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Classical music enthusiasts find home in guitar society

By Alex Benson · Thursday, March 6,2008 8:52 p.m.

Classical guitar isn’t only defined as classical music or as rock music, but as a genre that has created a home for itself.

Around the arts

Thursday, March 6,2008 8:37 p.m.

Bee-town Quilts: A Common Thread When: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 7 Where: Mathers Museum, 416 N. Indiana Ave. More Info: This exhibit highlights works by A Common Thread, a Bloomington quilting bee celebrating its 20th anniversary. Admission is free. The Mathers Museum is closed over University breaks.

Le Dernier Cri: Copyright, Congress and fashion

Thursday, March 6,2008 8:35 p.m.

The fashion world has always prided itself on being exceptionally creative. Designers work for months to produce collections that are beautiful and original. So what happens when someone makes a knockoff and sells it for a fraction of the price?

Documentary looks at life and hoaxes of Abel, infamous prankster

By Allison Tyra · Thursday, March 6,2008 8:34 p.m.

College students who find humor in egging houses and putting Saran Wrap on toilet seats could learn a lot from master hoaxer Alan Abel, the man who has pranked the media and the nation for more than 50 years.

Restaurant hosts ‘fun and lively’ art opening

By Jackie Kochell · Thursday, March 6,2008 1:44 a.m.

The exhibition, the largest Larsen has shown in the Midwest, will be on display at Trulli until March 25. Friends, fellow artists and musicians came to see Larsen’s collection. Deputy Mayor Maria Heslin said events like this one encourage local art.

Punch Brothers to perform at Buskirk

By Morgan Waters · Thursday, March 6,2008 1:36 a.m.

Starting at 8 p.m. today, the floorboards of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater will vibrate from the sounds of “new grass” as the Grammy-nominated Punch Brothers take the stage.

15 stand-up comedians perform in tournament

By Allison Tyra · Thursday, March 6,2008 1:34 a.m.

As part of its effort to find America’s funniest college students, RooftopComedy.com is holding its National College Comedy Competition for stand-up comedians and short-filmmakers.

Jazz musician, IU faculty member prepares for summer tour abroad, Christmas album

By Lara Streyle · Thursday, March 6,2008 1:30 a.m.

It’s Christmas in May for music professor and local jazz artist Monika Herzig. She will be recording a Christmas album for the first time.

Around the Arts

Thursday, March 6,2008 1:28 a.m.

Fusion Culture: Transportable Living and the Landscape When: Noon to 4 p.m. today and Friday Where: School of Fine Arts Gallery More Info: Works by artist Sarah FitzSimons, who has created works about the environment for the past seven years will be on display.

The Bloomington Area Arts Council, in partnership with the city of Bloomington, is presenting the “Stop and Start” public art project. The project is currently looking for area artists to decorate six traffic control boxes on College and Walnut avenues. Each box is located in a different Bloomington Entertainment & Arts District, with each district focusing on either dining, art or theater.

Stopping traffic

By Deanna Krinn · Thursday, March 6,2008 1:26 a.m.

The Bloomington Area Arts Council, in partnership with the city of Bloomington, is presenting the “Stop and Start” public art project. The project is currently looking for area artists to decorate six traffic control boxes on College and Walnut avenues.

Luna Music Festival to benefit 4 non-profit organizations

By Aaron Risch · Thursday, March 6,2008 1:09 a.m.

Local organizations will come together at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater March 22 for a tribute to women in the arts by hosting Bloomington’s first-ever Luna Music Festival.

Listen and Look: Multimedia in live shows

By Ryan Brown · Thursday, March 6,2008 1:03 a.m.

If there’s one thing I love about music, it’s multimedia! Throughout the history of musical performance, designers, directors and performers have been seeking ways to heighten the emotion of words and music by combining spectacle to live performance.

Contemporary authors present work at Waldron Arts Center

By Greg Winget · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:14 p.m.

Written words will come alive at 8 p.m. today at the John Waldron Arts Center auditorium as published fiction writer and poet John Keene will read with poet Evie Shockley as part of the “Writers at the Waldron” series. The event is presented by IU’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.

If lepers had iTunes

By Teri Rosenbaum · Tuesday, March 4,2008 10:09 p.m.

And because of the unfaltering – but perfectly sensible – rules of leper deportation, you can bring only the following items to accompany you on your slow march towards a limbless death: tweezers, a year’s supply of Nutri-Grain Bars in various flavors, a Magna Doodle, a Roomba and – the kicker! – five albums of your choice.

Valentino says fashion industry lacks ‘creativity’

By Gabrijel Gelic · Tuesday, March 4,2008 10:07 p.m.

Fashion industry veteran and celebrity designer Valentino Garavani showcased his last collection this past October in Paris before leaving the fashion industry forever. “This environment is no longer stimulating,” Valentino said during his last show in an interview with fashionweeknews.com.

Letters from abroad: Not enough time to try everything? Have a sample.

By Lindsey Landis · Tuesday, March 4,2008 12:26 a.m.

BOLOGNA, Italy – Spring break is three days away. If you are one of the few who stuck around to finish your classes this week, the nice weather and visions of faraway places are probably making it difficult to focus.

Local painter to display work at Trulli Flatbread

By Jackie Kochell · Tuesday, March 4,2008 12:21 a.m.

An artist inspired by the San Francisco Bay Area and the University of California at Berkeley campus will bring his newest collection to a Bloomington restaurant this month.

Artistry of vandalism

By Dae Woo Son · Monday, March 3,2008 2:43 a.m.

Joe LaMantia, local artist and coordinator for “Writing on the Wall,” an ArtsWeek exhibit which asked community members to use graffiti to communicate their views of democracy, joined city and campus representatives for a panel discussion of graffiti’s place in the arts on Friday night at the School of Fine Arts Gallery. STORY: Local artists show what democracy means to them with SoFA Gallery exhibit

Local artists show what democracy means to them

By Dae Woo Son · Monday, March 3,2008 2:40 a.m.

Local graffiti artist Julian Hensarling said for simply writing on a wall, many of his fellow graffiti artists have spent years in jail – a punishment, he believes, that does not fit the crime. Hensarling and four other local graffiti artists prepared pieces for “Writing on the Wall,” an exhibit exploring the intersection of graffiti and democracy on display at the School of Fine Arts Gallery. It’s a change of pace for artists who are usually prosecuted for vandalism.

Publishers embrace short nonfiction, from biographies to science

By Hillel Italie · Monday, March 3,2008 12:40 a.m.

In the decade since James Atlas revived the form with his “Penguin Lives” series, at least 10 publishers have started their own lines of short, nonfiction books, on subjects ranging from scientists to presidents to mythology.

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