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Tundra Music Festival brings names, fame to IU

By Nicole Vargas · Monday, Sept. 21,2009 12:22 a.m.

The excitement surrounding the announcement of artists performing at IU is arriving early this year in the form of the Tundra Music Festival, which will be the first of its kind – allowing students to have complete control of the events.

Garden project calls for ‘getting dirty’

By Margaret Ely · Monday, Sept. 21,2009 12:15 a.m.

Fritz Haeg promotes environmental issues, art.

Dylan inspires Ind. musicians

By Kelsey Finn · Monday, Sept. 21,2009 12:11 a.m.

Bloomington relived Bob Dylan’s classics with a traveling group of Indiana musicians called Hoosier Dylan on Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Jacobs fellow Clint Needham receives award

Sunday, Sept. 20,2009 1:34 p.m.

Clint Needham, a doctoral fellow in composition at the Jacobs School of Music, received a 2009 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation Morton Gould Young Concert Music Composer Award.

Soulja Boy Tell'em to perform Saturday at Sprite Kick-off

Friday, Sept. 18,2009 3:50 p.m.

Soulja Boy Tell'em is slated to perform at the Sprite Step Off on Saturday in the Green Parking Lot.

Buskirk celebrates Dylan

By Keiara Carr · Thursday, Sept. 17,2009 11:57 p.m.

Local artists to pay homage to legendary folk singer.

Jip Jop’s hip-hop, jazz rock crowds

By Rachel Krasnow · Thursday, Sept. 17,2009 11:55 p.m.

Jip Jop, a band founded locally by a group of six students, will perform at 10 p.m. Saturday.

Big Band honors Al Cobine

By Patrick Craig · Thursday, Sept. 17,2009 11:55 p.m.

Jazz Fables presents tribute at Bear’s Place.

Jazz orchestra concert to benefit United Way

By Keiara Carr · Thursday, Sept. 17,2009 11:52 p.m.

Classic music to excite youth, make magic.

Musical motivation

By Bryan Payton · Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 11:57 p.m.

You know how we get so excited about all of our classes the first week or two of the semester? We tell ourselves this is going to be the greatest semester ever and we will get straight A’s.

Mandel headlines at local Funny Bone

By Allison Tyra · Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 11:55 p.m.

He’s a Comedy Central veteran, and he’ll soon have his own sitcom on FX, but for this weekend, comedian Mo Mandel will be in town as a headliner at the Funny Bone Bloomington Comedy Club.

Philharmonic kicks off fall season

By Lily Miller · Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 11:53 p.m.

The Musical Arts Center filled with familiar strains of horns and strings Wednesday night. Approximately 1,200 people attended the Philharmonic Orchestra’s first show of the season, said Alain Barker, Jacobs School of Music spokesman. The orchestra, conducted by faculty member David Effron, performed three different classical music pieces, including Richard Strauss’ “Don Quixote.”

Shoppers swap clothes for cause

By Carly Bassen · Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 11:50 p.m.

Shoppers entered the Bloomington Playwrights Project ready for a shopping spree. But these shoppers didn’t bring their credit cards and checkbooks. They brought their old clothes.

mtvU names WIUX in top 50

Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 10:07 a.m.

IU’s student-run radio station, WIUX LP 99.1 FM, has survived the first round of elimination to be in mtvU’s top 50 college radio stations.

Performance etiquette for the oblivious

By Caitlin Peterkin · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 10:11 p.m.

Weekly performance column: This week's focus is performance etiquette in theater venues.

Jacobs offers free music for students at MAC

By Lily Miller · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 10:09 p.m.

1,000 people expected for first performance; 4 shows to follow.

Historical figures influence a student’s poetry collection

By Marc Fishman · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 10:04 p.m.

What do Amelia Earhart, Robert Stroud – who is better known as the Birdman of Alcatraz – and Fletcher Christian all have in common? For many, it might not seem like a lot.

Lady Gaga: creepy, yet creative

By Erica Rogers · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 9:58 p.m.

Weekly column from Erica Rogers: This week's focus is on Lady Gaga and her epic performance at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

Capoeira: An infusion of dance & martial arts

By Lauren Younis · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 9:55 p.m.

On a Monday night at the Harmony School, nestled into Bloomington’s residential Second Street, quiet passersby can hear the thick drum beats of music from far-away Brazil.

'Dirty Dancing' star Patrick Swayze dies at 57

By Christy Lemire · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 2:27 p.m.

Patrick Swayze personified a particular kind of masculine grace both on and off screen, from his roles in films like "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost" to the way he carried himself in his long fight with pancreatic cancer. Swayze died from the illness on Monday in Los Angeles, his publicist said. He was 57.

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