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Fed predicts higher unemployment and inflation in 2008

Central bank anticipates less economic growth

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Faculty/Guest recital What: Guest, faculty and students in the Jacobs School of Music will perform Who: Professor James J. Pellerite (n`ative American flute), Walfrid Kujala (piccolo) and others from the Jacobs School When: 8 p.m. today Where: Auer Concert Hall on the second floor of the Simon Music Center

Stewart to pay $50 million for Emeril franchise

NEW YORK – Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. is bringing in a new celebrity: popular television chef Emeril Lagasse.

What is art? TMZ art history

Looking back over the course of art history, many young people think that there is little to be interested in. We see the wigged out (literally) composers and painters of the past as antique images, their lives uninteresting, their lifestyles out-of-touch and ancient. More often than not, we are taught about their works and how they affected their period and today.

Black theater troupe to perform minstrel show

A minstrel show is usually thought of as an all-white cast dressed in blackface performing as black characters.

Daniels signs Great Lakes Compact bill preventing watershed siphoning

Indianapolis – Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a measure that allows Indiana to join a regional compact intended to prevent water-hungry states from tapping into the Great Lakes Wednesday.

We like Rock Music

If you haven’t yet given a listen to the quirky but stirring sound of England’s British Sea Power, this is the time to start.

Last-word Lounge

Entertainment news from the Weekend staff.

The rise of hip-hop

It’s not easy trying to create the world’s first hip-hop fraternity. Just ask IU sophomores Keane Rowley and Justin Wolverton who, along with sophomore Quinnton Parker, are the founders of the co-ed, multi-ethnic Greek organization Eta Iota Rho – HIP, for short.

Weekend picks the Oscars

Hip Hop you don't stop

IU Hip Hop Congress Elements Gallery showcases principles of the genre

Break dancing

WEEKEND learns the basics of break dancing from a few of IU's most prominent b-boys

It simply sucks

In the past, it seemed really easy for “true” punk fans to bash Simple Plan for being too, well, simple.

Talking turkey

Hookah, Oriental carpets and ornate pottery: No, this isn’t a scene from “Aladdin.” Rather, this “whole new world” is taken directly from Bloomington’s Turkuaz Café, an authentic Turkish restaurant.

Artist weaves life into her work

In a way, local artist Martina Celerin has been an artist all her life. She admits she has been creating things since she was a child, but after her life chose other paths, she found her way back to art and now wants to get the community involved in the world of art.

Same ol' dance

Like a true sequel, “Step Up 2 The Streets” is basically the same as the original “Step Up,” but the main character from the original movie (Channing Tatum) who made it such a success barely appears in this one.

'Definitely'? Maybe

Despite an awkward title and a couple of shallow jokes, writer-director Adam Brooks has still been able to please Valentine’s Day audiences with the holiday release of his romantic comedy/drama “Definitely, Maybe.”

Feel the Panic

Although Widespread Panic may be known as a jam band, Free Somehow shows that its sound is still developing even as the band moves into its 10th album.

Doubly worthwhile

Every bit an independent-minded foreign film, “The Double Life of Veronique” radiates what much of the American cinema fails to produce: originality.

Jump out of here

Doug Liman knows action. Unfortunately, that is all the good that can be said for his newest film “Jumper.”