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Pastor flees after molesting girl

By AP Reports and Alexandra R. Moses · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 10:57 p.m.

A pastor remained at large Thursday after being charged with molesting a 12-year-old female member of his congregation.

ACLU fights for fairness in Indiana scholarships

By Alexa Lopez · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 10:56 p.m.

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.

City charities split $63,000

By Elizabeth Dilts · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 10:55 p.m.

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.

Lawmakers want to bring Super Bowl to Indianapolis

By AP Reports and Alexandra R. Moses · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 10:48 p.m.

State lawmakers could consider giving tax breaks to football teams and the NFL in an effort to bring the 2011 Super Bowl to Indianapolis.

Trial for truck driver in Taylor crash to be moved out of Grant County

By AP Reports and Alexandra R. Moses · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 10:47 p.m.

A judge has decided to move the trial of a truck driver accused of causing a highway crash that killed a Taylor University employee and four students, including one who was misidentified for weeks.

The Complete Moron's Guide to: The Stage

Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 9:38 p.m.

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.

This week in the IU Jacobs School of Music

By Eric Anderson · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 9:36 p.m.

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.

Photo exhibit gone in a flash

By Shannon McEnerney · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 9:35 p.m.

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.

A piece of Indiana

By C. Warner Sills and Jessica Wolfe · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:40 p.m.

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.

YOUR GUIDE TO PRIDE

By C. Warner Sills and Michael Reschke · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:38 p.m.

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.

UPDATE: Bailey, 2 others depart football team

By IDS staff · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:37 p.m.

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.

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

By C. Warner Sills and Zack Teibloom · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:36 p.m.

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.

Must-see TV is back

By C. Warner Sills and Brian Hettmansperger · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:36 p.m.

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.

Grammys album a rocky road of good, bad and awful

By C. Warner Sills and John Barnett · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:35 p.m.

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.

Super sweet 15

By C. Warner Sills and Alyson Brodsky · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:33 p.m.

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.

Solid as a rock

By C. Warner Sills and Alyson Brodsky · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:31 p.m.

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.

A mediocre 'Beginning'

By C. Warner Sills and Ash Cartwright · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:29 p.m.

"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?").

Model 'Employee'

By C. Warner Sills and Stuart McWhirter · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:28 p.m.

There's a certain genre of comedy that few people actually know exists titled: "Work Sucks but Isn't It Funny?" Many hit comedies through the years have fallen into this category, like "Caddyshack" and, of course, "Office Space," the 1999 cult favorite about working in a cubicle typing at a computer. "Employee of the Month" falls right into this category of films and actually turns out to be a pretty entertaining one. Although it wasn't a major success in theaters, the movie has many high points and is much more highbrow than might be expected of a film of this caliber.

Green Day re-issue goes 'Kerplunk!'

By C. Warner Sills and Christopher Lee · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:26 p.m.

Green Day was a completely different band before American Idiot. Before being signed to major label Warner Bros., the trio released two albums on Bay Area independent label Lookout!. The first was a compilation of various EPs titled 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, while the latter, Kerplunk!, featured what would become the definitive lineup of Billie Joe Armstrong on guitar and vocals, Mike Dirnt on bass and Tre Cool on drums. Both albums are being reissued through Warner Bros.

Clap your hands say 'meh'

By C. Warner Sills and Brian J. McFillen · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 8:24 p.m.

If there's one lesson to take away from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's second album, Some Loud Thunder (out Jan. 30), it's this: Ambition is a fine thing, but ambition alone is not enough. Indeed, for those of us who love out-of-the-mainstream music, it could serve as an aesthetic test: Can we distinguish complexity from quality? Can we tell the difference between something that's difficult-but-rewarding and something that's simply difficult?