Buskirk on the brink
Mayor John Fernandez has said the Buskirk-Chumley is "more than just a theater." Judging from Saturday evening's Leo Kottke concert, he'd be right. With tickets going at $17 a pop, the virtuoso folk guitarist packed the house.
Mayor John Fernandez has said the Buskirk-Chumley is "more than just a theater." Judging from Saturday evening's Leo Kottke concert, he'd be right. With tickets going at $17 a pop, the virtuoso folk guitarist packed the house.
ANNOUNCER: Greetings ladies and gents to yet another fine column of "The Continuing Misadventures of the Calamitous Critics at Large." Today our special guests are William Butler Whitman, an upper-class bourgeois expatriate from the Solomon Islands, and Andy Sidares, a video store clerk from Peoria, Illinois. The fine specimen of celluloid sewage to be examined is "Big Momma's House," starring Sir Martin Lawrence and a ton o' make up. Andy Sidares: Waz' up?!?
Having trouble waiting out the Olympics for the beginning of the fall TV season? Just wait until next year. Wish all entertainment could be real like "Survivor" and "Big Brother"? Well, you just might get your wish. According to a recent report from Entertainment Weekly, the Writers Guild of America plans to go on strike May 2, 2001. What that means is that next May every writer of film and television screenplays will cease working on current projects and refuse to market anything new.
Like a quick one-two combination from a championship boxer, the recording industry was left stunned the past two weeks. First, The Smashing Pumpkins unleashed its final album on an unsuspecting public Sept. 5, but don't start scouring record stores for Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music. The album was pressed onto two vinyl LPs and three 10-inch singles and given to 25 friends of the band, with the intention of distributing it for free on the Internet.
I can proclaim without hyperbole that "The Sopranos" is man's greatest achievement since fire. Yet once again, the show got robbed at this year's Emmy Awards, winning only one award for best actor in a drama series. It's an outrage!
Students gathered beneath the Sample Gates Tuesday, in protest of what they call the administration's lack of effort to prevent sexual assault on campus, alleging that 400 rapes occur at IU annually.
It took Jimmanee Spears years to see that being sexually abused was not her fault. Spears, a senior from Indianapolis, has since drawn from her experiences to help others. She is an organizer on the Take Back the Night planning committee. Take Back the Night, which kicks off 7 p.m. today with a candlelight vigil at Showalter Fountain, is an annual rally and march to fight rape and sexual abuse. There is also a speak-out, during which anyone can get up in front of a crowd and talk.
Wyclef Jean, the former Fugee bassist turned solo rapper and Grammy-winning producer, will be coming to campus in October.
The Earth Liberation Front, an environmental activist group, claimed responsibility Sept. 9 for the fire set at the Monroe County Republican Headquarters. In a statement released Monday, the organization said it set the fire in protest of Interstate 69. "I-69 is just one example of the willingness of the rich to bleed the Earth and the working class to fulfill their money lust," according its statement. Monroe County Republican Chairman Pat Salzmann said she was somewhat surprised by ELF's statement.
With the national spotlight fading on from, president Myles Brand wants to make sure everyone knows he is focusing on the future instead of the past and academics instead of athletics.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries stranglehold on the world's oil supply has sent waves of distress across the world, reminiscent of those from the oil crisis in 1979.
All four men have 'interim' in front of their titles, but the coaching staff of the men's basketball team is now complete.
The board of trustees used an intimate knowledge of state laws to narrowly avoid breaking Indiana's Open Door laws Sept. 9, one day before President Myles Brand announced basketball coach Bob Knight's release.
All week, the University Information Technology Services is "Making IT Happen!"
A sold-out Comedy Caravan show on a Monday night at Bear's Place, 1316 E. 3rd St., is not an unusual phenomenon.Audience members usually have to reserve tickets for the occasion early in the day, and evening finds them crowded into the small back room of the pizza parlor, sipping "Hairy Bears" (a mixed drink involving much whiskey and some fruit juice) and draft beer.
From Sundance, Cannes, Berlin and Venice to Montreal, Toronto and New York, various films are vying for the attention of distributors and critics.
"Big Red Reg 2000," a comprehensive campus-wide voter registration program, is looking for new registrants and volunteers alike. The program, in its third year, was instituted by the Indiana Public Interest Research Group.
At its first meeting of the semester Tuesday, Bloomington Faculty Council passed resolutions making a statement about the Sept. 11 firing of former head basketball coach Bob Knight and reasserting the importance of civility among members of the University community.