In the Nov. 19, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on IU faculty member Joshua Bell of the Jacobs School of Music recently being named Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America. Also featured were stories on the Bloomington-based band South Jordan; the Department of Theatre and Drama's presentation of Parenthesis of Blood; the Brown County Playhouse opening its doors to the Little Nashville Express Band in the wake of a devastating fire at the Little Nashville Opry; the encouraging results from a new survey indicating that alcohol abuse is down at the IU Bloomington campus; a volunteer profile about an AmeriCorps volunteer from the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; and an IUPUI professor's new book, Muslims in America: A Short History, making it to the Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2009 list.

In the Nov. 5, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on three of IU's ACE volunteers. In addition were stories on Celtic Woman, which appeared at IU Auditorium Nov. 7; an exhibition of children's garments from IU's Sage Collection at the Monroe County History Center; a profile on Miles Taylor, IU's first presidential intern; As You Like It, a play by IU's Department of Theatre and Drama; Die Zauberflöte, an opera by the IU Jacobs School of Music; and talks by local historian David Healey and author Lisa Swedarsky on their new books at IU South Bend.

In the Oct. 15, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured a story about the Jacobs School of Music's homage to violin legend Josef Gingold with performances by Joshua Bell and Jaime Laredo. In addition were stories on The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies, a new book by IU associate professor of English Ed Comentale; IU Opera Theater's presentation of Romeo ét Juliette; the centennial celebration of Union Board at IU Bloomington; a volunteer profile of IU senior Brittney Paulk, who began a program to match area nonprofits with residence halls; IU Department of Theatre and Drama's production of The Clean House; and "Fusion of the Arts," an exhibition by IU Northwest's Center for Regional Excellence (in partnership with the IU Northwest Gallery for Contemporary Art, South Shore Arts and Wesson Art Gallery of the Dubois Library) exploring the work of nearly 30 area artists.

In the Oct. 1, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured a story about 2009 Bloomington Multicultural Expo, a combined effort between campus multicultural groups, La Casa, the Asian Culture Center and the community's Soul Food Festival. Also featured were stories on Blood Brothers, the season opening play from IU's Department of Theatre and Drama; an IU South Bend professor's bronze relief, which will be featured in two juried exhibitions this year; the Jacobs School of Music fall ballet, which honors the 100th anniversary of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes; Grammy Award-winner Sylvia McNair's regional Emmy Award; the 9th Annual Cardboard Boat Regatta at the IU Outdoor Pool; and a Q-and-A with artist William Itter.

In the Sept. 17 issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on Whitney Thomas, a former IU basketball player who returned this fall as a graduate student and a turn on IU's volleyball team; Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert's visit to IUPUI; Clint Needham, a Jacobs School of Music student composer who was honored with a 2009 ASCAP Foundation Award; a group of colorful sculptures from IU's permanent collection that are on loan to the Children's Museum of Phoenix; the new members of the Jacobs School's Kuttner Quartet; a former director of IU's Marching Hundred who will soon turn 100; and the IU Department of Theatre and Drama's presentation of Driving Miss Daisy at the Brown County Playhouse.

In the Sept. 2, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on Bloomington's new fair trade store, Global Gifts; astronaut Kevin Ford's request for IU's "Indiana, Our Indiana" as a wakeup call in honor of his late brother, David C. Ford, an IU alumnus and former state senator; Talley's Folly, a play co-sponsored by The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington and Bloomington Playwright's Project; a downtown public art project, "Interpreting the Square;" the Jacobs School of Music 2009-2010 season; Coffeehouse Nights at the IU Art Museum; and IU Southeast's Ogle Cultural and Community Center's new season lineup.

In the Aug. 20, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on IU Bloomington's first-ever themed semester, "Themester 2009: Evolution, Diversity and Change;" a Q-and-A with the author of a new book on Hoosier Group artist T.C. Steele; a Herron exhibit and IU press book on 1930s gangster John Dillinger; the School of Fine Arts Gallery's activist art exhibit, "The Canary Project: Works on Climate Change 2006-2009;" the Department of Theatre and Drama's presentation of The Rockae, a rock musical based on The Bacchae by Euripides; IU's Welcome Week 2009; and "Bookish," a collaboration between IUPUI's Herron Art Library and the Harrison Center for the Arts that promotes local and regional fine arts book artists.

In the Aug. 6, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on PATHE, an outreach program for precollege Latino students; Jacobs School of Music stories about a student composer winning an award from BMI Foundation and new Jacobs faculty member Jeffrey Smith, an acclaimed organist; IU and Clarian Health partnering to offer free health screenings at the Indiana State Fair; an undergraduate student who started a new student group, Bloomington Sound, that will kick off with a campuswide guitar competition; and an Intensive Freshman Seminar titled "Shakespeare and the Law" that will culminate with a mock trial featuring IU faculty members playing the parts of Hamlet, Macbeth, and other Shakesperean figures.

In the July 23, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the collegiate premiere of The Light in the Piazza, conducted by Broadway veteran Dan Riddle; the Hispanic Youth Leadership Academy, which took place this year at IU; Jacobs alumna Angela Brown's 2009 Governor's Arts Award; IU Art Museum's conservation of the Thomas Hart Benton murals; a book on John Calvin by IUPUI professor Peter Thuesen; a John James Audubon institute for high school teachers, led by Audubon expert and IU English Professor Christoph Irmscher; and Brown County Playhouse's presentation of Noel Coward's Present Laughter.

In the July 2, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the Sisters of the Flying Fountain Pen writing camp for girls; the Jacobs School of Music's Summer String Academy, celebrating its 25th year; the IU Department of Theatre and Drama's Brown County Playhouse presentation of There Goes the Bride; the IU Art Museum's Jazz in July summer concert series; Michael Adams' new book, Slang: The People's Poetry; a new music program at IU East; and the Summer Music Festival piano series, featuring Jonathan Biss.

In the June 18, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the IU Department of Theatre and Drama's Midsummer Theatre Program for aspiring teen actors; Assistant Professor Eden Medina's analysis of Chile's "Project Cybersyn;" a winning ad campaign from IU Office of Creative Services ("Innovate Indiana"); a summer solstice celebration at the IU Art Musuem; the Jacobs School of Music's Summer Music Festival, kicking off with world class chamber music; a project for the IU School of Dentistry by IUPUI's Herron students; and a Juneteenth Freedom Celebration at IU's Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

In the June 4, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on IU Virtuosi, teen strings players who traveled to France for performances this spring; the Webby award-honoree GameZombie.tv, created and maintained by IU students; the 2009 IU Writers' Conference; the start of summer theater in Nashville with The All Night Strut! at Brown County Playhouse; a special Limestone Month exhibition at the IU Art Musuem; Lilly Library's vintage auto collection; and IU South Bend's Euclid Quartet winning an NEA grant as part of the "American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius" initiative.

In the May 21, 2009 issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on John Passafiume, a recent School of Fine Arts graduate whose thesis project has earned him multiple awards and international recognition; an IU Associate Professor of photography, Osamu James Nakagawa, who was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete his work on images of the "suicide cliff" in Okinawa, Japan; The Kinsey Insitute 2009 Juried Art Show; Jacobs Professor Menahem Pressler's lifetime achievement award for the Beaux Arts Trio from The Edison Foundation; an IU graduate whose acting career has taken her from TV's "24" to the big-screen, with Twilight; the lineup for this year's Summer Music Festival, which includes the collegiate premiere of The Light in the Piazza; and IUPUI metadata librarian Kristi Palmer, named one of Library Journal's "Movers & Shakers" of 2009.

In the May 7, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the 2009-10 season for IU Auditorium and IU's Jacobs School of Music; the two Jacobs students who played in the first-ever YouTube Symphony Orchestra; the experiences of IU's first student to officially study in Dubai; the IU Jacobs school student who won Indiana's "Campus Superstar" competition; the thoughts of some of IU's graduating students; and IU Northwest writer-artist William Buckley, a Sylvia Plath expert.

In the April 16, 2009, Live at IU e-newsletter, we featured stories on IU's annual Little 500 bicycle race; an upcoming "Hammer and Nail" performance (a collaboration between student composers and contemporary dance majors); Q-and-As with IU Distinguished Professor of English Susan Gubar on her new book about Judas and Jacobs master's student Nemanja Ostojic, a classical guitarist; this year's Big Band Extravaganza; the Department of Theatre and Drama's 75th anniversary festivities -- including a conversation with NPR's Scott Simon and legendary lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim; and a performance of Godspell at IU South Bend.

In the April 2, 2009 issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the gift of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein's entire Connecticut studio to IU's Jacobs School of Music; a visit to campus by No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency author Alexander McCall Smith; an upcoming production of Oklahoma!; a Victorian Studies Conference at IU East; an interview with the author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles; and the Jacobs School of Music's final opera of the season, The Most Happy Fella.

In the March 5, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the Jacobs School's upcoming spring ballet, featuring Swan Lake and a world premiere of new choreography; legendary author Maya Angelou's visit to IU, an IU Auditorium performance of Mamma Mia!; the university's first-ever World Language Festival for high school students throughout the state; spring exhibitions at the IU Art Museum; and a preview about the Jacobs School's collegiate premiere of The Light in the Piazza, coming to the Musical Arts Center this summer.

In the Feb. 19, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the IU Jacobs School of Music's opera Giulio Cesare and Hypermnestra, a re-discovered work staged by the Early Music Institute; several exhibitions at IU's School of Fine Arts Gallery; a Q-and-A with the author of the weight-loss memoir, Half-Assed; the Department of Theatre and Drama's staging of An Ideal Husband; and one of the highlights of ArtsWeek 2009, The People Speak, a documentary film.

In the Feb. 5, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories about IU's 25th annual ArtsWeek celebration; the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; a Department of Theatre and Drama class trip to Walt Disney World and the department's production of the controversial play Stop Kiss; an announcement of Joyce Carol Oates' visit to IU; a new exhibition at IUPUI's Herron School; and the Jacobs School of Music's visit to the Kennedy Center.

In the Jan. 22, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories about the ballet production "On the Edge," featuring new choreography from IU Ballet Theater and regional choreographers; Coffeehouse Nights @ the IU Art Musuem; IU Kokomo comedian Jen Kober; a Q-and-A with Indiana's Poet Laureate, Norbert Krapf; IU Opera Theater's production of Cendrillon; a concert by the African American Choral Ensemble; and Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design alum Jordan Silver's line of adaptive clothing for women wtih physical challenges.

The Jan. 8, 2009, issue of Live at IU featured stories about the IU Contemporary Dance Program's annual guest artist and faculty concert; the 2009 Met auditions at the MAC; the Archives of African American Music and Culture's "Rock, Rhythm & Soul" exhibit; the Jacobs School of Music's new reed room; a profile of IU anthropologist Anya Peterson Royce; an IU professor's new book about the meaning of varoius adornments in India; and a feature about IUPUI's Shakespeare vision.

In the Dec. 4, 2008, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories about "Chimes of Christmas;" a collaboration between Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County and students from the Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design; The Department of Theatre and Drama's presentation of Marisol, by Jose Rivera; a theatrical modeling show by IU's Epiphany Modeling Troupe; "Hoosier Date," a program by IU Student Television; IU Auditorium's Young Professionals for the Performing Arts; and IU East's annual art competition.

In the Nov. 20, 2008 issue of Live at IU, we featured stories about IU Opera Theatre's Love for Three Oranges; an apparel merchandising graduate working at Ralph Rucci; Fair Trade Bloomington's "green" Holiday Bazaar; IU professor emeritus Bruce Cole, a Q-and-A with poet Ross Gay; the Herron School's furniture design curriculum; and the Jacobs School's Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's fee concert.

In the Nov. 6, 2008, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on the College of Arts and Sciences' annual banquet honoring The Princess Diaries author Meg Cabot, mystery author Michael Koryta and Professor Olaf Sporns; Liz Lerman Dance Exchange performing and conducting workshops in Bloomington; a Q-and-A with Harper Jones, star of IU Theatre & Drama's 2008 production of Hamlet; IU Ballet Theater's 50th annual performance of The Nutcracker; a Bloomington performance by Polish group Theatre of the 8th Day; a profile of an IU Auditorium student employee and a Q-and-A with IU East Professor Joanne Passet, author of Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Edward Foster.

In the Oct. 30 issue of Live at IU, we featured stories about the Jacobs School's violin project for first graders; a Q-and-A with author Scott Russell Sanders; a blog from our arts intern; a piece about Rudolf Buchbinder and Dresden Staatskapelle; an interview with Paul R. Mullins, an IUPUI professor, on his new book about doughnuts; IU's first "Scholar Blogs" and an article about IU Bloomington Professor Jeff Wolin's immigrant photos at the new Indianapolis International Airport.