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What is art?

By Ryan Brown · Wednesday, Sept. 19,2007 11:09 p.m.

In the past week, I have had to wear dress pants, a button down shirt, a tie and black socks a total of three times, and I have hated every second of it. There’s something about the age of 20 that suddenly forces you to surrender your youthful whims in exchange for Dockers and professional maturity.

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Kanye West dominates 50 Cent by over 260,000 units

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody · Wednesday, Sept. 19,2007 11:02 p.m.

NEW YORK – It’s not like Kanye West needed an ego boost, but here it comes, anyway: His “Graduation” album trounced 50 Cent’s “Curtis” in their much-hyped rap sales showdown, selling nearly 1 million copies in its first week, making it the best debut of the year for the struggling music industry.

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Around the Arts

Wednesday, Sept. 19,2007 10:51 p.m.

Jazz Fables Concert Series WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Bear’s Place, 1316 E. Third St. MORE INFO: IU jazz faculty members will be playing an 81st birthday tribute to John Coltrane. Cover charge is $6.

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Misguided love, bitterness and murder

By Kasia Bugaj and Katarzyna Bugaj · Wednesday, Sept. 19,2007 10:49 p.m.

The IU Opera Theater will open its 2007-08 season this Friday with Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto.” Conductor Stephen Lord, recently chosen by Opera News as one of the “25 Most Powerful Names in U.S. Opera,” will lead the Jacobs School of Music Symphony Orchestra, accompanying two alternating casts of some of IU’s top operatic singers.

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Andrew Bird to play sold-out show tonight

By Stefania Marghitu · Tuesday, Sept. 18,2007 10:41 p.m.

Andrew Bird will perform to a sold-out crowd at 8 p.m. today in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. This is the first performance of the year for the BCT Concert Series, and it is jointly hosted by the IU Union Board.

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Sex Pistols to reunite

By Associated Press · Tuesday, Sept. 18,2007 10:31 p.m.

LONDON – The Sex Pistols are reuniting for a concert to mark the 30th anniversary of their only album, “Never Mind the Bollocks.”

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Le Dernier Cri

By Claire Burke · Tuesday, Sept. 18,2007 10:30 p.m.

Fashion always has been and always will be a part of my life. I wake up every morning thinking about what I will wear the next day. I can’t help it. What I and others wear will always be a part of me.

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Letters from Abroad

By Lindsey Landis · Monday, Sept. 17,2007 9:02 p.m.

BOLOGNA, Italy – I am the biggest art history dweeb ever. I will freely admit it. This week, I finally made some time to start exploring the local art and culture (other than the bars and nightlife).

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Bloomington influenced ‘Romeo and Juliet’ a success

By Lara Streyle · Sunday, Sept. 16,2007 7:37 p.m.

Last Friday night, couples, families and friends laid out their blankets on the grass and set up folding chairs as they prepared for a night of Shakespeare when the Monroe County Civic Theater debuted a contemporary version of “Romeo and Juliet,” at Third Street Park.

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Channing’s dress recovered

By AP Reports · Sunday, Sept. 16,2007 7:35 p.m.

LOS ANGELES – Carol Channing’s signature dress – a shimmery number she wore in the stage production of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” – was recovered Friday night after being stolen from a Hollywood hotel.

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