Living La Vie Bohème
Rent" played this past weekend at the IU Auditorium. Never having seen it before, I accepted my friends' invitation to join them and watch the show from their nosebleed seats back in the 11th row of the balcony. I was touched by the portrayal of New York bohemians dealing with financial instability, drug addiction and HIV, all the while trying to create art and find a love that binds them as a family. Though the setting and living conditions of the characters are drastically different than anything a middle class, Midwestern suburban, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant such as myself is familiar with.

