Dalia Rosenfeld Returns Home To Promote Her First Book
To most Americans, to be a Hoosier is synonymous with unromantic, flyover-country ordinariness. In writer Dalia Rosenfeld’s adopted home of Tel Aviv, Israel, it makes her exotic.
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Author: Rodney Margison
Get Out Your Pin-Hole Boxes: It’s Time to Watch an Eclipse!
On August 21, for the first time in nearly 40 years, North America will see a total solar eclipse, and while Bloomington is not in the line of totality, a partial eclipse is reason enough to hold a few special celebrations.
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Doris Sims: Public Servant
In February, Doris Sims, director of the City of Bloomington Housing and Neighborhood Development Department, was named a Living Legend at the Black History Month Gala. “I thought, ‘Oh, to be put in that category!’ I never set out to be a legend,” Sims says. “It was humbling.”
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For Parents in Crisis, Safe Families for Children Offers Short-Term Alternative to Foster Care
Sometimes parents need help with their children for a few days or a few weeks. They may be temporarily experiencing homelessness or another crisis such as a medical emergency and not know where to turn. That’s when Safe Families for Children can step in and provide short-term childcare in a local host home.
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Angelo Pizzo—Movie Star! Oh, What Could Have Been
Shortly before Angelo Pizzo began making some of Hollywood’s most beloved underdog movies, the Bloomington native nearly became a leading man himself. In a plot worthy of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Pizzo caught the eye of one of television’s most powerful agents, who offered him guaranteed stardom.
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