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Fly for a white guy

By Peter Chen · Thursday, May 8,2008 4:09 p.m.

From the first notes on Jim’s radiant opener “Another Day,” you’ll wish you were nodding along to it on your cranked-up car speakers on the first hot day in June. Jamie Lidell, everyone’s favorite British white knob-twiddler-turned-soul-singer, absolutely loads on the sunshine in this song, complete with handclaps and ooh-oohs, doing his best Curtis Mayfield impression in his more traditional follow-up to the spastic Multiply. Is it lampoon? Is it reverence? Who cares?

The Hoosiers have spoken

Thursday, May 8,2008 2:13 p.m.

Wednesday, the prevailing mood in Bloomington was one of sour defeat. While the rest of the state congratulates itself on the renewed relevance of its votes, Monroe County wanted vastly different for itself. Obama won handily around the Bloomington area, no doubt thanks to the youth movement at the core of his support, but in the end it wasn’t enough.

Def Leppard: Songs From the Sparkle Lounge

An Almost Comeback

By Tyler James Perry · Thursday, May 8,2008 1:17 p.m.

Def Leppard is a popular heavy metal band that formed in the late ‘70s. Songs From The Sparkle Lounge is the band’s tenth studio album and first since their 2002 album X, which had many softer, more pop-laden songs.

Landlocked Music Top 5 Sellers

Thursday, May 8,2008 1:01 p.m.

This week's top 5 sellers.

Sidetracked

By Alex Benson · Thursday, May 8,2008 12:49 p.m.

Alex Benson grades this week’s hottest tracks.

Push away the table and say Damn

By Shannon McEnerney · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:57 a.m.

Aracelis Girmay cooks up and offers a collection of poetry that will leave anyone who reads it thirsty for more of her words and inspiration. Her collection “Teeth” is composed of many poems that have the power to speak universally to everyone if one takes the time to feel her words.

An existential equine

By Aaron Beard and Ben Homrig · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:56 a.m.

A horse walks into a bar and the bartender says, “Why the long face?”

Hoosiers dominate Purdue 13-1, lose at home to Louisville

By Zachary Osterman · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:56 a.m.

The IU baseball team didn’t really need junior right-hander Tyler Tufts to take care of Purdue by himself in the last of a four-game series Monday. But he did anyway – with plenty of help from his friends.

NCAA tourney up next for Hoosiers

By IDS staff and Aaron Beard · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:56 a.m.

The No. 38 IU men’s tennis team (16-9, 5-5) began its 2008 campaign with one goal – to make it to the NCAA regional tournament in May.

IU looking to find more success at regionals

By Ari Shifron · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:55 a.m.

IU can just about see the promised land again.

Seniors primed for last time on home track before Big Ten tourney

By Jeremy Rosenthal · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:55 a.m.

Senior Ryan Smith will be performing triple duty for the IU track-and-field team this weekend – hurdling, sprinting and singing. A member of the Marching Hundred and Big Red Basketball bands, Smith will partner with sophomore hurdler Kayla Smith to sing the National Anthem at the Billy Hayes Invitational.

IU’s ‘getting hit’ king

By Zachary Osterman · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:55 a.m.

Some men are born to greatness; others have it hurled toward them at 92 miles per hour. Such is the case with Chris Hervey, left fielder on the IU baseball team.

Indiana is important

By Georgia Perry · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:55 a.m.

As a native Hoosier, it feels great to know that Indiana was so important in this year’s primary elections. I saw a story about Indiana’s primary election on the first page of BBC.com on Monday. I’m pretty sure that’s the first time Indiana has ever been on BBC.com.

We matter(ed)!

By Nick Wallace · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:55 a.m.

It’s not often Indiana plays an important role in national politics, at least not in a way that bolsters our reputation. True, our state has appeared before the Supreme Court to defend its stringent voter ID requirements and has also come under fire for sponsoring “In God We Trust” license plates, but both of these instances cause large swathes of the nation to see us as infamous rather than noteworthy. Tuesday’s primary gave us a chance to change that.

'No one wanted to do it, and I volunteered'

By Sarah Hutchins · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:54 a.m.

From cataloging model body parts to increasing the life span of books, University librarians such as Pam Cook and Vaughn Nuest have interesting and unusual job descriptions.

The ratings dilemma

By Cory Barker · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:54 a.m.

In television, we all know the only thing that matters is the ratings. No matter whether a program is critically acclaimed, if it doesn’t meet the right demographic numbers for its network, it’s a goner. But now, it seems all of the major networks are seeing their heavy-hitting shows take major dips in the ratings, and the networks are scrambling to figure out what in the world is going on.

IU professor honored in Time magazine

By Savannah Worley · Wednesday, May 7,2008 8:40 p.m.

After devoting her life to studying the brain – others’ as well as her own after a stroke – IU neuroanatomy professor Jill Bolte Taylor’s influence in the mental health community is being noticed worldwide.

'Full speed to the White House'

By Michael Zennie · Wednesday, May 7,2008 8:37 p.m.

It was (almost) a premature victory speech for Hillary Clinton. Before any of the networks or major newspapers had called the Indiana race, Clinton declared her triumph in the Hoosier state to a cheering, raucous crowd in the Egyptian Room at the Murat Centre Tuesday night.

Exit poll: Young voters helped fuel Obama’s strong showing

By Alexandra R. Moses and Rick Callahan · Wednesday, May 7,2008 8:26 p.m.

Young Indiana voters, including many who voted Tuesday for the first time, helped Barack Obama come close to defeating Hillary Rodham Clinton in the state’s Democratic presidential primary, exit polls show.

Presidential race not only close call in Indiana

By Alexandra R. Moses · Wednesday, May 7,2008 8:24 p.m.

No supporters of presidential or local candidates campaigned outside precincts Tuesday, but there were plenty of signs nearby with arrows telling people to “vote here.”