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B-town Music Expo Is Back February 8
The Bloomington Music Expo—part record and music-memorabilia show, part art and music festival— will be held Saturday, February 8, from 10 a.m. to 4…
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The Ryder: For 40 Years Part of the B-town Scene
Printing issue No. 1 ominously on April Fools’ Day 1979, The Ryder is the sole survivor of a half-dozen or so free alternative publications…
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The Blues Jam Is Back at Port Hole & Bear’s Place
Joel Kohen has been passionate about the Bloomington music scene since his days as an undergraduate at Indiana University, but he went from enthusiast…
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Artists Descend on Bloomington For Annual Fourth Street Festival (PHOTO GALLERY)
In many places, Labor Day weekend is associated with cookouts and last-chance dips in the lake, but in Bloomington, the Fourth Street Festival of…
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Soap, Cheese, Even Landscaping & Yoga—All at The Goat Conspiracy (PHOTO GALLERY)
Although business partners Tonya Plachy and Nicole Schonemann say they left their careers four years ago to work for themselves, in reality, they work…
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Blue Heron: For Tools, Designs, and a Gallery of Woodcrafts
On the city’s north side, in an area that has sprung to life with the development of the Bloomington Trades District, is where you’ll…
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ROTC Air Force Cadets at IU Get Advanced Flight Simulators
While there are approximately 150 Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) detachments at colleges across the country, the ROTC program at Indiana University…
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Stop, Drop, and Give Me Ten! Fire Department Offers Free Workouts (Stop Gallery)
This summer, the City of Bloomington and the Bloomington Fire Department (BFD) are once again offering residents a chance to get in a free…
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Monster House Press: A Nontraditional Publisher
Monster House Press (MHP) has been self-described by founder Richard Wehrenberg as an “amorphous mass.”