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Artist weaves life into her work

Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12 a.m.

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.

Stills from the motion picture, "Step Up 2" directed by John Chu. All photos by Karen Ballard
Scene: Serrano Party

Same ol' dance

By Ernest Moore · Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12 a.m.

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.

10-year-old Maya Hayes (ABIGAIL BRESLIN) wants to know everything about how her dad, Will (RYAN REYNOLDS), and mother fell in love in a romantic comedy about going back to find your happy ending--"Definitely, Maybe".

'Definitely'? Maybe

By Derrick Carnes · Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12 a.m.

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.”

Long-haul truckers? Or country-fried rockers?

Feel the Panic

By Tyler James Perry · Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12 a.m.

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

By Alex Benson · Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12 a.m.

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

In JUMPER, a genetic anomaly allows Jamie Bell and Hayden Christensen to teleport anywhere in the world.

Jump out of here

By Danielle Duzenman · Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12 a.m.

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

"We got that Chronic-WHAT?-cles of Spiderwick, the Chronic-WHAT?-cles of Spiderwick!"

'Spiderwick' lacks luster

Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12 a.m.

You’ve seen it all before. A child discovers a secret world, has trouble convincing anyone it exists and saves it from some disaster. No, it’s not the new “Narnia” sequel; it’s “The Spiderwick Chronicles.”

The Wiz has fizzed

By Chris Pickrell · Thursday, Feb. 21,2008 12 a.m.

I remember watching this movie as a kid, and I don’t know why. I’d never seen it all the way through, but I still remembered it vividly for some reason.

Video game center opens

By Paul Mattingly · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 11:59 p.m.

Looking at the $20 billion video game industry, creating a center where people can play some of the most popular games seemed like a pretty good idea to video game center founder Zack Johnson.

Politically artistic

By Dae Woo Son · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 11:58 p.m.

During the 12 days of the 24th annual ArtsWeek, a Bloomington winter arts festival, a motley crew of visual artists, musicians, photographers, dancers, journalists, lawyers and academics will explore this year’s theme, “Politics and the Arts,” said Sherry Knighton-Schwandt, coordinator of ArtsWeek.

Nunchucks, bayonet stolen from Bloomington home

By Ben Phelps · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 11:49 p.m.

A man reported a burglary in his home to Bloomington police just before 7 p.m. Tuesday and told officers nunchucks, knives and old coins were among the items stolen.

Human rights activist speaks about genocide atrocities in Darfur

By Alanna Malik · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 11:48 p.m.

For a little more than an hour Tuesday, IU students, faculty, staff and visitors gathered together to listen to a human rights activist speak about his experiences witnessing genocide unfold in Darfur.

SPEA goes green

By Mark Wilson · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 11:47 p.m.

The field of sustainable development is now available as a concentration to current and prospective students in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Short of Elysium

By Jacob Levin · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:52 p.m.

It had become kind of sad. Sometimes on my way home from class I would stop for a minute and gaze longingly into The Bluebird on Walnut Street. The smell that wafted out of the open doors, a bouquet of stale beer, puke and solvent – it was beginning to smell like opportunity. Things went on in there, I mused – glorious, wonderful things. But this was last semester, and I wasn’t 21 yet.

Hard to say ‘I’m sorry’

By Johnathan P. Rossing and Jonathan P. Rossing · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:51 p.m.

"I’m sorry” isn’t an easy thing to say, particularly when it’s decades overdue. This month, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd historically and boldly apologized for a “great stain” on Australia’s “soul”:

Culture shock

By Peter Chen · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:48 p.m.

When a school massacre takes place like the one at Northern Illinois University, it’s easy to jump to conclusions

Athletics Department needs shake up

By Abra Oliver · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:46 p.m.

Bad news. Bad news. And yet, more bad news. It seems this is all we’ve heard coming out of the Athletics Department lately, especially since the investigations into IU coach Kelvin Sampson’s alleged recruiting violations. It seems unlikely that Sampson will remain unpunished tomorrow, and that’s the way it should be. IU must hold its students, faculty and family to a higher standard.

Boiler beatdown: IU defeats Purdue 77-68

By Michael Sanserino · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:24 p.m.

Despite an ESPN.com story that reported IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson “likely” will be suspended and then fired at the end of the University’s week-long investigation into recruiting violations, freshman guard Eric Gordon said it had not crossed his mind whether IU’s 77-68 win against Purdue would be his coach’s last game. VIDEO: IU-Purdue post-game SLIDESHOW: IU vs. Purdue PODCAST: That's What He Said BLOG: Basketblog

Herbie's got the funk

By Nathan Brown · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 4:17 p.m.

Jazz veteran Herbie Hancock thanked the Academy for, "courageously breaking the mold,” a little more than a week ago as he blocked the undeserving Amy Winehouse from getting her greasy, cocaine-covered fingers on the Album of the Year award.

Goldfrapp branches out

By Amanda Lowry · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 3:39 p.m.

For its fourth studio album Seventh Tree, electronic duo Goldfrapp has abandoned the dance focus that characterized its last two albums, 2003’s Black Cherry and 2005’s Supernature, and turned to introverted electronica and orchestrations.