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One beauty pageant after another

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We’re in the last stretch of Oscar season, and in the spirit of the Academy, I have a request from you. I ask you to, in the back of your mind, root for “Little Miss Sunshine” as the recipient of this year’s best picture award. Oddly enough, however, I hope it doesn’t win.



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Welcome to the future: where leggings cost $100K

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Thanks to NASA robotics specialist Lisa Nowak, diapers and attempted murder have suddenly become en vogue. Shortly after Nowak was arrested from her 900-mile journey, where she used diapers instead of pulling over, Britney Spears was caught shaving her head in a lavender Stella McCartney diaper.


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Student play features music of Foo Fighters

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After three years, senior Codey Girten finally saw his musical take the stage of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater last week. “February Stars: The Foosical” is a college love story based on the music of alternative rock band the Foo Fighters. Girten, the director, created the rock musical for his senior project as part of the Individualized Major Program. “There hasn’t been a single part of the process that’s been a downer,” Girten said. The Brewskies, a cover band from Louisville, Ky., performed the songs. The band attracted quite a few hard-core Brewskies fans that came up from Louisville just to watch them perform.


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The Complete Moron's Guide to: Filmmaking

Several venues on and around campus have been offering film festivals recently. We at the arts desk thought you could use some enlightenment on the more interesting terminology used in filmmaking. Because there are so many words that have been adopted into the language of directors and their stars, this will be a two-part series. Check back next Friday for more fun definitions.




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BCT to host 2nd Cinephile indie film festival

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The second annual Cinephile Festival of Independent Film & Video will be held at 3 p.m., Feb. 17 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The festival consists of mostly short film features by several local filmmakers, many of whom received grants from Cinephile Film Arts to help with production costs.



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Tiny dancers

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Simon Brooks won't soon forget the first time he performed on stage at the Musical Arts Center. The second-grader played a mouse in the IU Ballet Theater's production of the "Nutcracker," and he's not too shy to admit his steps didn't go quite as planned.


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Real life brought to the stage in Baghdad

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A sculpture of a bomb-charred motorcycle and auto parts decorates the theater's foyer, and the concession stand lies empty under a layer of dust. Spectators are frisked by policemen, and a notice board announces that an employee has been "caught by the hand of treachery and terrorism," a Baghdad euphemism for a violent death.


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ARTiFACTS

What: Antelope headdress, known as a Ci Wara or Sogoni Kun, of the Bamana peoples, Mali, West Africa.


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Around the Arts

The Hungarian Cultural Association of IU presents 'Fehérlófia' ('Son of the White Mare') WHEN: 6 p.m. Friday WHERE: Swain Hall East 140 MORE INFORMATION: Presented as part of the Hungarian Film Series and directed by Marcell Jankovics, this 1982 film is one of the best-known folktales in the Hungarian corpus. "Fehérlófia" will be shown in Hungarian with English subtitles.




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Wishes do come true: An interview with Bob Saget

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I've always felt a mysteriously deep kinship with Bob Saget. A cosmic connection. A spiritual bond so powerful it can bend certain metals. At first, I thought it was just a physical attraction -- an internal octopus of hormonal passion, swinging its wild tentacles of desire.



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New local band contributing to the Bloomington music scene

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A new rock band is on the run and can be caught jamming at Bloomington bars near you. Bluebird is their venue of choice for Thursday. If passion and drive can push you toward national stardom, then each member of this new group seems destined for success.


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'Fearless' faculty hornist practices magic, discipline

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What were you doing at 5:15 this morning? Hornist and IU Associate Professor of Music Jeff Nelsen was reading his own handwriting on a Post-It note he stuck to the snooze bar of his alarm clock. The question, "How bad do you want it?" stares Nelsen in the face every morning when he thinks about rolling over and going back to sleep. "It's all about being smarter than myself," Nelsen said. "And knowing my own tendencies and compensating for them in productive ways."