergan had the final say in bringing Rundgren to IU.“Todd’s here for two weeks. Those weeks are framed for him to prep students for an understanding of his background,” Gass said.Gass met Rundgren through the friendship that his sons had made with Rundgren’s nephew who lived next door during Gass’ year-long sabbatical in Hawaii. Only then was Gass able to approach Rundgren. “We got to know their family. They always had them [our kids] over at ‘Uncle Todd’s,’” he said. “I had been trying to get in touch with him as the rock teacher trying to talk to Todd Rundgren, but was never able to.”Depauw’s Executive Director of Media Relations Ken Owen, who is a Rundgren fan and scholar, invited Rundgren to speak at DePauw in April 2009.“Todd wasn’t sure if he would enjoy lecturing, but he went, and he enjoyed it,” Gass said. “So I mentioned that we had to get him to IU, and we did with endowments from the Class of 1963.”As to what Rundgren will be teaching, Gass said Rundgren is keeping that to himself.“He’s got great stories to tell. Musicians are sometimes more comfortable talking about someone else they admire and who influences them versus their own music,” Gass said.
(03/01/10 11:11pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>If all the shops were full of candy bars and lollipops, what a wonderful downtown it would be.A new candy store is moving in where La Bamba Mexican Restaurant used to be on Kirkwood Avenue and should be open either late March or early April.Campus Candy, just above Finch's Brasserie, offers what co-owner Mark Tarnofsky said other shops don’t offer students at the IU campus.“This is a very different kind of candy store,” he said. “This is a cool candy store. At Campus Candy, we ain’t just candy.”Tarnofsky had the idea to open a candy store near campus after helping his daughter move in. After going out to dinner, she told him the only place to get a candy bar was CVS.“There wasn’t a place where you could buy a candy bar,” he said. “Kids love candy. How can there not be a candy store in Bloomington?” he said.Bloomington does have a candy shop, Inside Scoop in College Mall, but it’s not exactly within walking distance of campus.Tarnofsky then called his business partner, Jason Tynan, who liked the idea of a candy store in a college town. Tarnofsky and Tynan worked together
in apparel manufacturing from which Tynan retired. Tarnofsky works in
the carwash industry as well. “We picked Bloomington to open up our flagship store because we love IU,” Tarnofsky said. “The attitude here is unbelievable.”The two owners said Campus Candy will offer more than 300 different types of candy, including candy bars, fat-free candy and sugar-free candy. The candy store will also offer healthy alternatives, such as trail mix and self-serve yogurts ranging from sweet to tart. In addition, they also plan to serve coffee.“We’ll have the best coffee in town. We will serve Lavzza, which is Italian coffee,” Tarnofsky said. “Of course, we’ll have everything else, including hot chocolate.”Campus Candy will offer its patrons free wi-fi, TVs, music and an atmosphere that Tarnofsky said was different from any of the other places that sell coffee. “We want to make sure that students feel comfortable and welcome at Campus Candy,” Tarnofsky said. “The whole purpose of the store is to be unique. We want students to hang out here with no pressure, sit back and do homework.”Tarnofsky and Tynan plan to open up other Campus Candy stores throughout college campuses around the country, specifically at Big Ten and Big East schools. Hours are not yet known, but the owners are willing to work with hours that seem more popular with students.“You almost don’t know when you’re going to be open your first year in business,” Tynan said. “If there’s business to be done, we’ll be here.”Talisha Coppock, executive director of Downtown Bloomington, Inc., said this is the first candy store that she can remember opening on Kirkwood.“I’m really excited to see what they have,” she said. “I think it’s a really nice addition to the downtown.”
(02/03/10 5:26am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Indiana-Kenya Partnership received a $5 million supplement toward promoting primary care facilities in Kenya, Africa.The joint partnership also known as the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare connects the IU School of Medicine, the Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Together they treat more than 70,000 HIV patients in Kenya.The supplement will promote primary health care facilities such as OB/GYNs, pediatricians and doctors dealing with more ordinary health issues.Associate Dean for the program Dr. Robert Einterz began the Indiana-Kenya Partnership in the 1980s at the School of Medicine after having worked in Kenya as a physician dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. “Moi and IU provide a good health care model that does a good job of controlling and responding to crisis of the HIV problem. Much of what they do has to do with primary care, child care and such,” Einterz said. “The founders of the program were primary care physicians themselves, so their interest and focus is primary care.”The U.S. Agency for International Development grant supplements the $60 million grant given to the program in 2007, which supported HIV/AIDS treatment in the country, said Megan Miller, director of development and communications for the Indiana-Kenya Partnership. “The goal is to expand the services with the HIV clinics and provide primary care,” she said. “Primary care can be described as where you would go to deal with regular illnesses like flu, diabetes and sore throat. There are 23 clinics and additional satellite HIV clinics, which will be used to provide primary chronic disease management. There is need for identifying more health issues than just HIV.” IU medical students help provide treatments. However, it is the residents of Nairobi, Kenya that keep the clinics, as well as the program, running. The time of student stay varies, but many of the volunteers providing health care are first-year medical students. Students apply to work between the summer of their first and second year in medical school. “It is important to know that the people doing the bulk of the work and carrying the program are Kenyans themselves,” Einterz said. “We work with Moi and the Ministry of Health in Kenya, but Kenyans do the work, create the programs and really make the difference. Consider us catalysts and help the Kenyans what they’re doing.”
(01/25/10 3:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Participants at the first “Hog Heaven: A celebration of local pork from snout to tail” got more than just a smorgasbord of different types of pork-centered dishes.Attendees to the event, which was part of the weekend-long conference Bloomington Eats Green, enjoyed a casual atmosphere, sampling the various pork dishes as well as listening to a bluegrass band.Political science professor Christine Barbour helped organize the event.“We shouldn’t just pick and choose what part of an animal we want to eat. We can make delicious food from everything, thus ‘snout to tail,'” Barbour said.The event, which took place at the Indiana Memorial Union Alumni Hall showcased many of Bloomington’s local restaurant’s top chefs. Fourteen chefs from 14 different restaurants cooked meals featuring different parts of a pig, including the head, which was one of the more popular dishes as many people had never been exposed to it.“I really liked the head portion,” senior Brad Good said. “It was more amazing than I ever thought the head of a pig could taste. I was a little tentative, but I am now definitely more inclined to try more unusual parts of an animal now.” Other dishes included classic ribs and international dishes such as Brazilian Feijoada, while the owner of the BLU Boy Chocolate Café & Cakery David Fletcher created Maple Bacon Caramel Bon Bons. “These are just for the event, bacon and chocolate seemed fun to combine, bon bons basically have bacon and maple syrup filled with standard caramel so all you taste really is the caramel,” Fletcher said.Promoting sustainability was one of the major focuses of “Hog Heaven,” as it is quickly becoming a hot topic on campus. “Sustainability is about making sure that we leave the world the way we found it,” Barbour said.The price to attend the event was $20.“We kept the prices as low as possible, basically giving attendees all the pork you can eat, to try to encourage students to attend the event,” Barbour said. “We grow a lot of pork here, and eating animals that are raised locally, you know how they were raised and the kind of lives that they lived. Eating the whole animal is a way of respecting it.”
(12/10/09 4:24am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The African American Dance Company will perform its annual Studio Concert at 7:30 p.m. today in the Willkie Auditorium. The concert will showcase dances depicting different aspects of environmental justice, the theme of the African American Dance Company class this semester. Admission to the performance is $5 and it is the final project for students enrolled in the course, which is offered through the African-American and African Diaspora Studies Department.The class allowed students to pick the theme focused on for the semester. For the final project, students were broken up into groups of four or five to create a performance based on the chosen theme. “Students chose this topic because it is one that they all could relate to,” said Professor Iris Rosa, ensemble director. “It is affecting them now, when they are young, and it is something that they will have to figure out how to deal with as they get older.” Rosa said dance is a discipline that forces students to learn how to deal with the protocols, rules and regulations of the studio that helps them better prepare for life. “Every year there is a different theme,” said Deara Ball, the ensembles road manager. “There are new people in the company every year – new people, new faces, new talent, some with no experience, some with degrees.”Ball has been working as road manager for the past four years and has danced with the company since 2004. She said she now works more behind the scenes.Junior ensemble member Maurice Evans joined with no prior experience. “I started my freshman year because I always loved to dance and had no formal training,” Evans said. “I saw a flyer and decided to attend because there was no training needed.”Freshman Lalah Hazelwood said she is excited about her performance. She decided to take the dance class because her mother had taken it.“The performance is pretty powerful,” Hazelwood said. “There’s a lot of student choreography. It should be a good show.”
(11/30/09 1:51am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Just like students can spread the H1N1 virus by sharing a drink at a bar, the virus can also spread by taking a sip of the blood of Christ during communion at church.Many churches are taking precautions so the virus doesn’t spread through practices like the Holy Eucharist, or communion rite, which churches around campus participate. Hugh Jessop, executive director of the IU Health Center, said it’s a good idea to take extra precautions when partaking in the ritual, on both the parochial and congregational side.St. John the Apostle Catholic Church discontinued the use of the cup through January because of the virus. The offices of St. Charles Borromeo Church have also taken precautions and posted in their bulletins that it’s up to parishioners if they want to drink the wine, but there have been no other changes. Lynne Snyder, secretary at the Evangelical Community Church, noted recent additions to the church to promote healthy habits among churchgoers. “Hand sanitizer has been added in the bathrooms,” she said. “The children’s director has tried to keep the children’s room extra clean.” The healthy habits that the Evangelical Community Church promotes are nothing new, as the church has tried to keep things healthy by serving juice in single cups during its earlier service, instead of using a communal cup as other churches do. Snyder said older people tend to go to this service. For the second and third services, however, the rite is somewhat different, as parishioners rip a loaf of bread and dip a piece into a cup of juice. These services are attended mostly by the younger age groups, but there is no real contact when taking communion as opposed to other services at other parishes in which the priest directly places communion in the mouth of the parishioners. “It’s a step in the right direction,” Jessop said. “Not everyone in a church is healthy. You have to take a look at what is good for the group.” Jessop reminds everyone to remember the basics when it comes to stopping the spread of any flu. “Cough into your arms and wash your hands,” he said. “You can still spread the virus before you know you have it, especially the flu, which can be spread about 24 hours before you know you have it.”
(11/20/09 4:04am)
The Stardusters Jazz Orchestra featuring Janiece Jaffe will perform
Saturday at the fourth-annual show honoring legendary composer and
singer Hoagy Carmichael.
The event will take place from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m at KRC Catering.