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Release of Siegfried & Roy tiger attack video debated

By Alyson Brodsy and Adam Goldman · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:12 a.m.

LAS VEGAS -- The company that produced the Siegfried & Roy magic show said Wednesday that it won't give federal investigators a video of the tiger attack on illusionist Roy Horn because it's protecting the performer's privacy. Feld Entertainment Inc. said it's offered on several occasions to show footage of the October attack to the U.S. Department of Agriculture but the agency has not accepted the invitation.

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Music Video Awards expected to be tamer

By Alyson Brodsy and Nekesa Mumbi Moody · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:11 a.m.

NEW YORK -- In the 21-year history of MTV's Video Music Awards, viewers have been treated to some eye-popping moments -- Prince's bare buttocks, Lil' Kim's sequined pasty, Britney and Madonna's steamy kiss last year. After the firestorm over the MTV-produced Super Bowl halftime show, in which Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Janet Jackson's costume to reveal her bare breast, might we see tamer VMAs when they air Sunday?

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Illinois sues Dave Matthews Band

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:11 a.m.

CHICAGO -- Illinois' attorney general sued Dave Matthews Band Tuesday for allegedly dumping up to 800 pounds of foul-smelling waste from a tour bus into the Chicago River, dousing a tour boat filled with passengers. The lawsuit accuses the band and one of its tour bus drivers, Stefan Wohl, of violating state water pollution and public nuisance laws. It seeks $70,000 in civil penalties.

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Tactual museum offers exhibits for the blind

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:10 a.m.

ATHENS, Greece -- Dimitris Dovas runs his fingers over the face and body of Venus de Milo. "What incredible art!" he exclaims. Dovas might be breaking the cardinal rule of museums, where visitors can look at but not touch the prized exhibits guarded behind ropes or in glass cases. But in an unassuming building on a quiet side street in central Athens, something is different.

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Eating disorder play returns Sunday

By Jenica Schultz · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:10 a.m.

After years of struggling with an eating disorder, IU alumna Amy Fortoul has put her life experiences into a play detailing the highs and lows of her illness and recovery. Fortoul is the writer, director and sole actor in her autobiographical movement and spoken word theater piece "This is My BODY."

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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:09 a.m.

Tibetan monastery displays relics A collection of Buddist relics is coming to the Chamtse Ling Temple, 3655 Snoddy Rd., this weekend. Collected by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Heart Shrine Relic Tour, which features pearl-like deposits often found in the cremation ashes of Buddhist spiritual masters, will be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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Hot air balloons to race through Bloomington sky

By Brittany Terwilliger · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:08 a.m.

If you look up to the sky to find bunches of cheerful orbs drifting slowly, you might be witness to this year's second annual Bloomington Balloon Fiesta. This event, coordinated by balloonist Travis Vencel, Cook Aviation and Bill Oliver of Oliver Winery, takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Monroe County Airport, 972 S. Kirby Rd. Hot air balloon races may be observed throughout the day and night. Launches are at 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday. Pilots from across the country are coming to Bloomington to compete for a prize of $3,000.

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IUAM displays symbolic Malian puppets

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Aug. 27,2004 12:07 a.m.

The puppets of Mali, now halfway around the globe displayed in the IU Art Museum, come in all shapes and sizes. One is a large, wooden animal head, manipulated by a rod from underneath by a puppeteer whose body is concealed. Another is worn on the top of the head of a masquerader. For another, more delicate puppet, the puppeteer can open and close the jaw and twitch the puppet's ears.

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Comedian Al Franken urges New Yorkers to yell

By Alyson Brodsy and Sam Dolnick · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 1:01 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Al Franken wants you to get up out of your chairs, open your windows, stick your heads out and yell ... fuggedaboutdit? Well, yes. In the spirit of Paddy Chayefsky's classic movie monologue from "Network," the liberal comedian Wednesday urged New Yorkers -- and other Americans -- to simultaneously scream the all-purpose local wisecrack at the moment that President Bush accepts the nomination.

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Art theft stirs debate on museum security

By Alyson Brodsy and Doug Mellgren · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 1:01 a.m.

OSLO, Norway -- The brazen daylight theft of Edvard Munch's renowned masterpiece "The Scream" left Norway's police scrambling for clues and stirred a debate across Europe over how to protect art if thieves are willing to use deadly force to take it. Some expressed fears that works of art are in increasing danger from violent raids -- unless, as Norway's deputy culture minister put it, "we lock them in a mountain bunker."

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'Fashination' with life

By Patrice Worthy and Patricia Worthy · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 1 a.m.

I was in New York on 52nd Street preparing to go shopping when it hit me. I had already been shopping a day earlier, so why was I doing it again? I asked myself, "Do I really want fashion to be the death of me?" I had hit my usual spots like Barami, Kenneth Cole and Aerosoles when I realized fashion is work.

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Latino musicians, dancers take to stage

By Maurina Paradise · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 12:57 a.m.

Ethnic music, dance and food will flood Karst Farm Park from 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday when it becomes home to Bloomington's second Latino Summer Festival. The festival was born when two women, Tyler Ferguson, recreation programmer of the Monroe County Parks and Recreation Department, and Maria File-Muriel, program assistant of the Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department, put their heads together after meeting while playing soccer.

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Around The Arts

Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 12:56 a.m.

Buskirk-Chumley holds film festival The 42nd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour makes a stop at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., at 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday. A celebration of independent and experimental film and video, the internationally known film festival screens more than 100 films during six days in March. Select films from the festival then tour college classrooms, auditoriums, art theaters and museums throughout the country.

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A treasure chest of Black film

By Patrice Worthy and Patricia Worthy · Thursday, Aug. 26,2004 12:52 a.m.

The Black Film Center/Archives has been described as a treasure undiscovered at IU. Located on 10th Street inside the Smith Research building, it is a resource for many students researching black film, black history and black culture. Audrey McCluskey, director of the archives, said the center was founded in 1981 to save a dying art form. "It started as an attempt to rescue and pursue black history," McCluskey said. "Old films were being kept in people's garages."

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Texas celebrates clothing collection

By Jamie Stengle · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2004 1:09 a.m.

DENTON, Texas -- From Givenchy and Oscar de la Renta to Balenciaga and Chanel, a dazzling array of haute couture hangs in an unlikely place -- a storage room at the University of North Texas. Rarely seen by the public, the colorful collection of about 15,000 dresses, coats, suits, purses, shoes and more is housed in a climate-controlled room on campus in Scoular Hall and operated as an appointment-only research tool for designers, educators and students.

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"Pledged" interesting, if not accurate

By Brittany Ausmus · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2004 1:06 a.m.

As a member of a sorority, "Pledged: the Secret Life of Sororities" called out to me from its spot on the bookshelf at Borders. It promised an insider's account of a year inside a sorority on the campus of a large Southern university. The insider in this case is Alexandra Robbins, a reporter who poses as a college student and friend of the four girls she chooses to follow. Robbins, with the four willing members, chronicles the ins and outs of daily life in two sorority houses for an academic year.

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Reagans recreate home with antiques

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Aug. 8,2004 9:27 p.m.

ILLIOPOLIS, Ill. -- Politics makes strange bedfellows, which may help explain why it took a lifelong Democrat to show Ronald Reagan that you really can go home again. Jesse Rogers, a 40-year Democratic precinct committeeman from Illiopolis, was the go-to guy when Reagan admirers sought to refurnish a Dixon home the way it was when the president lived there from 1920 to 1923. Rogers age 77, and now retired, ran Rogers Antiques with his wife, Lee, and their seven children, boasts about his reputation in antiques.

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James' death remains mystery

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Aug. 8,2004 9:08 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- An autopsy Saturday failed to determine the cause of death for funk legend Rick James, authorities said. James, 56, died in his sleep Friday at his home near Universal City. The singer was a diabetic and also had a pacemaker. He suffered a stroke in 1998. His three children - daughter Ty and sons Rick Jr. and Tazman said Friday through a spokeswoman that they believe their father died of heart failure.

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