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Mexico Pageant Battle

Miss Mexico modifies controversial pageant dress

By Julie Watson · Thursday, April 19,2007 12 a.m.

MEXICO CITY – Miss Mexico is toning down her Miss Universe pageant dress – not because it’s too slinky or low-cut, but because its bullet-studded belt and images of hangings from a 1920s uprising have outraged Mexicans.

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This Weekend in IU Jacobs School of Music

By Eric Anderson · Thursday, April 19,2007 12 a.m.

With everyone hurtling full speed toward May 5, there is no shortage of diversions as individuals and groups across campus try to fit their end-of-semester efforts into a diminishing amount of space and time. The Jacobs School of Music is no exception, and for those not cyclically inclined, the coming weekend offers a wide and bountiful range of musical events to enjoy. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted:

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ARTiFACT

Thursday, April 19,2007 12 a.m.

What: Turtle-shell Rattle, by Lillian Lossiah, Cherokee, North Carolina

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Around the Arts

Thursday, April 19,2007 12 a.m.

IU Soul Revue WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. MORE INFORMATION: The IU Soul Revue of IU’s African American Arts Institute will present its annual spring concert Saturday. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10

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The Fine Art of getting a B.F.A.

By Ashley Wilson · Thursday, April 19,2007 12 a.m.

Staring resolutely at the camera with bangs covering one eye, a pretty, dark-skinned woman with a stoic expression is posed on the couch. Next to this photograph are the words “I do like things about myself but they seem to be trivial, like my wrists and collarbone.”

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IU Ballet Theater shows its versatility, virtuosity

By Ashley Wilson · Wednesday, April 18,2007 12 a.m.

Just weeks after performing the ballet “Cinderella” to nearly sold-out audiences at the Musical Arts Center, the IU Ballet Theater is back with a quieter, more off-the-radar show that is sure to be as pleasing.

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Student poet writes ‘lux et veritas’

By Michael Reschke · Wednesday, April 18,2007 12 a.m.

The new Starbucks in the Indiana Memorial Union has brought more students to a part of the building that has usually been quiet. Graduate student Luke Hankins was sitting in that part of the building when he was inspired to write a poem he named after the university motto, “Lux Et Veritas”.

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Take a bow: 2 Jacobs School conductors to give farewell performances this week

By Eric Anderson · Wednesday, April 18,2007 12 a.m.

In the next few days, two members of the IU Jacobs School of Music faculty will retire and bid farewell to the school that has been their home for over three decades. Jan Harrington, currently chair of the choral department, and Mary Goetze, professor of music in general studies, took some time to reflect on their years in Bloomington.

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Is ‘creepy’ art?

By Ryan Brown · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Lately, the art world has produced works of a very unusual juxtaposition, one that earns the word by mixing familiar childhood images, such as teddy bears, dolls and happy little homes, with completely disturbing themes, such as blood, drowned corpses, slabs of meat and the decapitated head of Abraham Lincoln.

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‘Nine, the Musical’ not quite a perfect 10

By Kelsey Nash · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

The provocative and unusual production “Nine” opened Friday night at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre. A mixed bag of stupendous and so-so performances, “Nine” fell short of my expectations but still delivered an engaging and entertaining show.

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Gwen’s not-so-tragic Kingdom

By Teri Rosenbaum · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

Flash back to a scene of me in the shower of my excessively peach-colored bathroom in the fifth grade, singing to my loofah and wishing for the mysterious presence of a talent scout outside the door.

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Whitney ‘acts’ on her instinct

By Lindsey Landis · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

Whitney first tried to break into the modeling world in her hometown of West Palm Beach, Fla. She explained that the agents were looking for stick thin Brazilian girls, so the plus-size black girl just didn’t stand a chance. She auditioned for cycle seven of America’s Next Top Model, giving up her position on the Dartmouth women’s basketball team. She didn’t make the seventh cycle, but was called back for the eighth. She landed a spot on the show, and abandoned her studies at Dartmouth. She has since returned and will graduate with a degree in sociology in June.

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Work of influential Senegalese artist on display at IUAM gallery

By Kyle Meehan · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

The work of Kalidou Sy, a Senegalese painter and former Bloomington resident, is on display until May 20 in the IU Art Museum’s first-floor Special Exhibitions Gallery. Sy’s work was the subject of a lecture by Joanna Grabski, assistant professor at Ohio’s Denison University, Wednesday night in Woodburn Hall. Sy moved to Bloomington in 1997 to marry Eileen Julien, the chairperson of IU’s Department of Comparative Literature. He remained in town, except for a two-year stint in Maryland and annual trips to Senegal, until his death in 2005.

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The Complete Moron's Guide to: The Renaissance

Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

Performers, vendors and re-enactors will party like its 1499 during the annual Bloomington Renaissance Faire, which will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Dunn Meadow. The free event celebrates the Renaissance era, which spanned the 14th through 17th centuries, and was a defining period for artistic, intellectual and social development in Europe. The following is a list of five of the most influential people of the period. Use them as inspiration for your own Renaissance-style costume.

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Bell picks up Avery Fisher award prize

Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

NEW YORK – When Joshua Bell was a teenager in Indiana, he got a call from Avery Fisher himself telling him he had won an Avery Fisher Career Grant, which helps selected young American classical musicians embark on a career.

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