Bloom Archives
Bloomington
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Tree Project Puts Down Roots for B-town’s Next 200 Years
In 1984, Bloomington was the first city in Indiana to receive the Tree City USA designation given by the Arbor Day Foundation, an honor…
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Back Handspring Anyone? Stage Flight Circus Arts Is a Place to Learn from Pros
Clint and Hannah Bobzein, the owners of Stage Flight, are professional circus artists. After years of international touring, they settled in Bloomington in 2014.…
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits: How True Was ‘Breaking Away’?
As part of Bloom’s Greatest Hits and in anticipation of this season’s Little 500 bicycle race, we look back at this story published in…
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits: Bernstein in Bloomington
The driver pulled up to the house on Lake Monroe where Henry Upper waited eagerly to welcome the legend. Upper, then associate dean of…
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25 of the Best Holiday Light Displays in Bloomington (PHOTO GALLERY)
Recently, Bloom Magazine dispatched contributing photographer James Kellar to photograph some of the more spectacular residential holiday light displays in and around Bloomington.
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Cardinal Stage to Present a ‘Hip, Cool’ Take on ‘Frankenstein’
On the eve of the 200th birthday of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Cardinal Stage Company is taking on an adventurous stage adaptation of the Gothic…
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Tom Miller: Innovation Director
When Tom Miller began his new position as Bloomington’s director of innovation in January, he knew there would be challenges.
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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…
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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…