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Market offers produce, culture for all

By Maurina Paradise · Sunday, June 6,2004 9:10 p.m.

Just before 8 a.m. Saturday, the Bloomington Farmer's Market was already busy. There were families with small children in strollers, gray-haired couples, single college girls and middle-aged couples. The market had opened at 7 a.m., and the early birds were leaving as the next batch of people arrived. The wares for sale varied from hardy rose bushes to organic meat, painted tin chimes to oriental lilies, honey, potatoes, lettuce and cheese.

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BAAC expands season to summer

By Jenica Schultz · Wednesday, June 2,2004 10:28 p.m.

Next year's season at the Bloomington Area Arts Council will not stop at the end of IU's spring semester. At a press conference Wednesday, the BAAC announced plans to continue productions at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St., through July. "People keep asking why our house is dark in the summer, and now we will be answering their request by expanding our season," said Kaira Hogle, BAAC performance director. The upcoming season offers a wide variety of performances from interpretative movement theater in "Waves: A Theatrical Adaptation of the Novel by Virginia Woolf" to traditional musical theater in Berold Brecht and Kurt Weil's "The Threepenny Opera" to the classical guitar stylings of Ana Vidovic, Antanas Tzetkov and the Bloomington Classical Guitar Society.

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BPP announces upcoming season

By Erika Biga Lee · Wednesday, June 2,2004 9:20 p.m.

For theater lovers and playwrights alike, the 2004-05 season of the Bloomington Playwrights Project will be full of drama, as well as a few thrillers and comedies. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the organization what likely will be a pivotal year for the organization's education programs and production teams.

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Runcible Spoon hosts local artists in poetry reading

By Kacie Leblong · Wednesday, May 26,2004 10:06 p.m.

The Runcible Spoon Café has always possessed a level of uniqueness, from its whimsical name to its bathroom featuring a bathtub full of fish. The cafe, 412 E. Sixth St., will hold a free poetry reading that goes beyond the ordinary, 7 p.m. Friday. The event, part of a series hosted and produced by poet Patricia Coleman, combines poetry, music and visual artwork of local artists Julia Dadds, Mark Beebe and Ransom Haile. "Coleman always picks good people to read -- local and non-local," said Runcible Spoon co-owner Regan Ton, who has attended other poetry series events.

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BLEMF to present 'Solomon' Sunday

By Andrea Opperman · Wednesday, May 26,2004 9:15 p.m.

The Bloomington Early Music Festival produces an opera each year. This year, they were given the opportunity to do something similar, but with a twist. While the performances are usually theatrical, this year the featured choir, vocalists and orchestra will perform without the on-stage action. The BLEMF will present composer Georg Frideric Handel's oratorio about the life of King Solomon, as featured in the Old Testament. The production will also hold concerts in Lafayette and Indianapolis, as well as Bloomington.

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Fry up those cicadas

By Alyson Brodsy and David Kanter · Sunday, May 23,2004 10:30 p.m.

After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America and cooking in the restaurant industry, last week I started a new endeavor at IU where I've transferred to major in business. As a native East-Coaster, I was clueless that the cicada epidemic was coming.

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Early Music Festival performances continue

By Jenica Schultz · Sunday, May 23,2004 10:27 p.m.

Performing songs from the Italian Renaissance, the Camerino Band will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at the Unitarian Universalist Church, featuring sopranos Elizabeth Ronan and Sonja Rasmussen, mezzo-soprano Angela Mariani, and lute-player Adam Wead. The band is just one of the groups performing at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, which continues through May 31 at venues throughout the city.

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Video game fans dance their way to fitness

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, May 23,2004 10:14 p.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Forget the image of paunchy video gamers holed up in a dark room, surrounded by sticky Twinkie wrappers and empty soda cans. Dance Dance Revolution players burn pounds along with their quarters.

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Men's chorus expanding horizons

By Jaime Cohen and Jaimie Cohen · Wednesday, May 19,2004 9:19 p.m.

With Andrew Lloyd Weber's play "Aspects of Love" as an inspiration, Quarryland Men's Chorus, the only area choir composed predominately of gay and bisexual men, holds its spring concert 7 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 2120 N. Fee Lane. Chorus manager Jim Johnson said Quarryland found its home in the large arts community in Bloomington. "Quarryland provides a sense of community for gay and bi men and their allies through performance experience," Johnson said.

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BAAC holds art auction of locally made donated works

By Jenica Schultz · Wednesday, May 19,2004 9:18 p.m.

Colorful paintings, handcrafted jewelry and original sculptures donated by local artists will go up for auction tonight at the Rosemary P. Miller Gallery of the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut Street. The Bloomington Area Art Council's annual fundraiser will last from 5 to 8 p.m. The auction is the BAAC's largest fundraiser of the year. Letters requesting donations for the event were sent to all of the artists on the BAAC's mailing list. Gallery Director Mary Hambly said local artists have shown tremendous support for the organization by donating nearly 60 original pieces of art for the auction.

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Tightening their belts

By Holy Johnson · Sunday, May 16,2004 10:21 p.m.

Elephants. That's the term longtime arts lover Hillard Trubitt uses to refer to the aging segment of Bloomingtonians supportive of a local, non-University affiliated classical music scene. They're retired IU professors, philanthropists with large pockets willing to quietly encourage, both practically and fiscally, a volunteer regiment of Bloomington musicians. They've been the lifeblood, it seems, for the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, which for more than three decades, has filled local auditoriums with a shimmering flute descant or the richly-colored stroke of a cellist's bow.

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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:37 p.m.

SOFA shows photos The SOFA Gallery hosts the opening of the Thirteenth Annual Juried Exhibition of the Bloomington Photography Club Tuesday. A large percentage of the club's members are amateur photographers from the Bloomington area. The group is also composed of professional photographers who work locally. In an attempt to get their work seen by the public, 40 Photography Club members submitted over 170 works for acceptance into the exhibition.

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Acting classes show off talent

By Jaime Cohen and Jaimie Cohen · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:33 p.m.

For the past eight weeks, local Bloomington elementary students and adults have been participating in the School of Dramatic Arts as part of the education program at the Bloomington Playwrights Project.

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Choir sings math-inspired music

By Matt McNabb · Wednesday, May 12,2004 10:13 p.m.

Math and music are rarely thought to have much in common, but a local choir will hold a program this weekend exploring the links between the two. The Voces Novae choir will perform the program, "Music and Mathematics" 7 p.m., Sunday at the First United Church at 2420 E. Third St. Swaney said mathematics is underneath all of the music we hear, make and appreciate and the group just wants to hold that up and examine the relationship.

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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:50 p.m.

BPP showcases disgruntled heroes in 'Super Lair' The Bloomington Playwrights Project premieres the latest in its Dark Alley Series, "Meanwhile Back at the Super Lair," 11 p.m., Friday, at the Lori Shiner Studio located at 314 S. Washington St. In this play by Greg Kalleres, four neurotic superheroes fight to prevent being downsized when an efficiency expert evaluates if they are earning their salaries.

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'Frasier' comes to an end

By Alyson Brodsy and Lynn Elber · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:46 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- When the blue-collar barroom comedy "Cheers" ended its run in 1993, it managed the neat trick of turning beer into champagne. "Frasier," the "Cheers" spinoff about psychiatrist Frasier Crane and his dysfunctional family, became its own vintage blend of sparkling wit and dependably funny highbrow neuroses.

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May events celebrate Asian culture

By Steven Chung · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:15 p.m.

Although IU celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in April, it's officially celebrated in May. Several organizations are holding Asian arts events in Bloomington over the next two weeks in the spirit of the month.

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Happy faces on display at Union Gallery

By Jessica Dalsing · Sunday, May 9,2004 10:05 p.m.

Bright colors and happy faces characterize the latest exhibit at the Indiana Memorial Union Gallery. The exhibit, "Our Face", is a collection of works by Sheila Sundquist Berkes and will be on display until June 3.

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'Friends' bid final farewell

By Alyson Brodsy and David Bauder · Sunday, May 9,2004 9:15 p.m.

NEW YORK -- In the end, Rachel, Ross, Joey, Phoebe, Monica and Chandler had a lot of friends. An estimated 51.1 million people tuned in for the final "Friends" on NBC Thursday night, watching the crowd-pleasing story line of Ross and Rachel declaring their undying love for each other.

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