One of the most well-attended Welcome Week events, CultureFest offers students the chance to taste a slice of life that might be different from their own.
When Americans hear the word "wallpaper," many may think of The Brady Bunch or bad kitchen designs.
If you love picking up 'Good Vibrations' while driving in your 'Little Deuce Coupe,' then you'll have 'Fun, Fun, Fun' celebrating Homecoming at the IU Auditorium with the Beach Boys, featuring original members Bruce Johnston and Mike Love with six members who have joined the group since Brian Wilson left in the 1960s.
SAN FRANCISCO - Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.
OSNABRUECK, Germany -- Conducting the Tehran Symphony Orchestra requires some adjustments.
Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)plays in Nashville
CHICAGO - While indie rock band Cursive played one of the nine stages at the Lollapalooza music festival, a nearby air-conditioned tent was packed with people checking their e-mail, updating their blogs and charging their cell phones. Some milled about waiting for a laptop with wireless Internet access to free up. Others plopped down on couches and watched satellite television -- or a live feed of Cursive, performing just outside. Visitors to this year's three-day edition of Lollapalooza, which began Friday in Chicago's Grant Park, will find technology almost as ubiquitous as the music.
The Bloomington-based Silk Road Ensemble presented its 14th annual Silk Road Festival Sunday afternoon at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The event began in the theater lobby with exhibits from a dozen countries of the Silk Road region, the historical route that connected the East and West from Turkey to China. The event was manned largely by students studying these languages in the IU Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages. Graduate student Eric Schluessel explained the displays of clothing and weapons of the Uighurs, an ethnically Turkic Muslim people of western China. Holding up a small knife he said, "A Uighur man gives this to his wife when he goes away on a trip so she can protect herself in his absence." Other exhibits also included weaponry as well as popular music and art, clothing and jewelry.
A murderer will be on the loose at Tutto Bene Cafe Thursday evening -- but it's all in the name of fun.
Art is in the eye of the beholder, but what about the stomach? Even though college town food markets are often saturated with pizza palaces, burger bordellos and ice cream parlors, sandwich shops provide community refugee for students, residents and guests to explore the art of stuffing just about anything between two slices of bread.
The Bloomington-based Silk Road Ensemble will present its 14th annual Silk Road Bayram, a word meaning "festival" or "celebration" in several Turkic languages, from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. July 30 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Kirkwood Avenue. The event will begin with an exhibit of arts and handicrafts at 2:30 p.m., followed by a concert with the theme of "Musical Stops on the Silk Road." The performances will include guest artists from several regions and a fashion show. The event is open to the public and admission is free.
Summer fun is often associated with baking in the sun and eating barbecue by the ton, but community members are invited to dress their best for a night of Gilbert and Sullivan opera. IU Opera Theater is showcasing Arthur Gilbert and W.S. Sullivan's Japanese-themed "The Mikado," acclaimed as one of the most popular musical masterpieces ever written, at 8 p.m. July 28-29 and Aug. 4-5 at the IU Musical Arts Center. "The Mikado," which opened internationally March 14, 1885 at the Savoy Theatre in London and nationally August 19, 1885 at the New York Fifth Avenue Theatre, tells the "timeless" tale of two young lovers who strive for romance despite a windfall of family and cultural obstacles.
IU Opera Theater is presenting Arthur Gilbert and W.S. Sullivan's Japanese-themed "The Mikado," or "The Town of Titipu," billed as one of the popular musical masterpieces ever written, at 8 p.m. beginning this weekend, July 28 and July 29, and ending next weekend, August 4 and 5, at the Musical Arts Center.
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio - Call it Chagall in the stall, Picasso in the powder room.
Michael Vernon is coming to IU to be the chair of the Jacobs School Ballet Department, a school that already produces dancers for some of the world's leading companies.
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Japanese anime and manga -- animation and comics -- are drawing a lot of attention in the United States. And, more than ever before, not just from its traditional male audience. The art forms, defined by complex story lines and saucer-eyed characters, are also being made and enjoyed by young exuberant women, along with enthusiasts of computer-generated graphics, from both genders.
"The Memory Artists" is fictional. Were it not for the bright yellow sticker from the public library on the spine proclaiming it so, I would have believed it to be a true story. Jeffrey S. Moore's avant-garde style of using a third-person perspective, bits of the characters' journal entries and even the endnotes of a "narrator," blurs readers' perception of reality. Noel Burun, the book's protagonist, has synaesthesia, an actual condition that allows those who have it to literally see sounds. Their sensory perceptions cross in their minds and they have a "color wheel" of memories that stay with them forever. Noel could recite all of the 1001 Tales of The Arabian Nights, remember the color of his baby bib and relive the moment that he learned that his father committed suicide, daily.
The air conditioner is still on and vacuum cleaners are running, pushed by red "staff"-imprinted T-shirts wandering about like mildly agitated ants.
IU's Summer Cooperative African Language Institute presents the African Film Series featuring "Ndeysaan (The Price of Forgiveness)" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
The Jacobs Summer Music Festival will continue at 8 p.m. July 20 in the Musical Arts Center with Concert II of the Festival Orchestra Series.
