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Thursday, April 29,2004 12:48 a.m.

Group combines sign language with music The IU School of Speech and Hearing will host "Rathskellar," at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Tickets are available at the Sunrise Box Office, located at 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. or by calling 323-3020.

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Hoochie gear,white Nikes

By Patrice Worthy and Patricia Worthy · Thursday, April 29,2004 12:45 a.m.

School is almost out and everyone is anticipating the summer weather. I, for one, can't wait. I love hot weather, though I do not like what comes with the hot weather, like mosquitoes and having to take a shower three times a day. I appreciate summer fashion, or the lack thereof.

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Disability group holds film festival

By Jennifer Gunnels · Thursday, April 29,2004 12:43 a.m.

The City of Bloomington's Council for Community Accessibility is hosting the Accessibility Awareness Film Festival at 4 p.m. today in the Monroe County Public Library Auditorium, 303 E. Kirkwood Ave. The festival will feature two films -- "Butterflies Are Free" and "Wait Until Dark." The festival is free and open to the public and viewers can come to watch one or both films.

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IU students show 'Street Smarts'

By Lori Snow · Wednesday, April 28,2004 12:29 a.m.

Many college students make extra money by working part time between classes, but IU students Daniel Brewer and Ashley Grogg took more of a gamble and played against each other for extra cash on the syndicated reality game show "Street Smarts."

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All about Greece

By Julia Balnford and Julia Blanford · Wednesday, April 28,2004 12:28 a.m.

Ah, sun, sand and great food. How I miss you already. In Europe, every country practically shuts down during Holy Week, and everyone goes on vacation. While most students backpacked around Italy, I decided to venture out and head to Greece with my sister from the States in tow. It's hard to see everything in the span of a week, but we decided to go beyond the traditional Greek tour and visit some exotic locations. The trip began on the island of Crete, where we got our first taste of Greek life.

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Museum exhibit highlights changes in housekeeping

By Jorie Slodki · Tuesday, April 27,2004 12:35 a.m.

An antique electric washer comes with a hand-cranked wringer for squeezing the last drop of water out of wet clothes. The iron is gasoline powered. Clothes dry on lines outside and even freeze in the winter. Such sights were commonplace during the Great Depression and World War II, but today these items can only be found in dusty basement corners and on display in museums.

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IU Auditorium announces line-up

By Jenica Schultz · Tuesday, April 27,2004 12:20 a.m.

The IU Auditorium will host a variety of Broadway hits next year according to the schedule it released Friday for its 2004-2005 season. Students and IU Auditorium subscribers will not only have the opportunity to see modern sensations like "Contact," the musical version of "The Full Monty," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Les Miserables," but can also watch musicals that have become Broadway classics -- "42nd Street," "Oklahoma!," "Smokey Joe's Café" and "Crazy for You."

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BPP pulls 'all-nighter'

By Andrew Welfe and Andrew Welfle · Monday, April 26,2004 2:33 a.m.

It was an idea that shouldn't have worked, but it did. The third annual Performathon fund-raiser at the Bloomington Playwrights Project continued from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Saturday. Advertised as "24 hours of non-stop Entertainment," it is an idea that Richard Perez, artistic director of the BPP, picked up in New York, where he lived as an actor. "In my mind, it was a good idea, but it never got off the ground. They couldn't do it there," Perez said. But what clashed with the New York state of mind operated flawlessly in Bloomington. Perez and the BPP work to recruit talent that has previously worked with the organization or new talent and give them a timeslot within the 24 hours.

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Phi Beta Sigma steps up

By Melanie Sims · Monday, April 26,2004 12:11 a.m.

A guy in a gorilla costume stomped around backstage at the IU Auditorium. And he had less than 30 minutes before he and the rest of his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers hit center stage at the second annual Lil' 5 Step Down Saturday.

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Runcible Spoon serves up open mic poetry series

By Jennifer Griffin · Friday, April 23,2004 2:15 a.m.

Without Edward Lear, the Runcible spoon would never have become famous. Regen Ton, an owner of the Runcible Spoon restaurant in Bloomington, said Lear, a British poet and painter, is credited as the first to coin the term. The term finally gave a name to the sharp-edged fork with three broad, curved prongs in the owl and pussycat story Regen said. Without Lear, the Runcible Spoon, located at 412 E. Sixth St., and the poetry series it hosts might never have existed.

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Holocaust museum raising money after fire

By Alyson Brodsy and Deanna Wrenn · Friday, April 23,2004 12:32 a.m.

In the five months since a Holocaust museum in Indiana was burned to the ground in an arson, museum officials say they have raised about half the money they need to start rebuilding. Mary Wright, education director for the CANDLES Holocaust Museum in Terre Haute said Thursday the total rebuilding cost was estimated at $500,000.

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Soul comes to Buskirk-Chumley

By RonNella Moore · Friday, April 23,2004 12:30 a.m.

The Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center booms every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon with the sounds of traditional and contemporary R&B music. Upstairs, the African American Dance Company immediately recognizes the music, and some begin to dance to the beat of the bass.

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'No Logo' holds provocative message

By Britany Ausmus and Brittany Ausmus · Friday, April 23,2004 12:29 a.m.

The fact that we live in a branded world is undeniable; everywhere we turn we see ads for Pepsi, Levi's and any other brand which you can possibly think. Hell, even IU is a brand, with Indiana sweatshirts dotting our campus, courtesy of Steve and Barry's.

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Toby Keith sweeps awards

By Alyson Brodsy and John Gerome · Friday, April 23,2004 12:27 a.m.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. --Toby Keith took home three awards Wednesday in Country Music Television's Flameworthy Video Music Awards show, including video of the year for his patriotic song "American Soldier."

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Country Runway

By Patrice Worthy and Patricia Worthy · Thursday, April 22,2004 1:59 a.m.

Saturday night at the "Chicken Ranch," a crowd of about 100 people saw the only student runway show this semester. Jesse Deckard, a senior majoring in fashion design through the Individualized Major Program, said goodbye to IU with style. In a rustic setting on the outskirts of Bloomington, friends and family gathered under a white tent to see Deckard's final project, "Because I'm a woman." Before the show started, all of the guests received a free glass of wine. The speculation was present on everyone's face as they looked at the white 50-foot runway bearing the collection name "Esseja Creations." The event was complete with flowers on each table, a cash bar and a decorated runway. Anticipation was hard to contain as old classmates returned to Bloomington to see the show everyone had been talking about.

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Playwright Mark Medoff and his muse get primitive on Broadway

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Kennedy · Thursday, April 22,2004 1:55 a.m.

NEW YORK -- When playwright Mark Medoff first met actress Phyllis Frelich, there was no sign she would soon become his muse. The two ran into each other in 1977 during a writers' workshop at the University of Rhode Island. She was an actress with the National Theatre of the Deaf; he was a hot off-Broadway playwright. It took only 20 minutes before Medoff wanted to write a play for her.

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East meets West at Honolulu Academy of Arts exhibit

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 22,2004 1:54 a.m.

HONOLULU -- East and West cross, clash and meld into cityscapes, landscapes, portraits and nudes in an exhibit of works by European masters purchased a century ago by Japanese industrialists and rarely seen outside Japan. "Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and the Modern Era," an exhibit of French and Japanese paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is on view at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

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A bag for all occasions

By Patrice Worthy and Patricia Worthy · Thursday, April 22,2004 1:49 a.m.

While flipping through my April issue of Vogue, I stumbled across a letter to the editor about one of the most important accessories a woman can have, the handbag. The writer, Jessica Scicchitano, said she never understood the rule of fashion for having one must-have handbag per season. I must say, I completely agree, I have never had one bag for one season. I know there are must-have bags, but one bag -- that is crazy.

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Exhibit blends Egyptian, Greek artistic traditions

By Lyssa Rebholz · Wednesday, April 21,2004 1:46 a.m.

Walking in, senior Afriza Mohd feels a bit intimidated by the face of Alexander the Great, whose statue looms overhead. She gasps at the Egyptian mummy lying in the center of a brightly-lit room. But she smiles at the showcase of beaded jewelry, consisting of coiled-snake rings, pendant earrings and beaded necklaces.

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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 21,2004 12:33 a.m.

Tom Brokaw's NBC sign-off day set for Dec. 1 NEW YORK --Tom Brokaw's sign-off date as anchor of NBC's top-rated "Nightly News" has been set -- it's Wednesday, Dec. 1. His successor, Brian Williams, will take over as sole anchor the next day, the network announced Monday. Brokaw, 64, announced two years ago he will end his "Nightly News" run shortly after the 2004 presidential election, giving way to longtime heir appar-ent Williams.

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