Students get advice on breaking into the business
Spider-Man can sing, or at least Glen Berger hopes he can.
Spider-Man can sing, or at least Glen Berger hopes he can.
It’s not likely that censors ever advised viewer discretion for adult content in Mozart’s operas. But William Bolcom’s “A Wedding” is different. Saturday, the Grammy Award-winning composer’s creation opens at the Musical Arts Center with a comical twist on a classical art form.
The usual sights and sounds of the annual Middle Eastern Arts Festival kick off Monday with new style. Everyone is invited to attend the wide range of festival activities that go through April 20 and include music and dance from the region, as well as exhibits, museum events and art and scholar presentations.
With the presidential election just 10 months away, Bloomington residents are getting ready to decorate their lawns with presidential hopefuls’ yard signs. However, this year, some of the signs will feature local works of art instead of a candidate’s name.
Jazz Fables concert series Who: The Al Cobine Big Band WHEn: 5:30 today Where: Bear’s Place back room Price: $8
The world is not a funny enough place, said Union Board comedy director Anne Kostyo. To remedy this, Union Board will bring together several local and visiting comedy troupes for its annual IU Campus Comedy Festival this weekend.
The musicians in the experimental art rock band Mason Proper have acquired a reputation for being so exuberant on stage that they often injure themselves mid-performance.
There is one word cast members are using to describe Indiana University’s production of the play “Metamorphoses:” unique.
The Mathers Museum of World Cultures is highlighting the work of local quilters with “Bee-Town Quilts: A Common Thread,” which opened Friday, Jan. 25.
Remember Daria? Was it just me or was she the coolest female cartoon character of the late 1990s? I have taken issue with the fact that the darkest, most appealing show on the once-dominant MTV lineup has not been released on DVD.
After hearing that Sony Pictures was making a film about the rise and fall of sisters Mary and Anne Boleyn in King Henry VIII’s court, I knew I had to read the novel first. The film, which opens Feb. 29, is based on Philippa Gregory’s best-selling novel “The Other Boleyn Girl.”
The walls of the Rosemary P. Miller Gallery in the John Waldron Arts Center will come to life with pictures Friday as the Bloomington Photography Club opens its member exhibition.
LONDON – More than 40 years after it barred the iconic British band from playing there, Israel said it wants the surviving members of the Beatles to participate in a concert celebrating the country’s 60th birthday.
Remember that time on the playground when you were little, when your best friend pushed you too hard on the swings and you fell tragically to the ground, skinning your knee and bruising your rock-solid ego? And remember what you said once you finished screaming all those obscenities? “You’re not invited to my party.”
From creative use of fabric to provocative body movement, the student theater’s version of Mary Zimmerman’s “Metamorphoses” promises an experience reminiscent of a Cirque du Soleil performance.
LOS ANGELES – Life just got a lot easier for the head of the Recording Academy. Last month, Neil Portnow vowed to stage a full-scale Grammy Awards show with or without support from the striking writers guild. He should have little trouble delivering on that pledge after the Writers Guild of America agreed Monday to let its members work on the show set for Feb. 10.
Student radio station WIUX will show the documentary “Heima” at 8:30 p.m. today in the theater building attached to the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Room A201.
This Friday, as the actors in “Metamorphoses” don vibrant colors and elaborate masks and take the stage, graduate student Erica Griese and her costume crew’s months of hard work will have paid off. Griese has spent the past four months working as the costume designer for IU’s production of “Metamorphoses.” The Tony award-winning play, based on the ancient Greek epic poem, presented Griese with the challenge of balancing ancient history with modern art in her costumes.
OLOGNA, Italy – Otzi the Iceman makes his home in the small Province of Bolzano-Bozen, high in the Dolomites mountain range. With more than 6,000 years under his rotting leather belt, he was recognized as the oldest known Italian citizen when he was excavated from a glacier in 1991.
While most IU students spend their Wednesday nights studying, hanging out with friends or catching up on their favorite TV shows, senior Sara Deckard passes the time a different way: as a line dance instructor at the Bloomington Adult Community Center.