NEW YORK -- Peter Stone, who won an Oscar, an Emmy and three Tony awards during a career in which he wrote the musicals "1776" and "Titanic" and the film classic "Charade," has died. He was 73.
Saturday night, 12 of the best collegiate step teams from IU and other colleges across the state will present their 2003 step routines. These teams will be competing at 6 p.m. Saturday in the inaugural Little 5 Stepdown Competition for the title of "Best Step Team in Indiana." "This is a chance for the teams to display their creativity," said junior Jeremy Morris, a Union Board member. Rickey Smiley will be the host for the event. Smiley is a former host of BET's popular comedy showcase "Comic View."
IU Soul Revue will present its annual spring concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Last weekend about 100 people had the chance to "visit Japan." Bloomington resident Molly Atkins Jeon and her teacher Baisho Matsumoto performed 16th century Japanese folk music as part of the musical program "A Visit to Japan" at the John Waldron Arts Center auditorium.
Dancers from around the city gather in the auditorium of the John Waldron Arts Center displaying flexibility and mastery of the dance skills as they stretch, warm up and focus for rehearsal.
Dave Hurst has kept a file of thank you notes close to his desk for the past 11 years. But they aren't for scholarship recommendations, although he has written his share. The file makes for a remarkable history album of IU's development. The thank you notes are from faculty, staff, students and parents writing to thank Hurst and his colleagues for a beautiful campus. As Campus Division Manager, Hurst is part of an on-going effort to keep the campus aesthetically pleasing to the eyes of visitors and residents.
It's not every day that a young singer wins the Metropolitan Opera's National Counsel Auditions.
NEW YORK -- The painting is beautiful to see -- an orange-striped curtain hangs from a wood pole above a shimmering ocean -- but the title "Separation" hints at another meaning. The curtain painted by Shahla Etemadi represents those put up in Caspian Sea swimming spots in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution to keep men and women separate. The painting is a part of "Echoes in Blue," an exhibition of contemporary Iranian artists on view through April 29 at The National Arts Club.
MTV plans new 'Wuthering Heights' NEW YORK -- First, MTV updated "Carmen." Now, the cable music channel is offering a modern take on "Wuthering Heights."
NEW YORK -- She favored Givenchy ball gowns, traveled with Louis Vuitton luggage and wore Lacoste polo shirts during visits to some of the world's poorest villages.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Felice Bryant, who with her late husband wrote "Bye Bye Love" and other Everly Brothers hits and the hand-clapping bluegrass standard "Rocky Top," died Tuesday. She was 77.
WASHINGTON -- Shakespeare's 439th birthday is being celebrated Wednesday with the news that American theater companies will take four of his best known plays on a tour of all 50 states.
NEW YORK -- Nina Simone, whose deep, raspy, forceful voice made her a unique figure in jazz and later helped define the civil rights movement, died Monday at her home in France, according to her personal manager. She was 70.
BOSTON --Will Ferrell arrives on time at a tapas restaurant on trendy Newbury Street, not far from the finish line of the Boston Marathon. He's dressed to run, wearing jogging shoes and ankle socks, a windbreaker and black Lycra tights that show how thin his legs have gotten since he began training for the 26.2-mile distance.
LOS ANGELES -- "Anger Management" kept its grip on the No. 1 spot at the box office for a second weekend.
Tonight, 10 contestants will vie for the title of "Hoosier Idol." The unidentified contestants, who were chosen from the students who auditioned, will be performing onstage at 7:30 p.m. at the IU Auditorium in front of a group of their peers.
"Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is the horror movie of musicals.
NEW YORK -- Madonna's "American Life" video has been reincarnated as a tamer, nonviolent version of its former self. The performer scrapped the original version because she thought its violent, antiwar themes were inappropriate during the U.S.-led conflict in Iraq.
NEW YORK -- Dr. Robert C. Atkins, whose best-selling low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet was dismissed as nutritional folly for years but was recently validated in some research, died Thursday, his spokesman said. He was 72.
LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, Britain's former prime minister, is better known as a scourge of socialists and champion of free enterprise than as a patron of the arts.
