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A Place For Film – Exploring The Grindhouse Series
Updated: 2011-11-07 19:20:20
Description: On this week's episode we invite grad student David Church to chat with us about the Grindhouse series of films at the Cinema. ...more...

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Red Hot Patriot: Review
Updated: 2011-11-06 19:31:45
Description: Cardinal Stage brings "the kick ass wit of Molly Ivins" ...more...

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Hiding In The Spotlight
Updated: 2011-11-04 19:23:51
Description: the harrowing story of a Ukrainian Jewish girl’s escape from the Holocaust ...more...

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Spoils Of War: Stories Behind The Art Of Nazi Germany
Updated: 2011-11-02 13:00:35
Description: McComas uncovered interesting stories and histories of a number of works. "This isn't the type of information you usually read on a label in the gallery," she says. "It's a reminder that these works haven't always hung on the walls of our museum." ...more...

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A Home Of Her Own: Reclaiming ‘A Latter-Day Frontier’
Updated: 2011-11-01 23:00:01
Description: Nancy Hiller and Kendall Reeves' A Home of Her Own is an anthology of radical tales of female reinvention, disguised as a coffee table book for decorators. ...more...

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Terre Haute Symphony
Updated: 2011-11-01 19:21:54
Description: Paul Walker will be moving those drums out to center stage for this concert. ...more...

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A Place For Film – The Voice Of The Midwest In Film
Updated: 2011-10-31 13:00:50
Description: On this week's episode, we talk with local producer Sean Connolly about developing a voice for film specific to the midwest and Indiana. ...more...

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A Place For Film – Heartland 2011: God In The Box
Updated: 2011-10-30 18:44:27
Description: In this interview, we talk to director Nathan Lang about his film God In The Box that played at the 2011 Heartland Film Festival. ...more...

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Red Hot Patriot
Updated: 2011-10-27 11:00:34
Description: The wit, the wisdom, the story telling, and the sheer exuberant joy of Molly Ivins! ...more...

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“In The Next Room” Or “The Vibrator Play”: Review
Updated: 2011-10-26 19:37:55
Description: If talking about the vibrator makes you tense, you can always focus on that hat! ...more...

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Mother Courage And Her Children
Updated: 2011-10-26 14:51:02
Description: TOP's grim contribution to "Making War, Making Peace" ...more...

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A View From The Bridge: Review
Updated: 2011-10-25 14:30:00
Description: A tragedy set in a 'little Italy' with a Greek touch. ...more...

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IU Soul Revue Celebrates 40 Years
Updated: 2011-10-25 14:19:02
Description: The IU Soul Revue prides itself on performing music from all eras of black popular music. The key is selecting tunes that are timeless. ...more...

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The Phantom Of The Opera
Updated: 2011-10-25 13:05:22
Description: I really wanted to play that organ, but I had to have a plan! ...more...

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Public Remembering At The Altar Of Community
Updated: 2011-10-25 05:00:49
Description: The items left are meaningful to someone, giving others a tiny glimpse into the lives of those who have passed on. Anyone can leave a memento or note, just make sure it’s not a family heirloom, because the artists keep everything for the next year...more...

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A Place For Film – Heartland Film Festival in Review
Updated: 2011-10-24 17:37:25
Description: On this week's episode, Jason and Andy sit down to discuss the Heartland Film Festival, and the films they saw. ...more...

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Indiana State’s 45th Annual Contemporary Music Festival
Updated: 2011-10-24 13:00:44
Description: The composer George Crumb said that percussion is the basso continuo of twentieth century music. And he is so right. ...more...

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Reflections On “Reflection”
Updated: 2011-10-21 13:00:19
Description: "The energies that you get from mixing musical ages and accomplishments together is quite unique and special" Sulaiman Zai ...more...

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Nine Plays In Twenty-Four Hours!
Updated: 2011-10-19 13:05:32
Description: "The audience gets to watch, enjoy a seventh inning stretch, complete with the singing of 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game,' and even vote for the winning team and the most valuable player." ...more...

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Artist In The Making: Through The Fire
Updated: 2011-10-18 19:47:53
Description: Katie Hayden leads a tour past anvils, torches, and a centrifuge to reveal just how grueling it is to earn a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design at IU. ...more...

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‘In The Next Room’ Or ‘The Vibrator Play’
Updated: 2011-10-18 13:00:21
Description: The challenge is to avoid simply being caught up in the flow and not looking into the intentio ...more...

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The Puccini-esque ‘View From The Bridge’
Updated: 2011-10-18 13:00:14
Description: "The words are largely Arthur Miller's, but if we didn't have some cuts along with some operatic expansions it'd be eight hours long!" Vincent Liotta ...more...

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Sounds Of South Presents ‘West Side Story’
Updated: 2011-10-17 13:00:04
Description: Sounds of South gets out its compass and heads east to the streets of New York for "West Side Story." ...more...

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A Place For Film – The Comic Book Rises Series
Updated: 2011-10-17 10:52:09
Description: On this week's episode we sit down to talk about the upcoming Comic Book Rises Series at the Cinema with Chelsey McKrill. ...more...

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The Living Newspaper
Updated: 2011-10-13 12:00:51
Description: For this show, we’ve been able to do a collaboration that I’ve wanted for quite some time. We’re working with “Fiddlin’ Feet,” Tamara Loewenthal, Jamie Gans and Chris Westhoff and that’s been great. ...more...

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Through The Woods To A Refuge Of The Mind
Updated: 2011-10-13 11:37:45
Description: Memories of childhood journeys in the South African Highveld underlie references to urban alleys and a moonlit lake in Tamar Kander's abstract paintings. ...more...

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Melchior Marionette Theatre: A DIY Success Story
Updated: 2011-10-12 15:53:46
Description: Peggy Melchior never thought her puppet theater would be celebrating 28 years in Nashville. If she had, perhaps she would have built a permanent roof. ...more...

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Review: ‘Hair’ Opens IUT Season
Updated: 2011-10-12 13:03:06
Description: Patricia Wilcox’s direction and choreography for Hair put a premium on group energy, but with plenty of attention to small details and character development. Individual efforts were given nicely showcased settings that never hindered the show’s f...more...

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A Place For Film – Heartland 2011: ‘Nathan And The Luthier’
Updated: 2011-10-12 12:00:34
Description: In this interview we talk to Jacob Sherry and Jon Stante, the writer/director and producer of Nathan and the Luthier, showing at Heartland this October. ...more...

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A Place For Film – Heartland 2011 – The Selling Interview
Updated: 2011-10-11 21:51:55
Description: In this interview, we talk to Gabe Diani, the writer, producer and lead actor of the comedy/horror film The Selling, showing at Heartland. ...more...

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A Life Like This: Sallyann Murphey’s Bean Blossom Dreams
Updated: 2011-10-11 13:06:47
Description: Sallyann Murphey might be a Londoner by birth, but her writing about Brown County is part of the legacy of American transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson. ...more...

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Sunrise At The IU Cinema
Updated: 2011-10-11 12:00:18
Description: "Sunrise" is very much a romance and I’ll be leaning on all those exercises that I had to play and dipping into composers like Mendelssohn for much of what I’ll be playing. ...more...

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A Place For Film – The Dark Carnival Film Fest
Updated: 2011-10-10 11:10:35
Description: On this week's episode, we invite two members of the Dark Carnival Film Festival to discuss their event, happening October 21-23 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater ...more...

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Heartland Interview – ‘Somebody’s Hero’
Updated: 2011-10-09 11:10:54
Description: On this interview, we sit down with Darin Beckstead and Guillermo Suescum, the filmmakers behind Somebody's Hero, showing at the Heartland Film Festival. ...more...

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A Lesson Before Dying
Updated: 2011-10-08 13:00:11
Description: "Looking back sixty years with a cast some of whom understand the history, some of whom don’t, the production has been a lesson for them…and in light of some of the darker moments in our country even now, it’s a lesson that bears repeating." J...more...

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IUPUI Prof’s New Book: ‘Becoming Ray Bradbury’
Updated: 2011-10-07 18:18:33
Description: The development of science-fiction and fantasy author Ray Bradbury is chronicled in a new book by IUPUI professor Jonathan R. Eller. ...more...

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‘Hair’: A Time Capsule Of The 60s
Updated: 2011-10-07 13:00:28
Description: The great thing about "Hair" is that it encapsulates the 60s. ...more...

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IU Ballet: Steps In Time
Updated: 2011-10-06 13:46:00
Description: "...a feast of dance and choreographic entertainment..." Michael Vernon ...more...

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A Place For Film – Heartland Film Fest With Ray Mills
Updated: 2011-10-06 13:01:20
Description: In this interview episode, we're talking to Ray Mills, the Artistic Director of the Heartland Film Festival. ...more...

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Cows That Type, Hens On Strike!
Updated: 2011-10-06 13:00:19
Description: “It’s part of Cardinal’s commitment to providing high quality artistic experiences for children” says Cardinal’s new director of communications and marketing Eleanor Berman. ...more...

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Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s 89th Season
Updated: 2011-10-06 12:00:33
Description: Bring Your Passport : For Music From Around The World ...more...

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A Place For Film – David Anspaugh Heartland Interview
Updated: 2011-10-05 20:13:38
Description: On this special interview, we're talking to David Anspaugh about his new film Little Red Wagon, premiering at the Heartland Film Festival. ...more...

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Artist In The Making: Bassoonist Meridith Wright
Updated: 2011-10-05 11:26:52
Description: “It's like I'm in school mode all the time. I'm always feeling like I should be working or doing something,” says freshman bassoon student Meridith Wright. ...more...

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Seeing Is Rediscovering What’s Hiding In Plain Sight
Updated: 2011-10-04 19:15:20
Description: Here, delight is camouflaged in the cloak of the everyday, whether you’re waiting for the elevator, trudging down the hall, or scanning a bulletin board. ...more...

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Bombshell: Review
Updated: 2011-10-04 14:29:31
Description: The most moving and enigmatic mime movement of the evening was Markus McClain, who comfortingly embraced himself through the arm of the marine dress jacket. ...more...

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Columbus Indiana Philharmonic’s Living Legend Season Opener
Updated: 2011-10-04 12:00:10
Description: When you’ve practiced and played for audiences during most of your life. You do it because you enjoy it. ...more...

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A New Generation Looks At ‘Little Women’
Updated: 2011-10-04 12:00:04
Description: I also like it that he leaves out Jo’s marriage to Professor Bhaer. It’s a part that Louisa May Alcott herself objected to. She didn’t think that marriage had to be the ending ...more...

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A Place For Film – Home Movie Day
Updated: 2011-10-03 11:04:58
Description: On this week's episode, we invite grad student James Paasche to talk about Home Movie Day, coming to the IU Cinema October 15th at 3:00pm. ...more...

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Brasstissimo (Ma Non Troppo)
Updated: 2011-09-29 12:00:40
Description: Now each concert is built around a theme, but the actual titles come from our marketing committee and they like have fun with them! ...more...

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Unearthing Dracula
Updated: 2011-09-27 19:11:17
Description: Throughout the next hour, we will explore the evolution from the Dracula character in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel to the many movies featuring the Count, and the very real historical figure who is now inextricably linked to the father of all vampires,...more...

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Cosi Fan Tutte: Review
Updated: 2011-09-27 15:11:14
Description: Salieri actually set a couple of scenes before passing on the project and from reports on his music, we’re lucky that he gave up and Mozart got to do the job. ...more...

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Robert Shaw As Elvis: More Song, Less Schtick
Updated: 2011-09-27 14:20:28
Description: Robert Shaw certainly has an Elvis air about him: dark hair, coy smile and a deep voice. But whatever you do, don’t call him an impersonator. ...more...

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Artist In The Making: Introducing Bre’Anna Robinson
Updated: 2011-09-27 13:01:10
Description: "You're taking something from your head that is you, you're putting it on paper and you're creating this world. People read that, and they know who you are." ...more...

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A Geeky Musical Version Of ‘Bones’
Updated: 2011-09-27 12:14:43
Description: Also there were these catalogs of pieces by Weiss, so I had at least a sense of a taste preference. ...more...

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A Place For Film – The 2011 Toronto Film Fest
Updated: 2011-09-26 11:00:50
Description: On this week's episode, we invite the Director of the IU Cinema Jon Vickers back to talk about his time at the Toronto Film Fest. ...more...

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Making Mozart Human
Updated: 2011-09-22 15:29:37
Description: Sopranos Sharon Harms and Katherine Polit discuss their roles in 'Così fan tutte,' and how the they came together as a cast. ...more...

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Fagen Conducts ‘A Spectacular Funny Comedy’ in ‘Così’
Updated: 2011-09-21 19:50:41
Description: Conductor Arthur Fagen discusses Mozart's final collaboration with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and why it's not as well-known as the others. ...more...

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‘Catch A Rising Star’ With The Terre Haute Symphony
Updated: 2011-09-21 12:00:55
Description: Conductor Bowden is enthusiastic about the whole program and Daniel Power’s overture. “It’s a delightful airy piece that we played and that I’ve taken to share with other orchestras.” ...more...

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Eilen Jewell: The World Needs More Americana
Updated: 2011-09-20 23:00:50
Description: Her brand of American roots music, with its blues, rockabilly, country and jazz influences, will fit right in at the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival. ...more...

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Lotus Volunteers: Homegrown Citizens Of The World
Updated: 2011-09-20 21:00:14
Description: The magic dust that transforms Bloomington into a multicultural mecca for Lotus weekend also converts mere mortals into an elite corps of volunteers. ...more...

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Amplifier: Lotus World Music & Arts Festival
Updated: 2011-09-20 17:33:47
Description: The 18th annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival will feature performances by 26 groups, including the Creole Choir Of Cuba, Dikanda and the Orchid Ensemble. ...more...

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‘Così Fan Tutte:’ Fidelity, Sure!…Wanna Bet?
Updated: 2011-09-20 12:12:45
Description: The team of designer David Higgins and stage director Tomer Zvulun who brought you Die Zauberflute and La Boheme reunite for a new production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte. ...more...

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A Mesmerizing Effect: ‘Woven Treasures’ At The Waldron
Updated: 2011-09-20 09:00:19
Description: "Each one of these carpets has the effect of calming me. I just love to look at them. I'm sort of mesmerized by them." ...more...

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A Mesmerizing Effect: ‘Woven Treasures’ At The Waldron
Updated: 2011-09-20 09:00:19
Description: "Each one of these carpets has the effect of calming me. I just love to look at them. I'm sort of mesmerized by them." ...more...

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A Place For Film – The Herrmann And Hitchcock Series
Updated: 2011-09-19 17:50:02
Description: On this week's episode we invite Professor James Naremore back to talk about the Hitchcock/Herrmann series, and we also extensively discuss Drive. ...more...

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Artist In The Making: Introducing Katie Hayden, Metalsmith
Updated: 2011-09-14 16:49:20
Description: Getting her parents' blessing to pursue a studio art major wasn’t an issue for Katie Hayden. “My mother is a jeweler, so she was encouraging about it." ...more...

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Celebrating The Maker Spirit At The Indy Mini Maker Faire
Updated: 2011-09-13 13:26:47
Description: The most inventive art, craft, and technology of the present will be on display at the Indy Mini Maker Faire. ...more...

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Beethoven: Quartets With A Personal Appeal
Updated: 2011-09-13 11:38:17
Description: Although the group's repertoire is international, they're very much from the midwest. "Two of us went to Oberlin in Ohio. The cellist's parents taught at Oberlin and currently we're base in Illinois" ...more...

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A Place For Film – Themester: Making War/Making Peace
Updated: 2011-09-12 13:00:46
Description: On this week's episode we sit down with Maria Bucur to talk about Themester and this year's topic: Making War/Making Peace. ...more...

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A Concerto And A Violinist With “Elegance And Virtuosity”
Updated: 2011-09-12 13:00:01
Description: Music is a living and breathing thing and I’m a living and breathing person, so with those two elements you have something that’s always fluctuating. And it’s always different. ...more...

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Inter:Facing On The Margins Of Perception
Updated: 2011-09-07 17:31:52
Description: Dolinsky's immersive environments emerge from a cognitive no man's land. ...more...

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Harry Geduld’s Comically Surreal Stories
Updated: 2011-09-07 12:00:05
Description: WFIU's Adam Schwartz attends a reading of IU professor emeritus Harry Geduld, who reads a selection of his strange, funny, savage tales. ...more...

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Nigel North From Apache To Lady Hunsdon’s Puff
Updated: 2011-09-06 16:11:29
Description: “ It’s hard to imagine now, but then it was magic, it was something simply divine, the quality of his sound, and the way that he wrote his pieces were just thought to be from God.” ...more...

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All My Sons: Review
Updated: 2011-09-06 13:00:56
Description: The War... was just a matter of nickels and dimes. ...more...

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A Place For Film – Recommendations
Updated: 2011-09-05 14:46:24
Description: On this week's episode we play the Recommendation game with Betsy Fippinger. ...more...

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Spoken Word Stage Adds New Wrinkle To Fourth Street Fest
Updated: 2011-08-30 23:00:13
Description: Will the crowd at the Fourth Street Festival be interested in slowing down, pulling up a chair and taking a listen to the performers at the Spoken Word Stage? ...more...

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Program Readies Music Students For Life On The Outside
Updated: 2011-08-30 20:19:54
Description: Project Jumpstart enters its second year of creating well-rounded music entrepreneurs. ...more...

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A Place For Film – The Midnight Movie Series
Updated: 2011-08-29 13:00:29
Description: On this week's episode, we invite grad student David Church to talk with us about the upcoming Midnight Movie series at the IU Cinema. ...more...

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An Actor And A Designer Look At ‘All My Sons’
Updated: 2011-08-29 13:00:05
Description: Yes, I am possessed of a secret and ‘possessed’ is a good word.” actor Maureen Gallagher about her role as Kate Keller. ...more...

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Music With A Spanish, Portuguese, And English Accent
Updated: 2011-08-29 11:00:24
Description: "I wanted to appeal to the audience that still has affection for the music that Andres Segovia made so much a part of the repertoire." ...more...

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Happily Ever Chloe: Review
Updated: 2011-08-26 13:32:32
Description: The story has a fairy tale quality as it touches on a story of a child finding out that she is in fact a princess, but it also touches potently on questions of identity—who we are-- and the resonance of the word ‘home.’ ...more...

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My Reconstructed Life: To Be Young And Rich In Bedford, 1908
Updated: 2011-08-24 11:51:28
Description: The view through Mary Lemon's eyes is a privileged perspective of Bedford in its heyday, a time when it was known as the Limestone Capital of the World. ...more...

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IU Alums Workshop Musical
Updated: 2011-08-22 12:00:44
Description: I’d always sung and done some theatre in high school, but when it comes to college parents can be pretty cautious. ...more...

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Reflections On ‘Fanfare, Capriccio And Rhapsody’
Updated: 2011-08-22 11:48:38
Description: We didn’t get Doc Seversen, but we had a young man named Vincent DiMartino and he’s gone on to become the famous Vincent DiMartino of the trumpet world. ...more...

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A Place For Film – Cold War Cinema
Updated: 2011-08-22 11:36:58
Description: On this week's episode, we invite Professor Barb Klinger about the upcoming Cold War Cinema series at the IU Cinema. ...more...

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Elaine Doenges’ Mid-Century Modern Legacy
Updated: 2011-08-17 16:00:41
Description: Despite Doenges' machine-age design style, the appeal for her clients--during the post-WW2 tract house era--lay in the way she personalized each home. ...more...

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Break Away Books: The Literary Memory Of The Midwest
Updated: 2011-08-16 13:00:06
Description: "Writers are tenders of the necropolis—people who take care of the city of the dead." ...more...

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Cardinal’s Season Of American Dreams
Updated: 2011-08-16 12:00:53
Description: All in all it’s quite a night before the day of ‘I do.’..."Batchlorette" ...more...

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A Place For Film – John Sayles Interview
Updated: 2011-08-15 18:38:59
Description: On this week's episode, we're talking to Independent film director John Sayles, who's coming to the IU Cinema from Sept 8-10. ...more...

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Tig Notaro: Stand-Up Comedy Rock Star
Updated: 2011-08-09 16:57:53
Description: Tig Notaro is the only comedian signed by the indie music label Secretly Canadian, and she loves being part of the scene. She will be performing in Bloomington to celebrate the release of her first album on the label, "Good One." ...more...

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Kokomo Civic ‘Steps Out’
Updated: 2011-08-09 12:00:06
Description: Playing a woman, especially a funny one gives me a whole new set of opportunities. It’s kind of a blast. (mailman Doug Harvey) ...more...

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Square Dance Caller Michael Ismerio Do-Sa-Dos With Tradition
Updated: 2011-08-08 12:58:59
Description: Michael Ismerio has dedicated his life to the mastery of old time music. ...more...

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A Place For Film: The IU Cinema Fall 2011 Schedule
Updated: 2011-08-08 12:00:38
Description: On this week's episode, Jon Vickers, the Director of the IU Cinema joins us to discuss the Fall 2011 Schedule. ...more...

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A Tuneful Parable
Updated: 2011-08-03 11:59:10
Description: There’s a sort of mysterious wisdom figure from the East that I call The Traveler, Arimat—a kind of villainous villain, and Rebecca a compassionate servant girl. ...more...

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Music Made Him: Raymond Leppard’s New Memoir
Updated: 2011-08-02 23:00:20
Description: WFIU’s Adam Schwartz speaks with acclaimed conductor Raymond Leppard about his new memoir, Music Made Me. ...more...

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The Happy Benefits To Writing Their Lives
Updated: 2011-08-02 13:03:59
Description: "You see this incredible blossoming in these young women, as writers and as girls who are really thoughtful, and who have something to say about the world." ...more...

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A Prom Queen Stands By Her Zombie
Updated: 2011-08-02 12:00:36
Description: A motorcycle accident with local nuclear power plant has not deterred him from the love of his high school sweetheart, but it has left him with a distinctive glow ...more...

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A Place for Film: The Indy Film Fest In Review
Updated: 2011-08-01 11:00:55
Description: On this week's episode we're reviewing our experience at the Indy Film Fest. Hear about all the movies we saw. ...more...

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Jacobs School Of Music At The Workshop
Updated: 2011-07-29 13:00:18
Description: The traditional Vietnamese music drama doesn't have a chorus, but western audiences expect one, so I invented a tradition. ...more...

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Festival Orchestra: Standards In Finale
Updated: 2011-07-28 12:00:07
Description: This summer we’ll play Respighi's “The Pines of Rome.” I think that anyone who’s been to that great city will hear echoes in the music. ...more...

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Indiana Realities: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Updated: 2011-07-27 11:00:08
Description: Everyday life in the 1930s wasn’t a day at the beach, as these paintings bear out. We see train wrecks, shot gun shacks, and alleys draped with telephone wire. ...more...

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Abby Gitlitz And The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch
Updated: 2011-07-26 20:23:40
Description: sample text sample text sample text sample text sample text ...more...

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Nate Powell Builds His Graphic Novel ‘Empire’
Updated: 2011-07-26 17:34:15
Description: Bloomington was represented at this year's Comic-Con International by award winning graphic novel author Nate Powell who was peddling his new book "Any Empire." ...more...

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Patrick Barlow’s ‘The 39 Steps’ At Shawnee
Updated: 2011-07-26 13:00:09
Description: It’s really part of a sort of love letter to the Hitchcock original. (director Brandon Bruce) ...more...

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‘The Comedy Of Errors’: Review
Updated: 2011-07-25 12:29:13
Description: The Comedy of Errors is very physical, pfarsical, pfunny, and pfast! ...more...

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A Place For Film: Our Most Hated Movies
Updated: 2011-07-25 12:26:34
Description: On this week's episode, we have a bit of fun talking about our most hated movies. Did we pick a favorite or a least favorite of yours? ...more...

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Review: ‘Ah, Wilderness!’
Updated: 2011-07-22 13:14:29
Description: Throughout Ah, Wilderness! the family balance between Abby Rowald and Henry Woronicz as Essie and Nat Miller is a key to the show’s success. ...more...

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Sean Dickinson Represents For Singer-Songerwriters
Updated: 2011-07-22 10:53:42
Description: A veteran of the New York City busking scene, Sean Dickinson enjoys the smiles and spare change shared by Bloomington passers-by. ...more...

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Matteo Ricci: Map And Music
Updated: 2011-07-20 18:46:35
Description: Our production offers words and music from both his Italian and his Chinese world: the world that he came from and the world that he went to. ...more...

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No Plush Tomatoes For This Scary Thriller
Updated: 2011-07-20 13:00:12
Description: We’re not going to have a big green creature with bolts sticking out of his neck ...more...

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Bramwell Tovey Conducts The IU Festival Orchestra
Updated: 2011-07-19 13:00:24
Description: Actually, the tuba was a convenient instrument in college because it wasn’t included in all the rehearsals and that gave me more time for score study. ...more...

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O’Neill’s ‘Ah, Wilderness!’ At Indiana Festival Theatre
Updated: 2011-07-18 13:00:32
Description: Really switching characters is easier than we’d like people to think. The characters are so different and I’ve worked very hard on the differences, so the change is pretty automatic. ...more...

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A Place for Film: The Indiana Filmmakers Network
Updated: 2011-07-18 12:00:29
Description: On this week's episode, we sit down with Chris Eller and Sean Connolly to discuss the new Bloomington chapter of the Indiana Filmmakers Network. ...more...

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Challenges Don’t Faze Group
Updated: 2011-07-17 13:00:47
Description: Even when a group of like minded individuals agree to come together to play music, there can be difficult, even divisive decisions. ...more...

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A Place For Film: Indy Film Fest
Updated: 2011-07-17 00:18:13
Description: We sit down with the Managing Director of the Indy Film Fest to give a little taste of what's coming up in the next week at the festival. ...more...

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Through The Ages, One Crank At A Time
Updated: 2011-07-14 11:30:08
Description: Early Music in Motion presents singer and hurdy-gurdy player Tomás Lozano at the T.C. Steele State Historic Site. ...more...

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Through The Ages, One Crank At A Time
Updated: 2011-07-14 11:30:08
Description: Early Music in Motion presents singer and hurdy-gurdy player Tomás Lozano at the T.C. Steele State Historic Site. ...more...

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Paul Smedberg’s Extended Re-Mix Of Reality
Updated: 2011-07-13 12:00:03
Description: Paul Smedberg's photo-remixes combine a true fondness for quotidian imagery with a yearning to burst through simple appearances to a value-added reality. ...more...

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Amplifier: Steven Earle – Junior Brown – Unknown Mortal Orch
Updated: 2011-07-12 23:00:03
Description: Steve Earle will never get out of this world alive. Junior Brown plays the guit-steel. And, see the Unknown Mortal Orchestra before they hit it big. ...more...

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Wylie House: A ‘Slice Of Life’ Lived Long Ago
Updated: 2011-07-12 14:37:33
Description: Many of the artifacts provide clues as to how the Wileys lived. If the toothbrush is a hint at their private lives, some of the more beautiful pieces on display are glimmers of a more public existence. ...more...

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IU Festival Theatre Pairs Characters And Plays
Updated: 2011-07-12 13:00:28
Description: "Communicating Shakespeare takes the whole body." Molly Casey ...more...

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A Place For Film: Exploring The Black Film Center Archive
Updated: 2011-07-11 13:00:12
Description: On this week's episode we invite Archivist Mary Huelsbeck from the Black Film Center Archive to discuss the mission and holdings of the BFCA. ...more...

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The Fantasticks: Review
Updated: 2011-07-08 13:00:37
Description: Throughout The Fantasticks one of the most eloquent characters was the wordless mute played by Nigel Brown. ...more...

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One Evening, Two Arabian Nights
Updated: 2011-07-07 13:00:01
Description: Having a cast that mostly fresh from "Godspell" has had its effects on our production. ...more...

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Wonder In The Details: A Stroll Down The Limestone Trail
Updated: 2011-07-05 19:37:24
Description: How is the campus limestone tour like mushroom hunting? Once you “get your eyes on,” previously camouflaged details start to pop out everywhere. ...more...

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A Director Goes Back In Time To A Timeless Show
Updated: 2011-07-05 17:00:19
Description: The characters echo vaudeville and old time romance. The story has that sort of illogical but emotionally solid feel. ...more...

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Ladyes Delight, Children’s Fun And A Gentleman’s Pleasure
Updated: 2011-07-05 14:05:08
Description: The instruments are so interesting and the music is both tuneful and rhythmic so we always have a good time. ...more...

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A Place For Film: Fall 2011 City Lights Series
Updated: 2011-07-04 13:00:32
Description: On this week's episode we invite James Paasche and Landon Palmer to talk about the Fall 2011 City Lights Series. ...more...

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Actor/Director: The Crossover At Crossroads
Updated: 2011-06-30 13:00:08
Description: Directing is very rewarding, but it’s very exhausting. I have much more fun and a lot less stress as an actor just because it’s the mindset that I’ve always been in. Brandon Wentz ...more...

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Wending A Stony Way Through Campus
Updated: 2011-06-29 11:00:33
Description: By the end of the tour, visitors will know what is and what is not a gargoyle, and the only decorative aspect of Ballantine Hall. ...more...

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Festival Orchestra Debuts At IU Auditorium
Updated: 2011-06-29 10:45:50
Description: I do have a bit of the educator in me and so I’m especially grateful to have the chance to work with this mix of experienced and younger players.' ...more...

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Mavis Staples To Headline Lotus Festival 2011
Updated: 2011-06-28 23:00:35
Description: Staples is a legendary performer who's received Grammy nominations in blues, gospel, folk and pop alike. ...more...

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Big Freedia The Queen Diva: You Better Bounce
Updated: 2011-06-28 19:57:15
Description: Big Freedia and her bounce music dance party bring a little bit of New Orleans to Bloomington. ...more...

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Realism Reigns At Shawnee
Updated: 2011-06-28 13:00:59
Description: It’s about family. It’s about how poisoning lies and guilt can be, and it’s about patriotism. ...more...

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The Music Man: Review
Updated: 2011-06-27 13:03:42
Description: Along with the variety and mix of music "the Music Man" is full of varied and extended dance pieces. In some shows they verge on the fantastic and mystical. ...more...

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A Place For Film: Angelo Pizzo
Updated: 2011-06-27 11:05:37
Description: On this week's episode, Angelo Pizzo, writer of Hoosiers and Rudy joins us to talk about his screenwriting process. ...more...

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Review: Picasso At The Lapin Agile
Updated: 2011-06-24 15:11:12
Description: Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a very funny show. Every character is interesting and has something to say. ...more...

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Music Man Opens Summer Theatre At IU
Updated: 2011-06-23 13:00:26
Description: When Robert Preston auditioned for the role of Professor Harold Hill, Meredith Willson had him sing “Ya Got Trouble” saying that if he could handle that song, he’d be fine for the part. ...more...

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A Black-And-White World In Color: The Cushman Collection
Updated: 2011-06-23 12:00:38
Description: Artworks' Adam Schwartz visits an IU photo archive that shows what a black-and-white past looked like in vivid Kodachrome color. ...more...

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A Place For Film: In The News
Updated: 2011-06-22 19:18:44
Description: On this week's episode, we invite Cinema staffer Matthew Kerchner to discuss some recent news stories. ...more...

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Columbus Architecture: North Christian Church
Updated: 2011-06-21 23:00:12
Description: The story of architecture in Columbus, Indiana seems to always come back to industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller. It’s fitting then that the final installment of Artworks tour of the Columbus architecture series ends at the church Mille...more...

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Godspell: Review
Updated: 2011-06-21 13:00:37
Description: According to the Gospel of Mathew, Judas then departs and hangs himself. But in this production as the lights dimmed and the music became more frantic, it was Judas who nailed Jesus to the wall despite his anguished cries. ...more...

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The 44th Indianapolis Early Music Festival
Updated: 2011-06-21 12:00:33
Description: Each year for the festival we seek to balance music from the baroque and the renaissance with an occasional entry written during the medieval period. This summer we’re at three and thre ...more...

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