Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Monday, Jan. 26
The Indiana Daily Student

The Indiana Daily Student

Exhibit showcases local artists, artwork

·

Art will come alive at the John Waldron Arts Center for one and all to enjoy during an exhibit featuring only local artists. At 5:30 p.m. Today, the Bloomington community will be able to view feature works of art from South Central Indiana artists in two different exhibits.


The Indiana Daily Student

Turkish culture served up

·

A stately stained glass door opens to release sounds of Turkish music playing quietly in the background as patrons savor their Turkish-inspired cuisine from colorful cushions on the floor. Anatolia, the latest ethnic restaurant to open its doors on Fourth Street, offers a taste of Turkish history, culture and cuisine.


The Indiana Daily Student

Around The Arts

·

Mellencamp to play Buskirk-Chumley John Mellencamp is scheduled to perform at a live, nationally televised concert from Bloomington Nov. 11. The program, "Live By Request" on the A&E cable network, will feature Mellencamp and his band performing songs at Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater.


The Indiana Daily Student

War paintings on display at Art Museum

·

Death, violence and torture are among the themes exhibited in Francisco Goya's print series, "The Disasters of War." The series, now on display at the IU Art Museum, is a chronicle of the Spanish artist's horrified reactions to the invasion of his country by Napoleonic troops during the Peninsular War of 1808-1814. Six etchings from the series will be displayed in the First Floor Gallery of Western Art throughout the fall semester.


The Indiana Daily Student

Students hold workshop teaching how to care for performance voices

·

Voice and vocal health are a big concern to IU music school students, but what about theater majors? Nurturing the voice takes a conscious effort that many theater students have yet to learn. To help students keep their voices healthy, the Care of the Acting Voice workshop will be held Saturday in room A201 of the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center.


The Indiana Daily Student

Wagner discusses family connection to Holocaust

·

In a lecture hall most musicians never see, a diverse audience gathered Tuesday night in Jordan Hall Room 124 to hear from Gottfried Wagner, the great-grandson of opera composer Richard Wagner, and expectations were high.


The Indiana Daily Student

mastering the MACABRE

·

It's dark outside, but luckily the path is lit by torches. Ominous music is playing and screams are coming from inside the house. Onlookers watch as people run, frightened, from men with chainsaws. A group is huddled not far from the exit. They are laughing and talking excitedly. They seem to be relieved.


The Indiana Daily Student

'The Full Monty' show comes to IU auditorium

·

This week, IU Auditorium audiences will have the chance to see whether six unemployed men will try to find a way out of their financial and social slumps by going for "the full monty" onstage.


The Indiana Daily Student

Grafton Street at night

·

On a walk home from breakfast with friends this weekend, I found myself walking up Grafton Street. Grafton Street is a street in Dublin's City center, situated between Trinity College, the voluptuous Molly Malone statue and St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre. Here you will find all of Dublin's best fashion shops, great cafés, one of the only McDonald's and street entertainers.


The Indiana Daily Student

Group dedicated to arts networking comes to Bloomington

·

Though Bloomington has a reputation for a variety of creative outlets, Ladi Terry felt compelled to establish a breeding ground for creativity in the city. To this end, she has started the first Indiana chapter of the American Creativity Association. The group will hold its first meeting tonight.


The Indiana Daily Student

Cooking school offers vegetarian lessons

·

College students who opt for the vegetarian or vegan life often find themselves tiring of the food available to them. While IU offers some alternatives, many students are left searching for another option.


The Indiana Daily Student

Great-grandson of famous composer visits for lectures

·

A very distinguished guest will be lecturing at IU this week. Dr. Gottfried H. Wagner, the great-grandson of German operatic composer Richard Wagner and great-great-grandson of the piano virtuoso and composer Franz Liszt, will lecture on several topics, including the controversy surrounding his great-grandfather's operas tonight and Wednesday evening.


The Indiana Daily Student

Romantic film wins award

·

INDIANAPOLIS -- "Love's Brother," a romantic drama directed by Jan Sardi, won the $50,000 grand prize at the Heartland Film Festival. Sardi and actor Adam Garcia accepted the prize during a gala Saturday night at Conseco Fieldhouse. The festival honors filmmakers who create movies that portray positive, life-affirming messages.


The Indiana Daily Student

Indian art to be sold in Chicago

·

CHICAGO -- The Field Museum wants to sell 31 American Indian portraits and paintings of Western scenes by 19th-century artist and adventurer George Catlin to raise millions of dollars for its anthropology collection. The effort is being criticized by some who fear Chicago will be robbed of a scientific and cultural treasure.


The Indiana Daily Student

Dave Attell heads to B-Town for IU show

·

Comedian Dave Attell is living the American Dream. The comedian and "Insomniac" host earns much of his income by way of carousing about various cities into the wee hours of the morning. "Insomniac," the Comedy Central show in which Attell's drunken hijinks add up to hilarity, has made him a household name. Now after partying his way across the country, Attell will grace Bloomington with his presence at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in an IU Auditorium performance.


The Indiana Daily Student

Opera 101: Listening to the classic art

·

It has come to the attention of those of us at the Arts Desk that a large portion of the University's population finds opera to be, shall we say, inaccessible and incomprehensible. So, with a new production opening this very evening, we offer a sort of abbreviated introduction to the world of opera and its various components in the hope that it may clear the fog just a bit.


The Indiana Daily Student

ABC drops Miss America

·

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- ABC has dropped Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network TV outlet for the first time in 50 years.


The Indiana Daily Student

'Rosa Parks Story' presents untold history

·

In the history of this country, there may not be a better example of the ability of one person to make a difference than Rosa Parks. While most people know of her accomplishments or have heard her name mentioned, the majority are unaware of her struggles during her life, before and after the one famous December bus ride.


The Indiana Daily Student

'Eugene Onegin' examines love

·

A tale of unrequited love and regret will premiere this weekend at The IU Opera Theater. The opera season continues with a production of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Romantic masterpiece, "Eugene Onegin." "Onegin," based on Pushkin's celebrated poetic novel, is Tchaikovsky's sixth, but arguably best known, opera.