Community Arts

Hoosiers look for Big Ten win on road trip

By Kevin Dwire · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:17 a.m.

After losing a nail-biting, 3-2 game against Michigan State Saturday, the IU women's softball team will hit the road looking for its first conference victory of the season Friday against Illinois. The Hoosiers' first stop will be today, when they travel to Kentucky to face Louisville in a nonconference game before continuing Big Ten play. The Cardinals have won their last six games, including back-to-back shutouts of Mississippi State University during which the team managed to put up 22 runs on 23 hits.

SAVED BY A SHAVE

By Molly Kravitz · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:06 a.m.

Shortly before sophomore Phil McLaughlin's high school graduation, he decided to stop cutting his hair. For nearly two years, he managed to grow his locks into an afro. However, after an absence of haircuts, McLaughlin bid farewell to the hair March 17, a date that marked St. Baldrick's Day, when many like McLaughlin entered the event with a full mane of hair and left with a clean, shaven head.

Pulitzer prize awarded to poet laureate, screenwriter

By Alyson Brodsy and Hillel Italie · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:05 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Academy Award-winning screenplay writer John Patrick Shanley and the nation's poet laureate, Ted Kooser, were among the winners Monday of Pulitzer Prizes in the arts. Marilynne Robinson received the fiction award for "Gilead," her first novel in more than 20 years.

Ishle Yi Park gives exacting performance

By Joelle Petrus · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:03 a.m.

Ishle Yi Park knows how to pause. She knows how to enunciate her words and tap into the flow of her own language. Her style is reminiscent of other New York poets and slam fiends, garnished by theatrics and a lot of hand motions. This style would be expected of a Def Poetry Jam poet, and maybe of the Poet Laureate of Queens, N.Y. Park is both.

Widespread support for Panic

By Laura Cooper · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:57 a.m.

The colorful masses descended upon IU early Sunday morning as a steady flow of tie-dye clad "Spreadeads" (as Widespread fans are sometimes called) flocked to the IMU parking lot in their political bumper sticker bearing vans to start the day's pre-show festivities. Trunks opened, beer coolers and grills appeared, and the muffled sounds of bootlegged Widespread Panic songs could be heard floating from various cars; slowly, the aroma of grilled veggies, and bellows of "Beer!

Small Wonder

By Felipe Maya · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:50 a.m.

Walking through the wooden doors of Kilroy's on Kirkwood, vintage rock music mixes with waves of loud voices. The dark, chill atmosphere and assortment of liquor make it a hit on the Bloomington bar scene, a place everyone wants to get into.

21st century relevancy

By John Barnett · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:47 a.m.

Week before last, just in time to coincide with the release of the new Beck album, a friend of mine commented to me as I fawned over Beck's latest material that there had been no truly great records released since the turn of the century. Postulating that the last purely classic record to be released was Radiohead's 1997 opus, OK Computer, he went on to say that he felt bands and artists today weren't even attempting to make great records, and that the music industry would soon violently implode because of this fact.

Phelps begins summer post-trials training

By Alyson Brodsy and Steve Herman · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:47 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Michael Phelps began his post-trials training Tuesday with a series of easy practice swims while his coach considered which events he would enter in this summer's world championships in Montreal.

TiVo: greatest invention since the telephone

By Adam Aasen · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:46 a.m.

Baseball season started off this week with the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. As I watched the sport, I realized something -- I really need TiVo.

RecSports cancels faculty exercise sessions at HPER

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:45 a.m.

• Because of low participation, the Division of Recreational Sports is canceling the Faculty/Staff Group Exercise sessions at 6:30 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

Social work class hopes to educate public about poverty

By -Jenny Kobiela · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:44 a.m.

Most courses at IU require students to do work outside of class. Most of that work simply changes students' grades. The work outside of Jeff McKinney's class, however, attempts to change communities. McKinney, a doctoral student in higher education, teaches a class called "Understanding Diversity" through the IU School of Social Work.

33-year-old club sport not just for the 'birds'

By Andrew Smith and Drew Smith · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:43 a.m.

The player's movement is fierce and passionate. A rapid amount of scoring ensues. A ball zings past with the intent to score. This is a sport similar to many others, yet most many people know little about it.

Allen, Costner elevate 'Anger'

By Miranda Higdon · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:42 a.m.

If it weren't for an uneven plot, "The Upside of Anger" would be an excellent film. Still, it remains a good movie with above average acting, especially by co-stars Kevin Costner and Joan Allen. They are believable together as drinking buddies-turned-lovers -- two extremes of personality who meet to offer each other a taste of something different.

'Brothels' proves raw and moving

By Mary Hansell · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:41 a.m.

With all these fine films to go see currently, like "Beauty Shop" and "Constantine," it can be quite a difficult task to choose a film. Which is why it can be even more strenuous when they throw a documentary into the mix. Yet, it must be a problem in Bloomington because apparently no one chose the documentary over "The Pacifier" Friday night at 10 p.m.

IU tries to end 3-game skid against Indiana State at home

By Andrew Shaffer · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:41 a.m.

Wednesday's match-up between IU and Indiana State at Sembower Field will not only be a duel between players, but between coaches as well. In 21 seasons with IU, head coach Bob Morgan has accumulated 1,059 career wins, putting him No. 11 among the winningest active coaches in Division I baseball. In 30 seasons as ISU head coach, Bob Warn has accumulated 1,032 victories putting him No. 13 on the same list.

Old school style, new school savagery

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:39 a.m.

Booze, broads and bullets -- this is the world of Frank Miller's "Sin City," a series of celebrated graphic novels now translated to celluloid by Miller and writer/director/producer/cinematographer/editor/composer Robert Rodriguez.

Dick's opening in Bloomington

By John Rodgers · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:39 a.m.

With April weather sparking spring outdoor activities, IU students will have a new option for fulfilling their sporting needs when Dick's Sporting Goods opens today. Dick's, located in the College Mall, offers 50,000 square feet of sports equipment, apparel and footwear and seeks to outfit IU students and Bloomington residents with all of the sporting equipment they need.

Don't bother digging up 'Gold'

By Nate Gowdy · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:34 a.m.

"National Lampoon's Gold Diggers" is a bad movie. Possibly the stupidest, most boring flick ever made since the beginning of time. Playboy Bunny Nikki Ziering is on the DVD's cover. This implies a crude comedy with at least one-sided sex appeal going for it, but Ziering's part is smaller than her swimsuit. Her bare breasts themselves don't make it worth watching Cal (Will Friedle of "Boy Meets World") and Lenny (Chris Owen, the sex-addicted nerd in "American Pie") drag the plot along the other 98 percent of the time.

'Sunset' has great cast, locations

By Sean Abbott · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:33 a.m.

It is amazing the way this movie snuck past audiences last November. Just like a jewel thief, "After the Sunset" was here and gone before it could even be noticed, and that is almost a crime.

Rent 'Closer' for film, not features

By Rob O'Connor and Robert O'Connor · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:31 a.m.

"Closer" is easily director Mike Nichols' best film since he won an Oscar for "The Graduate." And it is a surprisingly good first feature-length effort by writer Patrick Marber, who also wrote the play that this film is based on. All four of the main actors do a wonderful job. In fact, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen each nabbed a Golden Globe for their work on this film. It is an original love story with tons of lust, betrayal and sex to keep you interested, balanced out by touching dialogue that makes you actually care about the main characters. Overall, this is one of the best films that came out in 2004.