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This weekend in the IU Jacobs School of Music

By Eric Anderson · Friday, Feb. 23,2007 12 a.m.

The Jacobs School of Music presents its second opera of the semester Friday night with a production of Richard Strauss’ “Arabella.” Set in 19th-century Vienna, the opera tells the story of problem gambler Count Waldner, who must marry his daughter Arabella to a wealthy suitor in order to restore his wealth and reputation.

‘Twelfth Night’ opens at Ruth N. Halls theater tonight

By Kelsey Nash · Friday, Feb. 23,2007 12 a.m.

Full of mystery, mayhem and mistaken identity, the classic Shakespearean comedy “Twelfth Night” opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre.

Premiere documentary festival coming to Mathers Museum

By Katie Ingmire · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Widely considered the foremost anthropologist of the 20th century, Margaret Mead devoted her life to studying culture and its interaction with personality. Now, with the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival, her commitment to cultural anthropology is coming to Bloomington.

ARTiFACT

Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

What: Virgin Adoring the Christ Child with Infant John the Baptist, circa 1475-1500 Lippi-Pesellino Follower

Runway models who handle Oscar’s trophies share their experiences from behind curtain

By Sandy Cohen · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

LOS ANGELES – They’ve held more Oscars than Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson combined, but they never give a speech or take the golden guy home. They aren’t nominees – they’re trophy presenters. The statuesque beauties who accompany Oscar and his winners on and off stage are actually models for hire.

Company gives chance to fake your own horrific death

By Alicia Spateo · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

CHARLESTON, Ill. – What’s your favorite scary movie? For roommates Derek Clem and Scott Aigner, the answer was written in the fake blood and man-made intestines staining their clothes – their movie. Clem and Aigner, both Eastern Illinois University graduate students, received the chance to star in their own personally designed horror-slasher scene, making fake death a reality at Eastern’s Tarble Arts Center in Charleston.

Student presents play about coping with heroin addiction

By Annysa LaMantia and Anyssa LaMantia · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Garlia Jones never got to say goodbye to a close friend who died of a heroin overdose last year. Jones, finishing her master’s degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies, is the writer and director of the play “Against the Grain,” which debuts at 8 p.m. today at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St. “When he died, the best thing for me to do was to write,” said Jones, who wrote the play for her master’s thesis production.

Event to promote Asian culture

By Rorye O'Connor and Rorye O'Conner · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

The Asian American Association is putting a spin on MTV’s “Diary” TV series this Friday at its annual fashion show. The IU show, titled “The Diary of an Asian American,” will feature several types of dancing and runway modeling from different Asian organizations on campus.

Famed Shanghai Museum opens first U.S. exhibit in decades in California

By Gillian Flaccus · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The bronze bowl seems unremarkable until you study it from above. Then, the shallow basin suddenly seems to teem with life: etchings of tiny tadpoles, turtles and fish wriggle across the bottom and up the sides, as if trapped in a real-life pond.

Arts Week '07

By Michelle Manchir · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Live organisms will be manipulated by the click of a mouse, printers will produce hand-drawn 3-D images and violinists will be accompanied by a computer-generated orchestra. The theme for the 23rd annual ArtsWeek, a collaboration of the IU Office of the Provost and various community and campus arts organizations, is “Technology and the Arts.” With more than 50 events during the 11-day schedule, which officially began Wednesday and concludes March 3, ArtsWeek leaves little to be desired.

Annual ‘Vagina Monologues’ takes stage this weekend in honor of V-Day

Wednesday, Feb. 21,2007 12 a.m.

IU’s V-Day campaign will culminate Thursday through Saturday with three performances of playwright Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” IU students will present the monologues 7 p.m. Feb. 22-24 at the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union. Tickets are $10 or $8 with a student ID.

ArtsWeek kicks off with Arts Leadership award ceremony

By Jessica Andrews · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2007 12 a.m.

A collection of seven individuals, a local business and a historic park will be collecting awards at this year’s Arts Leadership Awards Luncheon presented by the Bloomington Area Arts Council. The luncheon, which kicks off IU’s annual ArtsWeek, is today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Monroe County Convention Center.

Missing painting found in Indiana State Museum

Wednesday, Feb. 21,2007 12 a.m.

GARY – A painting discovered at an Indianapolis museum is among scores of art works once owned by the city of Gary and its schools that have disappeared, including some by Monet and Rembrandt, officials say.

IU photographer defines sexual slang in new dictionary

By Katie Ingmire · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2007 12 a.m.

CEOs, Grammy winners and Pulitzer Prize recipients rank among the most prominent figures to ever walk IU’s hallowed halls. Now, graduate student Jordan Tate is paving his own path of distinction by adding a new title to the list: dictionary writer.

Co-founder of Oliver Winery dies at age 78

Tuesday, Feb. 20,2007 12 a.m.

Mary Morgan Oliver, who started Oliver Winery in 1972 with her husband, William, died Wednesdasy. She was 78. Her son, Bill Oliver, said the family’s Bloomington business began as an outgrowth of his father’s wine-making hobby. “There’s the old cliche that behind every man is an even stronger woman,” he said of his mother. “For many years, she kept the books and held the place together.”

Brazilian capoeira goes international

By Michael Astor · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2007 12 a.m.

SALVADOR, Brazil – The master, wearing dreadlocks, dings out a twangy rhythm on his bow-shaped “berimbau” and lets loose with a plaintive melody recalling slavery days. Two men, glistening with sweat, squat before him, reaching up to touch the African instrument’s resonating gourd. They cross themselves and shake hands before cart-wheeling into the circle formed by the other players, singing and clapping hands.

Michaelangelo’s private room discovered in Vatican

By Daniela Petroff · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2007 12 a.m.

VATICAN CITY – A 450-year-old receipt has provided proof that Michelangelo kept a private room in St. Peter’s Basilica while working as the pope’s chief architect, Vatican experts said. While going through the basilica archives for an exhibit on the 500th anniversary of the church last year, researchers came across an entry for a key to a chest “in the room in St. Peter’s where Master Michelangelo retires.”

Ed Berstein’s work, like the chandelier piece shown here, is on display at the IU Art Museum.

Professor discusses printmaking, digital art work at IUAM

By Kyle Meehan · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2007 12 a.m.

Art professor Edward Bernstein will discuss his work with digital art and printmaking Wednesday at the IU Art Museum. Bernstein, of the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, has worked with etchings and engravings for more than 30 years.

One beauty pageant after another

By Ryan Brown · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2007 12 a.m.

We’re in the last stretch of Oscar season, and in the spirit of the Academy, I have a request from you. I ask you to, in the back of your mind, root for “Little Miss Sunshine” as the recipient of this year’s best picture award. Oddly enough, however, I hope it doesn’t win.

Lawmakers consider bill on sale of violent video games

By Alexandra R. Moses and Deanna Martin · Monday, Feb. 19,2007 12 a.m.

Lawmakers watched clips of violent beatings, topless strippers and other adult material Monday as they considered a bill that would restrict the sale of certain video games to young people.

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