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May 25, 2017 Complete History of Comedy (abridged) ...
This list of 35 exterior-wall murals located in Bloomington includes all of the murals mentioned, or photographed, in the article. These murals were chosen because they are all exterior murals, easily ...
At the corner of Sinclair and Elm streets in West Baden, this humble wooden structure was built in 1920 by Lee Sinclair for the many Black employees of the West Baden Springs Hotel. After the 1930s ...
The career of IU sculpture professor Melanie Cooper Pennington has continually evolved over 30-plus years, but she considers her recent exhibition at the I Fell Gallery “a punctuation point.” Claude ...
Artists and art advocates created the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington in 2010 to be a path for communication and a network of resources for members. Its recent focuses have been to connect with ...
To be inside the music, to hear it, to feel it, from within a group of musicians. To be surrounded by sound, to be one of the people creating that sound. “Incredible,” “amazing,” “extraordinary” are ...
Rick Clayton strode through an empty church, past the platform where he used to preach, between the pews he’d love to sell but can’t give away. To make the former Harmony Baptist Church feel less ...
Seven years ago, I became a mother, and my way of life changed drastically. Motherhood forced me to slow down and remain still within my home and within myself. The days became gentle as I spent years ...
Several shootings at a local park. A gun found in a student’s bag. A call to 911 about gunfire at a local football game. As a community, Bloomington is not immune from gun violence. In fact, according ...
The Hoosier National Forest covers an unlikely but extraordinary piece of history just outside of Paoli — a large pioneer community of free Black settlers called Lick Creek. The settlement flourished ...
Medical training has long been incorporated into Bloomington Fire Department operations, with emergency medical technicians acting as first responders to medical emergencies. But two years ago, the ...
Now that adopted-cum-prodigal-son Robert Montgomery Knight has returned to the town of his epic, mythical, mystical triumphs to live out his valedictory years, Bloomington again seems the center of ...