French jazz group visits IU
Flamenco, Stevie Wonder, Definitely Django Reinhardt, the B-52's and G-Love and the Special Sauce.
Flamenco, Stevie Wonder, Definitely Django Reinhardt, the B-52's and G-Love and the Special Sauce.
Every week mobs of students flock to The Bluebird and Bear's Place to relax and check out the sounds of the latest emerging local bands.
Nine art displays by IU faculty, alumni and Indianapolis artists and music by DJ Ionman from WFHB were featured in "Lounge" at the School of Fine Arts Gallery Friday night. The event highlighted numerous forms of media art, including video, film projection and 3-D art.
Boxcar Books, a not-for-profit bookstore, will hold the opening of children's book illustrator Emma Overman's colorful art exhibit at 8 p.m. tonight. Overman's art exhibit will be on display at the bookstore until Nov. 13. Overman, whose illustrations have appeared in children's books, "The Easter Chicken," "Chumpkin," and "Pickin' Petunia," fills her canvases with whimsical depictions of children and personified creatures."The stuff that's coming looks really neat and colorful," said Erin Tobey, a Boxcar Book volunteer. "It will be nice to have something different up."
What do you get when a young, normal woman; her chatty, emotionally scarred friend; a suspected killer who is a very sweet young man; a sexy, sexist pig; an overly happy flasher and the landlady who is oblivious to it all get together to live in a summer cottage on the beach?
We have all done it. It is one of the hardest tasks on the face the earth: shopping. You can be in the best of moods, and by the time you finish your shopping expedition you feel like you have been put through the ringer. I have been there so many times. I love to shop, but more times than not I begin to ask myself, why?
World renowned artist John Clifford has choreographed movement to music ranging from classical Stravinsky to heavy metal Van Halen. This weekend Clifford brings his talents to the IU Ballet Theater for a retelling of Stravinsky's infamous and morbid one-act "The Rite of Spring." The show is the headliner for the theatre's "Colours of Dance" program beginning at 8 p.m. this Friday and Saturday at the MAC.
Beethoven's string quartets are often held up as examples of his finest work. This set of 17 quartets spans most of Beethoven's career and a wide range of his musical styles. Over the next several months, students at IU will have the rare opportunity to hear them all.
The weather was chilly, but the music and performers were so hot that steam literally rose from their heads. Sponsored by Kilroy's Sports, Chicago's very own 17th Floor and Kentucky's Nappy Roots gave a concert at Pic-a-chic Farms that Clutch from Nappy Roots said was real "nappy."
Sergiu Comissiona, a world-renowned conductor, will lead an IU School of Music orchestra at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Musical Arts Center. Thomas Wieligman, coordinator of instrumental ensembles at the Music School, said that very few schools in the country can call on someone like Comissiona, who has worked with some of the best orchestras in numerous countries.
Going to a fiction and poetry reading can help students escape the reality of the daily grind, and IU's creative writing program offers exactly that. The program fills the need with its year-long series of readings by visiting lecturers and students in the Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. Tonight marks the first of the readings.
NEW YORK -- Maria Shriver will huddle soon with NBC News executives to decide how her job as a correspondent will change now that she's about to become California's first lady.
Two years of working and planning will finally pay off for the Black Film Center and Archive with the launch of two months of programs exploring the history of African Americans in cinema. "We are very excited," said Audrey McCluskey, director of the Black Film Center and Archive. "The exhibit hopes to explore the history of people of African descent in cinematic form."
When he was a college student, Ken Zuckerman discovered traditional Indian music. His life changed forever after that momentous experience. Zuckerman and celebrated musician Anindo Chatterjee will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at Auer Hall.
Windfall Dance School, a not-for-profit organization that accepts participants of any age, is celebrating its 25th year of teaching and performing, but they have not gotten there without a struggle. A passion for dance and determination has helped the school not only continue, but grow in the past 25 years.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Smoking on a fire escape, a railroad brakeman's rule book stuck in his jacket pocket, Jack Kerouac looks as though he just stepped from the pages of "On the Road." The image is seen in a 1953 photograph taken by fellow Beat writer Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg photographed the best minds of the Beat Generation in between bursts of creativity.
LOS ANGELES -- "The School of Rock," with Jack Black playing a rocker posing as a substitute teacher to coach fifth graders for a battle-of-the-bands contest, earned top grades from audiences with a $20.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
LOS ANGELES -- "The School of Rock," with Jack Black playing a rocker posing as a substitute teacher to coach fifth graders for a battle-of-the-bands contest, earned top grades from audiences with a $20.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Jessica Hernandez began her speech at the opening of HablARTE with the sentence, "What I want to talk about is love." Hernandez stood in front of a crowd at Mathers Museum Saturday afternoon, contemplating the results of seven months worth of dedication to her program.
SAN FRANCISCO -- An art collector for most of her life, best-selling author Danielle Steel is opening a gallery of her own, full of the kind of art she loves best.