Bloom Archives
John Mellencamp
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50 Famous Alumni: Infamous Alums
You’ve seen our 50 famous IU Alumni. Here are a few infamous ones, too.
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Bruce Springsteen Dines at The Uptown Cafe
Bruce Springsteen visited Bloomington’s Uptown Cafe with fellow musician John Mellencamp on April 10.
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Jenn Cristy: Musician
Jenn Cristy has a credo for these challenging times: “Be kind and have conversations with people.”
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Celebrating the People of Bloomington: Part 8
Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, musician Jenn Cristy, and professional athlete Jared Jeffries are a few of these Bloomingtonians worth knowing.
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Drummer Kenny Aronoff Returns With a Show, a Talk, and a Book
BY PETER DORFMAN November 11 will mark a homecoming for a Bloomington music icon when the Buskirk-Chumley Theater hosts “An Evening With Kenny Aronoff.”…
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100 Reasons to Love Bloomington (August Cover Story)
BY CARMEN SIERING WITH BARB BERGGOETZ & ELISABETH ANDREWS, ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE CAGLE It’s a wonderful town. It was no easy task honing down the…
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‘Ghost Brothers of Darkland County’ Confuses and Delights in Bloomington Premiere
BY MIKE LEONARD The mystery of what really happened on that fateful 1967 night in Lake Belle Reve, Mississippi, remained an open question for…
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Sunday Morning with Mellencamp
BY MIKE LEONARD With the premiere tour looming for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, his theatrical collaboration with Stephen King and T Bone Burnett,…
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Jenn Cristy: Musician
BY MARGARET GRAY In her senior year at IU, Jenn Cristy broke the women’s Big Ten swimming record for the 50-yard freestyle. At the…