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The Complete Moron's Guide to: The Stage

Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 9:38 p.m.

PROSCENIUM STAGE -- This is the most common type of stage found in Western theater and it is also referred to as the picture-frame stage. The picture-frame concept comes from the proscenium arch through which the viewers see.

This week in the IU Jacobs School of Music

By Eric Anderson · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 9:36 p.m.

An enthusiastically large crowd gathered in the warmth of the Musical Arts Center Wednesday evening to hear the IU Philharmonic Orchestra launch the spring semester orchestra series with a program of Russian repertoire. The concert opened with a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Fourth Piano Concerto, featuring graduate student Adam Zukiewicz, of Wroclaw, Poland, as piano soloist.

Photo exhibit gone in a flash

By Shannon McEnerney · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 9:35 p.m.

Soon the flash will fade, when the Photography Area Show at the School of Fine Arts Gallery is taken down. However, a chance to see the artwork on display is available from 7 to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday at the SoFA Gallery.

ARTiFACTS

Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 2:25 p.m.

What: Self-portrait (torso with head bent to right) by Egon Schiele of Austria in 1910. Crayon, gouache and watercolor on paper.

At the end of the rainbow

By Rorye O'Connor and Rorye O'Conner · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 12:25 a.m.

What is pride? "To me, gay pride is just to go and have a good time with people who are accepting of me and I am accepting of them," said James Cummings, GLBT student support services office assistant. To some people, it is a sense of togetherness. This weekend the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., will offer the opportunity for such camaraderie with the PRIDE Film Festival, a series of 31 films that will run in several areas around Bloomington.

Around the Arts

Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 12:09 a.m.

Black Film Series WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, 275 N. Jordan Ave. MORE INFORMATION: The Black Film Series educates students and the IU community about the black experience through films, videos, slides and more.

'The Departed' banned from China

By Min Lee · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:28 p.m.

HONG KONG -- Martin Scorsese's hot crime thriller "The Departed" -- in which Boston gangsters try to sell computer technology to ethnic Chinese villains -- won't be showing in China. A state-run distributor has rejected the film, an industry executive said Thursday

Film with rape scene featuring 12-year-old actress stirs debate

By Debbie Hummel · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:11 p.m.

PARK CITY, Utah -- At a festival that features several films with sexual content, including full male nudity and a documentary about bestiality, a Southern Gothic tale that includes the rape of a young girl is causing the biggest stir.

Women 'expose' their art

By Michelle Manchir · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:08 p.m.

More than 20 women, both Bloomington residents and IU students, will showcase their artwork at the third annual Women Exposed art exhibition and benefit from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday at the Art Hospital.

Thin is 'out' on the runway

By Katrina Loh · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:07 p.m.

The latest trend gracing the runways this season won't be a new Chanel bag or Dolce & Gabanna jeans, but healthier models.

Unstoppable IU pianist fueled by strong passion for music

By Katie Ingmire · Tuesday, Jan. 23,2007 11:12 p.m.

A pianist with a broken hand is like a hurdler with an injured leg -- both are brought to a halt until fully healed. But for Maxim Bernard, an IU graduate student working toward his artist diploma in piano performance, a broken hand from a bicycle accident did not present a crisis, but an opportunity. "Instead of just taking the time off, he decided to prepare an entire program with his left hand," said Bernard's friend and fellow pianist Melinda Baird, who added that Bernard not only voluntarily prepared the program in two months, but performed it in a recital.

Chanel dazzles with latest couture

By Joelle Diderich · Tuesday, Jan. 23,2007 11:11 p.m.

PARIS -- Veteran designer Karl Lagerfeld defied predictions Tuesday that Paris haute couture will soon die out with a display of feather-light gowns for Chanel destined to lure a new generation of clients.

Comedian, Ind. native Jim Gaffigan to perform Thursday

By Nick Mills and Nicholas Mills · Tuesday, Jan. 23,2007 11:10 p.m.

Jim Gaffigan is no stranger to television, commercials, movies or comedy nightclubs. If you don't recognize his name from his recent successes, chances are you have seen him somewhere. His one-hour special on Comedy Central and subsequent CD and DVD releases have given him the rare comedic stardom of his own national tour.

Illegal immigrants used as runway models

By Mar Roman · Monday, Jan. 22,2007 10:44 p.m.

MADRID, Spain -- A Spanish fashion designer used illegal African immigrants as models in a Barcelona fashion show to draw attention to the plight of thousands of poor migrants who embark on dangerous sea expeditions for a chance at better lives in Europe. Eight Senegalese immigrants paraded down the catwalk in white and beige outfits Thursday as part of the show, which also featured a white wooden fishing boat -- the same type many illegal immigrants use to reach Spain's Canary Islands off west Africa.

A time to be born, a time to die

By Ryan Brown · Monday, Jan. 22,2007 10:43 p.m.

In the last few days of 2006, Google Video and YouTube were bombarded with searches for Saddam Hussein's hanging. Somewhere in the midst of the world's top secret execution, one of the attendants managed to capture the event on a cell phone, documenting perhaps one of the most defining moments of our time.

IU Art Museum curator leads 'noon talk' on influential engraver

By Kyle Meehan · Monday, Jan. 22,2007 10:41 p.m.

Stanley William Hayter's work and influence is the subject of an upcoming "noon talk" from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the IU Art Museum. Though trained as a chemist, Hayter studied engraving under Joseph Hecht in the early 20th century. Many feel that his artwork and the studio he founded revitalized what was then considered an archaic practice, influencing generations of artists.

Awkward Silence Comedy to host 'improv jam session'

By Brian Hettmansperger · Monday, Jan. 22,2007 10:40 p.m.

Junior Brian Frange jumps up on stage and asks the audience to suggest a setting for the next improv game. Someone yells, "dildo factory!" Two members of Awkward Silence Comedy immediately start improvising the intricacies and potential hazards of working at a dildo factory. The audience erupts with laughter.

Forget Paxil, try fashion

By Teri Rosenbaum · Sunday, Jan. 21,2007 10:42 p.m.

This semester, the OneStart gods have graced me with 9:30 a.m. classes four days a week, and it is seriously starting to affect my fashion sense. Everyone knows that my earliest wake-up time is 10 a.m. -- if that's when Ellen DeGeneres starts shaking her ass, that's when I do, too (one exception: early-morning sex). Without Ellen, I am left stumbling around my room, in the dark, throwing stylistic caution to the wind. (It's true: one morning I left wearing those flower-shaped pasties Lil' Kim once wore to an awards show. Ouch.)

Celt rockers The Chieftains rock IU Auditorium

By Nick Mills and Nicholas Mills · Sunday, Jan. 21,2007 10:33 p.m.

Ireland's own Chieftains performed at the IU Auditorium on Saturday to a packed house. Even the stage was filled with featured guests, including the group Quagmyre, Triona Marshall on harp, Maureen Fahy on fiddle and Ryan MacNeil on keyboards.

AMO fashion show auditions Tuesday

Sunday, Jan. 21,2007 10:32 p.m.

The glamour and excitement of fashion shows like those on the runways of Paris will be coming to IU. This spring, the IU Apparel Merchandising Organization will be hosting its annual fashion show, "Sweet Dreams: A Sugar High Fantasy," April 12 in Alumni Hall. The AMO will have runway model auditions from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday in the McNutt Flame Room.

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