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Jazz Fables concert series Who: The Al Cobine Big Band WHEn: 5:30 today Where: Bear’s Place back room Price: $8
The world is not a funny enough place, said Union Board comedy director Anne Kostyo. To remedy this, Union Board will bring together several local and visiting comedy troupes for its annual IU Campus Comedy Festival this weekend.
The musicians in the experimental art rock band Mason Proper have acquired a reputation for being so exuberant on stage that they often injure themselves mid-performance.
There is one word cast members are using to describe Indiana University’s production of the play “Metamorphoses:” unique.
The Mathers Museum of World Cultures is highlighting the work of local quilters with “Bee-Town Quilts: A Common Thread,” which opened Friday, Jan. 25.
Remember Daria? Was it just me or was she the coolest female cartoon character of the late 1990s? I have taken issue with the fact that the darkest, most appealing show on the once-dominant MTV lineup has not been released on DVD.
After hearing that Sony Pictures was making a film about the rise and fall of sisters Mary and Anne Boleyn in King Henry VIII’s court, I knew I had to read the novel first. The film, which opens Feb. 29, is based on Philippa Gregory’s best-selling novel “The Other Boleyn Girl.”
Following the Indiana Senate’s passage Tuesday of Senate Joint Resolution 7, an amendment legally defining marriage as between one man and one woman, IU’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community leaders spoke out.
Some Hoosier fans thought on Saturday that things couldn’t get any worse than losing a home game against an unranked team that was playing without one of its starters. Well, things did get worse. According to a report on the Indianapolis Star’s Web site Wednesday morning, IU’s star freshman Eric Gordon injured his wrist during practice earlier this week.
The walls of the Rosemary P. Miller Gallery in the John Waldron Arts Center will come to life with pictures Friday as the Bloomington Photography Club opens its member exhibition.
Complaints from students living in residence halls, faculty and staff have led Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson to “improvise” exceptions to the campus-wide smoking ban that began Jan. 1, she said.
After more than four years of appeals, graduate student academic appointees will receive dental insurance for the 2008-09 school year.
Any woman who feels unsafe at times or simply wants to learn how to better defend herself will have the opportunity to do so this month. Starting Monday, the IU Police Department will offer a Rape Aggression Defense course that will be taught by certified instructors in the Activity Room at Campus View Apartments.
The Kelley School of Business has teamed with key life science organizations to host a series of four conferences. For the second year in a row, business executives and students alike will have the chance to learn about the impact life sciences have on the business world today.
For the next three years, the Center for Sexual Health Promotion will join forces with Church & Dwight Co., the makers of Trojan brand condoms, to do in-depth research on how people protect themselves from disease.
The “Bridgewaters Family Photographs” exhibit opens Friday at IU’s Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, celebrating the famous local family and its influence on the community.
On Jan. 24, former professor Irving Katz died in New York City. He was 75. But students and faculty won’t forget the impact Katz had on their lives.
I am beautiful. I am strong. I look amazing in spandex. I am … so, so sore.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut a key interest rate for the second time in just more than a week, reducing the federal funds rate by a half point. It signaled that further rate cuts were possible.
Senate Democrats accused Attorney General Michael Mukasey of ducking questions Wednesday on whether waterboarding is torture despite his promise last year to study whether it is illegal.