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Local gallery displays art celebrating winter’s arrival

By Kristi Lafree · Wednesday, Dec. 5,2007 11:46 p.m.

The seasons are changing in Bloomington, but most residents are missing it. With the cold chill in the air, the changes that accompany the coming of winter often go unnoticed, as people duck their heads and hurry to the warm comforts of the inside. However, some local artists have been paying attention.

5 U.S. artists honored by Kennedy Center

By Natasha Metzler · Wednesday, Dec. 5,2007 9:03 p.m.

WASHINGTON – From “Good Vibrations” to “GoodFellas,” Brian Wilson and Martin Scorsese scored. Steve Martin strutted as one of the “wild and crazy guys.” Diana Ross sang to Motown stardom. Pianist Leon Fleisher surmounted a debilitating injury.

Chappelle breaks his own Laugh Factory endurance record

Wednesday, Dec. 5,2007 9:01 p.m.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Dave Chappelle has broken his own Laugh Factory endurance record.

Day named after celebrated Jacobs professor

By Lindsey Alexander · Tuesday, Dec. 4,2007 11:50 p.m.

When Menahem Pressler bowed his first notes on a violin as a child in Germany, he had no idea that nearly 80 years later he would be awarded with his own day in Bloomington.

La denier cri

By Clare Burke · Tuesday, Dec. 4,2007 11:03 p.m.

Last Sunday, I braved the rain and cold, got out of bed before noon and drove up to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I was going to complete an assignment for my oh-so-interesting art history class and was planning on going through the exhibit about Roman Art from the Louvre Museum in Paris as quickly as possible, as I wanted to get home in time to catch a small nap before going to work later that evening.

Landlocked Music’s top-selling albums from last week

Tuesday, Dec. 4,2007 9:28 a.m.

1. Jose Gonzalez, “In Our Nature”

Acrobats, fire dancers fuel rise in indie circuses

By Lisa Leff · Tuesday, Dec. 4,2007 9:27 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO – The DNA Lounge was a real circus the night The Mutaytor came to town. The band looked like a bunch of clowns. Young contortionists folded their limbs like fortune cookies above and around the stage.

Contemporary Dance Program shines

By Ashlee Green · Monday, Dec. 3,2007 9:01 p.m.

Dancers turned, jumped and contracted their bodies across the stage of the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium Sunday during “On the Verge,” a concert presented by the IU Contemporary Dance Program. Produced wholly by students, the show featured the choreography of eight senior dancers who are soon to graduate.

Letters from Abroad

By Lindsey Landis · Monday, Dec. 3,2007 8:59 p.m.

BOLOGNA, Italy – You might have just finished a five-page thesis for your topics class. Or maybe you have spent countless hours preparing for your graphic design portfolio review or re-learning reagents and reviewing old synthesis problems for organic chemistry.

Far from Mayberry

By Rebecca Glasgow · Monday, Dec. 3,2007 8:58 p.m.

This place has that small-town feel, ambient whistling and is also a place where everyone knows everyone else’s names. It may sound like Mayberry – the perfect community – but as soon as the play begins, the audience soon realizes this town is full of secrets, cautious whispers and “incidents” that happen with every wrong move against a powerful resident.

Strong acting, singing in student-run ‘Godspell’

By Nick Mills · Sunday, Dec. 2,2007 8:18 p.m.

From Thursday through Saturday, Union Board brought the musical “Godspell” to the stage at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater with an entirely student-run production.

Local production of ‘A Christmas Carol’ aims to entertain

By Erich Reinhard · Sunday, Dec. 2,2007 8:15 p.m.

This week, Bloomington will embrace an entirely new spirit of the holidays as Monroe County Civic Theater’s production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” adapted to one 60-minute act by local playwright Russell McGee, opens for a three-week run. The production will be featured at seven locations across Bloomington and Spencer starting today through Dec. 17. The first performance is at 7 p.m. today at Rhino’s Youth Center and All-Ages Music Club, 331 S. Walnut.

Friday’s annual BFA Photography Alternative Show a great success

By Nathan Brown · Sunday, Dec. 2,2007 8:14 p.m.

On Friday, hundreds of people crowded shoulder-to-shoulder inside of an unfinished building to gaze at photographs and artwork.

‘I fell in love with them all over again’

By Allie Townsend · Sunday, Dec. 2,2007 8:13 p.m.

As she sat smiling in her wheelchair, Paula Holtsclaw pointed to the picture on her Hanson T-shirt. Thursday night’s concert had just ended, and Holtsclaw, along with hundreds of other Hanson fans, were in high spirits.

MMMBop makes an IU stop

Friday, Nov. 30,2007 9:49 a.m.

Pop-rock band Hanson performed Thursday evening at The Bluebird nightclub. This is the second time since 2005 that the trio from Tulsa, Okla., has performed in Bloomington. The band comprises of three brothers: Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson.

Broadway shows back in the spotlight after 19 days

By Verena Dobnik · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 8:53 p.m.

NEW YORK – Theatergoers lined up for tickets Thursday as Broadway returned to business following a crippling 19-day strike that cost producers and the city millions of dollars. Tickets sold at a discounted $26.50 as people lined up for the musical “Chicago.”

Nobel winner to miss ceremony

By Louise Nordstrom · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 8:52 p.m.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Doris Lessing is unable to travel to Stockholm to receive her Nobel Prize in literature on Dec. 10 due to back problems, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday.

International Vocal Ensemble show to feature movements, songs of 7 countries

By Ashlyn McNeal · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 8:44 p.m.

Audience members at this weekend’s International Vocal Ensemble performance will be treated to the harmonic sounds of seven different countries in one show.

Senior dancers bring final works to stage with ‘On the Verge’

Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 8:43 p.m.

Eight seniors from the IU Contemporary Dance Program will perform a free concert this weekend at the John Waldron Arts Center. The performance is titled “On the Verge” because the students in the program are on the verge of finishing one chapter in their lives and are moving on to the next.

Bob and Tom bring comedy to IU

By Rorye O'Connor and Rorye O'Conner · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 8:42 p.m.

A rotating tour of comedians put together by nationally-syndicated Indianapolis radio program “The Bob and Tom Show” will make a stop at 8 p.m. Saturday at the IU Auditorium.

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