I always pick up the new copy of Bloom magazine. It’s a brightly-colored, slickly-produced, and in many ways quite well-done give-away magazine about Bloomington, Indiana, focusing on arts, entertainment, food, and so on. It sometimes contains interesting long-form journalism about the town and its history of a kind you wouldn’t find elsewhere — for example, [...]
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I’ve been looking forward to Kenneth Anger‘s visit to the IU Cinema for quite a while. The 300 tickets for the evening showing of some of his films sold out at least a month ago, so I was not the only one. My understanding of Anger was actually pretty received and second-hand. I own his [...]
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I lost my debit card, Am Ex card, faculty i.d. and driver’s license last weekend. My wallet had a ripped pocket and I think everything fell out somewhere in the farmer’s market. I have enough faith in the friendly small-town experience that I kept waiting for someone to get in touch… but no dice. To [...]
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From our local paper today (not sure what accounts for the several-week delay on this news being reported; perhaps there was an attempted hush-up): A spring party intended to be an opportunity for friends to exchange seeds landed one woman in the hospital after she ate some of the seeds. Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies were [...]
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Sorry I missed this one. Kirkwood Avenue and Walnut Street are hubs of nightlife entertainment for college students, but this Thursday the streets entertained a different crowd: the undead. About 100 people dressed up as zombies took over the streets for about an hour, walking straight-legged and blank-eyed, bringing traffic to a halt, jumping on [...]
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Amazing flooding here in Bloomington!!! I had to take my shoes off to wade across Third Street — the water was up to my knees, splashing up in the wake of a bus against the window of the coffee shop, and I chatted with a guy whose bike had been swept away downstream in Jordan [...]
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Local news story of the week: Police: Funny fudge made with lavender, not pot BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana University police say brownies a girl gave to dorm workers didn’t contain marijuana at all. The leafy substance mixed in was lavender. IU Police Capt. Jerry Minger said the 13-year-old girl came forward after the case [...]
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We woke up at 5:30 a.m. — the bed was rattling and shaking. We were confused and thought maybe it was a lightning storm; we learned this morning that parts of the lower Midwest were hit with a 5.4 earthquake! On my sister-in-law’s suggestion, I submitted a report to Did you Feel It?
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