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MCCT to debut ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ at Rachael’s Café Thursday

Monday, May 12,2008 1:28 p.m.

Monroe County Civic Theater is set to debut its production of “Little Red Riding Hood” May 15 at Rachael’s Café, according to a press release from MCCT. The original adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale was written by playwright Ruth Aaron Grove.

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Push away the table and say Damn

By Shannon McEnerney · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:57 a.m.

Aracelis Girmay cooks up and offers a collection of poetry that will leave anyone who reads it thirsty for more of her words and inspiration. Her collection “Teeth” is composed of many poems that have the power to speak universally to everyone if one takes the time to feel her words.

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MySpace Messes

By Cory Barker · Wednesday, May 7,2008 7:52 p.m.

In the past few years, MySpace has done one other important thing aside from become a haven for sex predators: It has been a huge outlet for both inspiring musicians and major stars to pimp themselves as much as possible. And obviously, this has led to MySpace being utilized as some barometer of success for up-and-coming musicians and even high-profile stars.

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Artists come together to support Barack Obama

By Brian Hettmansperger · Sunday, May 4,2008 11:13 p.m.

Two days before the pivotal Indiana Democratic Primary, four Bloomington artists will stump for presidential hopeful Barack Obama by doing what they do best: playing a live show at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The show is free and open to the public.

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Caribou rocks the Waldron Arts Center

By Doug Evans · Sunday, May 4,2008 10:52 p.m.

On Friday night, the John Waldron Arts Center provided an intimate atmosphere for experimental rock, as art rockers Caribou and U.K. rock outfit Fuck Buttons played an all-ages show to a diverse audience. Spirit of ’68 Promotions president and show organizer Dan Coleman said the Waldron Arts Center was “the perfect venue for the show.”

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Rapper Ice-T to orate Langston Hughes’ poetry in Indianapolis for ‘landmark event’

By IDS staff and Abisalom Omolo · Sunday, May 4,2008 10:52 p.m.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra announced rap artist Ice-T will join the orchestra as part of a the worldwide premiere of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes’ poetry set to music. Ice-T will orate Hughes’ work “Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” with the orchestra June 18 in a concert at Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis.

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Marvel turns ‘Iron Man’ into gold with $100M-plus debut

By Abisalom Omolo · Sunday, May 4,2008 10:51 p.m.

The Marvel Comics adaptation, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the guy in the metal suit, hauled in $100.7 million during its opening weekend and $104.2 million since debuting Thursday night, the second-best premiere ever for a nonsequel, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Krista Detor concert raises $4,000 for Nyaka School

By Brian Hettmansperger · Monday, April 28,2008 1:40 p.m.

The Bloomington arts community showed up in droves to musician Krista Detor’s benefit show at the John Waldron Arts Center for Indiana Friends of Nyaka, an organization supporting the Nyaka School for AIDS orphans in Nyakagyezi, Uganda.  SLIDESHOW:  Krista Detor Nyaka School Benefit Show

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Art shows nature

By Lara Streyle · Sunday, April 27,2008 10:41 p.m.

Here in Bloomington, artist Marcy Neiditz isn’t recreating Michelangelo’s “David” or Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker.” She’s doing something all her own. She makes whimsical and abstract ceramic sculptures that incorporate plant culture and molecules into her work.

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‘Sex and the City’ star Evan Handler releases 2nd book

By Whitney Riggs · Sunday, April 27,2008 10:40 p.m.

Popularly known for his role as Harry Goldenblatt on HBO’s “Sex and the City” and Charlie Rumkle on Showtime’s “Californication,” Handler has written his second book, “It’s Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive.”

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Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s headline Buskirk’s Thursday show

By Deanna Krinn · Sunday, April 27,2008 10:37 p.m.

The Buskirk-Chumley Theater was filled with the sounds of eclectic modern alternative rock last Thursday night as three buzzed-about bands took the stage. Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s of Indianapolis were joined by Chicago’s Maps & Atlases and local band Kentucky Nightmare.

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New conductor to join School of Music

By Tom Edwards · Sunday, April 27,2008 10:23 p.m.

The IU Jacobs School of Music has announced Jeffrey Gershman will be associate professor of music and associate director of bands/wind conducting beginning in the fall semester.

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