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Musical motivation

By Bryan Payton · Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 11:57 p.m.

You know how we get so excited about all of our classes the first week or two of the semester? We tell ourselves this is going to be the greatest semester ever and we will get straight A’s.

Mandel headlines at local Funny Bone

By Allison Tyra · Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 11:55 p.m.

He’s a Comedy Central veteran, and he’ll soon have his own sitcom on FX, but for this weekend, comedian Mo Mandel will be in town as a headliner at the Funny Bone Bloomington Comedy Club.

Philharmonic kicks off fall season

By Lily Miller · Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 11:53 p.m.

The Musical Arts Center filled with familiar strains of horns and strings Wednesday night. Approximately 1,200 people attended the Philharmonic Orchestra’s first show of the season, said Alain Barker, Jacobs School of Music spokesman. The orchestra, conducted by faculty member David Effron, performed three different classical music pieces, including Richard Strauss’ “Don Quixote.”

Shoppers swap clothes for cause

By Carly Bassen · Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 11:50 p.m.

Shoppers entered the Bloomington Playwrights Project ready for a shopping spree. But these shoppers didn’t bring their credit cards and checkbooks. They brought their old clothes.

mtvU names WIUX in top 50

Wednesday, Sept. 16,2009 10:07 a.m.

IU’s student-run radio station, WIUX LP 99.1 FM, has survived the first round of elimination to be in mtvU’s top 50 college radio stations.

Performance etiquette for the oblivious

By Caitlin Peterkin · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 10:11 p.m.

Weekly performance column: This week's focus is performance etiquette in theater venues.

Jacobs offers free music for students at MAC

By Lily Miller · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 10:09 p.m.

1,000 people expected for first performance; 4 shows to follow.

Historical figures influence a student’s poetry collection

By Marc Fishman · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 10:04 p.m.

What do Amelia Earhart, Robert Stroud – who is better known as the Birdman of Alcatraz – and Fletcher Christian all have in common? For many, it might not seem like a lot.

Lady Gaga: creepy, yet creative

By Erica Rogers · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 9:58 p.m.

Weekly column from Erica Rogers: This week's focus is on Lady Gaga and her epic performance at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

Capoeira: An infusion of dance & martial arts

By Lauren Younis · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 9:55 p.m.

On a Monday night at the Harmony School, nestled into Bloomington’s residential Second Street, quiet passersby can hear the thick drum beats of music from far-away Brazil.

'Dirty Dancing' star Patrick Swayze dies at 57

By Christy Lemire · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 2:27 p.m.

Patrick Swayze personified a particular kind of masculine grace both on and off screen, from his roles in films like "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost" to the way he carried himself in his long fight with pancreatic cancer. Swayze died from the illness on Monday in Los Angeles, his publicist said. He was 57.

IU Comedian returns to Bear’s

By Alycin Bektesh · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 12:35 a.m.

“I ask girls ‘What is the sexiest thing a guy could do to get a girl?’” IU alumnus Brain Watts told the Bear’s Place Ale House and Eatery crowd Monday night.

MAC season includes students, faculty

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:32 p.m.

“L’Italiana en Algeri.” “Romeo et Juliette.” “Die Zauberflote.” A Diaghilev Tribute. All are included in the 2009-10 fall schedule for the IU Jacobs School of Music. “We try to do the most interesting and varied season possible,” Jacobs spokesman Alain Barker said.

IU Auditorium prepares for fall

By Rachel Krasnow · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:30 p.m.

The concepts of a show at the IU Auditorium may seem simple to an audience member, but a complex process goes into creating an upcoming season. Doug Booher, director of the IU Auditorium, said the work begins a year before, and programming interns assemble all the performance materials received from different booking agencies.

‘Dirty Dancing’ star Patrick Swayze dies at 57

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 8:20 p.m.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Kanye West steals attention, Lady Gaga turns heads at 2009 VMAs

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 1:24 p.m.

Sunday's 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, which took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City featured eye-catching fashions, star-studded performances and a few shocking moments.

Students set to shoot feature-length film on IU’s campus

By Haley Adams · Sunday, Sept. 13,2009 11 p.m.

A new group on campus, Dark Hound Productions, is planning to give a hands-on experience for students interested in filmmaking.

Comedian inspired by IU experiences

By Alycin Bektesh · Sunday, Sept. 13,2009 9:57 p.m.

Comedian and IU alumnus Brian Watts said the people in Los Angeles are prettier, cooler and have vintage threads rather than sorority T-shirts.

‘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.

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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