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Books Don't Bore

Wednesday, Sept. 27,2006 10:56 p.m.

In the Monroe County Public Library there is a special enclosed zone where children play as their parents look on. It is symbolic of how parents are the last gatekeepers between young adults and books now that are rarely banned. On the 25th year of the American Library Association's commemoration of Banned Books Week -- Sept. 23-30 -- Bloomington is a shining example of a town that promotes open learning with few or no banned books.

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Art Museum features tribute gallery for former professor

By Lindsey Landis · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2006 10:54 p.m.

Budd Stalnaker was an artist, a faculty member in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts and a collector. Stalnaker died in May of this year, and the IU Art Museum is honoring his passion and life's work with a special exhibition that will open Saturday and run through Dec. 17.

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Ph.D. candidate solving history's mystery abroad

By Lindsey Landis · Wednesday, Sept. 27,2006 10:50 p.m.

Every day doctoral student Charles Stewart spends hours writing and researching in the library- but not at the Herman B Wells Library or anywhere on campus. Stewart has been studying at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus, since Sept. 5, and he will spend the next nine months doing the same. When he is not pouring through volumes of Greek, Russian, French and German texts, he drives around the churches of the Mediterranean island to count domes and analyze frescoes.

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Around the Arts

Wednesday, Sept. 27,2006 12:36 a.m.

See what's going on with the arts around Bloomington

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Live at MAC features 3 genres

By Shannon Valentine · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 10:23 p.m.

The Jacobs School of Music is hosting its third annual Live at the Musical Arts Center Series, highlighting a semester of performances aimed at engaging students and Bloomington community members with music from IU students.

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Hitler watercolors and sketches to be sold at auction

By Paisley Dodds · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 10:22 p.m.

LONDON -- Watercolors and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler are up for sale Tuesday, forcing a tiny auction house in southwest England to install multiple telephone lines to accommodate an expected crush of bidders from Canada to New Zealand.

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School of Music Summer Festival has international appeal

Monday, Sept. 25,2006 9:22 a.m.

The Summer Music Festival's reputation for drawing scholars and musicians internationally is renewed this year thanks to a concert performed by violinist Joshua Bell, as well as appearances from conductors Michael Stern and Leonard Slatkin.

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Buskirk-Chumley rolls out red carpet

By Paige Ingram · Friday, Sept. 22,2006 8:26 p.m.

Alison Zook felt like a Barbie doll as she waited backstage at the Buskirk-Chumley Thursday night. "And it smells like an old Barbie doll," she said as she held the black vintage dress to her nose.

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Film, book resurrect flamboyant politician

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 21,2006 11:22 p.m.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- For his first meeting with presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, Huey P. Long dressed in his flamboyant Kingfish mode: plaid suit, purple shirt and pink necktie. During lunch, Roosevelt's mother gazed down the table at the United States senator in the garish outfit. She whispered: "Who is that awful man?"

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Russia marks 100th birthday of Shostakovich

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Heintz · Thursday, Sept. 21,2006 11:17 p.m.

MOSCOW -- It's a rare talent that would make internationally acclaimed cellist Mstislav Rostropovich feel second-rate. Dmitri Shostakovich had it. Rostropovich is among the renowned musicians who will put the wide and contradictory breadth of Shostakovich's vision on full display this month as Russians observe the 100th anniversary of his birth. The celebration will include a concert by Moscow Conservatory's orchestra, which will perform Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony conducted by Rostropovich.

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IU Opera Theater presents 'Don Giovanni' this weekend

By Molly Peters · Thursday, Sept. 21,2006 10:55 p.m.

This weekend, IU Opera Theater will present "Don Giovanni," a Mozart masterwork said to be one of the greatest operas ever written, according to the Jacobs School of Music Web site. This drama giocoso, meaning "playful drama" or "tragic comedy" in Italian, is based on the legendary Spanish tale of Don Juan. Don Giovanni is a lustful man who engages in episodic conquests of seducing women for nothing more than his own gratification. Giovanni is as easily loathed as is he is adored, as his malicious intentions are contrary to his irresistible charm.

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'Urinetown' actor finds humor in his roles

By Lindsey Landis · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2006 11:58 p.m.

Senior Kevin Anderson is not a bad guy. He just plays one in most of his productions. The theatre and drama major tackled the role of Batboy's evil mother in the fall 2004 production of "Batboy -- The Musical," which he described as "ridiculous," because he had to dress up in women's clothing.

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