NEW YORK – On a quiet Labor Day weekend in a sunlit, fourth-floor rehearsal studio just off of Times Square, the “Ascot Gavotte” is about to begin.
Top Secret! The CIA once gave a Cuban operative poison to put in Fidel Castro’s daily chocolate milk shake.
One of Shakespeare’s best known plays, “Romeo and Juliet” will be modernized tonight and given a Bloomington spin. Russell McGee and the Monroe County Civil Theatre will premiere the play at 7 p.m. Friday in Bloomington’s Third Street Park.
The Buskirk-Chumley Theater’s Fashion+Function+Art show Wednesday gave onlookers the chance to see Bloomington through a different lens – literally.
NEW YORK – Zac Posen, with his handbag line, new fragrance deal and long list of sponsors for his show, certainly has an entrepreneurial spirit. It seems, though, he also admires the spirit of the pioneers.
LOS ANGELES – Paul Haggis jokes that after more than two decades of failing his way to success in television, he finally reached his true destination: the big screen. There has been little resembling failure for him there.
LOS ANGELES – Jon Stewart is getting a do-over as Oscar host. America’s favorite faux newscaster, who drew mixed reviews for his first stint in 2006, has been picked for a return engagement in February, the film academy announced Wednesday.
DETROIT – The White Stripes have canceled upcoming tour dates “due to health issues.” “Meg White is suffering from acute anxiety and is unable to travel at this time,” the duo said Tuesday in a posting on their Web site. “We hate to let people down and are very sorry.”
It is 10 p.m. on a Tuesday night, and IU students across campus are shutting their textbooks and turning on TVs in an attempt to stave off mid-week boredom. Senior Drew Vandenberg, a recording arts major, is also finishing up his homework.
“Fashion + Function + Art” has always been the tagline for Optiks, a small eyecare and designer eyewear business on Kirkwood Avenue.
The best way to sum up my weekend in New York – celebrating and working during Fashion Week – is to tell you about a phone conversation I had Sunday. It was about 2 p.m., and I was walking down 10th Avenue near 25th Street.
NEW YORK – For the guys in the Fab Faux, the songs of the Beatles are as much classical music as classic rock.
Because of a prior engagement, comedian and commentator Dennis Miller has been forced to postpone his appearance at the IU Auditorium, according to an IU Auditorium press release.
Christopher Durang’s new play “Miss Witherspoon” had audience members laughing out loud within the first two minutes of Saturday night’s performance at the John Waldron Arts Center.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A U.S. museum returned the tattooed head of a Maori and bones from 13 others Monday, the latest repatriation of indigenous remains from overseas museums, a Maori expert said.
LAS VEGAS – Somewhere, Kevin Federline is laughing. An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears delivered what was destined to be the most talked about performance of the MTV Video Music Awards – but for all the wrong reasons.
NEW YORK – Ralph Lauren took a well-deserved extended bow Saturday night as he presented and celebrated his 40th anniversary collection.
Singer-songwriter David Bazan will perform at 8 p.m. today in the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium. The concert will be one of many in the upcoming months for Bazan, who is promoting his debut solo EP “Fewer Moving Parts.”
The rain could not stop the show Saturday night at the Bluebird. A varied mix of hipsters, scene kids and music fans of varying ages filed into the dark and musty venue to see headliners Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s.
