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Art from all Angles

By Colleen Carroll · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2006 11:57 p.m.

ulpture on the lawn of the IU Art Museum is nothing more than a meaningless shape. "It looks like a circle to me," he said. But that big circle is Charles Perry's "Indiana Arc," one of several pieces of abstract art that exists on IU's campus.

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7 Decades of Funk

By Zack Teibloom · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2006 12:49 a.m.

James Brown, decked out in a bright red sequined suit, got down on his knees during a nearly 15-minute rendition of "A Man's Man's Man's World" and told the audience members he loved all 2,500 of them Tuesday night during his performance at the IU Auditorium. Erupting in applause that bounced off the balcony, the people in the crowd yelled back their adoration for the "hardest working man in show business," who begged for 10 more minutes of performance time.

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Steven Irwin memorial at Australia Zoo Wednesday

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Sept. 19,2006 10:51 p.m.

BEERWAH, Australia -- More than 5,000 people, including the Australian prime minister, are expected to cram the "Crocoseum" at the Australia Zoo Wednesday to say farewell to "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin at a memorial service.

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IT'S ALL GREEK

By Alyson Brodsy and Georgia Perry · Monday, Sept. 18,2006 10:59 p.m.

IT'S ALL GREEK -- Actors entertain Friday at the Third Street Park outdoor stage during the Monroe County Civic Theater's production of "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" by William Shakespeare. The Monroe County Civic Theater has outdoor shows in the park during July and August; "Pericles" will be performed again September 22nd and 23rd.

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Living in the year of Cézanne

By Adrienne Dye and Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 18,2006 10:57 p.m.

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France -- Most museums take the anniversary of an artist's death as a chance to pull out a handful of his or her work stuck in the vaults and air them out for a few weeks. Aix-en-Provence artist Paul Cézanne's ville maternelle, or birthplace, and the setting of his most famous paintings, is doing more than just a bit of airing out for the 100th anniversary of his death.

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Thin models walk London's catwalks amid controversy

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 18,2006 10:56 p.m.

LONDON -- Ultrathin models walked the runways at London's Fashion Week on Monday, opening the weeklong event with a clear rejection of arguments that waiflike young women should not be permitted to showcase designs. Despite a ban on superskinny models imposed by Spanish organizers at their fashion week in Madrid, slinky women in London were ready to flaunt the spring and summer collections of designers such as Julien Macdonald, John Rocha and Zandra Rhodes.

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Shakespearean production on outdoor stage

By Kelsey Nash · Sunday, Sept. 17,2006 10:44 p.m.

As Elizabethan music played softly from stage speakers, students and Bloomington residents gathered their lawn chairs in Third Street Park Friday evening for the second installment of the Monroe County Civic Theater's "Shakespeare in the Park" series.

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'Recycled art' on display at Mathers

By Paige Ingram · Sunday, Sept. 17,2006 10:41 p.m.

The latest exhibit at the Mathers Museum, "Lost and Found: Art through Recycled Objects," turns an old tradition into a new and economical way of having fun.

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Buskirk-Chumley hosts free showing of 'The Ground Truth'

By IDS staff and Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 15,2006 12:34 a.m.

At 7 p.m. Sunday, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater will present a free screening of "The Ground Truth," a documentary that follows men and women who served the American military in the Iraq war, according to the film's Web site. The movie shows the journey through recruitment, training, combat and homecoming and chronicles the soldiers' process of reintegrating with their families and communities.

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Whitney Houston files for divorce from Bobby Brown after 14 years

Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 10:41 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- The tumultuous marriage of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown -- which withstood drug addiction, Brown's numerous arrests, the decline of Houston's once-sparkling image and domestic abuse allegations -- is coming to an end.

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'Lotus' granted $15,000

By Kristi Oloffson · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 10:39 p.m.

Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan announced Thursday morning at City Hall that the city will give $15,000 to the second annual Lotus in the Park. The family-friendly event which will be part of the 2006 Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, an annual event in Bloomington since 1993.

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Illinois museum returning stolen memorial

By Christopher Wills · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 10:39 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The story began 20 years ago in Kenya with one family's grief. It traveled halfway around the world, passed through Hollywood and came to a museum in the middle of America. Now it will end where it began, but this time with the family celebrating a small victory -- the return of a stolen memorial to a dead relative.

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Author to headline 'Writers in Rhythm'

By Shannon Valentine · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 10:29 p.m.

IU's master of fine arts creative writing program will hold its first annual "Writers in Rhythm: Poetry & Prose at the Waldron" event at 8 p.m. Friday. The four-evening series, hosted by the John Waldron Arts Center, is designed to bring interactive and diverse writers to Bloomington for an audience of students and community members, according to a press release. The event is free and open to the public.

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Haute in here

By Paul Coover · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:19 a.m.

Haute couture is high fashion design. It's known for being expensive and impractical for day-to-day wear.

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