Bloom Archives
Author: Bloom Intern
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits: Women Who Helped Shape Our Town
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…
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Down Syndrome Family Connection to Host Cocoa Couture Fashion Show
In celebration of Bloomington’s annual Week of Chocolate, Down Syndrome Family Connection will host a fashion show in Shreve Hall at Ivy Tech Community…
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits: Bernstein in Bloomington
The driver pulled up to the house on Lake Monroe where Henry Upper waited eagerly to welcome the legend. Upper, then associate dean of…
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Prof’s Unique Collection of World Musical Instruments
Morin khuur. Dayereh. Balaban. Kamancheh. The very names of Shahyar Daneshgar’s musical instruments evoke faraway lands.
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Alana Wiesing, Timpanist
No major symphony in the United States has a female principal timpanist. Alana Wiesing would like to be the first.
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Leonard Bernstein’s Assistant Visits And Revisits the Maestro’s Time Here
Working for Leonard Bernstein was like trying to harness a tornado, according to Charlie Harmon, Bernstein’s former personal assistant-cum-music editor.
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WFHB Celebrates 25 Years of Grassroots, Community Radio
On January 4, Bloomington radio station WFHB will celebrate 25 years of broadcasting local music, news, and public affairs to the community. And although…
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Brian Oliger IU Police Officer
In 1998, Brian Oliger was student teaching art in a Bachelor Middle School classroom. He’d come to Bloomington from Seymour, Indiana, to earn a…
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Victor Kaposonore Manager, Uptown Cafe
As daytime manager, Victor Kaposonore is the face of the Uptown Cafe for breakfast and lunchtime diners. “We want it to be a casual…