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Toy industry caters to 'tweens'

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Oct. 16,2003 1:21 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Girls like eight-year-old Kelsie Templin are a challenge for the toy industry. Unlike boys in the 8-to-12 age group, who seem easy to please with video games and action toys, Kelsie and her peers are in a fuzzy, in-between stage.

Fashion program flourishes

By Patrice Worthy and Patricia Worthy · Thursday, Oct. 16,2003 1:21 a.m.

In the past two years, more students registered for Costume Construction Technology and fashion design classes than in the 10 years before, program coordinators said.

Professor gives poetry reading, highlights culture

By Stacey Laskin · Thursday, Oct. 16,2003 1:20 a.m.

Nationally acclaimed poet and IU professor of creative writing Kevin Young will read original poetry from 9 to 10:30 p.m. today in the African American Cultural Center Library, Room 113A in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

Taiwanese dance troupe leaps over cultural barriers

By Alyson Brodsy and Annie Huang · Wednesday, Oct. 15,2003 1:26 a.m.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- To the soft tinkling of wind chimes, dancers in black and white trousers stretch out their legs in slow martial art kicks. Some bend and curve their bodies, gracefully mimicking Chinese characters flowing across white rice paper.

Luxury crystal company turns 100

By Alyson Brodsy and Ben Dobbin · Wednesday, Oct. 15,2003 1:26 a.m.

CORNING, N.Y. -- At first glance, Steuben Glass doesn't seem to fit with parent company Corning Inc., the maker of the fiber optics for telecommunications.

Analysts see weakness in NBC

By Alyson Brodsy and David Bauder · Tuesday, Oct. 14,2003 1:09 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Three weeks into the new television season, NBC is giving its Friday schedule a complete facelift -- an indication all is not well at the most profitable broadcast network. The critically praised "Boomtown" is now on hiatus, replaced by a "Law & Order: SVU" rerun. Alicia Silverstone's dating drama, "Miss Match," is moving an hour later to 9 p.m. EDT. And a "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" rerun was lifted from Bravo and plugged into the 8 p.m. slot.

Circolo Italiano introduces Italian culture through film

By Jenica Schultz · Tuesday, Oct. 14,2003 1:09 a.m.

The lights dim as the double projection screens light up with the night's black and white feature. The students settle into their seats as Circolo Italiano's weekly film viewing transforms Ballantine Hall, Room 304 from a classroom into a movie theater.

Students share fiction, poetry works

By Jennifer Jackson · Monday, Oct. 13,2003 12:18 a.m.

In an otherwise deserted campus, a crowd of about 40 people gathered Friday night in Ballantine Hall Room 109 for the second of two nights of readings from first year Master of Fine Arts students in IU's Creative Writing Program.

French jazz group visits IU

By Mike Carey · Monday, Oct. 13,2003 12:18 a.m.

Flamenco, Stevie Wonder, Definitely Django Reinhardt, the B-52's and G-Love and the Special Sauce.

Local, regional acts of all genres featured in performance series

By Josh Hamm and Joshua Hamm · Monday, Oct. 13,2003 12:17 a.m.

Every week mobs of students flock to The Bluebird and Bear's Place to relax and check out the sounds of the latest emerging local bands.

Gallery uses music to connect with visitors

By -Jenny Kobiela · Monday, Oct. 13,2003 12:16 a.m.

Nine art displays by IU faculty, alumni and Indianapolis artists and music by DJ Ionman from WFHB were featured in "Lounge" at the School of Fine Arts Gallery Friday night. The event highlighted numerous forms of media art, including video, film projection and 3-D art.

Illustrator displays work at Boxcar

By Jenica Schultz · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 2:47 a.m.

Boxcar Books, a not-for-profit bookstore, will hold the opening of children's book illustrator Emma Overman's colorful art exhibit at 8 p.m. tonight. Overman's art exhibit will be on display at the bookstore until Nov. 13. Overman, whose illustrations have appeared in children's books, "The Easter Chicken," "Chumpkin," and "Pickin' Petunia," fills her canvases with whimsical depictions of children and personified creatures."The stuff that's coming looks really neat and colorful," said Erin Tobey, a Boxcar Book volunteer. "It will be nice to have something different up."

Play explores the tabloid side of theater

By Nikolas Priest · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 2:36 a.m.

What do you get when a young, normal woman; her chatty, emotionally scarred friend; a suspected killer who is a very sweet young man; a sexy, sexist pig; an overly happy flasher and the landlady who is oblivious to it all get together to live in a summer cottage on the beach?

When clothes launch an attack

By Patrice Worthy · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 2:32 a.m.

We have all done it. It is one of the hardest tasks on the face the earth: shopping. You can be in the best of moods, and by the time you finish your shopping expedition you feel like you have been put through the ringer. I have been there so many times. I love to shop, but more times than not I begin to ask myself, why?

Fall ballet brings out Stravinsky's morbidity

By Benjames Derrick and Benjamin Derrick · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 2:29 a.m.

World renowned artist John Clifford has choreographed movement to music ranging from classical Stravinsky to heavy metal Van Halen. This weekend Clifford brings his talents to the IU Ballet Theater for a retelling of Stravinsky's infamous and morbid one-act "The Rite of Spring." The show is the headliner for the theatre's "Colours of Dance" program beginning at 8 p.m. this Friday and Saturday at the MAC.

Orion Quartet embarks upon Beethoven set

By Claire Blaustein · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 2:28 a.m.

Beethoven's string quartets are often held up as examples of his finest work. This set of 17 quartets spans most of Beethoven's career and a wide range of his musical styles. Over the next several months, students at IU will have the rare opportunity to hear them all.

Nappy Roots rocks the countryside

By Natalie A. Trout and Natalie Trout · Thursday, Oct. 9,2003 12:38 p.m.

The weather was chilly, but the music and performers were so hot that steam literally rose from their heads. Sponsored by Kilroy's Sports, Chicago's very own 17th Floor and Kentucky's Nappy Roots gave a concert at Pic-a-chic Farms that Clutch from Nappy Roots said was real "nappy."

Famed conductor to come to IU

By Kye Lee · Thursday, Oct. 9,2003 1:45 a.m.

Sergiu Comissiona, a world-renowned conductor, will lead an IU School of Music orchestra at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Musical Arts Center. Thomas Wieligman, coordinator of instrumental ensembles at the Music School, said that very few schools in the country can call on someone like Comissiona, who has worked with some of the best orchestras in numerous countries.

Creative writing students share poetry, fiction works

By Jennifer Jackson · Thursday, Oct. 9,2003 1:44 a.m.

Going to a fiction and poetry reading can help students escape the reality of the daily grind, and IU's creative writing program offers exactly that. The program fills the need with its year-long series of readings by visiting lecturers and students in the Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. Tonight marks the first of the readings.

Shriver balances news role, political work

By Alyson Brodsy and David Bauder · Thursday, Oct. 9,2003 1:44 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Maria Shriver will huddle soon with NBC News executives to decide how her job as a correspondent will change now that she's about to become California's first lady.

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