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Louisiana delicacy adds continuity to reconstruction

By Nick O'Neill · Sunday, July 2,2006 9:28 p.m.

New Orleans lives and dies by the water that holds the city in a crescent.

Adopted home of Superman flying high with new blockbuster comic book film

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Suhr · Wednesday, June 28,2006 9:53 p.m.

METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Passing through southern Illinois on their way to Nashville, Diana Brown and her son Colin saw the signs pointing the way to this town's Superman Square and its colorful bronze statue of the Man of Steel. Thanks to the media buildup ahead of Wednesday's opening of "Superman Returns," Clark Kent's alter ego was already on Brown's mind. So last week, mother and son got off the highway and visited this Mayberry-meets-Disney town on the Ohio River.

Festival jazz orchestra showcases Indiana musicians this Friday

By Lauren Bristow · Wednesday, June 28,2006 9:52 p.m.

Indiana jazz musicians are coming together to perform what will be the first performance of the Jazz Festival Orchestra directed by composer and IU jazz icon David Baker. The orchestra will perform pieces composed by graduates of the Jacobs School of Music's jazz program and other Indiana jazz artists. "It really becomes an Indiana celebration in that all the compositions are by Indiana people, not necessarily Indiana University," Baker said. "Basically the thematic concept is that it's Indiana."

Local community theatre produces flowing productions

By Brandon S Morley · Wednesday, June 28,2006 9:40 p.m.

For the Monroe County Civic Theatre turning complex pieces of literature into productions staged in unorthodox spaces is half the battle. Making it work smoothly is the other half. And most of the time it isn't done easily. The upcoming performance of Alice's Adventures is Wonderland is no exception. The play opens July 1 in a venue many would not expect to house a theatre performance, The Irish Lion, located at 212 W. Kirkwood Avenue.

Campus, art museum offer array of high-impact art

By Ashley Craft · Sunday, June 25,2006 10:29 p.m.

Craving high-impact art? Don't flee to a big city or Google photos on your computer - IU's campus offers pieces in an inviting environment.

Bloomington Playwrights volunteer moves from paint chips to performance

By Lindsey Landis · Sunday, June 25,2006 10:21 p.m.

She has done everything from building sets to stuffing programs, to starring in mainstage productions.

'Smoke on the Mountain' plays in Brown County

By Brett Martel · Wednesday, June 21,2006 7:13 p.m.

The first show of the IU Department of Theatre and Drama's summer series runs through this week with performances at 8 p.m. June 21 to 25 at the Brown County Playhouse in Nashville, Ind.

One-act play opens June 21 at Playwrights' Project

Wednesday, June 21,2006 7:13 p.m.

"Mr. Postman" is a one-act play starting at 10 p.m. June 21 to 24 at the Bloomington Playwrights Project located at 107 W. Ninth St.

Summer music festival kicks off at Auer Hall

Wednesday, June 21,2006 7:12 p.m.

Sarah Kapustin and Jeannette Koekkoek, 8 p.m. June 22

The Heart of the Big Easy

By Nick O'Neill · Wednesday, June 21,2006 7:09 p.m.

Many New Orleans musicians lived in the neighborhoods hit the worst by Katrina.

IU Theater tradition successful thanks to relationship building

By Brandon S Morley · Wednesday, June 21,2006 7:06 p.m.

The Brown County Playhouse is a summer tradition of live theater for locals and tourists alike.

Music, Art abstract at museum

By Ethan Cirmo · Monday, June 19,2006 4:38 p.m.

Art and jazz shake hands on the IU Art Museum's first floor in a new exhibit that displays the two art forms of symphony.

Supersize him: Man of Steel back on IMAX -- in 3-D

By Ethan Sacks · Sunday, June 18,2006 11:30 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Look up on the screen, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman -- and he's flying right at the audience!

Also at the BPP...

Sunday, June 18,2006 11:24 p.m.

"Mr. Postman," a one-act play, begins at 10 p.m. each night from June 21 to 24 at the BPP mainstage, located at 107 W. Ninth St.

BPP vignettes in 'Vintage Scenes'

Sunday, June 18,2006 11:24 p.m.

Excerpts from past Bloomington Playwrights Productions will be performed at 7 p.m. June 29 at Oliver Winery.

Horse exhibit gallops until August

Sunday, June 18,2006 11:23 p.m.

"Horses in Classical Art" at the IU Art Museum has been extended as a special exhibit until August 6.

Local theater gives artists chance to perform

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Sunday, June 18,2006 11:17 p.m.

Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Doll's House," and is credited with bringing realism to theater in the form of the modern drama, but his career had a rocky start, and he was nearly 40 years old before any of his works met success.

It ain't easy living in the 'Big Easy'

By Nick O'Neill · Wednesday, June 14,2006 6:53 p.m.

En route to New Orleans there is a layover in Houston

MySpace, Internet, main resource for artists and indie label

By Nick Mills and Nicholas Mills · Wednesday, June 14,2006 6:51 p.m.

For many record companies, the decline of CD sales and transition into the digital music realm is beginning to hit hard, but the indie label Secretly Canadian seems to be utilizing the Internet as a way to gain ground in the digital music revolution.

Wacky, connected and clever, Cranium takes board games to a new level

Sunday, June 11,2006 9:58 p.m.

Every week, a bunch of friends (who happen to slightly resemble the cast of "Friends") gather in Lincoln Davis' cool bachelor apartment with its abstract paintings, view of Seattle's Space Needle and blue leather couch. Usually, they watch the drama "Lost."

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