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Tag: Dorfman
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At Carnegie Hall: Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk Plays as a Choral Composition
In July 2018, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor received an unexpected email from Brad and Doug Balliett, the renowned twin orchestral composers. They proposed making…
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BIG Night Really Is a Big Night for B-town’s Game Designers
Piloting a skeletal ship through gloomy seas, Gaby Benninghoff, 21, is on a mission to collect souls while evading monsters and giant sharks. “We’re…
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The Mill—An Incubator for Entrepreneurial Start-Ups
In 2015, when Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton took office, Dimension Mill, the century-old former Showers Brothers factory building at 642 N. Madison St., was…
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Indoor Places for Little Kids To Play
BY PETER DORFMAN Bloomington is known as a playful city, but it isn’t always easy to find spur-of-the-moment activities for small children, especially when…
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Endwright Center Offers Garden Programs & Trips
A short drive up West Ind. 46 in Ellettsville, The Endwright Center offers educational programs for active adults, including many on gardening. “We’ve had…
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Master Gardener Program Celebrates 30 Years Here
Monroe County’s Master Gardener program celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2019. Begun in the greater Seattle area in 1972, the Master Gardener program came…
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Musician Travis Puntarelli Is Busy, Busy, Busy, Busy
Flexibility is a running theme in Travis Puntarelli’s life and career. He plays multiple instruments (his website lists everything from guitar and accordion to…
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Bloomington Refugee Network Now Helping Asylum Seekers Here
Exhausted migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America, many of them running for their lives from political violence and lawlessness in their home…

