The 4-year-old son of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin wasn’t at all alarmed when he was recently bitten by a baby boa constrictor, his mother said.
The co-composer of songs from Walt Disney’s musical hit “Enchanted” has three of the five nominations in the original-song category going into Sunday’s Academy Awards.
The pictures by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet were among four paintings worth $163 million that were stolen from a private museum in a Feb. 10 armed robbery.
Part of Bloomington’s ArtsWeek 2008, “A Call for Peace” will feature performing artists including Tom Roznowski, Scott Russell Sanders and Carolyn Dutton. The event will showcase poems, music, pictures, story-telling in song, readings and visual art.
A college student’s summer usually consists of summer school, internships or working extensive hours at a boring job. This summer, students can add another option to that list.
As March approaches, so does Disabilities Awareness Month in Indiana. The IU Office of Disability Support Services will hold two events in March to increase awareness of disabilities.
Professor Gene Coyle has taught a variety of subjects at IU for the past four years, but his previous job is what sets him apart from the rest of IU’s staff. Before he started teaching, Coyle was a CIA officer living abroad in countries such as Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Brazil, and convincing people to become spies for the U.S. government. Now he will relive his experiences in a speech to students Wednesday.
Armed with mugs and a desire to learn about the coffee market, IU students gathered Monday night in Collins Living-Learning Center to watch the screening of “Black Gold.” “Black Gold” chronicles the crusade of one Ethiopian, Tadesse Meskela, in his quest to liberate fellow Ethiopian coffee farmers from a market that fails to consider the farmer and his living conditions.
The third annual Native Film Series will focus on contemporary Native American life. Rebecca Riall, co-chair of the Native American Graduate Association, said the film series is meant to show students the history and contemporary lives of Native Americans through visual means.
For Denisha Dennis, it had been a rough semester. Her GPA had dropped a bit, and she needed to work hard to get it back up. But as she moved back to campus after break, imagine her surprise when her dorm key didn’t work. It wasn’t an accident. The State University of New York at Old Westbury decided to kick any student with a GPA below 2.0 out of the dorms until they raised their GPA.
Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers’ carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.
The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to civil rights and privacy advocates who oppose the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
Fidel Castro, ailing and 81, announced Tuesday he was resigning as Cuba’s president, ending a half-century of autocratic rule that made him a communist icon and a relentless opponent of U.S. policy around the globe.
On ground haunted by one of the worst atrocities of modern times, President Bush pleaded with the global community Tuesday for decisive action to stop grisly violence in African nations like Kenya and Sudan.
Pakistan’s ruling party conceded defeat to the opposition Tuesday in parliamentary elections that could threaten the rule of President Pervez Musharraf, a key American ally in the war on terror.
INDIANAPOLIS – A majority of lawmakers in the Indiana House have signed a petition showing their support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage – despite a decision by House leaders not to give the proposal a hearing this year.
On Wednesday’s episode of “Conversations,” host Brian Spegele welcomes Bloomington resident and amateur actor Barry Grooms to discuss the importance of Black History Month in a 21st-century context.
Running a cafe was not always the career path Rachael Jones pursued, but now she owns and runs Rachael’s Cafe, located on the southeast corner of Third and Lincoln streets.
If Democrats want to mobilize large numbers of voters, they will have to do one thing that the Republicans have done very well, and that is pick an issue that strikes a nerve with its base. Republicans this year seem to have picked immigration, and the Democrats should respond with hammering away at something that not only excites its base, but also independents.
It’s hard to pass a magazine rack without seeing the pop princess splashed across cover after cover, probably doing something embarrassingly contrary to her once squeaky clean image. But the racks look different lately: Many headlines have a sense of urgency instead of smug amusement.
