New 'Survivor' crowned
NEW YORK -- Tina Wesson got her $1 million, Colby Donaldson is picking out a new motorcycle -- which she's buying for him -- and CBS has 36.4 million reasons to be thankful for "Survivor."
NEW YORK -- Tina Wesson got her $1 million, Colby Donaldson is picking out a new motorcycle -- which she's buying for him -- and CBS has 36.4 million reasons to be thankful for "Survivor."
LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood writers entered their second day without a new contract Thursday as the threat of a strike that could paralyze the movie and TV industry loomed.
The IU campus is full of museums and galleries displaying the work of students, faculty and prominent artists from around the world. All galleries will be open this weekend and welcoming everyone from graduating students to out-of-town visitors. Here's what you will find:
NEW YORK -- The boys of summer are finally slugging, catching and pitching again. The hoopsters and hockey players are gunning for their championships.
Breaking up is hard to do. But the members of the Bloomington band Danagas realized it's time to go their separate ways. The band will play its last show May 3 at Second Story Nightclub, 201 S. College Ave. David Barajas, bass and vocals, said all the band members knew the band's breakup was inevitable. "There was too much thirst in Danagas," Barajas said. "We all wanted to do different things and go different places."
Nineteen events, including Broadway musicals, ballet performances, folk music and an acrobatic show, will entertain IU Auditorium audiences in the 2001-2002 season. The lineup features shows never before seen in Bloomington and the return of popular productions including "Rent" and the magic of David Copperfield, according to a press release.
Local professional musicians are calling all music lovers to join them in a jam session.
The Citizens' Alliance for the Legalization of Marijuana will offer an alternative to Little 500 events this weekend with its fifth annual Calmfest Saturday in Dunn Meadow. The goal of the festival is to unite music, community and social action.
Thousands of students went to the IU Auditorium Wednesday to see rapper Nelly perform. Union Board brought the concert to the student body as part of MTV's Campus Invasion. The sold-out concert featured four other bands that played before Nelly took the stage. "I have been rapping for years and have even released a previous album," said Alley Life, a solo artist who opened for Nelly. "I was on a small local label and it was not very successful, but now I'm on Interscope Records, and this is the new me."
Two rising bands will play at Phi Gamma Delta fraternity's philanthropy event today.
Straight No Chaser will say goodbye to its seniors with a farewell performance today. Ben Cohen, Kyle Coffman, Mark Holloway and Michael Landau will leave the group next month.
Creative writing isn't just a class at IU; it's a way of life for some local authors.
IU is being visited by a man of few words. Internationally recognized as the reformer and rejuvenator of the art of mime, Marcel Marceau will continue to give short lectures and workshops at the Department of Theatre and Drama today.
Although pirates will be invading the University Theatre, there is no cause for alarm -- they are actors in "The Pirates of Penzance," the final production of the 2000-2001 season.
Maya Angelou is the reason I decided to become a journalist. No, I didn't appear on an edition of Oprah's Book Club to become enlightened by the author herself. Actually, Angelou became a part of my life for the exact opposite reason.
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Small mirrors distributed to promote the Johnny Depp film "Blow" have reflected badly on the drug-trafficker tale.
Dozens of people lined up Sunday morning outside the State Rooms in the Indiana Memorial Union, many waiting at least an hour for a chance to rummage through hundreds of LPs and find a few albums -- or a few boxes of albums -- to add to their collections. Student radio station WIUS sold off a large portion of its record archive Sunday to raise money for the Middle Way House. The sale, which took place from noon to 6 p.m., raised just under $2,000 for the women's shelter, station manager Cody Leitholt, a junior, said.
One of today's biggest names in metal will rock Louisville Gardens Saturday. Touring in support of its latest album, Awake, Godsmack brings two platinum-plus albums to a show that promises plenty of angst-ridden rock.
While the rest of the nation set its clocks forward this week, a group of Bloomington professionals are turning Bloomington's clocks back. But they're not dealing in terms of mere hours. The group, led by Cha Cha owner Jeff Green and local lawyer Stan Hirsch, is taking Bloomington's music scene back 33 years by sponsoring a free performance by Roger Salloom at the Waldron Arts Center.
The Matrix, a literary arts group that strives to promote poetry and art in the community, teamed with Bloomington Transit to bring poetry to public transportation. Words on Wheels is a poetry contest that provides the public with a more interesting bus ride and gives poets an opportunity to express themselves.