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Lotus Festival

Kids weave prank into Lotus in the Park project

By Bailey Loosemore · Sunday, Sept. 25,2011 10:59 p.m.

Lotus in the Park is a free portion of the annual Lotus World Music and Arts Festival. Located in the Waldron, Hill and Buskirk Park known as Third Street Park, this part of the festival offered Bloomington residents daytime concerts by artists featured in the weekend’s schedule.

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Australian belles on stilts sway in Strange Fruit

By Nicole Montella · Sunday, Sept. 25,2011 10:57 p.m.

When the beauty of a fairy tale met 14-foot-high flexible poles, Strange Fruit was the outcome.The women on stilts first appeared on campus Thursday outside the IU Art Museum and made three more appearances throughout Bloomington as part of the celebration for the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival.

Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples sings from her soul

By Rachel Krasnow · Sunday, Sept. 25,2011 10:54 p.m.

In an all-black outfit, drop earrings and a black bob with a golden sheen, she walked on stage to an eruptive cheer of applause. The Buskirk-Chumley Theater’s sold-out crowd of mostly baby boomers stood in their seats, clapping and hooting. Mavis Staples, Grammy award-winning gospel singer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, looked straight at the audience. 

travel abroad

Column: Why Italians never worry about the weather

By Brea Johnson · Thursday, Sept. 22,2011 9:28 p.m.

Bologna, Italy, is leagues ahead of the rest of the world in terms of preparedness for the nasty mid-day downpours that plague us all. Here, it is possible to walk the length of the city without leaving the comforts of a covered roof.

Strange Fruit

Lotus goes live Friday with art, music, culture

Thursday, Sept. 22,2011 9:26 p.m.

Chicago has Lollapalooza, Indio has Coachella and Bloomington has Lotus. Every year, music fans migrate from local, national and international locations to experience world music.

High Dive

High Dive cooks up pop-punk

By Celia Grundman · Thursday, Sept. 22,2011 9:24 p.m.

For High Dive’s three musicians, life is a balance of work, friends and musical projects. They’ve performed their pop-punk tunes around Bloomington at house shows and in local venues. Now, they plan to record a full-length album in the first week of October. Shortly before they record, the band will perform at the WIUX fall kickoff show with Ivory Wave and Eric Ayotte. The free show begins at 9:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at The Bishop.

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WFHB radio station seeks local talent

By Derrick Naylor · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2011 10:02 p.m.

WFHB Community Radio will make a greater effort to collect local music and give airplay to local artists by sponsoring the Local Music Collection Drive. The collection will transform supporting local businesses into drop-off zones for musicians to submit their music for review and airtime consideration.

Toro y Moi

Bright, psychedelic future in store for Toro y Moi

By Raven Carpenter · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2011 10 p.m.

About an hour before the fan-proclaimed chillwave artist Toro y Moi’s concert began, doorman for the Bishop Kieran Blackwood announced to the crowd of young adults that the concert had sold out.Chill wave artist Toro y Moi performed Sept. 20 at the Bishop.

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Hello Panda added to endangered species list

By Nona Tepper · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2011 9:56 p.m.

1989-2008: The years of Hello Kitty, Hellogoodbye and the Hello Panda trade biscuit. Hello Panda is a delicious brand of Japanese shortbread cookies manufactured by the Meiji Seika corporation. Each bite-size snack is a sugar cookie filled with either sweet milk cream, smooth strawberry spread or decadent chocolate filling; the chocolate is the most common variety. Printed on these delicate biscuits are cartoons of cuddly pandas, and printed on the cardboard package are pictures of smiling mammals. 2008: The HP cookie mysteriously degenerates into mainstream Koala Yummies.

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Hoosierettes hope for approval

By Brittany Tempest · Tuesday, Sept. 20,2011 10:27 p.m.

The Indiana Hoosierettes is a new pom-style dance team on campus. According to its official statement to the IU Athletic Department, the Hoosierettes formed in 2010 with its first group of girls coming together in the 2011 spring semester.

Toro Y Moi

Toro Y Moi to bring chill wave to Bishop

By Raven Carpenter · Monday, Sept. 19,2011 10:04 p.m.

Based on increasing ticket sales since his first appearance in Bloomington, Chazwick Bundick, better known by his stage name Toro Y Moi, has been growing as a musician and is performing at 8 p.m. today at the Bishop.

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Focus on Fashion

By Samantha Kirby · Sunday, Sept. 18,2011 9:22 p.m.

Neon is seen more around campus, many times in the form of grey-and-neon-striped shirts, and it certainly is an attention grabber.

Audio Scenery

Fair weather keeps summer scene alive

By Celia Grundman · Sunday, Sept. 18,2011 9:20 p.m.

Saturday marked Audio Scenery’s first concert of the semester, a free, all-day music festival filled with body-painting, hula hooping and sunbathing all to benefit the Middle Way House.

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