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Robin Williams arrives at the premiere of "World's Greatest Dad" January 18, 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Williams cancels appearance at IU Auditorium

Thursday, March 5,2009 4:59 p.m.

MIAMI – Robin Williams needs heart surgery and must cancel the remainder of his one-man comedy show, his publicist said Thursday. Williams was scheduled to appear at IU on March 26.

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‘Here we go again’

By Caitlin Johnston · Tuesday, March 3,2009 10:10 p.m.

Complete with ABBA music, a wedding and three potential fathers, “Mamma Mia!” will be in town this weekend for five performances Friday through Sunday.

Graduate students Jedediah Allen and Elise Figa perform with the IU Baroque Orchestra Sunday afternoon at the Auer Concert Hall. They are both in the Early Music Institute at the Jacobs School of Music which studies the historical performance of original musical instruments before 1800.

Baroque Orchestra , Jacobs singers perform 'Hypermnestra'

By Amy Burke · Monday, March 2,2009 11:44 p.m.

History was made this weekend as the opera “Hypermnestra” was performed for the first time at IU.As the hair-raising pitches of six Jacobs School of Music singers and the warm instruments of the IU Baroque Orchestra sounded from the stage in an almost-full Auer Concert Hall, the two-hour-long opera showcased many talents.

Great Big Sea are scheduled to perform Wednesday evening at the Bluebird. They will be performing several hits, including songs from their Fall 2007 released album Fortune's Favour.

Great Big Sea to play at the Bird

By Brent Williamson · Monday, March 2,2009 11:09 p.m.

Award-winning folk/rock band Great Big Sea is kicking off the second leg of its U.S. tour with a concert at The Bluebird Nightclub on Wednesday. The tour is to promote the band’s new album, “Fortune’s Favour,” which went gold in Canada.

Shu-Mei Chan Evans, Bloomington resident and co-founder of the Bloomington Clay Studio, looks at a piece of Jeremy Kennedy's "4 Cell" Installation Friday evening at the McCalla Building. The exhibit's focus was the artist's obsession with materialism.

Display features destroyed cell phones

By Mallory Jindra · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:20 p.m.

The opening reception of Jeremy Kennedy’s exhibition “4 Cell” on Friday night at the Fuller Projects showed off his amusement with cell phones and the way people interact with them.

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Panel features alumni literature

By Bene Viera · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:18 p.m.

A burst of laughter erupted from the audience as one poet and three volunteers performed a piece that demonstrated common annoyances and gibberish transported through cell phones.ArtsWeek’s “The Writer in the World” showcased four published writers and graduates of IU’s MFA Creative Writing Program to read from their works and answer questions. In correlation with ArtsWeek’s theme, “Politics and the Arts,” the two poets and two fiction writers read excerpts from their works they believed to be political in some form.

Broadripple High School senior Gregory Manning II stretches before performing Saturday evening during the IU African American Dance Company 12 Annual Showcase. Members of the company participated in a weekend-long series of dance workshops.

Dance workshop sways minds

By Gordon W. Buchanan · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:15 p.m.

The message of the 12th Annual African American Dance Company Workshop was passing on traditions to future generations, but for participants, it was also a chance to have some fun and express themselves through dance.

IU Jacobs School of Music graduate student Nemanja Ostojic tunes his guitar in his studio Friday afternoon in Merril Hall before teaching a lesson. Ostojic won first place at the Southwest Guitar Festival in San Antonio, Texas in February.

IU Serbian guitarist wins competitions, teaches

By Amy Burke · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:12 p.m.

For Nemanja Ostojic, the classical guitar is a way of life.Having originally started on the violin at 6 years old, Ostojic decided to switch to classical guitar when he was 10. He said he wanted more strings and switched to guitar to be cool around his friends. Little did he know he would be playing 15 years later on scholarship and winning international competitions all over the world – four in the past year.

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