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Spike Lee will head jury of new online film festival

By Colleen Barry · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 10:13 p.m.

Spike Lee said Saturday the Internet has provided so many opportunities for young filmmakers to showcase their work, there are no more excuses.

Theatre’s lobby holds remnants of real assasins

By Maryclaire Dale · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 10:12 p.m.

Call it theater of the macabre: A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s killer, will be on display when the musical “Assassins” opens in Philadelphia.

Bloomington hosts Chefs’ Challenge

By Erica J. Nourse · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 10:11 p.m.

A mouth-watering aroma seeped through the doors of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater Friday night during the first-ever Bloomington Chefs’ Challenge, which attracted food connoisseurs, local residents and University students alike.

Veterans share war experience with students

By Kyle Meehan · Thursday, Aug. 30,2007 10:08 p.m.

About two dozen students from Bloomington’s Batchelor Middle School and Bloomington High School South gathered Thursday as part of the IU Art Museum’s Meet the Artist program.

SoFA Gallery celebrates 20th birthday Saturday

By IDS staff · Thursday, Aug. 30,2007 10:07 p.m.

The School of Fine Arts Gallery will host “Club SoFA: 20th Birthday Benefit for the SoFA Gallery” tomorrow night, celebrating 20 years of bringing contemporary art to the community. The benefit will begin at 6 p.m. and is scheduled to end at midnight.

Hilly Kristal, founder of iconic New York rock club CBGB, dies at age of 75

By Larry McShane · Thursday, Aug. 30,2007 9:57 p.m.

NEW YORK – Hilly Kristal had no idea what he was unleashing when he welcomed a rash of unknown bands onstage in his dank Bowery dive: Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Patti Smith Group

‘On the Road,’ and Jack Kerouac, still inspire young and old

By Hillel Italie · Thursday, Aug. 30,2007 9:56 p.m.

LOWELL, Mass. – Manya Callahan, manager of the Barnes & Noble Downtown store, sees them all the time, young and old, looking for books by Lowell’s most famous citizen.

JoAnne Worley joyously returns to Broadway in ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’

By Michael Kuchwara · Thursday, Aug. 30,2007 9:56 p.m.

NEW YORK – JoAnne Worley swirls into Angus McIndoe’s, the Broadway theater hangout, notices a crooked painting on the wall, straightens it and then settles into a back corner table for a light bite.

Jacobs professor to receive prestigious award in October

By Ashley Wilson · Thursday, Aug. 30,2007 12:25 a.m.

The Indiana Arts Commission formally announced Wednesday that Menahem Pressler, pianist and distinguished professor of music in the Jacobs School of Music, will be one of six recipients of the coveted Governor’s Arts Award.

Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello to play Assembly Hall

By Ashley Wilson · Thursday, Aug. 30,2007 12:14 a.m.

Union Board and IU Auditorium have announced that Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello will play Assembly Hall at 7 p.m. Oct. 19. Tickets for show will go on sale at 10 a.m. Sept. 7 and can be purchased at the IU Auditorium and all Ticketmaster locations, or online at ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices are $30, $45, and $55.

How to succeed in auditions*

By Leah Linder · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:27 p.m.

Roles in IU Department of Theatre and Drama productions are available to any student. Check out the director’s notes below to learn the ins and outs of auditioning for IU productions.

Issues of stereotyping, judging confronted in ‘cowboyily’ at BPP

By Ashley Craft · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:25 p.m.

It has been over a decade since Steven Cole Hughes last visited Bloomington, but this time he will not be sitting in a classroom. Instead, he will be relaxing and watching his play “cowboyily,” opening tonight at 8 p.m. on the Bloomington Playwrights Project stage. Hughes, a playwright and IU alumnus, created “cowboyily,” a play that shows the clashing of two different characters: the “city mouse” and the “country mouse,” and examines how they coexist.

Around the Arts

Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:19 p.m.

Dirty Projectors with Yacht, Vampire Weekend and Normanoak When: 8 p.m., tonight Where: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. More Information: Over three full length albums, an EP, and five different live bands in four years, David Longstreth has created in Dirty Projectors a body of music that’s original and beautiful. The breadth of his talents as a songwriter, arranger, bandleader and singer call to mind Prince, Joni Mitchell and Bjork. Tickets are $5 for IUB students, $10 for the general public.

Juan Luis Guerra receives 5 Latin Grammy nods

Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:19 p.m.

Tropical singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra led the list of artists Wednesday with five Latin Grammy nominations.

Burning Man torched prematurely in Nev.

By Lisa Leff · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:19 p.m.

Burning Man became Burnt Man four days early on Tuesday. A San Francisco performance artist was arrested on suspicion of igniting the signature figure of the counterculture festival in the remote Nevada desert.

Apparent suicide attempt halts Owen Wilson’s career

By Sandy Cohen · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:19 p.m.

Owen Wilson, hospitalized after an apparent suicide attempt, has dropped out of the upcoming ensemble comedy “Tropic Thunder.”

Dylan, Costello to play Assembly Hall

By Ashley Wilson · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 4:21 p.m.

Union Board and IU Auditorium have announced that Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello will play Assembly Hall at 7 p.m Oct. 19. Tickets for show will go on sale at 10 a.m. Sept. 7, and can be purchased at the IU Auditorium and all Ticketmaster locations, or online at ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices are $30, $45, and $55.

Pakistani art museum opens with 600 works

By Alisa Tang · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 10:16 a.m.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s painstakingly built National Art Gallery has overcome decades of political turbulence to become an eye-catching symbol of modernity and creativity in a nation more often associated with Islamic conservatism.

‘Robots’ lacks the emotion and psychological depth of recent animated releases.

Bonjour, Mode

By Kevin Caldwell · Tuesday, Aug. 28,2007 9:58 p.m.

Do you see these shoes? They are mine. I bought them in early August at a store in New York called Oliver Spencer. Available in black or white, they were originally more than $200, but I was able to get them at a sale price of $59. A smokin’ deal for my smokin’ shoes.

Mysteries of Beethoven’s death studied

By George Jahn · Tuesday, Aug. 28,2007 9:15 p.m.

VIENNA, Austria – Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer’s physician did – inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure gone wrong.

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