Around the Arts
Ladies First vocal performance
Ladies First vocal performance
Throughout April, students have organized and enjoyed poetry slams, readings and other events.
Images of a man’s face flash by rapidly on 10 monitors, outlined by shifting people and places around and behind him.
As you are all extremely aware, summer is quickly approaching, and time is being taken from the studious concentration of physics, anthropology and comparative literature, and is being focused on beaches, booze and the burning sun.
Indie rock bands can usually be identified by their rather unusual names.
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, a band featured as one of Spin magazine’s “Who’s Next ‘08,” will perform at 8 p.m. today at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
Cool sounds and hot beats will be flowing out of the IU Auditorium Saturday night.
On Friday and Saturday, IU will celebrate a 75th anniversary.
As guest host of “Today,” first lady Laura Bush proved she can be as chatty and genial as the broadcast pros.
The fusion of dance and music through student collaboration reigned in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater during “Hammer and Nail 2008” at 7 p.m. Sunday.
The French Parliament recently passed a bill that bans the promotion of anorexia online. The law will make it illegal for anyone to promote extreme thinness. While I am normally behind almost anything that the French do or say, this one has left me completely confused.
Schaller, author of “A Man without Words,” gave a lecture titled “Languagelessness, the Critical Period and Adult Language Acquisition: Ildefonso’s Story” Friday at the Speech and Hearing Building.
Fifteen bands representing diverse musical genres from hip-hop to indie jazz invaded Dunn Meadow Saturday for the 23rd annual WIUX Culture Shock.
After a year and a half in the making, organizers have announced the 2008-2009 season at the IU Auditorium.
The performance, titled “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing),” featured the jazz ensembles of David Baker and Patrick Harbison.
Kaia presents: ‘Get Down, Rise Up!’ concert When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday Where: John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium More Information: Bloomington’s a cappella world music ensemble performs music from every hemisphere, political anthems and outrageous schmaltz. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and children ages 5 and under get in free. Purchase tickets online at bloomingtonarts.info.
This year’s Big Band Extravaganza is going to take some feeling.
Imagine “Easy Rider” on a budget. And the riders don’t die in the end.
Ildefonso, a 27-year old deaf man, had lived his entire life without words or any real way of communicating until Susan Schaller did something considered impossible to the academic community; she taught an adult his first language.
This week, I had the privilege of getting to sit down and read Henrik Ibsen’s play “Ghosts.” What I thought was going to be a lascivious romp about syphilis, adultery and the sinful life of artists left me somewhat disappointed.