Bloomington & Vine: Apple Wines & Rieslings to Celebrate Autumn Holidays
Summer is over, fall is here, and two major holidays celebrating the harvest season—Halloween and Thanksgiving— are on the way.
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Author: Bloom Intern
The Blues Jam Is Back at Port Hole & Bear’s Place
Joel Kohen has been passionate about the Bloomington music scene since his days as an undergraduate at Indiana University, but he went from enthusiast to proprietor when he and his wife, Deana, bought the Port Hole Inn in January 2017.
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Katie Mills: Bassoonist Extraordinaire
When she was in middle school and studying the cello, Katie Mills had a musical epiphany: “I knew I wanted to play an instrument that nobody else played.”
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Salaam Has Found Its ‘Perfect Balance’
Although Salaam has been together a quarter of a century, founder Dena El Saffar says that only recently has the Middle Eastern quartet hit upon a certain balance that had been quietly simmering for nearly a decade. With patience, practice, and the space to make intuitive music, she says the group feels it has achieved the ideal blend of cultural sounds.
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Jackson Njau: Paleoanthropologist
One might say Jackson Njau, 52, was born into the paleoanthropology field—or at least very near it.
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