This exhibit, presented by the City of Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District (BEAD), will showcase the paintings of Wyatt LeGrand in the Showers Atrium of City Hall. It is free and open to the public during regular hours (9am – 5pm, Monday through Friday). Runs until October 31.

When your toddler or preschool child hits the turf field at the Twin Lakes Recreation Center, they will be ready to run and play! An indoor turf field provides you and your young child with ample space to run, play on an obstacle course, and practice ball throwing and kicking skills. This free-time play is parent supervised while the TLRC provides all the equipment for an hour of healthy physical play. Check the monthly calendar for special Turf Time days with the bounce house and specially scheduled games. For children ages 1 – 6 yrs. w/parent. Every Monday and Wednesday.

This exhibit, “A Place Aside: Artists and Their Partners,” is on display at the Kinsey Institute Gallery and will run from September 28 to December 20.

Since the invention of photography, the camera has been turned towards loved ones to document birthdays, vacations, graduations, and other significant events. For each of the couples included in this exhibition, however, photography is not a method of simply recording events but a means of exploring their partnership through the creation of art. While the photographs serve as documents of a couple’s life together, they also reveal the trust and respect that each partner has for the other.

The Kinsey Institute Gallery is open to the public Monday-Friday, 1:30 pm-5 pm.

“Gender Expressions” uses contemporary photographs, fine art prints, and other materials from the Kinsey Institute collections to illustrate the various ways that people express their gender identity or challenge societal expectations about gender roles. A selection of magazines, books, newspaper clippings, and other materials from the library and archives takes a look at transgender history in the United States. Artists represented in this exhibition include Mariette Pathy Allen, Jess Anthony, Herbert Ascherman, Mia Beach, Heather Christoffer, Jess T. Dugan, Leonor Fini, Danielle C. Head, Hans van der Kamp, Vivienne Maricevic, Len Prince, Carson Rader, Sarah Taavola, and Cara Lee Wade. Exhibit is open every weekday until December 20.

Join us at The Olive Leaf for our first Ladies’ Night Out on Monday, October 29th. In addition to enjoying good food and good friends, guests will enjoy two fabulous shopping options and the opportunity to support Jill’s House, Inc. Thirty-One Gifts consultant, Cindy Wade, will be showcasing personalized totes, purses, organizational items, and more! The Olive Leaf will be offering complimentarty tasting of exquisite Oils & Vinegars and donating 10% of sales from Ladies’ Night Out to Jill’s House, Inc.

Jill’s House is an independent not-for-profit organization, providing home-like accomodations to caregivers and patients receiving treatment for physical illnesses at all area health care facilities. For more information about Jill’s House, visit www.jills-house.org.

Make plans now to attend Ladies’ Night Out and bring a friend! For more information, call The Olive Leaf at 812-323-3073, visit us online at www.oliveleafbloomington.com, or find us on Facebook!

Juan of the Dead is a zombie comedy with the subtext of the Cuban Revolution. Juan is initially convinced that the zombie attack is merely another stage of the Revolution. Official media even refer to the attacks as incidents provoked by Cuban dissidents paid by the US government. Eventually, Juan and his friends realize that the attackers are zombies and killing them is an acquired skill. He soon decides that the best way of facing the situation is making some money from it…and a business is born.
(35mm presentation)

Three different country bands bringing their original flavor:

Los Bastardos Magnificos
There were about 100 years between the Civil War and The Mariel Boatlift when Miami was more characterized by its Southern heritage than any worldliness. Those were the days when a cheek full of chewing tobacco, a banjo, and a jug of moonshine were the perfect remedy to a long day machete hacking through the rocky pine lands, palm trees, gators, snakes, and bobcats. You’d post up on a front porch somewheres, slug on copious amounts of blindingly strong liquor, and hoot and holler your way into the morning. Then you’d wake up and tough it through another day on one of the most vicious landscapes on the planet. That’s the type of music Los Bastardos Magnificos play.
–Miami New Times

Brownbird Rudy Relic
Reltone Records Recording artist, Brownbird Rudy Relic is the embodiment of the “modern-day” blues music troubadour. Having started his career street busking throughout the United States, he eventually settled in New York City where he began to hone his unique musical style; acoustic holler blues. Just as much as turn of the century blues music was an amalgam of the influences of the day, Acoustic Holler Blues lays parallel to a similar synthesis; fusing early pre-war country blues styles with a multitude of other relevant (rhythm and) blues influences such as Hokum, Ragtime, Doo wop and Boogie-Woogie; even going as far as to include elements of Mexican Romantic Ballads and corridos; a product of his Chicano Heritage.

Tilford Sellers and The Wagon Burners
From Columbus Indiana, they play straight-up original honky tonk dance tunes and hillbilly boogie. It is true country with a little Bakersfield Sound and Western Swing attitude thrown in for good measure. Go through Tilford Sellers’ swinging doors and find honky tonk so muddy you’re bound to lose your boots. they play cheating songs that won’t make you cry, songs of lament waiting for Saturday night and songs that are slightly retro with and occasional hiccup. Their tunes embody the spirit of dancing, drinking, love gained and love lost.

Every Monday night at 9 pm, The Bluebird nightclub features an evening of karaoke hosted by local favorite Dave Walter.

“For seven years now, Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s–led by singer and songwriter Richard Edwards–have been creating music that swirls with fear and doubt and tension and beauty. Their music was born out of Indianapolis with the lushly melancholic The Dust of Retreat (2005), came of age with the bittersweet duo Animal/Not Animal (2008), and most recently arrived with the primal Buzzard (2010).”

“Gentleman Caller Vs. The Elephant picks up where Until We Are Missing (Affirmation Records, 2006) left off–the songs are inhabited with ghosts, haunted bodies (both water and human), past loves and a sense of hope that refuses to be stifled. There’s a full-on plague, but it’s one you can dance to (“The Locusts”). ”

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