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The Hoosier Way: Trails of Indiana takes viewers on a tour of some of Indiana’s finest outdoor nature trails, hikes, rails-to-trails conversion projects, and urban trails systems, revealing the beauty and wonder of our natural habitats.
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An initiative to address homelessness in Monroe County would offer 12 months of subsidized rent to people living outdoors in Bloomington.
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WTIU Public Television and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music have earned a Regional Emmy® Award for The Nutcracker at the Jacobs School of Music, a nationally distributed production that brings Sasha Janes’ acclaimed reimagining of the holiday classic to PBS audiences across the country.
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What does it take to turn history into something people can see and experience?
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Solid, liquid, gas...and what else? Learn about plasma with today's A Moment of Science.
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WFIU invites you to a summer evening filled with live jazz, community spirit, and music under the evening sky at Jazz in July: Columbus. This free outdoor concert features the Visions Jazz Ensemble, led by Indianapolis trumpeter and composer Sam Butler, whose performances blend classic jazz traditions with contemporary influences and vibrant improvisation. -
Celebrate 250 years of American history with the Monroe County History Center and Indiana Public Media (WFIU/WTIU) on Saturday, July 11th from 12-3pm on the Monroe County History Center front lawn. Enjoy hands on activities, live music, educational demos, guided tours, and more! Plus at 2 pm, watch a special screening of clips from the new PBS docuseries THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. After the screening, attendees are encouraged to visit the History Center’s exhibition of Monroe County Revolutionary War veterans. This screening, and all the block party activities are free and open to the public.
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We’re saying goodbye to Nice Work this week. For our last show, hosts Tyler Lake and Alex Chambers talk about some of their favorite moments, look back at stories and interviews and reflect on what they hoped the show would accomplish.
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Mary Dezember reads her poems " Wild Conviction Epigraph: Poem 1," and "Poetry within the story: Poems 2-4" from her novel, Wild Conviction.
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The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has firmly established itself on the US classical music scene, thanks in part to its first conductor, Fabien Sevitsky.
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About 150 years ago, Indiana nearly bankrupted itself building a statewide canal system. Now, a new archaeological project seeks to learn more about this maligned period of Indiana history.
In case you missed it!
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A look at celebrations of summer in vocal jazz and traditional popular song.
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Wikimedia Commons, BNFWe’re exploring music in and about the Americas during the first centuries of European colonization. We begin our journey in New France with the musical legacies of Jesuit missions, fur trading outposts, and occupied indigenous nations.
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In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was at the peak of his first great period, playing with a confident, swinging, and radical abandon both as a leader and with Max Roach and Miles Davis.
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Learn more about this impressive feat of engineering with today's A Moment of Science! -
The name canna comes from the Greek word spelled "kanna," which means reed, though the canna plant does not have narrow reed-like leaves. -
Indiana University's Franklin Hall has become home for several nearby critters. -
Have you noticed if you yawn, your pet tends to copy you? Why does that happen? -
The petition asks regulators to review a $71 million rate increase for the power company, arguing it didn't fully weigh affordability in its decision last month. -
The City of Bloomington is investing $76K in local projects this year. -
A Bloomington homeless man was trapped and beaten by another homeless man last month while seeking shelter during a storm. -
The changes were announced the same day a consultant's report was released. -
Low-income Hoosiers will have to work, volunteer or be in school — or meet an exemption -
Democratic candidates will appear on the November ballot for nearly all Indiana legislative seats up for election this fall — while Republicans are sitting out more than 20 races.
