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Writer polishes ‘Heath Ledger’ for spring showing

By Carrie Schedler · Wednesday, June 10,2009 5:43 p.m.

“The Last Days of Heath Ledger,” a play senior Harry Watermeier has been working on for more than a year, will be the first student-written play the University Players ever runs as an independent show.

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By IDS staff · Sunday, June 7,2009 7:07 p.m.

A listing of selected arts events from Monday, June 7 to Thursday, June 10.

Square in Fla. town named to honor musician Diddley on anniversary of death

By AP Reports · Sunday, June 7,2009 7:05 p.m.

Officials in Gainesville, Fla. have renamed the city’s downtown plaza after rock ’n’ roll legend and former Florida resident Bo Diddley.

Colbert to tape shows in Baghdad

By Jake Coyle · Sunday, June 7,2009 7:02 p.m.

“The Colbert Report” host arrived Friday at the former Al Faw Palace at Camp Victory in Baghdad. For weeks, he’s promoted the trip on his Comedy Central show, but because the military urged caution, he has only trumpeted a vague trip to “the Persian Gulf.”

Zion Crossroads performs during Streetdance!, part of the the First Friday celebration, on June 5th along 7th Street in downtown Bloomington.

First Friday brings arts outdoors

By Alycin Bektesh · Sunday, June 7,2009 6:55 p.m.

Downtown galleries and local bands combined efforts to kick off the summer during Bloomington’s First Friday event. The most recent Downtown Gallery Walk and Street Dance, which took place Friday, are designed to support local artists and musicians.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006 file photo, actor David Carradine arrives for the 16th annual Environmental Media Awards in Los Angeles.

Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok

Thursday, June 4,2009 12:09 p.m.

BANGKOK – David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series “Kung Fu” whose career roared back to life when he played the assassin-turned-victim in Quentin Tarentino’s “Kill Bill,” was found dead Thursday in Thailand. A published report said he committed suicide.

A boy sells posters with the faces of Ugandan Catholic bishops June 3.

Ugandans celebrate Martyrs’ Day with prayers, food and gambling

By Anna Batcheller · Wednesday, June 3,2009 8:24 p.m.

Hundreds of thousands of Ugandans gathered in Namugongo, Kampala on Thursday in commemoration of Martyrs’ Day, a holiday that remembers the death of 26 Christians killed in 1886.

IU graduate produces ‘worst album cover’

By Alyssa Goldman · Wednesday, June 3,2009 8:23 p.m.

The band Germart didn’t set out to create one of the 50 worst album covers of all time.

People stand outside the Notre Dame cathedral where an ecumenical church service for relatives and families of the passengers of Air France's Flight 447, which vanished Sunday over the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday in Paris. The reason for the crash remains unclear, with fierce thunderstorms, lightning or a catastrophic combination of causes as possible theories.

IU alumna, harpist, remembered as ‘dedicated student'

By Carrie Schedler · Wednesday, June 3,2009 8:06 p.m.

Throughout Turkey, radio stations are playing the music of IU alumna and harpist Fatma Ceren Necipoglu.

Canadian singer-songwriter to perform Tuesday at Bear’s Place

By Yahya Chaudhry · Tuesday, June 2,2009 1:10 p.m.

Julie Doiron’s characteristically winsome vocals, minimalist guitar melodies and melancholy heart-heavy lyrics will serenade listeners at Bear’s Place at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets remain available and on sale for $7.

Erotic art heats up summer at SoFA Gallery

By Amanda Lowry · Sunday, May 31,2009 6:26 p.m.

At the Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show, sex is everything but taboo. The show contains about 120 pieces of sexuality-related contemporary art in media that range from acrylic paint to video to a graphic novel.

Record studio offers free Internet tracks

By Rorye O'Connor · Sunday, May 31,2009 6:22 p.m.

Russian Recording, a local recording studio owned and operated by Mike Bridavsky, recently released its second compilation album, “We Just Call it Roulette: Volume 2.” What makes “Roulette: Volume 2” stand out from the crowd is the fact that Russian Recording is offering all the mp3 tracks for free download for a limited time.

The restaurant Aladin in London serves a vegetable curry with garlic naan, a traditional Indian flatbread.

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Writer polishes ‘Heath Ledger’ for spring showing

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Square in Fla. town named to honor musician Diddley on anniversary of death

Colbert to tape shows in Baghdad

First Friday brings arts outdoors

Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok

Ugandans celebrate Martyrs’ Day with prayers, food and gambling

IU graduate produces ‘worst album cover’

IU alumna, harpist, remembered as ‘dedicated student'

Canadian singer-songwriter to perform Tuesday at Bear’s Place

Erotic art heats up summer at SoFA Gallery

Record studio offers free Internet tracks

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‘Lit and Wit’ inspires artistic expression at Boxcar Books

West Lafayette statues taken inside after vandalism, theft

Jazz legend Cobine dies at 82

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'Thespis' to celebrate ancient Greece

Festival brings baroque, medieval sounds to town

Miami transfer TE Brock Schott returns to home state, commits to Indiana football

Indiana football lands 29-year-old punter Billy Gowers out of transfer portal

Oregon’s leading rusher in regular-season game vs. Indiana football ruled out for Peach Bowl

Oregon wants revenge on Indiana football. Hoosiers have ‘so much more to prove’

Indiana football lands DL Chiddi Obiazor, adds 3rd portal commit to defensive line