Bloom Archives
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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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Marvin Sterling: Anthropology Professor
Marvin Sterling, associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University, studies Japanese devotees of Jamaican culture—an interest piqued by a doll he saw in a…
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New B-town Resident Is Noted Film Producer
In Tricky Dick and the Man in Black, Richard Nixon invites Johnny Cash to perform at the White House in 1970 and issues a…
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Laury Flint IU Police Chief
Before Cagney & Lacey ever aired, Indiana University Police Department Chief Laury Flint knew she wanted to be a cop. “I was 8,” Flint…
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Oddball Book Features Objects of Love & Loss–5 from B-town!
Bloomington has a new, quirky distinction. It’s featured prominently in a recently published book, The Museum of Broken Relationships (Grand Central Publishing, 2017), which…
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Bloom’s 12th Annual Wedding Guide (PHOTO GALLERY)
Whether they blended cultures or families, had a traditional ceremony or one a little less so, each of these four couples had a wedding…
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Three Poets Spreading the Power of Poetry (PHOTO GALLERY) (COVER STORY)
If you need a tonic to lift your spirits at this dismal time in our history, you should try poetry. It might even save…
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Jazz Vocalist Tierney Sutton Joins Jacobs School Faculty
Tierney Sutton, who joined the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty this fall, was a singing cocktail waitress when she found her vocation.…