Streep, Pauley discuss marriage, career at IU
Journalist Jane Pauley and actress Meryl Streep held an "Evening of Conversation" Friday at the IU Auditorium.
Journalist Jane Pauley and actress Meryl Streep held an "Evening of Conversation" Friday at the IU Auditorium.
The house at 214 N. Rogers St. may look to be a typical Bloomington residence with a unique blue door, but the creativity brewing inside is not so typical.
Seated in olive green leather chairs Friday on the IU Auditorium stage, journalist Jane Pauley and actress Meryl Streep discussed marriage, family and career — with each other and an enthusiastic audience.
Fontaine Syer canceled her Friday afternoon class — but not because she had to. The associate professor of acting and directing said many of her students were planning to skip, all to wait in a standby line at 2:30 p.m. outside the IU Auditorium for “An Evening of Conversation with Jane Pauley and Meryl Streep.”
The singers at the Jacobs School of Music are set and ready to put on their newest performance of Johann Strauss’s operetta “Die Fledermaus,” or “The Bat” in English.
The walls of the IU Auditorium will be booming Saturday with sounds typically heard at a football halftime show.
Singer-songwriter Ben Kweller last performed in Bloomington in February 2009. His last performance was also at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, a venue Kweller said he loved.
Indiana-bred rapper Freddie Gibbs, who now resides in Los Angeles,returned to perform in Bloomington Thursday. The IDS spoke to Gibbs about being a Midwest rapper, about Jay Cutler and about his comparison to Tupac.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt will reside in the Indiana Memorial Union Alumni Hall beginning Thursday. The 520-panel display in Bloomington will be the largest display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Indiana history.
A look at the results of war is on display in Bloomington as photographer Osamu James Nakagawa’s new exhibit, “Remains,” is on display at the Pictura Gallery through Dec. 31.
The IU Cinema opens to students and the public Jan. 13. On Wednesday, the new state-of-the-art facility showed its potential with a debut screening of the digital remastering of David Lean’s “The Bridge on the River Kwai.”
IU telecommunications professor Ron Osgood’s hour-long documentary “My Vietnam, Your Iraq: Eight Families, Two Generations” will be shown at 9 p.m. today on public television stations WTTW in Chicago and WTIU in Bloomington for Veterans Day.
The Hal Galper Trio will be performing at 8 p.m. Thursday at Auer Hall.
Music columnist Daniel Alten discusses whether the band Spooktober is either horrible or fantastic.
A screening of Rick Alverson's “The Builder” will be at 7 p.m. today at Rawles Hall 100 including a Q&A with Alverson to follow.
Columnist Lily Miller discusses the increase of food on television, especially Food Network.
Starting Nov. 14, the IU DEFA Project will present DEFA Dialogues, a series of five film screenings and discussions. These films, however, are not ordinary films. In fact, many of them were thought to be lost after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and they focus on East Germany, a country that no longer exists.
On Nov. 12, the Ruth N. Halls Theatre will become the venue for a band of ill-behaved British characters from the 1920s, engaging in a fast paced comedy of bad manners in Noel Coward’s play “Hay Fever.”
WIUX 99.1 FM, IU’s student-run radio station, is asking for donations. They began their sixth Fall Pledge Drive Monday that will run until Nov. 19.
For those who think they have what it takes to be the next Broadway or Drumline star, there will be a “Best Kick or Drum Lick” contest at 2 p.m. today on the front steps of the IU Auditorium.