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IU's art administration masters program offers hands-on experience in management to participating students

By Jenica Schultz · Thursday, Sept. 2,2004 12:56 a.m.

Behind the scenes of every great opera, Broadway production or museum exhibit, someone is pulling the right strings to make the event happen. Beyond the costumes, make-up and lights, someone sits calculating ticket sales and strategizing audience development and marketing techniques. Without the arts administrators who work diligently behind the scenes, none of what is seen on a stage or in a gallery could be possible.

'The Color Purple' becomes a musical

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 12:58 a.m.

ATLANTA -- After seven years of acquiring rights, finding backers and putting together a creative team, Scott Sanders is ready to present his musical version of "The Color Purple" to an audience, hoping it's the last step before Broadway. And Sanders' partner is Atlanta's Alliance Theatre, where a tryout engagement begins Sept. 9 for a five-week run.

Music Works to perform opera

By Britany Ausmus and Brittany Ausmus · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 12:56 a.m.

Opera fans, do not despair. Your wait is over. While IU's opera season does not kick off until late September with "La Bohème," Bloomington Music Works is presenting "Three For All," a trio of one-act operas, beginning Sept. 2 at the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium. Included in the evening's repertoire is "The Impresario" by Wolfgang Mozart, "The Telephone" by Gian Carlo Menotti and "The Stoned Guest" by P. D. Q. Bach. Bloomington Music Works chose to perform three one-act operas instead of a longer, more traditional piece for a number of reasons.

Activities at Latino Fest interrupted by rainstorm

By Maurina Paradise · Tuesday, Aug. 31,2004 1:08 a.m.

Despite the ominous dark clouds over Bloomington, Karst Farm Park was crowded during Latino Fest Saturday. More than 30 tables were staffed by various local organizations such as Ivy Tech State College, Mujeres en Conexion, Culture Week and League of Women Voters, among others.

MTV Music Awards tamer, but still explosive

By Alyson Brodsy and Adrian Sainz · Tuesday, Aug. 31,2004 1:07 a.m.

MIAMI -- There was no Madonna-Britney Spears kiss, no partially-clad Howard Stern coming down from the rafters, and certainly no wardrobe malfunctions. The MTV Awards show Sunday featured typical frenetic energy and sexy style -- and a few musical surprises -- but it was mostly a kinder, gentler version of past shows.

Play takes on excessive police force

By Jennifer Griffin · Monday, Aug. 30,2004 1:10 a.m.

The idea of police brutality and use of excessive force has been presented to the public in the form of news stories, fiction and non-fiction books, and now, thanks to the Bloomington Playwrights Project, in the form of a theatrical play.

The joy of budget travel

By Brandon S Morley · Monday, Aug. 30,2004 1:06 a.m.

In 2000, I spent two weeks touring England and Scotland and fell in love with the adventure travel creates. I'd always wanted to go back to Europe and see more. The opportunity to travel to Europe came alive my sophomore year at IU. I'd researched the variety of programs the Office of Overseas Study had to offer where you could study in the land by which you've always been fascinated and get college credit at the same time.

Release of Siegfried & Roy tiger attack video debated

By Alyson Brodsy and Adam Goldman · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:12 a.m.

LAS VEGAS -- The company that produced the Siegfried & Roy magic show said Wednesday that it won't give federal investigators a video of the tiger attack on illusionist Roy Horn because it's protecting the performer's privacy. Feld Entertainment Inc. said it's offered on several occasions to show footage of the October attack to the U.S. Department of Agriculture but the agency has not accepted the invitation.

Music Video Awards expected to be tamer

By Alyson Brodsy and Nekesa Mumbi Moody · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:11 a.m.

NEW YORK -- In the 21-year history of MTV's Video Music Awards, viewers have been treated to some eye-popping moments -- Prince's bare buttocks, Lil' Kim's sequined pasty, Britney and Madonna's steamy kiss last year. After the firestorm over the MTV-produced Super Bowl halftime show, in which Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Janet Jackson's costume to reveal her bare breast, might we see tamer VMAs when they air Sunday?

Illinois sues Dave Matthews Band

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:11 a.m.

CHICAGO -- Illinois' attorney general sued Dave Matthews Band Tuesday for allegedly dumping up to 800 pounds of foul-smelling waste from a tour bus into the Chicago River, dousing a tour boat filled with passengers. The lawsuit accuses the band and one of its tour bus drivers, Stefan Wohl, of violating state water pollution and public nuisance laws. It seeks $70,000 in civil penalties.

Tactual museum offers exhibits for the blind

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:10 a.m.

ATHENS, Greece -- Dimitris Dovas runs his fingers over the face and body of Venus de Milo. "What incredible art!" he exclaims. Dovas might be breaking the cardinal rule of museums, where visitors can look at but not touch the prized exhibits guarded behind ropes or in glass cases. But in an unassuming building on a quiet side street in central Athens, something is different.

Eating disorder play returns Sunday

By Jenica Schultz · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:10 a.m.

After years of struggling with an eating disorder, IU alumna Amy Fortoul has put her life experiences into a play detailing the highs and lows of her illness and recovery. Fortoul is the writer, director and sole actor in her autobiographical movement and spoken word theater piece "This is My BODY."

Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:09 a.m.

Tibetan monastery displays relics A collection of Buddist relics is coming to the Chamtse Ling Temple, 3655 Snoddy Rd., this weekend. Collected by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Heart Shrine Relic Tour, which features pearl-like deposits often found in the cremation ashes of Buddhist spiritual masters, will be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Hot air balloons to race through Bloomington sky

By Brittany Terwilliger · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:08 a.m.

If you look up to the sky to find bunches of cheerful orbs drifting slowly, you might be witness to this year's second annual Bloomington Balloon Fiesta. This event, coordinated by balloonist Travis Vencel, Cook Aviation and Bill Oliver of Oliver Winery, takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Monroe County Airport, 972 S. Kirby Rd. Hot air balloon races may be observed throughout the day and night. Launches are at 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday. Pilots from across the country are coming to Bloomington to compete for a prize of $3,000.

IUAM displays symbolic Malian puppets

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:07 a.m.

The puppets of Mali, now halfway around the globe displayed in the IU Art Museum, come in all shapes and sizes. One is a large, wooden animal head, manipulated by a rod from underneath by a puppeteer whose body is concealed. Another is worn on the top of the head of a masquerader. For another, more delicate puppet, the puppeteer can open and close the jaw and twitch the puppet's ears.

Dancehall star barred from MTV Video Music Awards

By Alyson Brodsy and John Pain · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 1:20 a.m.

MIAMI -- Dancehall star Beenie Man, who has recorded anti-gay songs in the past, was yanked from a concert associated with the MTV Video Music Awards this weekend after gay groups planned a protest, the network said Wednesday.

Comedian Al Franken urges New Yorkers to yell

By Alyson Brodsy and Sam Dolnick · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 1:01 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Al Franken wants you to get up out of your chairs, open your windows, stick your heads out and yell ... fuggedaboutdit? Well, yes. In the spirit of Paddy Chayefsky's classic movie monologue from "Network," the liberal comedian Wednesday urged New Yorkers -- and other Americans -- to simultaneously scream the all-purpose local wisecrack at the moment that President Bush accepts the nomination.

Art theft stirs debate on museum security

By Alyson Brodsy and Doug Mellgren · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 1:01 a.m.

OSLO, Norway -- The brazen daylight theft of Edvard Munch's renowned masterpiece "The Scream" left Norway's police scrambling for clues and stirred a debate across Europe over how to protect art if thieves are willing to use deadly force to take it. Some expressed fears that works of art are in increasing danger from violent raids -- unless, as Norway's deputy culture minister put it, "we lock them in a mountain bunker."

'Fashination' with life

By Patrice Worthy and Patricia Worthy · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 1 a.m.

I was in New York on 52nd Street preparing to go shopping when it hit me. I had already been shopping a day earlier, so why was I doing it again? I asked myself, "Do I really want fashion to be the death of me?" I had hit my usual spots like Barami, Kenneth Cole and Aerosoles when I realized fashion is work.

Latino musicians, dancers take to stage

By Maurina Paradise · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 12:57 a.m.

Ethnic music, dance and food will flood Karst Farm Park from 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday when it becomes home to Bloomington's second Latino Summer Festival. The festival was born when two women, Tyler Ferguson, recreation programmer of the Monroe County Parks and Recreation Department, and Maria File-Muriel, program assistant of the Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department, put their heads together after meeting while playing soccer.