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You build it -- they will come

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Tommy Hilfiger visits Indianapolis and signs photos. Tommy Hilfiger goes to California, and a runway is built, the stars came out and it looked like a good time. I must admit, saying the Midwesterners are with it is one thing, but where is our party? When they said progress is slow, they meant it. The fashion gods are wearing half smiles, not a full grin. Bloomington is moving into the future, but the progress seems to come only with the force of a Mac truck.


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Union Board unveils Canvas

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With brightly colored student artwork and soulful student, faculty and staff writing, the spring semester issue of Canvas, Union Board's creative arts magazine, made its debut as an insert in Tuesday's edition of the Indiana Daily Student. Earlier this semester, Union Board's "Celebrate the Arts" Committee made a request for submission of student artwork, poetry, short stories and essays. Campus-wide, students sent their work in the hopes it would be selected for publication.


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Rare second edition of 'Hamlet' to be auctioned off

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BOSTON -- A rare edition of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" could fetch much more than $1 million when it is auctioned at Christie's in New York. The nearly 400-year-old book is one of 19 copies of the 1611 printing known to exist and is the only one remaining in private hands. It was owned by Mary Hyde, Viscountess Eccles, a renowned New Jersey book collector and English literature scholar best known for her extensive Samuel Johnson collection, now at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.


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IU Art Museum, SoFA Gallery home to master's students

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Two years and countless tubes of paint, pieces of clay and rolls of film later, the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts is saying farewell to another group of masters of fine arts students. For these students, their years at IU culminate with an exhibition of their work at the IU Art Museum or School of Fine Arts Gallery.

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Dance company celebrates 30th year

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The African American Dance Company will have its 30th annual concert this weekend. The dances in the show will tell the history of African Americans, starting from when they were brought over in the slave ships. The show will include Afro-Caribbean dances, jazz, ballet and tap among other dances from the African Diaspora.


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Opera season to close with 'Peter Grimes'

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The IU Opera Theater will close its 2003-2004 season this weekend with a performance by the English opera "Peter Grimes." The opera, composed by Benjamin Britten, marked a new direction for English opera.


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IU dance company delights crowds

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The African American Dance Company celebrated its 30th year of performances with two packed shows this weekend. The company represented the African diaspora in the United States and throughout the world with a mix of historical and contemporary dance styles.


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Newest BPP show ready to shock audiences

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For the Bloomington Playwrights Project, producing tales of morbidity and strangeness is a good way to get college students involved in theater. For years, the South Washington Street theater has produced shows that have entertained the Bloomington community, but lately the company has tried something new to please a larger crowd. The Dark Alley series, which is a series of late-night plays shown at 11 p.m., is the BPP's invitation to a more adult world of entertainment. Often sexual, the Dark Alley series features plays written by experimental playwrights and targeted toward younger, more adventure-seeking audiences.


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Give up, turn it loose

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There comes a time in every person's life when he or she has to let go of certain things they hold dear. Ever since I was a little girl, I have had a hard time letting go of certain articles of clothing. It could be anything -- old shoes or jeans with holes in the bottom.


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'Happy Days' takes the stage in Bloomington

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Winnie cannot move. Willie does not speak. Immobility and paralysis are strong themes in Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," a two-man show which premiers at the Rose Firebay of the John Waldron Arts Center this weekend.


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shaken, not stirred

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A martini -- it is the millionaire's beer. The potent drink is crystal clear in color, often with a plump green olive lying at the bottom of the wide-brim stemmed glass. Christine Baranski's wealthy character Maryann Thorpe from the 1995 sitcom "Cybill" was never seen without one. Megan Mullally's character of Karen Walker on "Will and Grace" slurps them down like water.


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Around The Arts

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'Your Art Here' sponsors fundraiser The 'Your Art Here' project will sponsor a benefit show and art auction for the National Youth Art Month project of 2004: Billboard Generation II. The benefit show and art auction will be held at 9 p.m. Saturday at Second Story, located at 201 S. College Ave. Musical performers will include TV Mike, Cheer Up Charlie, Secret Girl, The Coke Dares and more.


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Around The Arts

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NEW YORK -- Stories of oppression both home and abroad were rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes Monday. Edward P. Jones won the fiction prize for "The Known World," a novel about a black slave owner.


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Jazz treasure to visit IU

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Herbie Hancock, one of the greatest composers in jazz history, brings an acoustic band tonight to the IU Auditorium for his first-ever concert in Bloomington. Hancock, a pianist, has recorded some of the most memorable songs in jazz history, including "Canteloupe Island," "Watermelon Man" and "Chameleon."


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'Singing Hoosiers' perform with innovative routine

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Clad in classy black and white, the Singing Hoosiers took the stage Saturday night at the IU Auditorium with a presence suitable for their 54th anniversary. The group's sophistication keeps audiences coming back year after year.


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Hilfiger dresses Indy in new clothing collection

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Tommy Hilfiger, a designer known for his stylish casual wear, is growing up and bringing his clothing with him. Hilfiger greeted fans Friday at the Castleton Square Mall in Indianapolis to introduce his new upscale clothing line, H Hilfiger. The new collection came out of a need for a luxurious line that catered to adults and to boost declining sales in his mens' line, Hilfiger said.


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College fashion hits runway

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A fashion show that incorporates almost all areas of apparel might seem difficult to achieve, but it's certainly not impossible, as the Apparel Merchandising Organization proved this past Thursday night. The annual AMO fashion show combined trendy street wear, sports and casual attire, formal evening looks and ballet costumes as a part of its student-organized show. The looks on the runway represented all aspects of collegiate fashion, along with unique designs constructed by students majoring in fashion design and costume construction technology. A raffle that consisted of more than $13,000 worth of prizes set the night off to a good start. A new North Face jacket, hats, sandals and leather bags for spring were some of the items won by audience members. Ticket holders who didn't get called had the opportunity to claim extra prizes after the raffle.


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Spanish soup and salad

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Spring is finally here! The flowers are blooming and the weather is getting warmer. Spring brings back the colors and fresh air we all miss during the winter, and, believe it or not, it also brings change in the food we eat.


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Kafka finds new life in comedy

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The newest comedy troupe to hit Bloomington is, by their own definition, an oddity. ODDITYS is a band of IU student comedians who have recently come together at the Bloomington Playwrights Project to bring IU students and Bloomington residents their unique brand of humor. ODDITYS' second performance will be at 11:30 p.m. today at the BPP's Black Box Theatre. "The group's humor runs the gamut from dry, witty word play to cruel and obscene low-brow," IU senior and ODDITYS writer and cast member Ambur Lowenthal said. "ODDITYS is nothing if not versatile."


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Romantic, moody Irish singer catching on

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NEW YORK -- Even with an audience including Julia Roberts, Renee Zellweger, George Clooney and Nicolas Cage, singer-songwriter Damien Rice is not a background kind of guy. All those stars attended a gig Rice had last year at the home of a Hollywood agent to introduce his music to the movie community. But it was a party with networking and laughing, so when the folksy Irishman began strumming his guitar, few people noticed.