Bloom Archives
Tag: Stephen Sproull
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Brave Green Beret Finds a Home in Indiana
BY CARMEN SIERING Greg Stube is the first to admit that the injuries he suffered during Operation Medusa in Afghanistan were life altering. When…
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Adrian Matejka: Poet
BY PETER DORFMAN Adrian Matejka is profoundly grateful. It’s 2016, and he’s making a middle-class living as a poet. Matejka, 44, is the Indiana…
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Meet Gaurav Navin, IMU’S New Head Chef
BY BARB BERGGOETZ As an executive chef, Gaurav Navin knows what it takes to manage lots of people, handle loads of produce, and serve…
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It Takes Math, Physics, & Voodoo to Learn to Make a Violin at IU (Photo Gallery)
BY PAUL BICKLEY “My mother was a violinist,” says Tom Sparks, “and when I was 14, I took her Joseph Guarneri violin apart with a butter…
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Hot Rod’s Downtown Barber Shop: Just Like the Good Old Days!
BY PAUL BICKLEY In July 2014, Rodney Pheifer visited Ward’s Downtown Barber Shop in Bloomington to look at two chairs for his expanding barbershop…
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Jim Keplinger: Comic Book Writer
BY PAUL BICKLEY When Donald Griffin Jr. and Tim Ballard began Off Campus Housing Agency (OCHA), they focused their marketing efforts on developing a…
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IU Theatre Presents “King Lear” In Original 1606 Pronunciation
BY PAUL BICKLEY The new world premiere of a centuries-old play will allow Bloomington audiences to experience the language of King Lear as Shakespeare…
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Bloomington WoodWorks: A Different Kind of Co-Op
BY BARB BERGGOETZ A professional woodworker and furniture maker, James Bradley was tired of working alone in his home woodworking shop and having to…
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From Horrors to a New Life: A Bloomington Success Story Because the U.S. Took In Vietnamese Refugees
BY MIKE LEONARD For 18 years, clients have patronized The Nail Studio on South College Mall Road and most have received salon services from…