After numerous lineup changes, bassist Bryan Nelson said pop-punk band The Ataris is all looking forward to getting out and being on tour again. Their remake of Don Henley’s 1984 hit “The Boys of Summer” will still be in tote along with a new song from their forthcoming album.
The band, originally from Anderson, will be playing 7 p.m. Friday at Doc’s Music Hall. The show will warm up “Boys of Summer” for their tour that kicks off Feb. 18.
“Kris Roe of The Ataris, being the only original member, has …
“People think they know me when they see the shape of my eyes,” reads an anonymous post from a Korean-American from Ball State University describing discrimination she has experienced.
This is just an example of 14 monologues that will be featured in Saturday’s showing of “Let’s Talk About Discrimination.”
Put together by seniors Chelsey Everhart and Dominic Schiferl, the performance will describe different students’ encounters with discrimination.
The idea developed as part of a class project in which students were to “make a creation that could serve society well and create change,” Schiferl …
The Fine Arts League will open the first Ball State University student-run art gallery this month in the Center Gallery at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
The first show is entitled “Bookish: On, of and about Books.” The show will feature books that have been artistically altered in some way by adding or taking away from the text and imagery inside. Ceramics, photography and paintings will be featured. The show will on exhibit throughout the month of February.
The Fine Arts League is a group of Ball State art students who strive …
Pepi Ginsberg, “East is East”
Brooklyn artist Pepi Ginsberg mixes operatic falsetto vocals with a folksy whimper. Ginsberg sometimes sounds like she’s tired when she’s singing, but her music isn’t anything to yawn at. For an artist who wrote an album based on the hypothetical love child of Bob Dylan and Deerhoof Ginsberg, she is oddly enjoyable.
The Album Leaf, “A Chorus of Storytellers”
The Album Leaf is the musical endeavor of Jimmy LaValle, an instrumentalist, producer and mixer out of San Diego. The new record, “A Chorus of Storytellers,” incorporates a mellow …
“Dear John” (Relativity Media): Two of the hottest young actors in Hollywood, Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, star in an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name. Sparks also wrote the novel “The Notebook,” which later became a beloved romance movie. Tatum plays a soldier who falls in love with a college student while home on leave. The theme of the film as well as the book is the meaning of true love. “Dear John” is rated PG-13 for some sensuality and violence.
“From Paris With Love” (Europa …