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Broadway show debuts at IU Auditorium

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"Chicago," known to many as the star-filled musical that made it to the Hollywood big-screen, is coming to the IU Auditorium Tuesday and Wednesday. But what you'll see is not what you got from the Academy Award-winning film. In fact, the film originated from the Broadway revival that is coming to Bloomington.


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Fashion major reaches others through job, classwork

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Every day, senior Bailey Redick gets up by 8 a.m. "I always have something to do," she said. Redick is a runner who has competed in a 26-mile marathon. She wants to join the Air Force and she is a resident assistant in McNutt Quad.



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IU student is 'the biggest loser'

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In her thin fingers, Susan Eley holds up a snapshot of herself in college, taken just before she filled an auditorium with her dramatic soprano voice. Her large body was draped in a crimson gown and a powdered beehive wig sat atop her head. She points the image toward her husband, Ben, and asks if he would have noticed her then.

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Professors' musical art based on birds' flocking

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Science and music combine to make an experimental form of art in A(rt) Life 2.0, an exhibit on display at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts until Feb. 4. A reception at the gallery will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today. Larry Yaeger, a professor in the School of Informatics, and Norbert Herber, a professor in the Department of Telecommunications, collaborated on the project, which uses complicated algorithms of flocking behavior similar to that of birds. The "birds" in the exhibit, which appear as three-dimensional geometric shapes, use Yaeger's algorithm to flock in random ways, though they do follow certain rules to guarantee that they remain as a flock, Yaeger said. Their actions are tied in with musical noises, such that different behaviors result in different sounds.


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Ecuadorean exhibit shows daily life

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A vivid array of paintings from Ecuador is on display now through May 7 at the IU Mathers Museum of World Culture. The exhibit, titled "Emerald, Ruby, and Gold: Contemporary Paintings of an Andean Indigenous Culture," also offers visitors explanations and maps as to the paintings' cultural origins. Terra Fuller, a graduate student and curator for the exhibit, explains that these paintings are a relatively recent development.


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Fayard Nicholas of famed brothers dancing duo dies at 91

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LOS ANGELES - Fayard Nicholas, who with his brother Harold wowed the tap dancing world with their astonishing athleticism and inspired generations of dancers, from Fred Astaire to Savion Glover, has died. He was 91. Nicholas died Tuesday at his home from pneumonia and other complications of a stroke, his son Tony Nicholas said. "My dad put heaven on hold and now they can begin the show," the younger Nicholas said Wednesday. The Nicholas brothers were still boys when they were featured at New York's Cotton Club in 1932. Though young, they were billed as "The Show Stoppers" and despite the racial hurdles facing black performers, they went on to Broadway, then Hollywood.


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Britney's man debuts rap album

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NEW YORK - The rap debut of Kevin Federline -- known as K-Fed to some but to most as Mr. Britney Spears -- features only a snippet of his lyrical prowess. Given the response to it, even less might have been better. "PopoZao,"a Brazilian-inspired groove which features Federline rapping about large posteriors in-between a few yelps and a gruff-voiced chorus, made its debut on the Internet earlier this month. Though the track is three minutes long and Federline's rap lasts for less than a minute, it has already become a popular music track circulating on the Web.



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Pride films breakthrough onto the big screen

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Keith Romaine, a Bloomington resident since 1991, attended last year's PRIDE Film Festival party and decided that, while it was nice, he could do better. With improvement in mind, he went to work, taking on the position of party coordinator for this year's festival. Romaine has hand-sewn more than 60 banners and silks, which he will use during the after-party to decorate the auditorium of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, located at 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., the site of this year's festival. Using fabric, food, drinks, music, dancing, and a man covered in chocolate Romaine hopes to "generate a queer celebratory space where creativity, play, acceptance, vitality and the carnivalesque are available to everyone."


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'Idol' develops mean streak in season 5

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LOS ANGELES -- Considering it's the biggest kid on the block, "American Idol" is becoming quite the bully. Fox's talent contest has regularly made an art of mocking the untalented who expose their dreams of stardom on TV, but the show's fifth year has the stench of a mean season.


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Keeping it weird on eBay

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Maybe the hookah you bought your freshman year doesn't spark the same interest that it once did, or perhaps the steadily growing pyramid of bottles in your living room has turned from prodigious feat to passable yawn.


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'Getting published' is artists' first step

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For many young artists, writers and photographers, getting published is the first step toward larger artistic goals. For those artists at IU, a free informational session sponsored by The Bloomington Area Arts Council tonight will focus on how to get published in different genres and print formats, according to a press release. Artists After Hours is a monthly networking session held by the art council and is presenting "Getting Published" from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St. "If you want to get recognized, (getting published) is a good start," said junior Ashley Fragomeni.


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Mainstream hip-hop missing potential

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It is no secret the world of hip-hop is invading mainstream pop culture. What once started on the streets as a culturally derived art form has now commercialized into one of the most recognizable influences in today's society. It is prevalent in all forms of media -- music television, commercial ads and most recognizably on the radio. You know that hip-hop has hit the big time when you turn on your radio to the enjoyable beats of a hip-hop song, only to discover seconds later that what you thought was the "newest jam" was in fact a McDonald's commercial.


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MUSIC AWARDS

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Black Eyed Peas' lead singer Fergie gives a speech after the band received the Best International Group of the Year award during the 2006 NRJ Music Awards at the Cannes Festival Palace, Cannes, southern France, Saturday.


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PRIDE Film Festival makes debut in residence halls

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IU residence halls will host a new addition to the PRIDE Film Festival this week. While this is the third year of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender film festival in Bloomington, this is the first year the IU residence halls will screen festival films.



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Lecturer gives inside look at curator's lifestyle

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A basketball game ending minutes before and a crowd trickling in late because of traffic set the stage for the Burke Lecture Series presentation of Julien Chapuis, curator at The Cloisters of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.