Bloomington’s unofficial dress code might be called laid-back casual. But there is one place in town that’s the exception. Drop in at the Meadowood Retirement Community for social hour any Friday evening or on any special event day and you’ll find the residents strategically dressed to the nines.
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Evil has visited upon the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. The 2018–19 Ivy Tech Student Productions theater season “explores the eternal question of evil with a wide range of approaches,” says Artistic Director Paul Daily.
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As part of Bloom’s Greatest Hits and in anticipation of this season’s Little 500 bicycle race, we look back at this story published in our June/July 2014 issue.
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From February/March 2015: When Mary Alice Dunlap was appointed by the Bloomington City Council as the city’s first woman mayor in 1962 after the resignation of fellow Democrat Tom Lemon, it provided a cause for celebration. The former city clerk/treasurer was just the second woman ever to serve as the mayor of an Indiana city, but the breakthrough was short-lived.
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The driver pulled up to the house on Lake Monroe where Henry Upper waited eagerly to welcome the legend. Upper, then associate dean of the music school, will never forget the moment when the trunk popped open and he caught a glimpse of its contents. “I almost jumped back and gasped,” he recalls. The rear of the car was packed with a startling number of framed family photographs. “You see, this is what Bernstein did when he traveled. He wanted to surround himself with family. He set the pictures all over the condo so that every place he turned he would see a family member. That tells you quite a bit about the warmth and complexity of this man.”
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It might be getting more difficult to make your mark in the local grocery arena, but Bloomingfoods General Manager Tony Alongi says it isn’t impossible. That’s why the local co-op has introduced Bloomingfoods 2U, the city’s only grocery delivery service.
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“Art should ask large questions,” says Paul Daily, artistic director of the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. “We use our shows to ask questions and stimulate thought and conversation.”
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For the past decade, multiple stakeholders have been seeding Bloomington with infrastructure, venture capital, accelerator programs, and more in an effort to attract and retain high-tech companies. Now those efforts are paying off.
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BY PETER DORFMAN November 11 will mark a homecoming for a Bloomington music icon when the...
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We at Bloom love photography, and over the past 10 years, we’ve published more than 6,000 images,...
Read MoreBY CARMEN SIERING WITH BARB BERGGOETZ & ELISABETH ANDREWS, ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE CAGLE It’s a wonderful town. It was no easy task honing down the wonders of this amazing town to a mere 100. But that was our mission way back...
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BY MIKE LEONARD Lynn Coyne can pinpoint a transformational day in his life in the summer of 1958....
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