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Zion Crossroads performs during Streetdance!, part of the the First Friday celebration, on June 5th along 7th Street in downtown Bloomington.

First Friday brings arts outdoors

By Alycin Bektesh · Sunday, June 7,2009 6:55 p.m.

Downtown galleries and local bands combined efforts to kick off the summer during Bloomington’s First Friday event. The most recent Downtown Gallery Walk and Street Dance, which took place Friday, are designed to support local artists and musicians.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006 file photo, actor David Carradine arrives for the 16th annual Environmental Media Awards in Los Angeles.

Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok

Thursday, June 4,2009 12:09 p.m.

BANGKOK – David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series “Kung Fu” whose career roared back to life when he played the assassin-turned-victim in Quentin Tarentino’s “Kill Bill,” was found dead Thursday in Thailand. A published report said he committed suicide.

A boy sells posters with the faces of Ugandan Catholic bishops June 3.

Ugandans celebrate Martyrs’ Day with prayers, food and gambling

By Anna Batcheller · Wednesday, June 3,2009 8:24 p.m.

Hundreds of thousands of Ugandans gathered in Namugongo, Kampala on Thursday in commemoration of Martyrs’ Day, a holiday that remembers the death of 26 Christians killed in 1886.

IU graduate produces ‘worst album cover’

By Alyssa Goldman · Wednesday, June 3,2009 8:23 p.m.

The band Germart didn’t set out to create one of the 50 worst album covers of all time.

People stand outside the Notre Dame cathedral where an ecumenical church service for relatives and families of the passengers of Air France's Flight 447, which vanished Sunday over the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday in Paris. The reason for the crash remains unclear, with fierce thunderstorms, lightning or a catastrophic combination of causes as possible theories.

IU alumna, harpist, remembered as ‘dedicated student'

By Carrie Schedler · Wednesday, June 3,2009 8:06 p.m.

Throughout Turkey, radio stations are playing the music of IU alumna and harpist Fatma Ceren Necipoglu.

Canadian singer-songwriter to perform Tuesday at Bear’s Place

By Yahya Chaudhry · Tuesday, June 2,2009 1:10 p.m.

Julie Doiron’s characteristically winsome vocals, minimalist guitar melodies and melancholy heart-heavy lyrics will serenade listeners at Bear’s Place at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets remain available and on sale for $7.

Erotic art heats up summer at SoFA Gallery

By Amanda Lowry · Sunday, May 31,2009 6:26 p.m.

At the Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show, sex is everything but taboo. The show contains about 120 pieces of sexuality-related contemporary art in media that range from acrylic paint to video to a graphic novel.

Record studio offers free Internet tracks

By Rorye O'Connor · Sunday, May 31,2009 6:22 p.m.

Russian Recording, a local recording studio owned and operated by Mike Bridavsky, recently released its second compilation album, “We Just Call it Roulette: Volume 2.” What makes “Roulette: Volume 2” stand out from the crowd is the fact that Russian Recording is offering all the mp3 tracks for free download for a limited time.

The restaurant Aladin in London serves a vegetable curry with garlic naan, a traditional Indian flatbread.

Finding flavor in London’s Brick Lane

By Elvia Malagon · Sunday, May 31,2009 6:18 p.m.

Each city has a history of a certain type of ethnic cuisine that seems to oddly fit in. In London, it's Indian food.

Patrons listen as IU graduate Jonah Malarsky plays music on Friday, May 22, at Boxcar Books. Malarsky’s performance was part of “An Evening of Lit and Wit,” a promotional event organized by Shanks and intended to promote local publications fiore and The Robin.

‘Lit and Wit’ inspires artistic expression at Boxcar Books

By Mickey Woods · Wednesday, May 27,2009 7:11 p.m.

The hardwood floorboards of Boxcar Books were adorned May 22 with acoustic guitars, iambic pentameters and cups of sangria at the premiere event for fiore magazine and The Robin: “Lit and Wit."

West Lafayette statues taken inside after vandalism, theft

By AP Reports · Tuesday, May 26,2009 12:49 p.m.

Some of the life-size dog statues set up in and around the Purdue University campus are being taken inside because of theft and vandalism.

Jazz legend Cobine dies at 82

By Carrie Schedler · Thursday, May 21,2009 11:23 p.m.

Band leader and jazz legend Al Cobine has died at the age of 82.

Sam Bartlett and Jamie Gans play May 19 at Peoples Park on Kirkwood Avenue. Bartlett, Gans and Tamara Loewenthal played as part of of the 2009 Summer Performing Arts Series’ Tuesday Lunch Concert.

Playing for the people

By Amanda Lowry · Wednesday, May 20,2009 8:23 p.m.

When people think of music, they might think of listening to mp3s or going to concerts with a band on a stage. The music at Peoples Park on Tuesdays this summer is not that kind of music.

Around the Arts

By IDS staff · Wednesday, May 20,2009 7:35 p.m.

Selected arts events in Bloomington from May 21 to May 23.

'Thespis' to celebrate ancient Greece

By Brent Williamson · Wednesday, May 20,2009 7:33 p.m.

'Thespis' will run 8 p.m. Friday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Tickets will be available for $10 at the door.

Festival brings baroque, medieval sounds to town

By Ashley Bornancin · Wednesday, May 20,2009 7:31 p.m.

The Bloomington Early Music Festival, now in its sixteenth year, started May 15 and will continue through Memorial Day, featuring soloists and ensembles that perform in concerts, operas and educational workshops for younger children.

You should read 'Beth Cooper'

By Brent Williamson · Sunday, May 17,2009 7:12 p.m.

In his new book, Larry Doyle explores the consequences of detonating all the mines of high school simultaneously, leaving an open field for social advancement or crushing defeat.

Empty stomachs, empty pockets

By Elvia Malagon · Sunday, May 17,2009 7:09 p.m.

If you hate grocery shopping on a weekly basis, you would hate living in London.

Jay Dowl plays the recorder while Kanase, Zak and Hagino Hargis listen Saturday afternoon outside the old Greek's Pizzeria on Kirkwood Avenue. Dowl has playedthe recorder for 12 years, and performed many various pieces, including classical songs from various composers.

'Flute Man' performs downtown

By Mickey Woods · Sunday, May 17,2009 7:07 p.m.

As a cool breeze blew through the trees lining Kirkwood Avenue on Saturday evening, Dowl stood in the wooden doorway of the former location of Greek’s Pizzeria, playing pieces ranging from Bach to spiritual hymns on his recorder.

Robin Williams performance rescheduled for September

Wednesday, May 13,2009 7:33 p.m.

Comedian Robin Williams’ performance at the IU Auditorium has been rescheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday, September 30.

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