Muncie's Main Street Studio Theatre showed audiences something normally only experienced in the larger, urban settings of New York and Chicago nightclubs last weekend, Darrin Murrell, executive director for the show, said. "The Great American Songbook Cabaret" will be performed again this weekend with shows at 8 p.
In his May 12 Billboard column "Changes In Attitudes," veteran music journalist Geoff Mayfield mentioned dismal Nielsen SoundScan sales reports, which for the first time in years featured overall sales volume of less than 8 million albums. Mayfield said the music industry's "head in the sand" mentality is speeding up the demise of the CD as a viable sales commodity.
Football players aren't the only student athletes who will be representing Ball State University in a renovated facility next year. Cardinal Creek Tennis Center is being renovated for the first time more than 30 years after it was originally constructed. Ball State officials made the right decision when they allocated money from the budget to renovate a winning sport's facilities - and it's a trend that should continue in the future.
Ball State University student Dannielle Sylvester was crowned the 2007 500 Festival Queen from a field of 33 princesses Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Along with participating in all Indianapolis 500 activities, Sylvester, who will graduate in 2008, was also awarded a $2,500 scholarship.
Jumping out to a 6-0 lead after the first inning, the Ball State University baseball team needed extra innings to win the season-closing series. The Cardinals (20-34, 8-19 Mid-American Conference) allowed MAC-leading Central Michigan University to score four runs in both the fifth and sixth innings squandering their 9-2 lead.
"Four men charged with publicly stoning Iraqi girl." "Father microwaves baby." The above headlines, taken from a recent list of headlines from CNN, seem to tell us just how terrible and savage life really is. It seems little wonder that so many of us simply focus on our day to day lives without trying to worry about the larger world.
Drivers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway were trying to solidify their spot in the starting field Sunday for the 2007 Indy 500. While the Month of May is usually focused on the contenders of The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, it was the smaller teams that stole the spotlight this weekend.
Since the Cardinal Creek Tennis Center opened in 1977, the Ball State University tennis teams have won a combined 19 conference titles and had 71 first-team all-conference selections. After 30 years, the facility is getting its first major renovation. The $850,000 construction project on the Ball State men's and women's team tennis courts, located north of the Duck Pond, started last week, and is scheduled to be completed Aug.
Screw scurvy, we all want to be pirates. We wear T-shirts with the skull and crossbones, participate in international talk like a pirate day - at the moment there are 13 groups on Facebook about pirates or international talk like a pirate day. And rebellious icons like Elvis Presley, James Dean and Che Guevara remain popular for the same reasons pirates do - pirates reflect the rebellious and anarchic desires that lie in all of us.
In its eighth year, the Minnetrista Farmer's Market is blossoming with success. Cathy Kozar, director of the Farmer's Market, said Minnetrista offers two main markets in the summer; the May Market and the regular market, which runs from June till the end of October.
The x-rated film partially shot at Ball State University has created a substantial buzz since its release last week, but has not seen substantial sales. Jeff Ray, director of all Priscilla's stores in Indiana, said "Vampire Diaries" would have been more successful had it come out in February when local media first reported on it.
The Ball State Board of Trustees Monday approved a 4.9 percent tuition increase for in-state students for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years, and a 6 percent increase for out-of-state students for both years. The increase will bring tuition for 2007-08 in-state students to $3,336 per semester, a $156 increase, and tuition for 2007-08 out-of-state students to $8,870 per semester, a $502 increase.
With 30 percent of Ball State University men's tennis players coming from Puerto Rico, Cardinals' coach Bill Richards has made use of the country's talent pool. Tuesday, Richards announced the signing of yet another Puerto Rican recruit, Eduardo Pavia from Carolina, Puerto Rico.
All things come to an end and the 2007 Ball State University baseball campaign will end with a three-game series against Central Michigan University that will begin Thursday at Ball Diamond. At 18-33, 6-18 Mid American Conference, the defending champion Cardinals will not make the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
The MITS Late Loop recorded more than 5,300 passenger trips during its trial run from April 5 to May 5, making the program a success for MITS and the downtown businesses that sponsored it. Mary Gaston, MITS assistant general manager, said MITS didn't set any goals for ridership numbers but was pleased with the amount of use the Loop received.
Senior landscape architecture major Francesca Hernandez won the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Fellowship in April and is planning to create an educational campaign to inform freshmen of the importance of greenhouse gas emissions. National Wildlife campus ecology fellows will battle global warming on their campuses by taking steps to monitor campus energy use and reduce net emissions on campus by about 2 percent per year.
Scoring in all but two innings, Ball State University defeated IPFW 21-10 on a windy Tuesday in Fort Wayne. The Cardinals (18-33, 6-18 Mid American Conference) scored at least two runs on all six Mastodon pitchers.
Summer gives us many opportunities to do things we normally would not have the time or motivation for. We have more time to get back to things we once enjoyed so much, but have lost time for as our lives have gotten busier. One of the greatest forms of self-therapy, for me, anyway, is getting back to the things I once enjoyed.
I can only assume that somewhere there is a Center for the Research of Impractical Studies. This is the center that is in charge of putting together arbitrary data in order to conclude definitively, yet annually, the penultimate list of things like "World's Smartest Animal" and "World's Hardest Miniature Golf Course.
After ending last year near the bottom in the Mid American Conference in offense, the Ball State University basketball team now faces the task of replacing nearly 60 percent of its scoring for the upcoming season. It began with the graduation of Chris Ames, D'Andre Peyton and leading scorer Skip Mills.
