Bloom Magazine
Category: Arts/Entertainment
Coverage of Bloomington’s vibrant arts and entertainment scene — theater, music, visual arts, film, galleries, and cultural events throughout Monroe County and beyond.
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Making It in L.A. IU’s Brice Fox Chases His Dream
BY DANIELLE PAQUETTE Bloomington native Brice Fox stands barefoot in a Los Angeles recording studio, bobbing his fashionably shaggy blond…
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Bloomington Chamber Singers Present the Diary of Anne Frank Set to Music
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS, PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHANNON ZAHNLE The story of Anne Frank is well known — her wartime diary, written…
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The Burroughs Century: A Btown ‘Beat’ Festival
BY JEREMY SHERE Think of the “Beats,” and Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg may come most readily to mind. But…
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New Focus at Jacobs School on Choral Conducting
BY JEREMY SHERE Even if you’re not a music aficionado, if you live in Indiana you’re probably aware that the…
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B-town Musician Making Music on Ancient African Instrument
BY JEREMY SHERE Since the time of the Pharaohs, the masankop (a five-stringed African lyre that’s both strummed and plucked)…
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The 3rd Annual Local Artists Showcase
Artists and art lovers will gather at the Bloomington/Monroe County Convention Center for the third annual Local Artists Showcase…
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Justin The Artistic Horse, Painting His Way to Fame
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC There are racehorses, show-jumping horses, carriage-pulling horses, even police horses. But a horse that paints? Really? Where…
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Artist Dale Enochs Creates Sculpture for Paul McCartney
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS “What becomes a legend most?” asked a long-running series of ads for a luxury fur company.…
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The Unconventional Mr. Bell
BY MIKE LEONARD This fall, virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell was back on the Indiana University campus where he addressed a…
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Homer Simpson in Bloomington! BPP Presents Farcical Play by Dan Castellaneta and Wife
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC Dan Castellaneta is best known as the voice of Homer Simpson, and through this character and numerous…
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