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The Game to perform at Jake’s on Tuesday

By Yahya Chaudhry · Sunday, March 22,2009 9:31 p.m.

The hip-hop beats and sentiment of modern gangster rap will envelop audience members at Jake’s Nightclub when chart-topping rapper The Game headlines with rising emcees Nipsey Hussle and Clyde Carson at 9 p.m. Tuesday.

New theater season announced

Sunday, March 22,2009 9:30 p.m.

IU Department of Theatre and Drama welcomes 8 new shows to campus

IU baroque brass ensemble to play at Boston Early Music Festival

By Amy Burke · Friday, March 13,2009 12:28 a.m.

An IU brass ensemble has been chosen as the first of its kind to play at the Boston Early Music Festival’s fringe festival, which features emerging artists.

Film, theater, dance students offered grants of up to $25,000

By Desiree Lestingi · Thursday, March 12,2009 9:18 p.m.

Undergraduates who study theater, film and music have been presented with an opportunity to receive up to a year free of college tuition since 1984. Future artists with great potential will be rewarded for their excellence.

Theater company brings ‘radical’ approaches, style to Bloomington

By Mickey Woods · Thursday, March 12,2009 9:16 p.m.

The Missoula Oblongata, a three-person, unconventional touring theater company, will come to Bloomington to perform “The Moon, The Raccoon, The Hot Air Balloon” at 7 p.m. March 17 at Boxcar Books. Admission is $5, but theatergoers can donate more to help support the group.

Concert raises awareness about suicide

By Allison Tyra · Thursday, March 12,2009 9:15 p.m.

While using music to raise awareness for a cause might not be a new concept, it is definitely effective, as BuffaLouie’s co-owner Ed Schwartzman can attest.

Former Jacobs dean wins award

By Amy Burke · Wednesday, March 11,2009 11:02 p.m.

Charles H. Webb, former dean of the Jacobs School of Music, was honored on Feb. 28 by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir by being named the recipient of the first-ever Elmer Steffen Founder’s Award.

IU graduate to star in upcoming web series

By Rachel Krasnow · Wednesday, March 11,2009 10:51 p.m.

Andrew J. West, a 2006 IU graduate, has come far from his days at IU spent working at the Eigenmann food court. West is a current star on ABC Family’s “Greek” and will make his debut as the main character, “Hunter,” in an upcoming web series called “Rockville, CA” on TheWB.com on March 17.

Top-level Irish dancers re-form cultural group

By Julia Shedlin · Wednesday, March 11,2009 10:49 p.m.

At a school where parties dominate the social scene, the same old music and entertainment every weekend can start to wear thin. IU students offer many alternative forms of entertainment, and the championship-level dancers in the Identity Irish Dancers could make for fun entertainment at a St. Patrick’s Day party.

The "Leprechaun", IU Sophomore Kaylee Spivey, mingles with attendees of the 1st annual Leprechaun's Birthday at the Waldron Arts Center on Wednesday evening. The event was the sixth of 35 events being held at the Center to celebrate it's 35th anniversary.

‘Leprechaun’ parties for art

By Bailey Loosemore · Wednesday, March 11,2009 10:48 p.m.

In celebration of the Bloomington Area Arts Council’s 35th birthday, Bloomington resident Robert Stumpf played bagpipes outside of the John Waldron Art Center Wednesday at A Leprechaun’s Birthday. The birthday party was one of 35 events the council will put on this year.

Bloomington arts council celebrates 35 years

By Bailey Loosemore · Tuesday, March 10,2009 11:54 p.m.

In celebration of the Bloomington Area Arts Council’s 35th birthday, the council has planned 35 “unbirthday” parties between January and September, said Steve Pierson, office manager for the council.

Free art-focused seminars offered to creative community

By Anna Batcheller · Tuesday, March 10,2009 11:53 p.m.

The first in a series of “webinars” administered by Americans for the Arts will be held at 2 p.m. today in City Hall. The webinars, part of Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District’s initiative to offer entrepreneurial and educational opportunities to the creative community, are free and open to the public.

Concert promotes suicide prevention and awareness

By Allison Tyra · Tuesday, March 10,2009 11:52 p.m.

Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for Americans ages 15 to 24, largely because most people don’t want to talk about it, said Kyle Ferguson, president and founding member of the Alive Campaign, a grassroots organization created to raise awareness about and prevent suicides.

Tickets on sale Friday for Dave Matthews in Indy

Tuesday, March 10,2009 11:06 p.m.

Dave Matthews Band concert tickets will be on sale at 9 a.m. on Friday for its performance at the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Noblesville, Ind. this summer.

Author Alexander McCall Smith poses for a portrait.

Author Alexander McCall Smith to speak at IU

Tuesday, March 10,2009 2:09 p.m.

Author Alexander McCall Smith will speak on April 20 at IU, according to a press release.

Leno to give free show for Michigan's unemployed

Tuesday, March 10,2009 1:40 p.m.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Michigan's high unemployment is no laughing matter, but Jay Leno will offer a little comic relief with a free show next month at The Palace of Auburn Hills.

Leonard Bernstein directs IU students in 1982.

IU Jacobs School of Music receives contents of Leonard Bernstein’s Connecticut studio

By Amy Burke · Tuesday, March 10,2009 12:27 a.m.

The Jacobs School of Music announced Monday plans to recreate Bernstein’s studio and display his items in the same arrangement as they existed in his Connecticut workspace.

Around the Arts

Monday, March 9,2009 10:03 p.m.

Find out what's going on this week in the arts.

Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace trust and one of the world's leading experts on Shakespeare studies according to the trust, poses next to a newly discovered portrait of William Shakespeare, in central London, Monday. The portrait, believed to be almost the only authentic image of the writer made from life, has belonged to one family for centuries but was not recognized as a portrait of Shakespeare until recently. There are very few likenesses of Shakespeare, who died in 1616.

Portrait discovered in family’s possession

Monday, March 9,2009 9:58 p.m.

The Bard, or not the Bard? That is the question posed by Monday’s unveiling of a centuries-old portrait of a dark-eyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery.Experts say it is the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime – in effect, the sole source of our knowledge of what the great man looked like.But they can’t be certain.

Master drag queens show heightened awareness of opposite sex

By Ryan Brown · Monday, March 9,2009 9:55 p.m.

Even in the limitless world of art, this inability to see beyond sex is inescapable. There is, however, a timeless tradition in performance that not only entertains, but also raises the question of gender in a highly discursive manner: drag.

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