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Happy faces on display at Union Gallery

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Bright colors and happy faces characterize the latest exhibit at the Indiana Memorial Union Gallery. The exhibit, "Our Face", is a collection of works by Sheila Sundquist Berkes and will be on display until June 3.


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'Friends' bid final farewell

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NEW YORK -- In the end, Rachel, Ross, Joey, Phoebe, Monica and Chandler had a lot of friends. An estimated 51.1 million people tuned in for the final "Friends" on NBC Thursday night, watching the crowd-pleasing story line of Ross and Rachel declaring their undying love for each other.


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Picasso breaks auction record

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NEW YORK -- Willem de Kooning once said "Picasso is the guy to beat." Though de Kooning was talking more about fame than fortune, Pablo Picasso is the new champion on the art auction block.


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Around The Arts

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Peoples Park plays the Blues Blues/jazz band, Carlyn Lindsey and SnakeDoctor will perform in Peoples Park 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday as part of Bloomington's free Tuesday Concert Series.

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Music composed by Holocaust victims performed

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a dramatic example of the strength of the human spirit, some artists found the capacity to create their art even while held in a Nazi concentration camp. Music by four composers who were victims of Nazi persecution will be featured on two evenings next week at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.


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Cosmo searches for next hot bachelor

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As graduation approaches, Cosmopolitan magazine searches for one eligible bachelor to represent each state in its November issue dedicated to America's 50 hottest men who aren't celebrities. At last count, Cosmo only received five nominees from Indiana. The magazine is looking for more candidates with its May 15 application deadline fast approaching. To be considered to represent Indiana, men must be nominated by someone other than themselves and be between the ages of 18 and 35. Nominators must send head shots and full-length photographs of their favorite bachelor, but the winners are not chosen based on looks alone.


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Michael Moore's Sept. 11 documentary looking for distributor

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NEW YORK -- Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," which criticizes President Bush's handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and connects the Bush family with Osama bin Laden's, won't be released through Miramax Films on orders from parent company Disney. Moore believes The Walt Disney Co. is worried the documentary will endanger tax breaks the company receives from Florida, where Bush's brother Jeb is governor.


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'Patty Red Pants' comes to BPP

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Faced with a murder of a young girl in the nearby woods, two women are jolted into a roller coaster-ride trip through their memories of growing up in suburban America in playwright Trista Baldwin's "Patty Red Pants." The play will premiere 8 p.m. Friday in the Bloomington Playwrights Project's Timothy J. Wiles Stage.


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IU students intern with Stella McCartney

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The main purpose of the internship experience, according to the views of many, is to learn and work in a position relating to the career the intern desires. Though this might be true to some extent, some internship opportunities serve to help students realize they might not be interested in pursuing the designated career. Ashley Sadler, a junior majoring in accounting, and Tiffany Kraft, a junior majoring in finance, are two IU students currently interning in London.


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The final night of hip hop

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Thursday night, an audience saw the culmination of the year with the last hip-hop blow out. Hip Hop Congress hosted a MC battle and DJ battle at Vertigo night club. There was a large and interactive crowd bobbing their heads to the music and cheering as each DJ stepped up to show off his vernacular.


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Skip James' 1968 Bloomington concert remembered by fans

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When Nehemiah "Skip" James took the stage at IU's Whittenberger Auditorium March 30, 1968, the blues legend knew he had terminal cancer. It had put him in the hospital before, and seven months after his IU concert he was bedridden. He died Oct. 3, 1969 at the age of 67. But that early spring night in Bloomington, nobody else in the Auditorium -- not even folklore graduate student Peter Narváez, who picked James up from the Indianapolis airport and welcomed James into his house for two days -- was aware James was dying. Aside from frequent naps, James showed no sign of ill health.


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Group combines sign language with music The IU School of Speech and Hearing will host "Rathskellar," at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Tickets are available at the Sunrise Box Office, located at 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. or by calling 323-3020.


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Hoochie gear,white Nikes

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School is almost out and everyone is anticipating the summer weather. I, for one, can't wait. I love hot weather, though I do not like what comes with the hot weather, like mosquitoes and having to take a shower three times a day. I appreciate summer fashion, or the lack thereof.


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Disability group holds film festival

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The City of Bloomington's Council for Community Accessibility is hosting the Accessibility Awareness Film Festival at 4 p.m. today in the Monroe County Public Library Auditorium, 303 E. Kirkwood Ave. The festival will feature two films -- "Butterflies Are Free" and "Wait Until Dark." The festival is free and open to the public and viewers can come to watch one or both films.


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IU students show 'Street Smarts'

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Many college students make extra money by working part time between classes, but IU students Daniel Brewer and Ashley Grogg took more of a gamble and played against each other for extra cash on the syndicated reality game show "Street Smarts."


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All about Greece

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Ah, sun, sand and great food. How I miss you already. In Europe, every country practically shuts down during Holy Week, and everyone goes on vacation. While most students backpacked around Italy, I decided to venture out and head to Greece with my sister from the States in tow. It's hard to see everything in the span of a week, but we decided to go beyond the traditional Greek tour and visit some exotic locations. The trip began on the island of Crete, where we got our first taste of Greek life.


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Museum exhibit highlights changes in housekeeping

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An antique electric washer comes with a hand-cranked wringer for squeezing the last drop of water out of wet clothes. The iron is gasoline powered. Clothes dry on lines outside and even freeze in the winter. Such sights were commonplace during the Great Depression and World War II, but today these items can only be found in dusty basement corners and on display in museums.


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IU Auditorium announces line-up

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The IU Auditorium will host a variety of Broadway hits next year according to the schedule it released Friday for its 2004-2005 season. Students and IU Auditorium subscribers will not only have the opportunity to see modern sensations like "Contact," the musical version of "The Full Monty," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Les Miserables," but can also watch musicals that have become Broadway classics -- "42nd Street," "Oklahoma!," "Smokey Joe's Café" and "Crazy for You."


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BPP pulls 'all-nighter'

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It was an idea that shouldn't have worked, but it did. The third annual Performathon fund-raiser at the Bloomington Playwrights Project continued from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Saturday. Advertised as "24 hours of non-stop Entertainment," it is an idea that Richard Perez, artistic director of the BPP, picked up in New York, where he lived as an actor. "In my mind, it was a good idea, but it never got off the ground. They couldn't do it there," Perez said. But what clashed with the New York state of mind operated flawlessly in Bloomington. Perez and the BPP work to recruit talent that has previously worked with the organization or new talent and give them a timeslot within the 24 hours.


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Phi Beta Sigma steps up

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A guy in a gorilla costume stomped around backstage at the IU Auditorium. And he had less than 30 minutes before he and the rest of his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers hit center stage at the second annual Lil' 5 Step Down Saturday.