The Bloomington Source
  • The Sew-Sew Sewers have sewing machines that also double as embroidering machines. Many of the machines they use make sewing an expensive hobby.
    Stefanie Smith

    The Sew-Sew Sewers have sewing machines that also double as embroidering machines. Many of the machines they use make sewing an expensive hobby.

    Reaping what they sew

      
    Sewing enthusiasts in the greater Indianapolis area are using an age-old hobby to captivate the attention of a new generation
  • Got Faith?

      
    It's 8 on a Thursday night, and the lights inside a stadium-style lecture hall in the Chemistry building are dim. Students pump their hands in the air, scream out to their friends and randomly exchange hugs. A six-person band, complete with a cymbal-banging drummer, rocks on.
  • Facing the music

      
    Digital downloading of music - both legal and illegal - has grown in popularity since the inception of Napster in 1999. With physical music sales decreaasing each year, what are local record stores doing to survive in the age of digital music?
  • Babes and booze

      
    As day neared night, the diamond of her gold nose ring sparkled in the sunset. With a gleam in her eye she laughed. "I was wasted when I got it done," Jessica Flenar said. "I didn't even know what was going on, how I got to the tattoo place, how much it cost, nothing. I was totally blacked out."
  • Law Student Debt to Blame for Public Service Job Decline

      
    After three grueling years of law school and serving as secretary and president of the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF), Gavin Rose was ready to enter the legal arena with 'an overarching desire to do good and to help his fellow person' after graduation in 2006. Now, as a staff attorney and as the director of the Disability Rights Project at the highly respected American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, Rose is fulfilled with his job, but his finances are less satisfactory.
  • Student offers glimse into her Muslim daily life

      
    Beenish Chaudry, an IU grad student very involved in Bloomington's Islamic Center, spends her Friday attending one of her five daily prayers at the Indiana Memorial Union and spending the evening at one of her friends house socializing and dancing.
  • New blog to help Bloomington residents during local emergencies

      
    Find out two IU professors are revolutionizing the way Bloomington residents can get information during disaster situations.