Sheltering in Style
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomingtonians, like the rest of the world, found themselves spending significantly more time at home—working, home-schooling children, or just staying safe.
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New City-Wide Youth Theatre Collective Tackles Racial Justice
The City-Wide Youth Theatre Collective is a new theater group in Bloomington, made up of diverse students (BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and their allies) ages 13–18.
Three B-town Tech Startups Win Funding From The Mill Initiative
An app that helps nonprofits track volunteers, a social networking platform for people in show business, and an app that reminds college students to do their assignments.
Monroe County Public Library Adds iPads, Mobile Video Production Kits to Library of Things
The Library of Things at the Monroe County Public Library has expanded to include iPads and Mobile Video Production Kits.
IU Exhibit Showcases Glenn Close Costume Collection
The exhibit “Art of the Character: Highlights from the Glenn Close Costume Collection” opened on May 6 at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University and features 56 costumes worn by actor Glenn Close in 14 productions.
The Elm: New Upscale Eatery Scheduled to Open in Summer
Most of the American Elm trees in the Elm Heights neighborhood are lost to disease, but one remains at the corner of East 2nd and South Fess streets, where its branches shade the patio of a new restaurant bearing its name.
New IU Hospital Plan Still On Track Despite Pandemic
Brian Shockney already had his work cut out for him—and then COVID-19 came along. As president of Indiana University Health South Central Region, Shockney has been managing teams working to build and transition to the new $557 million IU Health Bloomington Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC).
Work-From-Home Tips From Work-From-Home Veterans
The pandemic has ushered the home office to the forefront of work life. Gallup, Inc., indicated last October that 33% of the U.S. workforce worked from home full time and another 25% did so some of the time. Three veteran Bloomington work-from-homers offer their tips for novices to the practice.
Jeremy Price: Sportswriter
During the 19 years that The Herald-Times reporter Jeremy Price has covered Bloomington sports, he’s chronicled the ups and downs of high school and college athletics and seen his share of upheavals at the paper—changes in staff, ownership, and the profession of journalism.
Backyard Farming Popular in a Pandemic
Adam Hamel always imagined gardening someday, but with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, someday arrived sooner than expected.
‘Bloom’ Book Named a Finalist for Best Book of the Year
The Bloom book, The Killer Who Fell From The Sky, has been named a finalist for Best Non-Fiction Book by the Indy Pro Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists.
Wedding Guide
15th Annual Wedding Guide: A Hauntingly Beautiful Wedding
Mike Jacob admits that he’s not a particularly romantic guy. So it’s no surprise that his marriage proposal to Natascha Buehnerkemper was unconventional. “Getting on a knee—that’s not me,” he says. Yet their wedding was hauntingly beautiful and quixotic.
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New City-Wide Youth Theatre Collective Tackles Racial Justice
The City-Wide Youth Theatre Collective is a new theater group in Bloomington, made up of diverse students (BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and their allies) ages 13–18.
Three B-town Tech Startups Win Funding From The Mill Initiative
An app that helps nonprofits track volunteers, a social networking platform for people in show business, and an app that reminds college students to do their assignments.
Monroe County Public Library Adds iPads, Mobile Video Production Kits to Library of Things
The Library of Things at the Monroe County Public Library has expanded to include iPads and Mobile Video Production Kits.
IU Exhibit Showcases Glenn Close Costume Collection
The exhibit “Art of the Character: Highlights from the Glenn Close Costume Collection” opened on May 6 at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University and features 56 costumes worn by actor Glenn Close in 14 productions.
An Astounding Adaptation
In 1985, when Marsha Herman-Betzen and Keith Betzen told their daughter, Rachel, then 8, they were going to buy a ramshackle, four-story house on 10 wooded acres near Unionville, Indiana, she wept.
The Elm: New Upscale Eatery Scheduled to Open in Summer
Most of the American Elm trees in the Elm Heights neighborhood are lost to disease, but one remains at the corner of East 2nd and South Fess streets, where its branches shade the patio of a new restaurant bearing its name.
Coming in 2022: Tandem Community Birth Center and Postpartum House
Indiana is a dangerous place to be a pregnant person. With one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the United States, Indiana sees approximately 50 people die of pregnancy-related complications for every 100,000 live births each year.
Work-From-Home Tips From Work-From-Home Veterans
The pandemic has ushered the home office to the forefront of work life. Gallup, Inc., indicated last October that 33% of the U.S. workforce worked from home full time and another 25% did so some of the time. Three veteran Bloomington work-from-homers offer their tips for novices to the practice.
Jeremy Price: Sportswriter
During the 19 years that The Herald-Times reporter Jeremy Price has covered Bloomington sports, he’s chronicled the ups and downs of high school and college athletics and seen his share of upheavals at the paper—changes in staff, ownership, and the profession of journalism.
The Great Bloomington Cicada Beauty Contest
As you might have noticed, millions of Brood X periodical cicadas have descended upon the skies and streets of Bloomington in recent weeks.
Wedding Guide
15th Annual Wedding Guide: A Hauntingly Beautiful Wedding
Mike Jacob admits that he’s not a particularly romantic guy. So it’s no surprise that his marriage proposal to Natascha Buehnerkemper was unconventional. “Getting on a knee—that’s not me,” he says. Yet their wedding was hauntingly beautiful and quixotic.
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