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Artistic creations transcend barriers

By RonNella Moore and Ronni Moore · Wednesday, April 16,2003 12:51 a.m.

A week and a half after its annual spring dance concert, the African-American Dance Company is still dancing and performing. The dancers went to the Stone Belt Center Tuesday afternoon to dance for patients.

Actors unions seek merger

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 16,2003 12:50 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- The leaders of the nation's two largest actors unions are asking their members to approve a merger they say would give them the clout needed to negotiate with major entertainment conglomerates and keep jobs in the United States.

Café offers art, music

By Lindsey Jancek and Lindsay Jancek · Wednesday, April 16,2003 12:49 a.m.

Gallery West Espresso is a café, an art gallery and a music venue all in one. The café, located at 702 W. Kirkwood, next to Flora Restaurant, offers both a café-style setting for the coffee-drinkers, plenty of artwork to admire and lots of open space to study or chat with friends.

Around the Arts

Tuesday, April 15,2003 12:34 a.m.

Film festival shows outdoor adventure From scaling buildings in Boulder, Colo., to traversing the East Ridge of Annapurna, from breaking down barriers of language and custom in the Karakoram, to a young disabled athlete raising the limits of human achievement on the ski slopes, mountain adventure has many avenues, and this year's Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tours captures them all in Bloomington at 7 p.m. today, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave.

'Anger Management' climbs to box office top

By David Germain · Tuesday, April 15,2003 12:32 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- "Anger Management" bullied its way to the No. 1 spot with a whopping $44.5 million box office in its debut weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Road tripping, American style

By Jane Charney · Monday, April 14,2003 1:43 a.m.

When Eric Saperston graduated from San Diego State University, he did not want to end up in a boring office job. He took a job as a ski instructor in Aspen when he wasn't following the Grateful Dead. But that's not why he'll be speaking at 7 p.m. tonight at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. The main attraction of the event is Saperston's film, "The Journey," which documents a cross-country road trip and the people he met along the way.

Looters steal ancient artifacts

By Alyson Brodsy and Hamza Hendawi · Monday, April 14,2003 12:17 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The copper head of an Akkadian king, four millennia old. Gone. Golden bowls and colossal statues. Gone. Ancient manuscripts and bejeweled lyres. All gone.

Lesbian artists raise money

By Joelle Petrus · Monday, April 14,2003 12:16 a.m.

Emcee Leslie Leasure said into the microphone, "Hi, I'm Leslie, and I'm a lesbian."

Mr. Morley goes to Chicago: Part II

By Alyson Brodsy and Brandon Morley · Friday, April 11,2003 5:35 p.m.

The last drop-off point of the morning was at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Chicago next to the Ralph Lauren store. The majority of day-trippers got off here with the reminder that at 8:45 p.m.

Star-crossed lovers meet at the MAC tonight

By Kathleen Quilligan · Friday, April 11,2003 12:33 a.m.

From the back row of the third terrace of the Musical Arts Center, the musicians in the orchestra pit are the size of Barbie dolls.

'Crystal Method' plays Alumni Hall

By Ben Warden · Friday, April 11,2003 12:32 a.m.

The Union Board's instructions for Fusion 2.0 are clear: get your glow sticks ready IU because "The Crystal Method" is coming. Building on the success of last year's Fusion 1.0 concert, Union Board is sponsoring the sequel at 9 p.m. tonight at Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union.

Concert presents ethnic music

By Elise Baker · Friday, April 11,2003 12:31 a.m.

Two Azerbaijani instrumental ensembles will give a free concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in Ballantine Hall Auditorium 013. The musical program will be divided between folk songs and classically composed pieces from the Eurasian region, including arias by the first Azerbaijani musician to compose operas, Uzeyir Hajibeyov. It will also feature selections from two CDs released by the "Mamedov Family Ensemble," one of the groups that will be performing. Supertitles will be provided during the Middle Eastern songs so that audience members will be able to read English translations of the lyrics.

Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 10,2003 1:12 a.m.

JERUSALEM -- Playwright Arthur Miller, known for his works examining the darker sides of American society, will receive the prestigious Jerusalem Prize this year, the city's mayor announced Wednesday.

TV war reporters gain celebrity status

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 10,2003 1:11 a.m.

In the cramped, dimly lit belly of the armored vehicle, Walter Rodgers' eyes seemed to glow through the dark last week as he reported the macabre scene around him on the road to Baghdad: Iraqi corpses strewn all around as rounds from American tanks tore into the sand dunes, blasting stragglers to pieces.

In search of a new meaning

By Jane Charney · Thursday, April 10,2003 12:57 a.m.

Rika Asai's recipe for a final project is simple: combine one instructor, 20 students, five composers and five silent films. The end result is this Saturday's Film and Music Festival.

Mr. Morley goes to Chicago

By Brandon Morley · Wednesday, April 9,2003 1:21 a.m.

About 50 IU students from many walks of academic life including undergrads, grads and international students gathered at the Indiana Memorial Union Circle Drive in the cold last Saturday morning to board a Star of Indiana coach and sally-forth to the Midwest's favorite "Windy City" of Chicago.

Fashion expert visits IU

By Alyson Brodsy and Patrice Worthy · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:58 a.m.

Out of the 80 or so protesters who arrived in attempts to disrupt the commemoration of an Abraham Lincoln statue in Richmond, Va., I wonder: How many actually fought in the Civil War? The statue is intended to recognize Lincoln's trip to the once-confederate state in 1865, at the beginning of reconstruction. Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans have decried the statue as honoring an invader rather than a friend. To those people, we say, "Get over it."

Surrealist's property to be auctioned

By Alyson Brodsy and Angela Doland · Tuesday, April 8,2003 12:28 a.m.

PARIS -- Writer Andre Breton, founder of the surrealist movement, spent a lifetime filling his apartment with trinkets and treasures -- from butterflies on stickpins to tribal masks to paintings by Magritte and Miro. Breton's wife, Elisa, lovingly preserved the small apartment in the lively Pigalle neighborhood of Paris, clutter intact, for decades after he died in 1966.

Epic works win Pulitzer Prizes

By Alyson Brodsy and Hillel Italie · Tuesday, April 8,2003 12:27 a.m.

NEW YORK -- "Master of the Senate," Robert Caro's epic third volume of his Lyndon Johnson series, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography Monday. The fiction prize went to Jeffrey Eugenides for "Middlesex," a story of sexual and ethnic identity. Big books prevailed in the arts. Caro's work runs 1,100 pages, Eugenides' more than 500 pages and the winner for history, Rick Atkinson's "An Army at Dawn," is just over 700 pages. Reaching Atkinson, whose book is the first of a planned World War II trilogy, proved especially challenging.

NBC's David Bloom dies covering the war in Iraq

By Alyson Brodsy and David Bauder · Monday, April 7,2003 1:30 a.m.

NEW YORK -- NBC News correspondent David Bloom, one of the network's most prominent young stars and a near constant television presence reporting from the Iraqi desert, died Sunday from an apparent blood clot, the network said. The 39-year-old co-anchor of the weekend "Today" show was about 25 miles south of Baghdad and packing gear early in the morning when he suddenly collapsed.

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