Fashion Column: So Much Skin
I love dresses and shorts as much as the next girl, but I do not enjoy seeing butt cheeks, almost nip-slips and other people’s underwear on my way to class.
I love dresses and shorts as much as the next girl, but I do not enjoy seeing butt cheeks, almost nip-slips and other people’s underwear on my way to class.
Baker was recently commissioned to compose an original multi-symphonic work by the Meet The Composer 2011 Commissioning Music/USA program. The piece is to be performed by Ohio’s Canton Symphony Orchestra, a group that Baker has collaborated with in the past.
As part of the 35th annual Forth Street Festival, the Bloomington Storytellers Guild touted tales to curious college students, agile children and tie-dye clad adults on Saturday. They wove messages from urban legends and mythical tales into theatrical narratives.
“Thou shalt spell well,” commanded a sign on an All Saints Spellers’ costume. The Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools had its second annual Great Grown Up Spelling Bee Friday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
Green hillside and fresh foliage sloped around the stage to form a bowl, the bottom filled with bales of hay aligned like soldiers in marching order — here, Labor Day weekend began on Friday.
Brice Fox and Daniel Weber’s YouTube video “This is Indiana” has more than 650,000 hits. Last night they opened for SuperMash Bros at Jake’s Nightclub.
Acclaimed act Rusted Root will have fans on their feet for the 4th annual Hillbilly Haiku Americana Music Series Saturday at Upland Brewing Company. Charles Stanley of Upland Brewing Co. described Rusted Root as a high-energy country Americana group.
The Peruvian dinner table orbits the sun. The separation of day and night divides meal from meal and regulates what is eaten when. As in most cultures, Peruvian food is ordered by the time of day, but what this cuisine consists of makes the cooking distinct.
The Fifth Annual Chefs’ Challenge will benefit the Community Kitchen of Monroe County, a nonprofit with a mission to eliminate hunger in Bloomington and its surrounding areas. The three participating chefs will have one hour to create a dish to be judged by three local culinary aficionados, including Chef David Tallent of Restaurant Tallent and winner of the competition for the last two years.
The IU Auditorium will kick off ticket sales for its 2011-12 season shows by waiving the usual $10 handling fee.
Starting Sept. 2, the Grunwald Gallery of Art will feature a historical photo gallery of lost photos from the World War II era.
The IU Auditorium will kick off ticket sales for its 2011-12 season shows by waiving the usual $10 handling fee.
Starting Sept. 2, the Grunwald Gallery of Art will feature a historical photo gallery of lost photos from the World War II era. “Last Folio: A Photographic Journey with Yuri Dojc” will showcase photographs taken during a journey through communities destroyed by the Holocaust.
He was the man behind the words of “Hurts So Good,” “Human Wheels,” “Minutes to Memories” and “Crumblin’ Down.” Long-time songwriter for John Mellencamp, George M. Green, died at the age of 59.
Muncie-based band State Park opened for Metavari and husband&wife, two bands touring “the universe and back,” as their poster announced, going from Midwestern cities to several stops in Canada.
Behind the glass-paned French doors of Anatomy Vintage, blouses in bright colors blend together on the racks like a painting by Matisse. Shoes — from pumps to flats to cowboy boots — cover shelves like a mosaic of leather, canvas and shoelaces. Even Anatomy’s owner, Amber Zaragoza, looks like a work of art, dressed smartly in a floral frock and ladies’ velvet hat, as she welcomes customers to her brand-new boutique.
Students from every major and class were invited to audition for the Department of Theater and Drama’s productions of “Hair,” “In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play,” “Three Musketeers” and “Lysistrata” on Monday at the Lee Norvelle Theater.
What do Leo Tolstoy and the Bloomington Playwright’s Project have in common? War and peace. In conjunction with IU’s Themester of “Making War, Making Peace,” sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the BPP is kicking off its 2011 season with “Bomb/Shell,” which begins Sept. 30 and runs until Oct. 15.
Gov. Mitch Daniels and the Indiana Arts Commission have announced six recipients of the 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards. Of the six candidates chosen from the entire state of Indiana, two were Bloomington residents associated with the Jacobs School of Music, Susann McDonald and Sylvia McNair.
Fashion serves many purposes, but when you are an athlete or a relative of one, fashion has a whole different set of rules.