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For Kitchen and Bath Räke Is a One-Stop Shop

First Posted: 2/7/13 01:25 PM EDT Updated: 2/7/13 01:25 PM EDT
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BY PAMELA KEECH Bob and Margaret Raake (pronounced “rockie”) are on their second family business. The first was Ellettsville Landscaping, which they owned for 16 years. Then a random string of events led them to buy a 28-year-old company called Laminated Tops from a man Bob met in a restaurant. “My husband used to eat breakfast every morning at Bob Evans,” says Margaret, “and he met the former owner there. He’d been looking for someone to take over his business, and we were looking for a change.” The deal was sealed when their son Richard, recently graduated from Purdue with a degree in building-construction management, agreed to join his parents in the new venture. That was in the late 1990s. [...]

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How Many Towns Have a Harp Store?

First Posted: 12/10/12 02:18 PM EDT Updated: 12/10/12 02:18 PM EDT
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BY PAMELA KEECH Bloomington continues to surprise. In an unremarkable building behind Mother Bear’s Pizza, a very famous harp player and her ex-husband operate an international harp business. Eleanor Fell is legendary for pioneering popular music on the harp. Lee Caulfield was an international sales manager for General Electric. Vanderbilt Music Company began in their apartment at 34th and Park Avenue in New York City—the old Vanderbilt Hotel. “We started the company in 1976 because there was a shortage of good gut strings,” says Caulfield. “Most strings on a large harp are natural gut, made from sheep or beef intestines, and were not then available in the U.S. so we imported them from England.” The business here sells harps, music, [...]

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A New Women’s Boutique For All Sizes, All Ages

First Posted: 10/2/12 01:33 PM EDT Updated: 10/2/12 01:33 PM EDT
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BY PAMELA KEECH Bloomington has a new dress shop, art gallery, and gathering spot, all rolled into one. It’s called DD Decor and it’s the latest addition to Renwick Village Center on the east side of town, just off Sare Road. Owner Dana Goode, 58, is displaying trendy clothing with West Coast flair, along with paintings by her friend Jennifer Mujezinovic (Moo-yay-zin-o-vich). A native of Southern California, Goode has been around Bloomington since she met her husband, local manufacturer John Goode. She’s known for giving parties and organizing events, and in 2011 her fancy footwork won Dancing With the Celebrities. “People know they can come in the store and just sit down and have a good time, or talk, or [...]

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Foursquare Antiques: For Everything You Want and Nothing You Need (Photo Gallery)

First Posted: 8/13/12 09:17 AM EDT Updated: 8/16/12 12:31 PM EDT
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Foursquare Antiques

BY PAMELA KEECH If you pop by Foursquare Antiques, Furniture & Fine Art at its new location on South Walnut soon, you might be able to get in on some of the 10,000 buttons owner Matt Murphy just acquired from a Florida estate sale. Or a player piano that almost works. Or a papier-mâché head of John the Baptist. Foursquare may have everything you want and nothing you need. Murphy, 45, is a devout fan of the found object, especially if it’s in situ. “I love getting into any kind of space where things have just been left. I don’t care what it is—clothespins, a comb—the longer it’s been there, the better.” Lately he’s been salvaging curiosities from the old [...]

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The Paintings of Longtime Prof Barry Gealt at IU Art Museum (Video)

First Posted: 8/8/12 02:32 PM EDT Updated: 8/8/12 02:37 PM EDT
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BY PAMELA KEECH This fall the IU Art Museum will present a retrospective of the paintings of Barry Gealt, who retired from IU in 2009 after almost 40 years as a fine-arts professor. Gealt, 70, has spent his working life inventing a visual language in oil paint. “The show is called ‘Barry Gealt: Embracing Nature,’ which is kind of a pun because he has such an embracing nature,” says Linda Baden, the museum’s associate director for editorial and marketing services and an honorary curator of the exhibit. The show will include three large figure paintings and 32 landscapes. “I’ve always been an image painter,” explains Gealt. “My paintings border on being abstract, but abstraction in a way that means clarity—not [...]

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