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MAC season includes students, faculty

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:32 p.m.

“L’Italiana en Algeri.” “Romeo et Juliette.” “Die Zauberflote.” A Diaghilev Tribute. All are included in the 2009-10 fall schedule for the IU Jacobs School of Music. “We try to do the most interesting and varied season possible,” Jacobs spokesman Alain Barker said.

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IU Auditorium prepares for fall

By Rachel Krasnow · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:30 p.m.

The concepts of a show at the IU Auditorium may seem simple to an audience member, but a complex process goes into creating an upcoming season. Doug Booher, director of the IU Auditorium, said the work begins a year before, and programming interns assemble all the performance materials received from different booking agencies.

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‘Dirty Dancing’ star Patrick Swayze dies at 57

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 8:20 p.m.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

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‘Othello’ grooves onstage

By Carly Bassen · Sunday, Sept. 13,2009 9:41 p.m.

Rather than classic Elizabethan-style Shakespeare, the Monroe County Civic Theater presented a sexually revolutionized “Othello” this weekend.

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Buskirk’s ‘Golden Age’ shows ‘Furies’

By Keaira Carr · Sunday, Sept. 13,2009 9:36 p.m.

Bloomington residents attended “The Golden Age of Hollywood,” where the first movie of the fall series was a 1950 black-and-white western called “The Furies,” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston. The event was held in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater

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Evening of art brings patronage, education

By Ashlee Green · Sunday, Sept. 13,2009 9:32 p.m.

Vivid paintings and clicking wine glasses filled John Waldron Arts Center on Friday as the men of the Gamma Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. sponsored “A1906: Art Appreciation and Patronage.”

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Art museum offers themed tours

By Alycin Bektesh · Friday, Sept. 11,2009 12:07 a.m.

The IU Art Museum boasts a collection that includes works of art ranging from Monet to 13th-century B.C. bronze statues. Though the museum is free and open to the public, weekend tours offer an informed way of seeing the collection. Ed Maxedon is the curator of education at the museum and trains the docents who lead the tours.

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‘Othello’ travels to 1970s

By Carly Bassen · Friday, Sept. 11,2009 12:05 a.m.

If William Shakespeare walked into 1972 and saw heated Vietnam War protests, women’s rights struggles and the spawn of a sexual revolution, what do you think he would say?  Nate Stanger, a freshman from the University of Michigan, said he imagined these circumstances when he decided to direct a rendition of Shakespeare’s “Othello: The Moor of Venice.”

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At Buskirk, Sundays are golden

By Keiara Carr · Friday, Sept. 11,2009 12:02 a.m.

The average moviegoer could spend upward of $8 for this weekend’s box office hit. However, in downtown Bloomington, a historic theater takes audiences back to the Golden Age for only $2.

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Local bands to perform at Crossroads Music Festival

Friday, Sept. 11,2009 12 a.m.

It began as a relaxed backyard barbecue for various bands to come together and has now grown to showcase a lineup of local bands. Organized by Crossroads of America Records, or XRA Records, XRA Fest comes to Bloomington on Friday and Saturday.

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Brewing Company presents Hillbilly music festival

Thursday, Sept. 10,2009 11:55 p.m.

Bloomington’s own brewery, Upland Brewing Company, presents more than beer this Saturday with an afternoon of music and local artist exhibitions. According to Upland’s Web site, the second-annual Hillbilly Haiku Americana Music Festival will feature live Americana music by Backyard Tire Fire, Sara Petite, Merrie Sloan and Toby Purnell of Crooked County, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Better Bidness Bureau and Fatted Calf Stringband.

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