On a momentous day in 1975, in the pulp-and-paper town of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, a stout 8-year-old boy was taken by his mother’s hand to see his first live play. The show was Godspell and the boy was Randy Timothy White. The performance made such an impression on young Randy that for the first time he began to question his future occupation—maybe he wouldn’t be a hockey player after all. Maybe his future was in the theater.
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The corner of Fourth and Rogers streets is a 10-minute walk from the downtown Square, Bloomington’s traditional nucleus of arts and entertainment. But David and Martha Moore, co-owners of Pictura Gallery, a fixture on the Square for a decade, are developing a new gallery and event space they hope extends cultural entertainment to the city’s Near West Side.
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When Kurtis Cummings and Jeff Hall thought about opening a brewery, they wanted their venture to mirror their passions and values, and they wanted to add something to the community. From those musings, and many test batches of beer, Switchyard Brewing Company was born.
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To most Americans, to be a Hoosier is synonymous with unromantic, flyover-country ordinariness. In writer Dalia Rosenfeld’s adopted home of Tel Aviv, Israel, it makes her exotic.
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On August 21, for the first time in nearly 40 years, North America will see a total solar eclipse, and while Bloomington is not in the line of totality, a partial eclipse is reason enough to hold a few special celebrations.
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