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Bazaar showcases homemade gifts

By Katie Killebrew · Monday, Nov. 11,2002 11:50 p.m.

Halloween has come and gone. Thanksgiving will be looked over. So come the end of November, that leaves one month, one day until Hanukkah starts and twenty-five days until Christmas. This does not leave much time to go out and buy presents for families and friends.

'Cubic Zirconia' disappoints

By Alyson Brodsy and Brandon Morley · Monday, Nov. 11,2002 6:07 p.m.

"Cubic Zirconia" opened at 10 p.m. Thursday at the Bloomington Playwright's Project following the mainstage show "Kate Crackernuts." Written by Keith Tadrowski and created through the Chicago Dramatists Workshop, the show is satirical in its depiction of what goes on in dysfunctional homes where husbands are physically and emotionally abusive, and the wives are lushes.

Slow beginning hinders 'Wells'

By Rebekah Rankin · Monday, Nov. 11,2002 6:06 p.m.

Trelawny of the 'Wells'" is a play worth seeing, but only if you can make it through the first act. I sat bored stiff through act one, wondering what I had gotten myself into. With no apparent plot until act two, and a complete lack of comedic relief from the bland dialogue, I began to wonder, "So what's the point?" But like I said, if you can make it through the first act, it's worth seeing.

'Liaisons' full of intrigue

By Jane Charney · Monday, Nov. 11,2002 6:03 p.m.

The decadent society of the late 1780's could not be better portrayed than in Christopher Hampton's "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." The play, based on the novel by Choderlos de Laclos, premiered at the John Waldron Arts Center Friday. It is a story of intrigue, jealousy and, most of all, the constant search for pleasure.

Whale has new home

By Alyson Brodsy and Doug Mellgren · Friday, Nov. 8,2002 12:04 a.m.

HALSA, Norway — After a playful, 90-minute swim Thursday, Keiko the killer whale arrived at his new winter home in a remote Norwegian bay that his trainers hope will attract more wildlife and fewer people.

Local potter sells wares

By Katie Killebrew and Kent Burns · Thursday, Nov. 7,2002 12:46 a.m.

A beautiful stoneware dish, delicately painted by a local Bloomington artist, stood out in a sea of clay works Friday to an eager consumer who stood in line to buy it.

Ryder found guilty on 2 of 3 counts

By Linda Deustch · Thursday, Nov. 7,2002 12:37 a.m.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Actress Winona Ryder was convicted Wednesday of stealing $5,500 worth of high-fashion merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue last year.

Personalized Pottery

By Jane Charney · Thursday, Nov. 7,2002 12:31 a.m.

It's a kingdom of light and bright colors. The atmosphere gets the creative juices flowing, and the end result -- a personalized vase, plate or picture frame -- breathes with the spirit of The Latest Glaze. Bill and Mary Jo Benedict wanted to try something new and different. She has been a first and second grade teacher for the past 26 years. He worked with adults with disabilities for 25 years. The result of their joint venture are two locations of The Latest Glaze, a paint-your-own-pottery studio that gives young and old, IU students and not, the opportunity to paint various pieces of pottery as gifts or just because.

Thousands mourn DJ Jam Master Jay

By Brett Martel and Michael Weissenstein · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:20 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, his killer still at large six days after he was shot in his recording studio, was mourned at his funeral Tuesday as "the embodiment of hip-hop." A fleet of white stretch limousines was parked outside the Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in Queens, the borough where the rapper, whose real name was Jason Mizell, first met up with his bandmates, Joseph "Run" Simmons and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels. "Jam Master Jay was not a thug," McDaniels told the overflow crowd inside the church.

Sharon Osbourne rethinks MTV show

By Brett Martel and David Baulder · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:20 p.m.

NEW YORK -- If she had to do it over again, Sharon Osbourne says she wouldn't have invited MTV's cameras into her home. At least, that's what the cancer-stricken matriarch of television's favorite dysfunctional family told ABC's Barbara Walters when she talked to her earlier this fall. Osbourne said, in an interview to air on a special "20/20'' edition Wednesday, that she's calling it quits after an upcoming, 10-episode season is through. "We can't do it anymore," she said.

Simple symphonies are stressful

By Lee Ann Chan · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:14 p.m.

While many of us are cracking the books for history, biology or business exams, the students in the music school are preparing for their big recitals. The amount of rehearsal time and effort they put into their recitals is immeasurable. Almost any student can perform a recital, but it must be done with the approval of the major professor. Most students are required to do a recital in both their junior and senior year for the undergraduate degree in music, but they must first pass a recital "hearing" where teachers from their department listen to the song excerpts for the recital.

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New Potter films debuts

By Ed Johnson · Monday, Nov. 4,2002 11:58 p.m.

LONDON -- Dressed in wizards' hats and witches' robes, hundreds of screaming fans greeted the stars of the new Harry Potter movie at its glitzy world premiere Sunday in London. "Daniel, Daniel, Daniel," chanted a crowd of teenage girls, as Daniel Radcliffe, the young actor who plays the boy wizard, arrived for the screening of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."

New Potter film debuts

By Brett Martel and Ed Johnson · Sunday, Nov. 3,2002 11:53 p.m.

LONDON -- Dressed in wizards' hats and witches' robes, hundreds of screaming fans greeted the stars of the new Harry Potter movie at its glitzy world premiere Sunday in London. "Daniel, Daniel, Daniel,'' chanted a crowd of teenage girls, as Daniel Radcliffe, the young actor who plays the boy wizard, arrived for the screening of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.'' "It is really strange, but very exciting,'' Radcliffe said of the enthusiasm that greeted him upon his arrival at the Odeon cinema in London's Leicester Square.

Love and politics in 'The Translator'

By Jane Charney · Sunday, Nov. 3,2002 11:53 p.m.

Is she translating his poetry, or is he translating her soul? The main heroine of John Crowley's latest novel "The Translator" ponders the question in the course of the book. Chrysta "Kit" Malone's life has been full of changes -her father works on the 1960s version of computer security and moves a lot to accommodate her job. In 1961, Kit Malone, a contributor to a national anthology of young people's poetry, shakes hands with John F. Kennedy at a ceremony honoring the book's publication; the promise in her life seems even fresher than his own.

Cult horror classic shows creative gore

By Roman Bailey · Sunday, Nov. 3,2002 11:51 p.m.

Yes, there are Italian horror films. There are even good ones. On Halloween, the biweekly Italian Cinema series continued with "Suspiria," a cult classic which somehow combines creative gore with genuine art film qualities. The film series plays every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. in Ballantine Hall, room 330. Jessica Harper stars as Susy Banyon, a young American ballerina who enrolls in a famous dance academy in Germany. Almost as soon as she steps off the plane she becomes tangled in a conspiracy of bizarre murders and disappearances.

Polaris Project blasts off

By Adam Sedia · Sunday, Nov. 3,2002 11:50 p.m.

Saturday at Auer Hall saw the commencement of a program dedicated to presenting an exciting new way of looking at music. It is called the Polaris Project. Its goal is to combine music with other forms of artistic expression to create opportunities for interaction between media. Even in concerts that do not employ media other than music (like this Saturday's), a relation between the pieces is presented. And the very first program consisted of two very different pieces put together in a very unique manner.

'Potpourri' a rousing success

By Brett Martel and Jonathon Sanders · Sunday, Nov. 3,2002 11:49 p.m.

Friday night started out with a taste of soul and r&b. Then I was treated to a great interpretive dance performance in the African tradition. To top everything off, I was then taken to church, as I heard some great choral and southern gospel music. I got to hear all of this in two and a half hours, as the African American Arts Institute put on their annual Potpourri of Arts Friday night at the Buskirk Chumley Theatre. The evening got off to a great start, as the IU Soul Revue took the stage to thundering applause.

Jam Master Jay dies in NY shooting

By Amy Westfeldt · Friday, Nov. 1,2002 12:09 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Jam Master Jay, a founding member of the pioneering rap trio Run DMC, was shot and killed at his recording studio near the New York neighborhood where he grew up, police said.

New play opens in Bloomington

By Liv Cole · Friday, Nov. 1,2002 12:08 a.m.

"It's different this time." This is the message of the Bloomington Playwrights Project's new play opening tonight, "Kate Crackernuts," by New York playwright Sheila Callaghan. The play is innovative theater at its best and is filled with poetic prose and a magical pulse.