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Best Food Truck — The Big Cheeze

They may have started out at Purdue, but the Big Cheeze is a Bloomington staple if there ever was one.


Best Dessert — Baked!

When you can’t call your mom and your friends are stressed out, too, you know exactly which late-night sweet shop to call.




Best Pizza — Mother Bear’s Pizza

It’s no secret that Mother Bear’s Pizza offers the best pizza in Bloomington. Mother Bear’s succeeds because it has taken something that everyone loves and perfected it.



A chimp off the old block

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Andy Serkis should be applauded for furthering the world of motion-capture performance as seen in tension-driven "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes."




Our World New World

Bloomington venues satisfy every taste

Despite its small town feel, Bloomington has a lively music and arts scene. Check out this sampling of venues for a variety of acts any time you’re visiting.


Archaeology

Get cultured

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By Kate Thacker kmthacke@indiana.edu If you want to dig into the history of art or the Bloomington community, explore some of IU’s renowned collections.





Lilly

Preserving Lilly LibrarY treasures

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On the sixth floor, in a room that is precisely 68 degrees Fahrenheit with 47 percent humidity, Jim Canary is bent over a book of hours — a type of prayer book — hand-written and illustrated in the 15th century. He cleans two 600-year-old pieces of leather.