Community Arts

Pimpin' ain't easy

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, July 27,2005 5:36 p.m.

Winning the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival helped secure newbie writer/director Craig Brewer's "Hustle & Flow" a record-setting $9 million distribution deal with Paramount Classics and MTV Films, which, in turn, will propel the film into popular consciousness and 1,000-plus theaters.

'Rejects' a disturbing treat

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Wednesday, July 27,2005 5:25 p.m.

Despite his rather disappointing directorial debut "House of 1000 Corpses," Rob Zombie's pseudo-sequel "The Devil's Rejects" drops the creepy carnival-esque camp found in its predecessor, replacing it with 70's grind house grit.

5 saxophone players join forces to be a Musical Mafia

By C. Warner Sills and Holly Pilewski · Wednesday, July 27,2005 5:14 p.m.

Out of the dark, murky club, the voices start singing.

Soccer team staying busy in offseason

By Ari Shifron · Monday, July 25,2005 5:18 p.m.

In preparation for a possible three-peat, many of IU's top players have joined The United Soccer's Premier Development League giving four of the league's 53 teams a bit of a Hoosier flavor.

IU Angles

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, July 24,2005 10:26 p.m.

Most informed pundits believed that President Bush would select a well-qualified -- albeit conservative -- woman to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. But the president surprised nearly everyone with his nomination of federal Judge John Roberts Jr. This was a brilliant move on Bush's part, which justly deserves the admiration of political professionals, regardless of their partisan leanings.

House fire site demolished

By David A. Nosko · Sunday, July 24,2005 10:22 p.m.

The charred remains of broken dreams were bulldozed Friday to conclude yet another chapter in the death of three IU students from a house fire more than a year ago.

City bracing for oppressive heat

By David A. Nosko · Sunday, July 24,2005 10:22 p.m.

If you can't take the heat, stay out of Bloomington this week.

Patriot Act provisions renewed in House

By Matt McMullan · Sunday, July 24,2005 10:22 p.m.

Mostly following party lines, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 257-171 to renew the USA Patriot Act last Thursday.

Bloomington cyclists react to historic victory

By Katie Schoenbaechler and Katie Shoenbaechler · Sunday, July 24,2005 10:22 p.m.

Although he was thousands of miles away from Bloomington, the excitement of Lance Armstrong winning a seventh consecutive Tour de France was still very close to home Sunday. For cycling enthusiasts the Tour was a chance to cheer on one of their favorite cyclists and a USA hero.

Lance does it again

By Alyson Brodsy and John Leicester · Sunday, July 24,2005 10:22 p.m.

PARIS -- Lance Armstrong closed out his amazing career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory Sunday -- and did it a little earlier than expected.

My dog is a liberal

By Alyson Brodsy and Lindsay Kerrigan · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:54 p.m.

My dog is a liberal. Cut her some slack. We come from a broken home -- my mother is a Democrat and my father is a Republican. It's really been very hard on us all. Audrey -- a Jack Russell Terrier named for my hero, Audrey Hepburn, is one of those dogs who thinks she's human (kind of like those liberals who think they are gods).

Music, culture of Silk Road dazzles audience

By Lisa Braverman · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:54 p.m.

Imamyar Hasanov shook his head from side to side as he concentrated on the music he was playing. He was not the slightest bit angry -- in fact, he seemed to be passionately agreeing with something that was not being said. His music pierced through the air; it was music that shot chills down your spine.

Hydraulic hopping highlights Bloomington car show

Sunday, July 24,2005 9:44 p.m.

Nearly 400 people braved the oppressive afternoon heat to celebrate cars and all the things they were never intended to do at the First Annual Drop Session Car Show, at Karst Farm Park, near the Monroe County Airport. Just Clownin' Car Club sponsored the event. Participants paid $15 to show off their modifications, paint jobs, sound systems and -- for a rare few -- hydraulic hopping ability. Proceeds went to Support Our Troops, a local groups that uses donations to send care packages to troops overseas.

Deadline often brings busts

By Alyson Brodsy and Jordan Majewski · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:31 p.m.

As the July 31 MLB trade deadline approaches, the annual exchange of minor league prospects for veteran players will commence. For those of you who aren't aware, the teams who are in position to make a run at the postseason trade their young prospects to teams who are out of the race, who in turn trade proven veteran players that can help immediately.

Win could make American a star

By Jordan Majewski · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:29 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Unseeded Robby Ginepri defeated No. 4 seed Taylor Dent on Sunday to win the RCA Tennis Championships, and in the process, emerged as a potentially formidable U.S. threat on the world tennis scene.

Unseeded Ginepri wins RCAs

By Andy Romey · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:28 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Robby Ginepri defeated Taylor Dent 4-6, 6-0, 3-0 Sunday at the RCA Championships final, but Ginepri wasn't alone in handing out the defeat.

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City shows movies under the stars

By Jordan Majewski · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:22 p.m.

For all film fans who have grown tired of watching movies in the frigid darkness of a movie theater, the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department has just the solution in their annual Evening with the Stars Movie Series.

New exhibit highlights fashion changes, meanings

By Katie Peck · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:19 p.m.

Fashion is everywhere -- in television ads, in magazines and newspapers and on the internet. As times change, so does the style of clothing that people wear. What was considered to be "in style" or fashionable in 1930 is no longer what the public wants to wear. Looking back over a century and examining the style trends is an interesting way to look at just how much a culture can change.

Schooling ethnicity

By Alyson Brodsy and Alvin Henry · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:17 p.m.

Was it just me or was President George W. Bush's speech at the Black Expo rather quick, unemotional and impersonal? The African Americans at the event a couple weeks ago deserved much better.