Bloom Archives
Author: lynae
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The Antique Mall Is Back and Better
BY PAMELA KEECH Yep, the Bloomington Antique Mall is back. When it closed three years ago it broke the hearts of collectors and dealers…
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Middle Way House Wins Awards For Preservation and Revitalization
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS Middle Way House has long been in the business of restoration, as the organization has spent 40 years helping women put…
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Community Kitchen: Helping to Feed Our Kids
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC The Community Kitchen of Monroe County, founded in 1983 to combat hunger in Bloomington, is probably best known for its public…
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Bike Project Offers Help and Free Bikes
BY CASSANDRA ORTON Want to build your own bike? How about for free? That can happen at the Bloomington Community Bike Project, a nonprofit,…
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Yes, the Rumors are True, There is Burlesque in Bloomington (See Photo Gallery)
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC Where? When? How did this happen? And what exactly is burlesque anyway? For readers unfamiliar with this form of entertainment, burlesque’s…
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Bluebird: A Club for All Music and All Ages
BY JEREMY SHERE Even in the age of digital, always-on-demand music, there’s still nothing quite like seeing a band doing its thing live on…
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David Moore: Renaissance Man
BY PAMELA KEECH Fun for David Moore means learning something new. At 53 he has constructed a life that is wide open to that…
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Kid Kazooey: Musician
BY JEREMY SHERE If not for his inability to catch a baseball, Kevin MacDowell, a.k.a. Kid Kazooey, might never have become one of Bloomington’s…
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Michael Cassady: Restaurateur
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS Michael Cassady’s Uptown Café combines Cajun-Creole cooking with the swinging sophistication of a 1940’s jazz bar and the global ambience of…