Griffy Lake boat rentals are temporarily suspended because of low water levels in some parts of the lake.
The City of Bloomington partnered with Gengee, LLC — an energy & sustainable building design, consulting and commissioning firm — in August to enhance its green initiatives, starting with city operations efficiency and its Green Building Ordinance.
Dave Tallent, executive chef of Restaurant Tallent, prepares food during Bloomington's fourth annual Chefs' Challenge on Sunday at the Burskirk-Chumley Theater.
I am a huge fan of free food. I don’t know who isn’t. After all, that’s why people waited so long in line during free breadstix day at Pizza X last week. But while everyone was waiting for their stix and sauce, I casually sauntered my way past them to get free food from Fortune Cookies.
Throughout the summer, Bloomington community members have had several meetings to serve as discussions toward reorganization of arts leadership. Artists, gallery owners and university representatives have been among those participating in these discussions. After several months of deliberation, the formation of the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington was formed on Aug. 23.
A proactive community produces change. But without proper opportunities, such transformations won’t happen. The New York Times declared the “Millennial Generation,” those born between 1982 and 2002, the factor in this year’s midterm election. Because of a crippling recession and a small job market, young voters are now in a “toss-up” as party loyalties begin to wane from the left, causing the public to wonder where our allegiances will fall. Pundits claim we will fall in rank with other disgruntled voters, but local GOP leaders have already hindered the chances for this generation to make that difference.
With the release of new unemployment numbers, there has been a raucous clamor about their meaning. Stronger than expected private sector job growth has many pointing to an expanding economy — especially with the news that most of the job losses last month were temporary census workers.
Baron Hill, U.S. Representative for Indiana's 9th District, writes about why satellite voting is pivotal to this fall's election.
Nearly 2,000 power outages occurred today on the east side of Bloomington. The power went out at College Mall at approximately 4:30 p.m. Emergency lights were on throughout the mall but most stores were closed.
There are 1,993 power outages in Monroe County because of a blown transformer, according to Duke Energy’s website, Businesses including the College Mall and residential neighborhoods on the east side of Bloomington are currently affected.
Open to any IU student, Union Board will be holding non-traditional casting for their Fall musical. Auditions will be in the Georgian Room in the Indiana Memorial Union on Sept. 7 and 8 at 8, 9 or 10 p.m. Students should arrive 15 minutes early.
Bloomington Faculty Council will meet for first time during the 2010-11 academic year Tuesday.
Typically when students study abroad, they go to the traditional European countries. Thus, when I first told my friends and family I would be studying abroad in the West African nation of Ghana for the spring semester of 2010, they looked at me stunned and asked either “Why?” or “What will you do there?” To which I replied that I would be a regular college student, taking classes and such.
I’ve never been a big video games fan (Mario aside). So I don’t have much experience in the “realistic violence” games where people gun down enemies and beat up prostitutes. Thus, the “violence in video games leads to bad trends in behavior” argument hasn’t really had an effect on me. Then I discovered how disturbing people’s reaction to media can truly be.
Junior forward Will Bruin was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts against California Friday and No. 5 UCLA Sunday.
Today is Labor Day and with that brings closings around Bloomington.
This weekend, 121 artists brought their work to Bloomington. Artists from every part of the country — from as far as Kissimmee, Fla., and Paso Robles, Calif., — traveled to Fourth Street to display their photography, jewelry and large mosaic farm animals, to name a few.
James Blackmon Jr., a high school freshman guard from Fort Wayne’s Bishop Luer’s High School told Crean on Thursday that he wanted to commit to the Hoosiers.
Moving away from the recent trend of hip-hop groups performing for Union Board’s annual Welcome Week show, the IU Auditorium will treat students to one of indie rock’s most critically acclaimed bands when Vampire Weekend performs today.
James Blackmon Jr., a high school freshman guard from Fort Wayne’s Bishop Luers High School, told Crean on Thursday that he wanted to commit to the IU men's basketball team for 2014.
