Straight No Chaser seniors leaving
Straight No Chaser will say hello and goodbye during their spring concert at 8 p.m. tonight at the IU Auditorium.
Straight No Chaser will say hello and goodbye during their spring concert at 8 p.m. tonight at the IU Auditorium.
LOS ANGELES -- Academy Awards overseers plan to write new rules to restrain Oscar campaigning, which has become more aggressive as distributors target the industry with ads and special events to plug their films.
TEL AVIV, Israel -- A trio of filmmakers set out this month to show a slice of normalcy by making a film about their favorite Tel Aviv pub and its jam sessions.
LOS ANGELES -- Aaron Sorkin, creator of the Emmy-winning White House drama "The West Wing," is leaving the series after this season, he said Thursday. Sorkin, who was involved in writing most of the scripts for the NBC series, also served as executive producer. Thomas Schlamme, another executive producer, also is leaving.
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. -- Angela Lansbury -- very much in character as her renowned snoopy sleuth Jessica Fletcher -- walks briskly up to a police car as cameras roll.
Metallica to present new 'Headbangers Ball' LOS ANGELES -- Metallica is back at the "Headbangers Ball."
NEW YORK -- The tabloids may be sniping and the Internet chat rooms chirping, but director Sam Mendes has more important things to worry about - getting "Gypsy," starring Bernadette Peters, ready for Broadway.
WASHINGTON -- The Holocaust Museum is marking its 10th year with a display on book burning that includes images from a New Mexico town where Harry Potter books were torched by people who said they teach children to become witches.
Tuesday afternoon, the African-American Dance Company was treated to having a member of the "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk" talk with the dance company about the night's show.
Winner of four 1996 Tony Awards, "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk" will play at 8 p.m. tonight and Wednesday at the IU Auditorium. The show uses tap dance to illustrate and celebrate the history of African-Americans. It is a journey through the colonial era, the Civil War and the present using tap, poetry, lighting, song and percussion.
NEW YORK -- Peter Stone, who won an Oscar, an Emmy and three Tony awards during a career in which he wrote the musicals "1776" and "Titanic" and the film classic "Charade," has died. He was 73.
Saturday night, 12 of the best collegiate step teams from IU and other colleges across the state will present their 2003 step routines. These teams will be competing at 6 p.m. Saturday in the inaugural Little 5 Stepdown Competition for the title of "Best Step Team in Indiana." "This is a chance for the teams to display their creativity," said junior Jeremy Morris, a Union Board member. Rickey Smiley will be the host for the event. Smiley is a former host of BET's popular comedy showcase "Comic View."
IU Soul Revue will present its annual spring concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Last weekend about 100 people had the chance to "visit Japan." Bloomington resident Molly Atkins Jeon and her teacher Baisho Matsumoto performed 16th century Japanese folk music as part of the musical program "A Visit to Japan" at the John Waldron Arts Center auditorium.
Dancers from around the city gather in the auditorium of the John Waldron Arts Center displaying flexibility and mastery of the dance skills as they stretch, warm up and focus for rehearsal.
Dave Hurst has kept a file of thank you notes close to his desk for the past 11 years. But they aren't for scholarship recommendations, although he has written his share. The file makes for a remarkable history album of IU's development. The thank you notes are from faculty, staff, students and parents writing to thank Hurst and his colleagues for a beautiful campus. As Campus Division Manager, Hurst is part of an on-going effort to keep the campus aesthetically pleasing to the eyes of visitors and residents.
It's not every day that a young singer wins the Metropolitan Opera's National Counsel Auditions.
NEW YORK -- The painting is beautiful to see -- an orange-striped curtain hangs from a wood pole above a shimmering ocean -- but the title "Separation" hints at another meaning. The curtain painted by Shahla Etemadi represents those put up in Caspian Sea swimming spots in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution to keep men and women separate. The painting is a part of "Echoes in Blue," an exhibition of contemporary Iranian artists on view through April 29 at The National Arts Club.
MTV plans new 'Wuthering Heights' NEW YORK -- First, MTV updated "Carmen." Now, the cable music channel is offering a modern take on "Wuthering Heights."
NEW YORK -- She favored Givenchy ball gowns, traveled with Louis Vuitton luggage and wore Lacoste polo shirts during visits to some of the world's poorest villages.