We Own the Night (R) Grade: C+
Wasted chances
Wasted chances
When Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello play at Assembly Hall on Friday, all eyes will be on the stage. But what about the people gathered to see them? To try to get some insight into what these artists mean to their fans, WEEKEND asked IU community members to name their favorite song by either artist and explain why it's their favorite. The answers were amusing, sad, wistful and hopeful - much like the songs that inspred them. To read all the responses, visit idsnews.com/weekend
A new twist on an old biopic
Mad Elvis
'Lets kill all the lawyers'
Tempers flared at Wednesday night’s Monroe County Public Library board meeting as library trustees and community members sounded off about the possibility of unionizing the library.
Since she was a child, junior Samantha Weiss has wanted to work in a museum. Now, after enrolling in IU’s new undergraduate Arts Administration Program, Weiss was granted the chance to intern next summer at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. “I always had an interest in museums, but wasn’t aware of how to study it in college,” she said.
Come January, Social Security benefits for nearly 50 million Americans are going up 2.3 percent, the smallest increase in four years. It will mean an extra $24 per month in the average check, the government announced Wednesday.
Pope Benedict XVI named 23 new cardinals Wednesday, giving Texas its first “prince” of the Roman Catholic Church in a clear recognition of the growing Latino presence in the U.S. church.
NEW YORK – Wanna be the first to score a copy of the Spice Girls greatest-hits album? You’ll have to go through Victoria’s Secret to get it. The newly reunited British girl group’s CD will be available starting Nov. 13 at Victoria’s Secret stores and on the company’s Web site in the U.S., Capitol Music Group said Tuesday.
A record number of donors was recorded as IU received $268.5 million in private-sector support in 2007. President Michael McRobbie announced IU’s accomplishment Monday. The large sum of gifts from donors and non-governmental research grants reached the third highest level in IU history, according to an IU press release.
News that there will no longer be a print edition of the IU schedule of classes has been met with mixed reactions from staff, faculty and students. From now on, the schedule will only be available on the Registrar’s Web site.
More than a hundred people gathered in Dunn Meadow Wednesday for the new Hutton Honors College cornerstone ceremony, which marks the beginning stages of its construction at the corner of Seventh Street and Woodlawn Avenue.
In every healthy relationship, there are said to be several key elements: trust, honesty and respect. But what happens when all of these things are completely thrown out the window?
NEW YORK – Stephen Colbert has announced his candidacy for president on “The Colbert Report,” tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race.
Musician Matt Gold returned home early Monday morning, exhausted from a short, busy trip to New York.
After I purchased my tickets for this Friday’s Bob Dylan performance at Assembly Hall, I rushed to catch the 6 bus home, where I did the one thing that dominated my mind – watched all four hours of Martin Scorsese’s, “No Direction Home.”
When IU hired Kelvin Sampson in March 2006, it hired a man who brought some baggage to Assembly Hall. Most everyone knows about his teams’ poor graduation rates, as well as the sanctions the NCAA placed on him for impermissible phone calls while at Oklahoma. At first, it was sort of a big deal. Then Sampson pulled the coup of the century by luring Eric Gordon away from Illinois and then followed that up by leading the team into the second round of the tournament. Going into Hoosier Hysteria, asking anyone about the infractions would’ve warranted a response like, “Huh? Eric Gordon? What?”
Al Gore is perhaps the biggest example of what is wrong with modern politics, and the current presidential candidates could learn a lot from him. During his eight years as vice president, he was largely thought of as a bore. He was an intelligent man with an unfortunate knack for putting people to sleep with every speech he gave. Unfortunately, he was so disliked that in 2000 he lost to George W. Bush, one of the most unimpressive candidates we have ever seen. That was Al Gore the politician, the man who followed every safety rule in the political book.
Generally speaking, it’s not wise to repeat bad ideas. Yet President Bush is pushing for Congress to renew his 2001 “No Child Left Behind” law that created universal standards and tests to measure student proficiency in reading and math. Under the law, schools that fall below the government-mandated standards are dubbed failures.