The IU Writers' Conference, now planning its 66th year, annually attracts a staff of nationally prominent writers who are equally skilled and involved teachers.
The buzz is over Bob Dylan, but satellite radio is crawling with rockers and rappers turned would-be Wolfman Jacks.
The IU Department of Theater and Drama summer season opens tonight at the Brown County Playhouse in Nashville, Ind. with "Smoke on the Mountain." It runs until July 2.
WHAT: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," an exhibit featuring more than 130 objects from ancient Egypt, including the burial place of Tutankhamun.
Blockbuster movies aren't the only thing IU students can see this summer; they can see blockbuster museum exhibits, too.
Jim Richter wants to bring support back to bluegrass music in Bloomington. Richter is organizing a workshop and concert in honor of former Bloomington-area patron Bill Monroe, widely known as "the father of bluegrass." Monroe is revered for having the biggest influence in the creation and popularization of bluegrass. Monroe's popularization of bluegrass began in 1939 with the first edition of the "Blue Grass Boys." The band coined the term "bluegrass," which was a reference to Kentucky where Monroe was born.
City of Bloomington, the Bloomington Area Arts Council presents "Carved in Stone," an exhibit commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Indiana Limestone Sculpture Symposium.
The IU Department of Theater and Drama summer season opens at the Brown County Playhouse in Nashville, Ind. this week.
Watching actor and comedian Jamie Kennedy in his quest to be a rapper is akin to seeing someone performing a large flip off of the high dive and then belly flopping into the pool, only to rise to the surface and declare, "I meant to do that!"
Governor Mitch Daniels recently announced the appointment of Kelly B. Schreckengast, of Lafayette, to serve on the 15-member Indiana Arts Commission.
Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan announced a partnership between the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department and the Monroe County Public Library in hopes of enhancing library services at the Banneker Community Center's Evans-Porter Library.
CHICAGO -- A sudden concern about an Egyptian sarcophagus owned by Exelon Corp. CEO John W. Rowe threatened briefly to disrupt the long-standing relationship between the Field Museum and Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Bloomington Playwright's Project is another local arts group entertaining Bloomington this summer with its feature play "Karaoke Night at the Hog" as its summer production.
Bloomington has an abundance of community performance groups, but many of them go unnoticed.
Whitney Houston said the greatest love of all is your love for yourself. Today's youth has embraced that attitude, but have they taken it too far?
Forget movie critics. There may be no more unforgiving, opinionated and passionate film audience than the one in cyberspace -- the fans, the obsessives and the self-proclaimed geeks who hang out in Internet discussion forums commenting on every casting decision, every script rewrite and every shred of pre-release advertising material for movies that haven't even been made yet.
The lively sound of Tibetan folk music wafted through the auction rooms, where art buyers bid on sumptuous pieces of framed artwork while rubbing shoulders with young families learning about Tibetan prayer techniques and nibbling on savory meat and vegetarian dumplings.
This year's Bloomington Early Music Festival spans many time periods and music genres since the festival celebrates both the lives of five IU students killed in a plane crash last month and Mozart's 250th birthday.
The film based on Dan Brown's 2003 fictional religious thriller novel "The Da Vinci Code" premiered May 19, enraging many Catholics around the world and prompting the Vatican to call for an international boycott. The film based on Dan Brown's 2003 fictional religious thriller novel "The Da Vinci Code" premiered May 19, enraging many Catholics around the world and prompting the Vatican to call for an international boycott.
There are classic dangers to face and unknown elements at every turn -- but in the right hands, a blockbuster book can still become a must-see movie that stands on its own.
