Bloom Archives
Author: lynae
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A Local Music Co-op That’s Like Nothing Else
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC The Grant Street Musician’s Co-op is not a conventional music venue, nor a conventional anything. Located in a small building just…
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New Book Explores Asian Stereotypes in the U.S.
BY CARMEN SIERING At a time when the President of the United States has asked that the country have a national conversation about race,…
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Yogi’s Goes Gastropub: New Room, New Menu, New Vibe
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR If you are smarter than the average bear you might have noticed that something is afoot at Yogi’s Grill & Bar.…
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Sodium Reduction Taste Challenge: And the Winning Recipes Are…
BY JANET MANDELSTAM The Monroe County Health Department threw out a challenge to local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and retirement homes: Modify your recipes to…
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Wristwatches Still Popular In the Modern Digital Age
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC “What time do you have?” For many, the response to that question is to check their mobile phones. But traditional wristwatches…
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Lose a Job, Start a Company: The Frangipani Body Products Story
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS When Tracy Land was downsized out of her IT job in 2009, she didn’t see it as the end of…
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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 head, contemplating how to…
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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 as an adolescent while…
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A Towering Presence and Man of God: The Life and Times of Reverend Ernest Butler
BY JEREMY SHERE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY DIRK SHADD The phone rang just after 4 p.m. The Reverend Ernest Butler, longtime pastor of Second Baptist Church…