Bloom Archives
Jesse Loudenbarger
-
Kickball Is Catching On As Way to Make Connections
BY JESSE LOUDENBARGER Friendly competition gets the ball rolling for active people looking to make new connections in the Bloomington Adult Sports Club’s (ASC)…
-
Adopt a Box: Taking Bland Out of B-town
BY JESSE LOUDENBARGER Near every traffic light in Bloomington sits a utility box — an unattractive, featureless, aluminum rectangle, and a target for spray-painted…
-
Longboarding: An Urban Sport Catching on in B-town (Photo Gallery and Video)
BY JESSE LOUDENBARGER They gather in Bloomington every week, and talk about such things as speed wobbles, mold release, Acid Drops, tacs, and frequent…
-
Cresent Donut: Nothing Fancy, Nothing Trendy, Just Doughnuts
BY JESSE LOUDENBARGER After 53 years, Bloomington’s mom-and-pop shop, Cresent Donut, is defined as much by what it doesn’t do as what it does.…
-
Children’s Corner Preschool Still Innovative After 59 Years (Photo Gallery)
BY JESSE LOUDENBARGER It’s February 1957 and The Saturday Evening Post is the most popular magazine in the nation, with each issue eagerly awaited…
-
A Monroe County Ranch Where the Buffalo Roam (Photo Gallery)
BY JESSE LOUDENBARGER It’s easy to know what to expect on a nice country drive through rural Monroe County. Rolling hills, grassy fields, barns,…
-
‘Anyone Can Play Guitar’— Atanas Tzvetkov, Children’s Teacher
BY JESSE LOUDENBARGER For many, studying at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music is the pinnacle experience in elite musical education. But for an…
-
An ‘Ancient’ Rookie Makes His Mark on Car Racing
BY JESSE LOUDENBARGER The sound of the engines, the smell of dust and fuel, the heart-stopping competition as racecars roar bumper-to-bumper and side-by-side through…
-
B-town Booksellers Survive Chains, Internet, and Recession
BY JESSE LOUDENBARGER National chains and online booksellers are often deemed responsible for driving independent bookshops out of business, but this hasn’t been the…