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Students cook up culture at La Casa program

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In a room filled with the aroma of baked bread and the soft sounds of traditional Venezuelan acoustic guitar, two young women kneaded dough, much like their ancestors had done for generations in Caracas, Venezuela.


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Around the World

Every American should have health care coverage within six years, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday as he set an ambitious goal soon after jumping into the 2008 presidential race.



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ACLU fights for fairness in Indiana scholarships

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Hopes are high for Indiana students who are natural-born U.S. citizens but whose parents are not, thanks to one proposed settlement made between the ACLU of Indiana and the 21st Century Scholars program about state scholarships.


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City charities split $63,000

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This year's checks are in the mail for 11 local nonprofit organizations. The Monroe County Emergency Food and Shelter Program split $63,456 between associations such as Bloomington's American Red Cross, Martha's House and Area 10 Agency on Aging to further their services in food, shelter and utility assistance.




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The Complete Moron's Guide to: The Stage

PROSCENIUM STAGE -- This is the most common type of stage found in Western theater and it is also referred to as the picture-frame stage. The picture-frame concept comes from the proscenium arch through which the viewers see.


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This week in the IU Jacobs School of Music

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An enthusiastically large crowd gathered in the warmth of the Musical Arts Center Wednesday evening to hear the IU Philharmonic Orchestra launch the spring semester orchestra series with a program of Russian repertoire. The concert opened with a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Fourth Piano Concerto, featuring graduate student Adam Zukiewicz, of Wroclaw, Poland, as piano soloist.


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Photo exhibit gone in a flash

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Soon the flash will fade, when the Photography Area Show at the School of Fine Arts Gallery is taken down. However, a chance to see the artwork on display is available from 7 to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday at the SoFA Gallery.


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A piece of Indiana

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As a young man, Bob Nellis didn't just go to the theater to see the latest flick to hit the big screen. In fact, because of a curfew, he rarely saw a whole movie start-to-finish. He really went to "The Indiana" -- now the Buskirk-Chumley Theater -- in downtown Bloomington to see his friends and pass the time. Sometimes he would go just to hear stories from Roy Hays, the theater's projectionist. Nellis' father worked with Hays in the theater, and between the two men, Nellis heard many stories over the years about life at the theater.


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YOUR GUIDE TO PRIDE

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IU students and Bloomington residents used to have to travel to major metropolitan areas to attend a film festival. But since 2004, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater has been home to the PRIDE Film Festival. This year's PRIDE Film Festival, which will screen more than 30 films celebrating the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, will feature the increasingly popular PRIDE Dance Party, and two directors' panel discussions will be added to the festival as well.


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UPDATE: Bailey, 2 others depart football team

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Three IU football players have left the team, an IU Athletics Department spokesman said Thursday night. Starting linebacker freshman Josh Bailey left the Hoosiers this week and plans to transfer to Western Kentucky.


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'24' - Jack Bauer is a vampire, Kumar a terrorist and L.A. is toast

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The first five seasons of "24" were pretty formulaic: Meet the new terrorists, watch them successfully unleash a couple attacks and threaten massively bigger ones. See Jack find out, through awesomely graphic interrogations, which of the supposedly good guys are actually traitors and kill whoever stands in his way from stopping the BIG attack and save the world as the season ends.


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Must-see TV is back

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Good news! With NBC's revamped Thursday night comedy block, must-see TV is back! The two-hour comedy block kicks off with "My Name is Earl," a comedy about a man inspired by Carson Daly to seek out all the people he has wronged in his life and help them. Next is "The Office," where viewers get to watch the dysfunctional employees of Dunder Mifflin clash with each other with ensuing hilarity.


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Grammys album a rocky road of good, bad and awful

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As usual, 2007's Grammy nominees are an extremely mixed bag. Playing as a kind of semi-discerning alternative to the NOW! That's What I Call Music compilations, this particular mix showcases both a tiny bit of the best and a whole mess of the worst of what 2006 had to offer, with everyone from Paul McCartney to the Pussycat Dolls chipping in. As with any record-exec-arranged mix, especially one that's been hastily compiled by a label dubiously known as "Strategic Marketing," it's best to separate the good from the bad and the bad from the just plain ugly.


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Super sweet 15

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When Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland were asked to photograph their neighbor's quinceañera, little did they know doing so would result in an extraordinary film and winner of two Sundance Film Festival awards (Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize). "Quinceañera" is a coming-of-age story about 14-year-old Magdalena (Emily Rios), and the events that lead up to her quinceañera, a traditional Mexican celebration when a girl turns 15. When Magdalena doesn't fit into her quinceañera dress, it is assumed she is pregnant. Although Magdalena is a "virgin," a pregnancy test confirms she is pregnant.


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Solid as a rock

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Critics labeled "Gridiron Gang" cliché and predictable. I can't say I disagree. More and more sports movies are released every year following similar plotlines saddled with the frequent tagline, "based on a true story." I've begun to doubt these types of movies. Yet, there is something that stands out about "Gridiron Gang." Without much directing experience to his name, Phil Joanou did a great job with this film and making it stand out from other sports films.


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A mediocre 'Beginning'

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"Texas Chainsaw: The Beginning" naturally garners low expectations with its credentials -- it is the latest in a series of films spawned from a popular horror movie and a comparatively lackluster cinematic offering put foreword to take advantage of interest in the "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" stirred up by the recent, fairly high-quality remake of the original. It is also directed by Jonathan Liebesman, who was responsible for "Darkness Falls" (remember, it was the one with "the tooth fairy?").