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2 Van Goghs stolen from museum

By Arthur Max · Sunday, Dec. 8,2002 11:01 p.m.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Thieves broke into the Van Gogh Museum and made off with two works by the 19th century master -- less than a week after a multimillion-dollar gem heist from a Dutch diamond exhibition. The value of the oils was not immediately known, but major works by Vincent van Gogh sell for millions of dollars.

5 celebrities set for honor

By Vanessa Palo · Sunday, Dec. 8,2002 11 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Academy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor and Grammy-honored singer Paul Simon were among five stars from the world of performing arts honored Sunday for their career achievements. Joining them at a White House reception before a gala at the nearby Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts were actor James Earl Jones, actress-singer-dancer Chita Rivera and conductor James Levine.

Double feature ends semester for City Lights

By Brandon Morley · Sunday, Dec. 8,2002 10:59 p.m.

A Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall double feature played last Friday night at Ballantine Hall 013 as part of the City Lights Film Series, sponsored by the Department of Communication and Culture. Despite the cold and slush roughly 30 people showed up to watch the 16mm screening fall semester finale of City Lights. The first show was "To Have and Have Not" (1945) which was released by Warner Brothers. It was based on Ernest Hemingway's book of the same title.

Around the arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Dec. 5,2002 11:53 p.m.

'Taken' takes a record audience Irish writer receives honorary knighthood 'Chilli': TLC more than single member

Second boat movie for Cameron

By Alyson Brodsy and Lynn Elber · Thursday, Dec. 5,2002 11:52 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — The story of the ill-fated German warship Bismarck took hold of filmmaker James Cameron as a youngster, when he watched the 1960 British movie "Sink the Bismarck." He saw it again recently and was unimpressed. "Not that great a film. The special effects were terrible," said Cameron, who proved in "Titanic" and "The Abyss" that he knows a thing or two about the subject.

Meryl Streep returns to the big screen with two movies

By David Germain · Wednesday, Dec. 4,2002 11:42 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- It's one thing for the fictional incarnation of a relatively new screenwriter to beat himself up with self-loathing and doubt his own talent.

Guggenheim donation saves the museum

Wednesday, Dec. 4,2002 11:41 p.m.

NEW YORK -- The billionaire who withheld money from charities in his hometown Cleveland has given the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum $12 million, but only after persuading the director to cut spending.

Becoming Marachi

By Jane Charney · Wednesday, Dec. 4,2002 11:30 p.m.

Dressed in black and white, the nine members of Mariachi de la Flor held their stringed instruments tightly but gently as they prepared to perform at Collins Coffeehouse Monday. Some of them have never before sung or played a Mariachi tune -- a rhythmic, lively melody, words that breathe of a culture unknown to most of us.

Around the Arts

Tuesday, Dec. 3,2002 10:31 p.m.

Eminem's former home up for auction, Lacroix to design Air France uniforms, Oasis members held after bar fight.

Operas, symphonies faces woes

By Verena Dobnik · Tuesday, Dec. 3,2002 10:28 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Tenor Placido Domingo, who always packs the house at the Metropolitan Opera, didn't always this fall. The Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera have each dropped plans to produce two operas they had announced for next season. The San Jose Symphony declared bankruptcy last month.

Seven Broadway plays to open soon

By Michael Kuchwara · Sunday, Dec. 1,2002 10:57 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Murderous passion in ancient Greece with the ultimate high-strung wife and mother. Singing vampires in exotic Lower Belabartokovich. A fierce feud between two literary lionesses. Don Quixote tilting again at windmills. All this, and Paul Newman, too. Broadway will be blooming in December, with seven major productions scheduled to open before Christmas, making the month feel more like spring, when the Tony Award deadline usually produces a spate of shows trying to nab nominations.

Paul and Ringo pay tribute to George

By Jane Wardell · Sunday, Dec. 1,2002 10:56 p.m.

LONDON -- Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney reunited Friday night for an emotional musical tribute to the memory of George Harrison on the anniversary of the ex-Beatle's death. With Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker and Harrison's son Dhani, the surviving Beatles shared a night of musical memories with an audience of 5,000 devoted fans at the "Concert For George" at London's Royal Albert Hall. Money raised by the concert is to benefit the Material World Charitable Foundation, which Harrison founded.

A little taste of Tibet

By Adam B. Steer and Adam Steer · Sunday, Dec. 1,2002 10:56 p.m.

Every so often, I get bored with greasy pizza and easily unremarkable sandwiches. I needed something new, something exotic. In my search for a new culinary adventure, I stumbled into the Snow Lion restaurant. Located a few short blocks from campus, Snow Lion is a Tibetan themed restaurant. Once inside the doors, you are greeted with a display case selling various traditional Tibetan knickknacks. My companion and I were quickly shown to our table in our own little corner of the restaurant.

PBS presents Sigmund Freud analysis

By Frazier Moore · Monday, Nov. 25,2002 11:43 p.m.

NEW YORK-- What is it about Sigmund Freud that makes us feel anxious? Is it his bearded, stern countenance? That business with the cocaine? The way he, under the auspices of science, turned a cigar into a phallic symbol? Wouldn't it be a lot more comfortable without Freud in our lives -- where Mom is just Mom, not some taboo love object, and a cigar is always just a cigar?

Clooney says 'Solaris' is a tough acting job

Monday, Nov. 25,2002 11:41 p.m.

NEW YORK -- George Clooney said his latest role in Steven Soderbergh's "Solaris'' has been his toughest acting job to date. But the 41-year-old star is afraid it's his derriere that will get all the attention.

'The Osbounes' enters second season

By Christy Lemire · Monday, Nov. 25,2002 11:39 p.m.

NEW YORK -- "The Osbournes" becomes a reality show in the bleakest sense this season, as Ozzy and the kids cope with matriarch Sharon Osbourne's colon cancer.

Graceland reverses impersonator ban

Monday, Nov. 25,2002 11:38 p.m.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Elvis impersonators can continue swiveling their hips and quivering their lips, after Graceland reversed its earlier decision to sever its support of festivals featuring clones of the King.

'Blue/Orange' opens off-Broadway

By Michael Kuchwara · Monday, Nov. 25,2002 11:34 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Physician, heal thyself. It would help a lot if the two doctors in "Blue/Orange,'' Joe Penhall's frenetic, agitated drama about mental illness and its relationship to racism, did just that: took two tranquilizers and calmed down.

Sean Combs decries world AIDS effort

Monday, Nov. 25,2002 12:06 a.m.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs accused the media of ignoring the severity of the AIDS epidemic before performing at an AIDS-awareness concert Saturday. "I don't think you see enough of this story in your face," an indignant Combs told reporters. "There are millions and millions of people that are dying and a lot of it is ... because it's Africans, it's black people that are dying at this high rate."

Anti-smoking play to debut Saturday

By Dar Cicci · Friday, Nov. 22,2002 12:32 a.m.

When Duncan Teater, a 23-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky, graduated from IU last spring, he had no intention of working for someone else. He lightheartedly describes himself as "totally incompetent with the real world," so instead, he chooses to concentrate on marketing his original one-man play, "Father Psalm," in hopes that he can develop a unique career of his own. Combining his talents in acting, directing and writing, Teater uses his experience in the arts to create original pieces of theater that identify personal issues in society and promote social change.

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