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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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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Aug. 4,2004 9:18 p.m.

Musical performance benefits food pantry A charity concert titled "I Love You Mom" will be held from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday for Mother Hubbard's Cupboard at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. Mother Hubbard's Cupboard provides healthy foods and educational material about nutrition for families in need to prevent them from going hungry or being malnourished. Special attention is given to pregnant women in need. The shelter is run by volunteers, many of whom are clients of the program.

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Waldron opens its stage to play by teens in Juvenile Treatment Facility

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Aug. 4,2004 9:16 p.m.

The John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St., will open its doors Saturday to a small group of young men from the Bloomington Juvenile Treatment Facility. For about 45 minutes, the boys will have the opportunity to perform and express their thoughts and opinions to the public through theater, readings and poems in a project titled, "I celebrate, I mourn, I am." The performance will be a combination of efforts by the Bloomington Area Arts Council and the treatment center.

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Local group performs tragic 'Macbeth' in Third Street Park

By Sheeba Madan · Wednesday, Aug. 4,2004 9:14 p.m.

Macbeth," the last of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, will be performed at the Third Street Park over the next two weeks. As the 80th production of the Monroe County Civic Theater, this play is the second and last installment of Shakespeare in the summer series. Set in Scotland, the play traces Macbeth's ambitious rise to power with the collaboration of his wife. Inspired by the three witches' prophecy, Macbeth embarks on a series of murders, including his king, Duncan, while he is asleep. Composed in late 1606 or early 1607, Macbeth engages in a powerful exploration of the psychology and motivations of an ambitious couple who ultimately fail to retain power.

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IU Opera Theatre shines in Giacomo Puccini's 'Tosca'

By Eric Anderson · Sunday, Aug. 1,2004 9:17 p.m.

The IU Opera Theatre has outdone itself. Given all earlier anxiety over acoustics and balance at the IU Auditorium, this weekend's presentation of Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" surpassed expectation. There were challenges, but they seemed to ultimately energize the production. The auditorium's design provides a shell that naturally responds to the orchestra but tucks the singers into a hole onstage, demanding a greater amount of vocal exertion.

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Statue honoring Bob Newhart dedicated in Chicago

By Alyson Brodsy and Tara Burghart · Wednesday, July 28,2004 9:07 p.m.

CHICAGO -- "Hi Bob!" could become a popular phrase on Michigan Avenue. A statue commemorating comedian Bob Newhart's role as Dr. Robert Hartley on "The Bob Newhart Show" was unveiled Tuesday in downtown Chicago near the office building shown in the TV classic's opening credits.

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On a good day, a welcoming garden

By Brittany Terwilliger · Wednesday, July 28,2004 9:07 p.m.

In what is sometimes an overwhelming barrage of different ethnic restaurants on Fourth Street, Puccini's La Dolce Vita provides a soothing return to classical Italian. During the warmer months, thick bushes of hydrangeas engulf the wrought iron gates of the patio, enclosing the tables in what feels more like an Italian garden than a restaurant. Here one feels encouraged to sip on a good pinot grigio and chat with friends.

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Children go 'Into the Woods' with fairy tale farce at BPP

By Jenica Schultz · Wednesday, July 28,2004 9:06 p.m.

For the last three weeks, local children ages nine through 15 have had the opportunity to experience the feeling of performing in a professional show as have been rehearsing from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day in preparation for this weekend's premier of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" at the Bloomington Playwrights Project. "They're here all day. It's actually like a professional company," Artistic Director Richard Perez said. "It's comparable to a professional experience."

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Silk Road Bayrem explores cultures of Central Asia

By Benjames Derrick and Benjamin Derrick · Sunday, July 25,2004 9:28 p.m.

People from all over the country traveled to experience the Silk Road Bayram festival Saturday held by the Azerbaijani American Cultural Education Foundation and other international campus organizations. The festival explored cultures from the countries along the route to the East made famous by Marco Polo. The festival featured film, music, artifacts, food and dance from Silk Road nations.

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Famed pianist visits IU to conduct masterclasses

By Eric Anderson · Sunday, July 25,2004 9:11 p.m.

Since her emergence onto the American classical music scene half a century ago, Madame Alicia de Larrocha has become a giant in the world of piano performance. The artist will hold a series of masterclasses in Auer Hall this week. Hailed by New York critic Jay Nordlinger as "one of the most persistent, indefatigable, and, indeed, peripatetic of performers" of recent times, de Larrocha is making her appearance at the Summer Music Festival at the invitation of IU piano faculty member Edmund Battersby.

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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 21,2004 10:07 p.m.

1-woman show continues tonight Amy Fortoul has added another Bloomington date to her performance of "This IS my BODY." She will perform her autobiographical one woman show about eating disorders, body image and sexuality at 7 p.m. tonight at Loving Heart Center, 111 E. Kirkwood Ave. above Book Corner.

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More classical artists are crossing over to make records in other musical genres

By Alyson Brodsy and Nekesa Mumbi Moody · Wednesday, July 21,2004 10 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Soprano Jo Appleby studied opera for years, won coveted roles in key operas and performed at some of the most revered venues in classical music. Yet this year you'll find her singing a semi-operatic, semi-cheesy version of "Unchained Melody" with four other classically trained singers in the group Amici forever, which bills itself as the "world's first opera band."

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