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Othello

‘Othello’ grooves onstage

By Carly Bassen · Sunday, Sept. 13,2009 9:41 p.m.

Rather than classic Elizabethan-style Shakespeare, the Monroe County Civic Theater presented a sexually revolutionized “Othello” this weekend.

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Buskirk’s ‘Golden Age’ shows ‘Furies’

By Keaira Carr · Sunday, Sept. 13,2009 9:36 p.m.

Bloomington residents attended “The Golden Age of Hollywood,” where the first movie of the fall series was a 1950 black-and-white western called “The Furies,” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston. The event was held in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater

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Evening of art brings patronage, education

By Ashlee Green · Sunday, Sept. 13,2009 9:32 p.m.

Vivid paintings and clicking wine glasses filled John Waldron Arts Center on Friday as the men of the Gamma Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. sponsored “A1906: Art Appreciation and Patronage.”

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Art museum offers themed tours

By Alycin Bektesh · Friday, Sept. 11,2009 12:07 a.m.

The IU Art Museum boasts a collection that includes works of art ranging from Monet to 13th-century B.C. bronze statues. Though the museum is free and open to the public, weekend tours offer an informed way of seeing the collection. Ed Maxedon is the curator of education at the museum and trains the docents who lead the tours.

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‘Othello’ travels to 1970s

By Carly Bassen · Friday, Sept. 11,2009 12:05 a.m.

If William Shakespeare walked into 1972 and saw heated Vietnam War protests, women’s rights struggles and the spawn of a sexual revolution, what do you think he would say?  Nate Stanger, a freshman from the University of Michigan, said he imagined these circumstances when he decided to direct a rendition of Shakespeare’s “Othello: The Moor of Venice.”

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At Buskirk, Sundays are golden

By Keiara Carr · Friday, Sept. 11,2009 12:02 a.m.

The average moviegoer could spend upward of $8 for this weekend’s box office hit. However, in downtown Bloomington, a historic theater takes audiences back to the Golden Age for only $2.

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Local bands to perform at Crossroads Music Festival

Friday, Sept. 11,2009 12 a.m.

It began as a relaxed backyard barbecue for various bands to come together and has now grown to showcase a lineup of local bands. Organized by Crossroads of America Records, or XRA Records, XRA Fest comes to Bloomington on Friday and Saturday.

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Brewing Company presents Hillbilly music festival

Thursday, Sept. 10,2009 11:55 p.m.

Bloomington’s own brewery, Upland Brewing Company, presents more than beer this Saturday with an afternoon of music and local artist exhibitions. According to Upland’s Web site, the second-annual Hillbilly Haiku Americana Music Festival will feature live Americana music by Backyard Tire Fire, Sara Petite, Merrie Sloan and Toby Purnell of Crooked County, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Better Bidness Bureau and Fatted Calf Stringband.

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IU Soul Revue to open for The Temptations

Wednesday, Sept. 9,2009 12:20 p.m.

IU Soul Revue of the African American Arts Institute is opening for The Temptations at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

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