Category: Wedding Guide
15th Annual Wedding Guide
There is an existential expression that pretty much sums up the year 2020: “Man plans, God laughs.”
Editor’s Message: What I Miss
You never know what you’ve got till it’s gone. I’ve been thinking about that sentiment often as the pandemic rages on, even as people are being vaccinated. The end is in sight but not yet in reach.
Gladys DeVane: Storyteller
Gladys DeVane, 81, is a storyteller, scriptwriter, and actor. She first learned stagecraft competing in oratorical contests as a child and acting in plays in high school and college.
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.
Chiropractor Dr. Karin Drummond: 10,000 Patients and Counting
Dr. Karin Drummond knew she wanted to be a chiropractor from the time she was a little girl. “I wasn’t interested in pills, I was interested in how to get well without pills,” she says.
Lotus Foundation Receives Grant for Youth Outreach
The Lotus Education & Arts Foundation has been awarded a 2021 Recover Forward Program Grant in the amount of $1,850 from the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association, a division of the City of Bloomington.
Bloomington Company to Appear on ‘World’s Greatest!…’ TV Show
Bloomington-based UVC Lightforce, a leader in ultraviolet light sanitization systems, has been selected to appear on national cable television show World’s Greatest!…
Alain Barker: IU Music School Career Development Director
The Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University’s world-renowned conservatory, has traditionally prepared students for careers in performing, composing, or teaching music. But in recent years, all of those “legacy tracks” in the music field have evolved dramatically.
2021 Living Legend and Young Leaders to Be Honored at 17th Annual Black History Month Gala
The City of Bloomington and the Indiana University Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center invite the community to the 17th annual Black History Month Gala, which will take place on Saturday, February 27, at 6 p.m.
- Arts & Entertainment
- Business & Finance
- Community
- Fashion & Shopping
- Food & Drink
- Health & Fitness
- Home & Family
- Our Town
- Science & Education
- Web Exclusives
Review: ‘The Way of Imagination’
Jan 9, 2021
“How can we keep from crying out in wonder and praise?” asks Scott Russell Sanders in one of the alternately exultant and grieving essays contained in his newest collection, The Way of Imagination.
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REVIEW: ‘Kitchen Think’
Oct 3, 2020
David Howard: Renaissance Man on the Move
Jun 3, 2020
To use a juggling metaphor, David Howard is a guy who keeps a lot of plates spinning. His latest project is Alley Works, a new apartment building with a restaurant complex at the former Yellow Cab site on 6th Street, west of the downtown Square.
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Business Team-Building Occurring in the Kitchen
Jun 2, 2020
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Local Attorneys Donate Video Devices to Bell Trace Residents
Jan 5, 2021
Betsy Greene’s mother, Beth Van Vorst Gray, lived at Bell Trace Senior Living Community with her husband, Ralph Gray, and died in February, just before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
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Help Save ‘The Ryder!’
Dec 29, 2020
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Dogs on the Job: The Ultimate Greeters
Dec 16, 2020
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ETC for the Home Reimagined: Offering More Choices and Better Prices
Jan 14, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has forced many businesses to reassess their operations and perhaps alter their practices, and ETC for the Home, Bloomington’s locally owned home furnishing and interior design center, is one of them.
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MASKS: The Great Christmas Stocking Stuffer of 2020
Dec 22, 2020
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Bloomington’s Best Bows!
Dec 11, 2020
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Lee Loves: April/May 2020
May 29, 2020
For Foodies: 9 New Places to Indulge!
Dec 27, 2020
The throes of a pandemic might seem an inauspicious time to open a new restaurant or food store, but Bloomington has seen a healthy number of new such venues launch in the face of considerable obstacles.
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PopKorn! New Store South of the Square
May 26, 2020
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Bloomington & Vine: Keep It Fine, Cellar Your Wine
May 23, 2020
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Soups & Starters to Swoon Over
May 11, 2020
Life at Bell Trace in the Pandemic
Feb 12, 2021
The sweet potato casserole, a traditional part of a holiday meal at Bell Trace, took a new path from the kitchen in the year of COVID-19.
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IU Student Advocates for Youth with Chronic Illness
Apr 10, 2020
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A Fascination with Model Trains Is Alive and Well in Bloomington (PHOTO GALLERY)
Feb 13, 2021
Winding through Trevor Jones’ basement is a train model of Gloucestershire, England, circa 1960, that includes coal mines, cow pastures, castle ruins, and a hillside fox hunt.
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InBloom: Decorate with Evergreens
Dec 14, 2020
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The Bloomerang Effect
May 12, 2020
Applications Now Open for City’s Solar and Energy Efficiency Loan Grants
Feb 4, 2021
As part of Mayor John Hamilton’s Recover Forward initiative, the City of Bloomington is providing support for organizations to improve building efficiency through projects such as solar installation, appliance and lighting upgrades, and weatherization with the goals of reducing utility costs and saving energy.
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David Brent Johnson: WFIU-FM Jazz Director
Dec 30, 2020
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Scott Dolson: Director, IU Intercollegiate Athletics
Dec 20, 2020
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Elaine Monaghan: Journalist
Dec 13, 2020
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Informatics Prof Is IU’s 7th MacArthur Fellow
Jan 15, 2021
The MacArthur Fellows Program offers a $625,000 “genius grant” to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the potential for making future advances.
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Pandemic or No Pandemic: Bird Counts Go On!
Jan 13, 2021
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Ivy Tech Offers Free Tuition For High-Demand Workers
Apr 30, 2020
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Citizen Scientist: Monitoring Ponds & Wetlands
Apr 21, 2020
Snowy Bloomington (Photo Gallery)
Feb 2, 2021
The last week in January was a wintry one, blanketing southern Indiana in nearly four inches of snow.
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Share Your Winter Photos with Bloom!
Jan 28, 2021
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Memorialize Your Loved One in Bloom Magazine
Jan 27, 2021
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Bloomington Businesses Close During Pandemic
Oct 20, 2020
Wedding Guide
15th Annual Wedding Guide: A Hauntingly Beautiful Wedding
Feb 26, 2021
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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Black Women of Bloomington: Recognizing Their Accomplishments & Contributions
The achievements of Black women are being recognized nationally as never before, thanks to the ascent of Kamala Harris to the vice presidency, the impact of Black women on the presidential election, and the several Black women appointed to cabinet and other key government positions. Finally, and long overdue.
15th Annual Wedding Guide
There is an existential expression that pretty much sums up the year 2020: “Man plans, God laughs.”
Editor’s Message: What I Miss
You never know what you’ve got till it’s gone. I’ve been thinking about that sentiment often as the pandemic rages on, even as people are being vaccinated. The end is in sight but not yet in reach.
Gladys DeVane: Storyteller
Gladys DeVane, 81, is a storyteller, scriptwriter, and actor. She first learned stagecraft competing in oratorical contests as a child and acting in plays in high school and college.
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.
Chiropractor Dr. Karin Drummond: 10,000 Patients and Counting
Dr. Karin Drummond knew she wanted to be a chiropractor from the time she was a little girl. “I wasn’t interested in pills, I was interested in how to get well without pills,” she says.
Lotus Foundation Receives Grant for Youth Outreach
The Lotus Education & Arts Foundation has been awarded a 2021 Recover Forward Program Grant in the amount of $1,850 from the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association, a division of the City of Bloomington.
Bloomington Company to Appear on ‘World’s Greatest!…’ TV Show
Bloomington-based UVC Lightforce, a leader in ultraviolet light sanitization systems, has been selected to appear on national cable television show World’s Greatest!…
Alain Barker: IU Music School Career Development Director
The Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University’s world-renowned conservatory, has traditionally prepared students for careers in performing, composing, or teaching music. But in recent years, all of those “legacy tracks” in the music field have evolved dramatically.
2021 Living Legend and Young Leaders to Be Honored at 17th Annual Black History Month Gala
The City of Bloomington and the Indiana University Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center invite the community to the 17th annual Black History Month Gala, which will take place on Saturday, February 27, at 6 p.m.
- Arts & Entertainment
- Business & Finance
- Community
- Fashion & Shopping
- Features
- Food & Drink
- Health & Fitness
- Home & Family
- Our Town
- Web Exclusives
Review: ‘The Way of Imagination’
Jan 9, 2021
“How can we keep from crying out in wonder and praise?” asks Scott Russell Sanders in one of the alternately exultant and grieving essays contained in his newest collection, The Way of Imagination.
-
-
-
-
REVIEW: ‘Kitchen Think’
Oct 3, 2020
David Howard: Renaissance Man on the Move
Jun 3, 2020
To use a juggling metaphor, David Howard is a guy who keeps a lot of plates spinning. His latest project is Alley Works, a new apartment building with a restaurant complex at the former Yellow Cab site on 6th Street, west of the downtown Square.
-
Business Team-Building Occurring in the Kitchen
Jun 2, 2020
-
-
-
Local Attorneys Donate Video Devices to Bell Trace Residents
Jan 5, 2021
Betsy Greene’s mother, Beth Van Vorst Gray, lived at Bell Trace Senior Living Community with her husband, Ralph Gray, and died in February, just before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
-
-
Help Save ‘The Ryder!’
Dec 29, 2020
-
Dogs on the Job: The Ultimate Greeters
Dec 16, 2020
-
ETC for the Home Reimagined: Offering More Choices and Better Prices
Jan 14, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has forced many businesses to reassess their operations and perhaps alter their practices, and ETC for the Home, Bloomington’s locally owned home furnishing and interior design center, is one of them.
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MASKS: The Great Christmas Stocking Stuffer of 2020
Dec 22, 2020
-
Bloomington’s Best Bows!
Dec 11, 2020
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Lee Loves: April/May 2020
May 29, 2020
Gladys DeVane: Storyteller
Feb 27, 2021
Gladys DeVane, 81, is a storyteller, scriptwriter, and actor. She first learned stagecraft competing in oratorical contests as a child and acting in plays in high school and college.
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Jacinda Townsend: Novelist & MCCSC Board Member
Feb 22, 2021
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Priscilla Barnes: “Pracademic”
Feb 20, 2021
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Vanessa McClary: Kiwanis Leader
Feb 17, 2021
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Elizabeth Mitchell: Historian
Feb 16, 2021
For Foodies: 9 New Places to Indulge!
Dec 27, 2020
The throes of a pandemic might seem an inauspicious time to open a new restaurant or food store, but Bloomington has seen a healthy number of new such venues launch in the face of considerable obstacles.
-
-
PopKorn! New Store South of the Square
May 26, 2020
-
Bloomington & Vine: Keep It Fine, Cellar Your Wine
May 23, 2020
-
Soups & Starters to Swoon Over
May 11, 2020
Chiropractor Dr. Karin Drummond: 10,000 Patients and Counting
Feb 25, 2021
Dr. Karin Drummond knew she wanted to be a chiropractor from the time she was a little girl. “I wasn’t interested in pills, I was interested in how to get well without pills,” she says.
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Life at Bell Trace in the Pandemic
Feb 12, 2021
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IU Student Advocates for Youth with Chronic Illness
Apr 10, 2020
A Fascination with Model Trains Is Alive and Well in Bloomington (PHOTO GALLERY)
Feb 13, 2021
Winding through Trevor Jones’ basement is a train model of Gloucestershire, England, circa 1960, that includes coal mines, cow pastures, castle ruins, and a hillside fox hunt.
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-
InBloom: Decorate with Evergreens
Dec 14, 2020
-
-
The Bloomerang Effect
May 12, 2020
Alain Barker: IU Music School Career Development Director
Feb 24, 2021
The Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University’s world-renowned conservatory, has traditionally prepared students for careers in performing, composing, or teaching music. But in recent years, all of those “legacy tracks” in the music field have evolved dramatically.
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David Brent Johnson: WFIU-FM Jazz Director
Dec 30, 2020
-
Scott Dolson: Director, IU Intercollegiate Athletics
Dec 20, 2020
-
Elaine Monaghan: Journalist
Dec 13, 2020
Snowy Bloomington (Photo Gallery)
Feb 2, 2021
The last week in January was a wintry one, blanketing southern Indiana in nearly four inches of snow.
-
Share Your Winter Photos with Bloom!
Jan 28, 2021
-
Memorialize Your Loved One in Bloom Magazine
Jan 27, 2021
-
Bloomington’s Best Bows!
Dec 11, 2020
-
Wedding Guide
15th Annual Wedding Guide: A Hauntingly Beautiful Wedding
Feb 26, 2021
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.
Read More