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Dreaming of The Boss

By Danielle Rindler · Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 8:44 p.m.

What could The Boss still have left to dream about? If it’s another hit album, it’s safe to say he can stop dreaming.

Explicit Innocence

By Jenna Blumenfeld · Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 8:29 p.m.

Long hailed as Britain’s supreme darling, singer Lily Allen has given hipsters everywhere another reason to nod their heads to their iPods.

Psych Out

By Katie McKenna · Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 8:26 p.m.

Listening to a band perform its upcoming releases isn’t always rewarding. More often than not, it leaves audience members feeling anxious and desirous of the songs they know and love.

In for a ride

By Brent Williamson · Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 8:24 p.m.

It’s a simple story: Man loses daughter; man must get her back. But when written by the team who brought us “The Karate Kid,” “The Fifth Element” and the “Transporter” franchise, audiences are about to be “Taken” for a ride.

In Antony's spotlight

By Yahya Chaudhry · Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 8:20 p.m.

A pale woman dressed in black with wine-red lips walks down a bleak city street before she stops to watch a deer. Once stopped, her eyes roll into the back of her head as she collapses, while Antony Hegarty’s soaring vocals envelope the setting as colorful effervescent butterflies. This is a scene from the “Epilepsy Is Dancing” music video, the first single on Antony and The Johnsons’ new album “The Crying Light.”

Beat down

By Brian J. McFillen · Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 8:16 p.m.

Of the brief dance-rock explosion in the first half of this decade, Franz Ferdinand’s 2004 debut was the movement’s apex.

Congress postpones digital TV transition to June

Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 4:48 p.m.

WASHINGTON – Congress is giving consumers four more months to prepare for the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting.

Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy looks to the sky as his team falls behind in the second half against the Broncos in Denver Aug. 27, 2005. The Broncos ended up winning, 37-24.

Dungy to visit IMU on Thursday

By MaryJane Slaby · Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 12:04 a.m.

Tony Dungy, former Indianapolis Colts head coach will visit IU on Thursday at the Indiana Memorial Union as part of the tour for his new book “Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance.”

Despite soaring sales, energy drinks can harm

By Jef Akst · Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 12:02 a.m.

Energy drink sales increased an average of 55 percent annually from 2002 to 2006, bringing in an estimated $5.4 billion in 2006, according to Package Facts, a consumer goods market research and analysis provider.

Hoosiers Brett Finkelmeier and Malik Story wait to enter IU's match at Ohio State on Jan. 13. The Hoosiers fell to the Buckeyes 77-53.

Schedule gets tougher after Iowa

By Matt Dollinger · Wednesday, Feb. 4,2009 12:01 a.m.

The Hoosiers take on Iowa at 6:30 p.m. today at Assembly Hall. The game will be broadcast on The Big Ten Network.

State unemployment hits 8.2 percent

By Allie Cooper · Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:57 p.m.

The unemployment rate in the nation was 7.2 percent in December. Indiana’s was a full percent higher.

IU wrestling coach Duane Goldman demonstrates a move Monday afternoon at Assembly Hall.

A Hawkeye turned Hoosier, Duane Goldman has built IU’s wrestling program

By Frank Therber · Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:55 p.m.

To IU wrestling coach Duane Goldman, the Hoosier wrestling program has taken great strides in the last 17 years, but he hopes that equal steps have been taken toward enriching the lives of all of his athletes.

Yamaguchi’s softball career comes full circle

By Dave Leno · Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:50 p.m.

Practices are tough to watch these days for Tory Yamaguchi. Whenever she spots a catcher’s mitt, the former IU softball standout can’t help but reminisce of the days when she signaled for changeups and fastballs.

Sisters share more than sport

By Andrew Wyder · Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:47 p.m.

The IU campus has a way of selling itself to the many prospective student-athletes who visit each year, but a random guy making fun of a dog usually isn’t in the plan.

NM man arrested in suspicious powder mailings

Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:46 p.m.

A 47-year-old New Mexico man has been arrested on charges alleging he mailed threatening letters containing suspicious powder to banks and federal offices around the country, federal officials announced Tuesday.

IU tries to break 11-game skid

By Tom Kirby · Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:46 p.m.

Mired in an 11-game losing streak – tying for the longest in school history – fresh off an 0-for-January and still winless in the Big Ten, the Hoosier faithful, once whispering, now see those whispers evolving into an honest question.

Howard faces 1 year probation

Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:45 p.m.

A former supervisor in the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service, which regulates oil and gas operations on leased federal property, was sentenced by a federal judge on Tuesday to one year probation and fines totaling $3,000.

Crean: We’ll bring the moxie

By Zachary Osterman · Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:44 p.m.

It’s been 56 calendar days since the IU men’s basketball team last tasted victory. Defeat, in that span, has come in all forms: large, small, close – and heartbreaking.

Iraq: Woman arrested after recruiting female bombers

Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:44 p.m.

A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has been arrested, the Iraqi military said Tuesday, dealing a major blow to one of the most effective forms of attacks in Iraq.

IUSA Elections process to start

By Alyssa Goldman · Tuesday, Feb. 3,2009 11:33 p.m.

The IU Student Association begins its election season today. At 8 p.m. in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Georgian Room, there will be an informational call-out meeting for all candidates who intend to participate in this year’s elections.

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