Maintaining the arts
For Miah Michaelsen, the best part of her job as assistant economic development director for the arts for Bloomington is that she is surrounded by art all day.
For Miah Michaelsen, the best part of her job as assistant economic development director for the arts for Bloomington is that she is surrounded by art all day.
Last night, I treated my artistic palette to Super Smash Bros. Brawl, now available on the Nintendo Wii.
La Casa Latino Cultural Center and Gamma Phi Omega International Sorority will host a free screening of “Yo Soy Boricua, Pa’Que Tu Lo Sepas (I’m Boricua, Just So You Know)” at 7 p.m. today at La Casa.
Horizons of Knowledge Lecture: ‘Sociality of the Present: Family, Affect and Japanese Kids’ When: 4 to 5:30 p.m. today Where: Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union More info: The lecture will be presented by Anne Allison, chair of cultural anthropology department at Duke University. The talk deals with the changing anthropological patterns of Japanese society. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact easc@indiana.edu.
Few pet owners like cleaning out their animal’s litter box. But IU employee Marne Potter willingly cleans dozens of cages every week. Potter shows up at the Bloomington Animal Shelter at 8:30 a.m. every Saturday and changes a whole kennel’s worth of litter boxes.
During spring break, I had the opportunity to work with the director of Chicago Fashion Week Presented by MasterCard. The fashion week, which is scheduled to be held April 21-27, will feature both national and international designers.
The contemporary fashion collection from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Permanent Collection is now being featured at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
For the past three years, IU senior James DiMartino has worked hard on his own fashion line. Today, his James Bond-inspired clothing line will be revealed at his self-produced fashion show.
Portland-based avant-garde rock band The Old Time Relijun performed at The Bluebird Tuesday night in support of its latest album, “Catharsis in Crisis.” Local acts Prizzy Prizzy Please and The Big Sleep shared the bill in an eclectic night of music.
In order to get students to make their marks heavy and dark during elections March 25 and 26, INdiana, Big Red and Kirkwood candidates fielded questions from Chancellor Ken Gros Louis at a debate Wednesday night. VIDEO: IUSA debate
Imagine a frying pan: “This is Sean Kingston.” Now imagine an egg in a frying pan: “This is your brain on Sean Kingston.”
Iraq’s presidential council approved a law Wednesday that paves the way for provincial elections, giving a major boost to U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation on the fifth anniversary of the war. The move came two days after Vice President Dick Cheney visited Baghdad to press Iraqi leaders to overcome their differences and take advantage of a lull in violence to make political progress. Many Sunnis boycotted the January 2005 election in which Iraqis chose a parliament and provincial councils. The vote ushered in representational government, but it also gave majority Shiites and minority Kurds the bulk of power, including at the provincial level.
WASHINGTON – Five years after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush strongly signaled Wednesday that he won’t order troop withdrawals beyond those already planned because he refuses to “jeopardize the hard-fought gains” of the past year.
Tournament begins today in Columbus, Ohio
Hampered by rough weather and a strong field that featured 14 teams ranked in the top 50, the No. 45 Hoosiers stumbled to a 10th-place finish at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational in Austin, Texas.
The No. 26 IU men’s golf team won the Pinehurst Intercollegiate for the second straight year with all five golfers finishing in the top 10 individually.
After a hard-fought performance at the Big Ten Championships in Minneapolis during spring break, eight IU wrestlers earned the chance to compete at the NCAA Championships, which begin today.
Wednesday’s game between the IU baseball team and the Evansville Purple Aces in Evansville was postponed because of heavy rain.
Like the first sign of spring, few things hold more promise in March than a freshly printed NCAA tournament bracket.
Lately Sen. Hillary Clinton, with her plagiarism charges against Sen. Barack Obama and her dark 3 a.m. phone call advertisement, has