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Jazz trumpeter extraordinaire Maynard Ferguson dies at 78

By Alyson Brodsy and Jeff Wilson · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 10:57 p.m.

VENTURA, Calif. -- Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, known for his soaring high notes and for his hit recording of "Gonna Fly Now," which lent the musical muscle to the "Rocky" movies, has died. He was 78.

Art + Coffee = Culture at Art Museum

By Lindsey Landis · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 1:45 a.m.

Instead of requiring students to cram gallery visits into their already-hectic class schedules, this year the IU Art Museum is extending its normal 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours (noon to 5 p.m. Sundays) to include four special "after hours" parties celebrating art, coffee and culture.

Beach Boys 'catch a wave' to IU Auditorium

By Andrea Alumbaugh · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 1:02 a.m.

If you love picking up 'Good Vibrations' while driving in your 'Little Deuce Coupe,' then you'll have 'Fun, Fun, Fun' celebrating Homecoming at the IU Auditorium with the Beach Boys, featuring original members Bruce Johnston and Mike Love with six members who have joined the group since Brian Wilson left in the 1960s.

Stephen King, Al Gore among nominees for annual Quills Awards

By Hillel Italie · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:57 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Stephen King, Doris Kearns Goodwin and former Vice President Al Gore were among the nominees announced Tuesday for the second annual Quills Awards.

Alumna explores bodies with photography, art

By Lindsey Landis · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:50 a.m.

A little girl raises her shirt to show a feeding tube protruding from her stomach. A nude woman embraces a tree and reconnects with nature. A single mother poses with her two young children. Twelve of alumna Yara Cluver's stirring portraits are displayed in the Rosemary P. Miller Gallery at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St., until Saturday.

CultureFest offers new students food, music, fun

Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:37 a.m.

One of the most well-attended Welcome Week events, CultureFest offers students the chance to taste a slice of life that might be different from their own.

Off-the-wall art

By Paul Coover · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:27 a.m.

When Americans hear the word "wallpaper," many may think of The Brady Bunch or bad kitchen designs.

UPDATE: 5:34 p.m. Beach Boys 'catch a wave' to the IU Auditorium

Wednesday, Aug. 23,2006 6:08 p.m.

If you love picking up 'Good Vibrations' while driving in your 'Little Deuce Coupe,' then you'll have 'Fun, Fun, Fun' celebrating Homecoming at the IU Auditorium with the Beach Boys, featuring original members Bruce Johnston and Mike Love with six members who have joined the group since Brian Wilson left in the 1960s.

Photographer who shot Iwo Jima flag-raising dies

Wednesday, Aug. 23,2006 12:10 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO - Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.

New conductor takes on leading Iran's orchestra

Wednesday, Aug. 23,2006 12:08 a.m.

OSNABRUECK, Germany -- Conducting the Tehran Symphony Orchestra requires some adjustments.

Around the Arts

Wednesday, Aug. 23,2006 12:06 a.m.

Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)plays in Nashville

Technology transcends Lollapalooza

By Alyson Brodsy and Tara Burghart · Sunday, Aug. 6,2006 4:08 p.m.

CHICAGO - While indie rock band Cursive played one of the nine stages at the Lollapalooza music festival, a nearby air-conditioned tent was packed with people checking their e-mail, updating their blogs and charging their cell phones. Some milled about waiting for a laptop with wireless Internet access to free up. Others plopped down on couches and watched satellite television -- or a live feed of Cursive, performing just outside. Visitors to this year's three-day edition of Lollapalooza, which began Friday in Chicago's Grant Park, will find technology almost as ubiquitous as the music.

Group celebrates traditions, fine arts of Central Asian countries

By Christina Stigliani · Wednesday, Aug. 2,2006 6:15 p.m.

The Bloomington-based Silk Road Ensemble presented its 14th annual Silk Road Festival Sunday afternoon at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The event began in the theater lobby with exhibits from a dozen countries of the Silk Road region, the historical route that connected the East and West from Turkey to China. The event was manned largely by students studying these languages in the IU Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages. Graduate student Eric Schluessel explained the displays of clothing and weapons of the Uighurs, an ethnically Turkic Muslim people of western China. Holding up a small knife he said, "A Uighur man gives this to his wife when he goes away on a trip so she can protect herself in his absence." Other exhibits also included weaponry as well as popular music and art, clothing and jewelry.

Cafe-goers will seek to capture murderer Thursday night

By Kristi Oloffson · Sunday, July 30,2006 11:56 p.m.

A murderer will be on the loose at Tutto Bene Cafe Thursday evening -- but it's all in the name of fun.

Local venues weigh in: Is sandwich making an art?

By David A. Nosko · Sunday, July 30,2006 11:55 p.m.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, but what about the stomach? Even though college town food markets are often saturated with pizza palaces, burger bordellos and ice cream parlors, sandwich shops provide community refugee for students, residents and guests to explore the art of stuffing just about anything between two slices of bread.

Festival will celebrate eastern culture

By Christina Stigliani · Wednesday, July 26,2006 6:58 p.m.

The Bloomington-based Silk Road Ensemble will present its 14th annual Silk Road Bayram, a word meaning "festival" or "celebration" in several Turkic languages, from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. July 30 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Kirkwood Avenue. The event will begin with an exhibit of arts and handicrafts at 2:30 p.m., followed by a concert with the theme of "Musical Stops on the Silk Road." The performances will include guest artists from several regions and a fashion show. The event is open to the public and admission is free.

Japanese love story on stage with Opera Theater's 'Mikado'

By David A. Nosko · Wednesday, July 26,2006 6:55 p.m.

Summer fun is often associated with baking in the sun and eating barbecue by the ton, but community members are invited to dress their best for a night of Gilbert and Sullivan opera. IU Opera Theater is showcasing Arthur Gilbert and W.S. Sullivan's Japanese-themed "The Mikado," acclaimed as one of the most popular musical masterpieces ever written, at 8 p.m. July 28-29 and Aug. 4-5 at the IU Musical Arts Center. "The Mikado," which opened internationally March 14, 1885 at the Savoy Theatre in London and nationally August 19, 1885 at the New York Fifth Avenue Theatre, tells the "timeless" tale of two young lovers who strive for romance despite a windfall of family and cultural obstacles.

IU's production of centuries-old opera, 'The Mikado,' opens this weekend

Sunday, July 23,2006 8:44 p.m.

IU Opera Theater is presenting Arthur Gilbert and W.S. Sullivan's Japanese-themed "The Mikado," or "The Town of Titipu," billed as one of the popular musical masterpieces ever written, at 8 p.m. beginning this weekend, July 28 and July 29, and ending next weekend, August 4 and 5, at the Musical Arts Center.

Village opens art gallery in restroom

By James Hannah · Sunday, July 23,2006 8:44 p.m.

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio - Call it Chagall in the stall, Picasso in the powder room.

Appointment aims to inspire dancers

By Patrick Commiskey · Sunday, July 23,2006 6:28 p.m.

Michael Vernon is coming to IU to be the chair of the Jacobs School Ballet Department, a school that already produces dancers for some of the world's leading companies.