Bloom Archives
Our Town
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Janko’s Little Zagreb For Big Steaks, Big Flavors, Fine Wines
BY AUBREY DUNNUCK A meal at Janko’s Little Zagreb is a sensory experience even before you enter the restaurant. It starts with the enticing…
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Marvin Jones Jr.: Mathemetician
Indiana University graduate student Marvin Jones Jr. helps local kids and teenagers learn problem-solving skills through math, and maybe raise their SAT scores along…
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Mick Renneisen: Deputy Mayor
BY PETER DORFMAN Shortly after the 2015 election, Mick Renneisen got a call from newly elected Mayor John Hamilton. “I thought this was the…
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Saturday Is Cricket Day in Rev. Ernest D. Butler Park
BY PETER DORFMAN Bloomingtonians strolling through Rev. Ernest D. Butler Park on a Saturday afternoon in spring or summer expecting to see youth baseball…
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Michael Hamburger: Jefferson Science Fellow
BY BARB BERGGOETZ Michael Hamburger says he enjoyed being the “seismologist in residence” as a science fellow in Washington D.C. While there, he advised…
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Eric Sandweiss: Professor of ‘Public History’
BY CARMEN SIERING Transitions can be difficult, so in 2002, when Eric Sandweiss was considering a position as the Carmony Chair of History at…
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Bernadette Pace: Trapeze Artist (Photo Gallery)
BY CARMEN SIERING In 1970, when she was a young mother, Bernadette Pace joined the Denver YMCA, but instead of taking up running or…
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Adrian Matejka: Poet
BY PETER DORFMAN Adrian Matejka is profoundly grateful. It’s 2016, and he’s making a middle-class living as a poet. Matejka, 44, is the Indiana…
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Janiece Jaffe: Singer
BY SOPHIE BIRD Janiece Jaffe always felt there was something inherently sacred about her voice, but she wasn’t always forthcoming about her vocal abilities.…