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Streep, Pauley to attract full crowd Friday

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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.”

Die Fledermaus

IU Opera goes batty for ‘Die Fledermaus’

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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.



Ben Kweller

Kweller returns to Buskirk

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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.


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Q&A with rapper Freddie Gibbs

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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.


AIDS quilt

AIDS Memorial Quilt to be on display at IMU

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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.




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IU professor’s documentary to be shown for Veterans Day

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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.



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Spooktober is ridiculous

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Music columnist Daniel Alten discusses whether the band Spooktober is either horrible or fantastic.




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DEFA to showcase East German films

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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.



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WIUX kicks off Fall Pledge Drive

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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.