Hair Apparent: Stylists Give More Than Good Looks
There’s more to hairstyling than remembering color formulas, proper angles for a cut, or how each client’s locks react to styling tools and chemicals. There’s the banter. And the bond. Jenny Elig looks into the strong relationships between hairstylists and their clients, which can include major life events — from house calls to the funeral home.
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Behind the Curtain: ‘My Children! My Africa!’
New York
Newsday describes Athol Fugard’s play
My Children! My Africa! as “One of the theatre’s most affecting dissections of social upheaval.” Art of Africa, a new Bloomington theater company, brings the powerful play, directed by Murray McGibbon, to the John Waldron Arts Center. Jen Pacenza gives her preview in Behind the Curtain.
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IU’s ‘Smash’ Tourney Largest in Indiana History
The popularity of video games has grown into full form, for both players and spectators. The Smash at IUB event on March 25, for instance, will draw nationally ranked players in one of the Midwest’s largest-attended
Super Smash Bros. tournaments. Writer Dason Anderson looks into the smashing success of this and other eSports.
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‘Places, Things, People’ 4×5 Photo Gallery: Part 1, Places
In this three-part photography series titled “Places, Things, People,” Adam Reynolds roams the southern Indiana countryside with his new 4x5 “large format” camera — a style that was popular until 35mm film began to hold sway in the mid-1900s. Making pictures with this camera, Reynolds says in his artist's statement, “is a slow, almost meditative, affair.” The results can be striking.
Click here to read Reynolds' artist's statement and to see a gallery of his 4x5 photography.
