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Feeling American in Spain

By Jonathan Daugherty and John Daugherty · Monday, Feb. 28,2005 11:38 p.m.

Looking ahead to studying abroad, I expected to learn more about my country through the eyes of others, and I also expected to learn more about myself as a person. What I didn't expect was to learn about myself as an American. Sure, I identified myself as an American because I appreciated my country and because that's where I lived, but now I'm learning that I'm really inherently American. Having never lived outside of the United States before, I used to pretentiously consider myself significantly different from the average American.

'Million Dollar Baby,' Eastwood take top Oscars

By Alyson Brodsy and David Germain · Monday, Feb. 28,2005 1:51 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Tough was enough in Clint Eastwood's strong-and-silent early days as a scruffy Old West gunslinger or a modern vigilante cop. With 2003's "Mystic River" and now "Million Dollar Baby," Eastwood has shown that tough doesn't begin to scratch the surface of his filmmaking talents.

Production examines female sexuality

By Kathlyn Von Rohr · Monday, Feb. 28,2005 12:11 a.m.

Margaret Goodwin performed the monologue "My Angry Vagina" Thursday night.

Opera based on historical execution of nuns

By Adam Sedia · Monday, Feb. 28,2005 12:11 a.m.

Anyone going to the opera thinking they were going to see something along the lines of "Don Giovanni" or "Die Walküre" was in for a surprise.

Frank Lloyd Wright house difficult to auction

By Alyson Brodsy and Don Babwin · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 11:28 p.m.

CHICAGO -- If you think selling a house designed by the most famous architect in American history is easy, think again. After several months on the market, a 1915 Frank Lloyd Wright house on Chicago's North Side is going on the auction block, with bids starting at $750,000, less than a third of the original $2.5 million asking price.

Jury selection ends in Jackson trial

By Alyson Brodsy and Tim Molloy · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 11:27 p.m.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- In surprisingly quick time, a jury was selected Wednesday that will decide Michael Jackson's fate on charges that he molested a teenage boy at his Neverland Ranch.

Exhibit features drawings by late Cuban exile

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 11:25 p.m.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Ana Mendieta and her sister were shipped off to the United States from Cuba by their parents, landed in a Dubuque orphanage and were shuffled among several foster homes all before graduating from high school.

'Master Harold' brings his boys to IU

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 11:25 p.m.

Discourse about racism is alive within the IU community and the theatre department wouldn't have it any other way. "'Master Harold' ... and the boys," written by South African Athol Fugard and directed by South African IU theater professor Murray McGibbon, opens at 8 p.m. tonight in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre. The play premiered in 1982 at the Yale Repertory Theatre and was banned from production in South Africa until 1994.

Outside experience adds to writers' ability to succeed

By Janice Neaveil and Janice Neaveill · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 2:22 a.m.

Jennifer Fish describes the economics of a fiction writer's lifestyle. "It's hard for everyone these days," she said. "My spouse supports me by doing extra around the house so I have time to devote to writing and art. He's a coupon maniac ... I buy most of my clothes at the Goodwill or will vulture items at the recycling center.

Screen or Stage

By David Charles · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 2:20 a.m.

Playwrighting has been around at least since the times of ancient Greece; screenwriting was created less than 100 years ago. Today many theaters struggle to stay in business, but films often see weekly box office revenues in tens of millions of dollars.

Ice-carving contest attracts champions

By Alyson Brodsy and William Kates · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 1:15 a.m.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- For three straight days, Stanley Kolonko will forsake the comforts of his job as a clubhouse chef to spend 14-hour shifts, toiling in numbing subzero temperatures, chipping and carving a block of ice into a piece of art.

Ceramic art balloons into massive undertaking

By Alyson Brodsy and Ben Nuckols · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 12:48 a.m.

BALTIMORE -- During the next few months, it will be nearly impossible to view art in Baltimore without seeing works in clay. That's the goal of the Tour de Clay, a celebration of ceramic artwork that has ballooned into what organizers say is the largest-ever visual arts program in the United States.

'Dialogues' deeply moving for student cast members

By Adam Sedia · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 12:47 a.m.

The Catholic Church is associated with many musical genres such as the cantata and the oratorio, but it usually is never associated with the opera. French composer Francis Poulenc changed that in 1956 when he wrote "Dialogues des Carmelites."

Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 24,2005 12:45 a.m.

Soweto Gospel Choir sings for IU The Soweto Gospel Choir will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the IU Auditorium. Described as an awe-inspiring vocal ensemble, the choir performs tribal, traditional and popular African gospel music.

Cocktails the focus of New Orleans museum

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Feb. 22,2005 11:31 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS -- Start with hundreds of antique liquor bottles. Add art deco cocktail shakers, vintage swizzle sticks and Tiki cups. Mix well. Serve inside an 1823 French Quarter town house.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to vote Oscar winners

By Alyson Brodsy and Beth Harris · Tuesday, Feb. 22,2005 11:30 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Keith David popped in a DVD of "Vera Drake" and settled into the comfort of his pillow-strewn brown sofa. The veteran actor had decisions to make -- lots of them -- that would affect careers and coffers alike. David is a new member of one of the world's most exclusive voting blocs, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He's deciding for the very first time who gets to go home with an Oscar Sunday.

Michael Jackson returns to court after week of absence

By Alyson Brodsy and Tim Molloy · Tuesday, Feb. 22,2005 11:29 p.m.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- Michael Jackson returned to court Tuesday after a week's delay, and the judge assured prospective jurors that the singer really had been ill and there was no plot to put off his child molestation trial.

Soaring through the sky in Aussie land

By Alyson Brodsy and Mallory Zalkin · Monday, Feb. 21,2005 11:41 p.m.

After a 22-hour flight, I arrived in Sydney and spent one week in Australia on orientation for my study abroad program. During this time, I met a variety of people and was introduced to various aspects of the Australian culture. The program put us up in a beautiful hotel on Bondi Beach, which is the most famous beach in Australia. Surprisingly, the beach is not commercialized, which adds to its laid-back charm.

1960s teen idol Sandra Dee passes away Sunday at age 62

By Alyson Brodsy and Bob Thomas · Monday, Feb. 21,2005 11:39 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Actress Sandra Dee, the blond beauty who attracted a large teen audience in the 1960s with films such as "Gidget" and "Tammy and the Doctor" and had a headlined marriage to pop singer Bobby Darin, died Sunday at age 62. Dee died Sunday morning at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., said Cynthia Mead, nursing supervisor. She died of complications from kidney disease after nearly two weeks in the hospital, said Steve Blauner, a longtime family friend who represents Darin's estate.

Teaching the culture of dance

Sunday, Feb. 20,2005 11:15 p.m.

The IU African American Dance Company held its eighth annual Dance Workshop Friday and Saturday at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

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