Women's Golf

Must have been that flaxseed oil

By Ryan Corazza · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:19 a.m.

Keep trying, baseball. Keep denying and lying about steroid use in the league. It's your best disguise and will continue to make some fans believe that players weren't on the juice. Had you asked me a few months ago, I would have still given the game the benefit of the doubt. But now, I just can't buy into that anymore.

IU to face non-conference foe

By Matt Ostrega · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:13 a.m.

For IU coach Kathi Bennett, the 2004-2005 campaign has been a story of night and day. The home team seems unstoppable. The road team can't get their act together.

Dressing the part for an interview

By Patrice Worthy · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:12 a.m.

Dressing for an internship or interview can be very perplexing. As first you are excited, just because you have an interview or a chance for an internship and then fear comes over you.

Dance unraveled by faculty

By Lynndi Lockenour · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:11 a.m.

When dance comes to mind, many think of freedom, not structure. Finding the process among that freedom was the focus for the lecture demonstration Tuesday by Laura Poole, Gwendolyn Hamm and Liz Shea, who are all professors of modern dance in the Department of Kinesiology.

Film becomes less costly, no less competitive

By Josh Kastrinsky · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:11 a.m.

One camera, one stand, one mic, some creative lighting and three hours are all it takes to make a short film these days. Even a few years ago, such a project would have seemed impossible because of the cost and time directors would spend on it.

Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:10 a.m.

At 4 p.m. today, the IU Art Museum will give audience members a chance to consider Shakespeare from different angles. "Shakespeare in Art, Music and Word" is a special Arts Week program that will bring together performers from the Indiana Shakespeare Festival and the Early Music Institute, IU Dramaturg Tom Shafer and Jenny McComas, the IU Art Museum curator of Western Art after 1800. Henry Fuseli's painting Prospero, Caliban and Miranda in Shakespeare's "The Tempest," Act 1, Scene 2 (ca. 1806-10), and James Fittler's print "Measure for Measure," Act 3, Scene 1 (1794), both in the IU Art Museum's collection, are the inspiration.

A Major Mission

By Joelle Petrus · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:06 a.m.

Laura Farruggio is a woman on a mission. That mission is to make music business a major. Students can currently study the field through the Individualized Major Program at IU, a program designed for people determined to choose the precise flavor of their degree. These students can choose their own curriculum with the help of at least one sponsor.

'Notebook' a noteworthy tearjerker

By Mallory Simon · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Every couple months a director feels the need to force a little love into our lives in one way or another. The love story is often a reproduced, clichéd attempt at a box office hit. And while many of them may indeed become acclaimed (if not critically than with women as a whole), it's not often a movie has actually moved me to find the Kleenex, until now.

Strictly for the grown and sexy

By Sana Jafrani · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

With Gemini, Brian McKnight is attempting to show off the more risqué, edgy side of his personality. Listeners are used to the romantic side of McKnight, which produced hits like "Back at One," but now the songs are more sexual in nature. Since this is a more personal album for McKnight, it is appropriately titled with the name of his astrological sign.

'P.S.' ... this movie's mediocre

By Tony Sams · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

After watching "P.S.," Dylan Kidd's romance, I think there are five sins every romance movie commits. First, find yourself a couple of attractive leading stars; then pull some heartstrings here and there to make the audience coo first, cry next and coo again at the end; recycle the same plot that was cliché even when Shakespeare wrote it; throw in some empty, meaningless comic relief side characters and finally rinse with some quirky angle which makes us believe this romance is the one that breaches the formula.

Kapow! Explodes on Music Scene

By Annie Tasker · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Fledgling rock band Kapow! is getting its name known around Bloomington by leaving it where people can see. Sketches of its comic-like logo explode on multicolored CD envelopes all over town. Free demos sit in front of the register at Soma and on the counter at Dharma Emporium on Kirkwood. Local merchants don't know where they came from. "If they came in and left those CDs, I didn't see them," says a Dharma Emporium employee.

Visions Of Hardcore's Future

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Orange County's Eighteen Visions is no stranger to the hardcore scene; in fact, they've been working hard for almost a decade. Eighteen Visions is a band whose members have never been afraid to be themselves and it shows in their music and image.

Pooh and Company pull a Macauley Culkin.

Overcoming stereotypes with Pooh

By Tristan Mathews · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Winnie, Tigger, Piglet, Rabbit and Eeyore take the backseat in "Pooh's Heffalump Movie," an amusing tale of disproving prejudice and finding new friends.

Scorsese gem finally gets released

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

It's widely considered the greatest film of the '80s. It gathered eight Academy Award nominations including Robert De Niro's second Oscar win. It stands alongside other Scorsese masterworks such as "Goodfellas," "Taxi Driver" and most recently "The Aviator." And finally, after years of being out of print, "Raging Bull" has finally been rereleased as a two-disc collector's edition set.

'Drake' breaks hearts, opens minds

By -Kehla West · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

"Vera Drake" ostensibly tells the story of a London woman who "helps out young girls" in the 1950s. (That translates to "back-alley abortions" for the euphemistically challenged.) But the true story, the one that sticks, is of a poor family struggling in post-war London. They work hard, they fall in love slowly and they always, no matter what, try to do the right thing. And Vera herself teaches us that whatever the matter, there's no problem so insurmountable that it can't be fixed with a nice cup of tea and a word of comfort. This is a quiet little movie, but it speaks loudly.

Syndicating 'The Sopranos' to help TV

By Tony Sams · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

The three questions that zipped through my mind when I heard that A&E -- the basic cable channel most widely known for its somniferous series "Biography" -- had acquired HBO's hit mob drama "The Sopranos," were: 1) When will it start? 2) How much did they pay? And 3) Is it going to be shown unedited?

Escaping into the '90s

By Karen Green · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Let me start this by saying that I truly love the '90s. When the first installment of the series, appropriately titled "I Love the '90s," premiered on VH1 last summer, I ate it up. Through the extensive reruns aired daily, I'm pretty sure I prematurely reminisced about every year in the glorious decade with the well selected panel of comedians.

Comic Relief

By Tristan Mathews · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Over the past half-decade the popular masses have discovered that comic books are not exclusively for kids. There has been a general misunderstanding that this is a change from years past, but comics' main audience has always been more adult in nature.

Peels offer up a refined debut

By Mike Ley · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Rock 'n' roll came back with the Strokes and has been stuck in a Stooges rut ever since. This is only acceptable since I can't have that signature Ron Asheton crunch outside of their catalog. Meanwhile, new rock bands have been keeping the hipsters happy with repetitive riffs and slurred speech. In picking up this record, the Peels looked like another '70s throwback, but it turns out that's not all they've been listening to.

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The team enters the field to touch the rock during a home football game.

Smith gets 'Jiggy With It' in romantic comedy

By Sean Abbott · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

The funny thing about love is how different people like to experience it. Some people want it to happen fast, and others try to make it slow way down. Still other poor souls don't know how they like it, and by the time they've discovered their strategy isn't working, it's too late to fix the problem.