Connie Shakalis

Three Indiana University alumni are returning to Bloomington Sept. 24-29 as part of the cast and staff of IU Auditorium 's national Broadway tour of "Les Miserables." Tickets are selling quickly.

3 former Indiana University students return to Bloomington to perform in the Broadway tour of \

Before The Beatles won fame in North America they opened for Joey Dee and the Starliters one night in a Germany nightclub. "Everyone was screaming with excitement," said Felix Cavaliere, who would go on to found the popular band The Rascals.

Families, crews from across Indiana and beyond will compete in the 62nd Lake Lemon Regatta Sept. 28-29.

Want a fright on an October night? Bloomington Symphony Orchestra will play scary music Oct. 20 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

"Radium Girls' is a "ghost play" that tells of memories of what happened 100 years ago to young women painting radium dials, director says.

Plays are written to be staged, but presenting a new play as just a reading can smooth its trajectory. The playwright can hear how the words sound. They also might gauge audience reaction in time to make changes.

Encouraging and nurturing the love of reading is the reason the Bloomington Book Festival was formed. Its first year of events begins Oct. 29.

We hear of the value of asking our elders about our culture before it's too late, before they die along with their troves of historically personal facts.

America’s prog rock band Kansas celebrates its 50th anniversary with its “Another Fork in the Road” tour. Fans at the two shows (Nov. 23-24) at the Brown County Music Center will get two hours of hits, fan favorites and numbers hardly ever performed live. The audience will pretty surely hear "Dust in the Wind" and "Carry on Wayward Son," but there will be loads of other cool songs.