Bloom Archives
Author: lynae
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For Babies: Local Stores Have It All (Photo Gallery)
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS From organic cotton diapers to children’s exercise equipment, Bloomington independent retailers stock all the essential and sundry items needed to…
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Horse-Angels: An Equine Rescue Center with Bushels of Heart (Photo Gallery)
BY JANET MANDELSTAM In his glory days, Guy was a show horse. But those days were long gone when animal control officials brought him…
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Conduit Press: Turning Books into Other Things (Photo Gallery)
BY LIBBY PETERSON While working as a nanny in 2009, Talia Halliday came up with the idea of making notebooks as an engaging activity…
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20 Years of WFHB
BY LYNAE SOWINSKI WFHB celebrated its first official broadcast with the sound of an ancient gong on January 4, 1993. For its first year,…
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The Legacy of Schindler’s List
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS Director Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List tells the true story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who risked his…
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Treasures of the IU Art Museum
BY JEREMY SHERE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL CAVANAGH AND KEVIN MONTAGUE, COURTESY OF THE IU ART MUSEUM Among Bloomington’s many cultural touchstones, arguably the single…
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Big Love for Small Houses
BY NANCY HILLER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHANNON ZAHNLE Small houses are in vogue. Google “small house trend” and you’ll discover page after page of stories…
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The Second Annual Local Artists Showcase: Presented by Bloom Magazine and Ivy Tech (Photo Gallery)
PHOTOS BY BRIDGETT HENWOOD Note: This article is about the 2013 Local Artists Showcase. Click here for information on this year’s event. On a…
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Ivy Tech-Bloomington to Offer Theater Program
BY KELLY KENDALL It all started with Waiting for Lefty, a drama staged in April 2012 about a taxi drivers’ strike. Then came The…