Arts & Culture

'Tweet Seats' Come To Theaters, But Can Patrons Plug In Without Tuning Out?

By editor • Dec 13, 2011

It's standard practice for theaters to request that patrons turn off their electronic devices before a show begins, and common courtesy for theater-goers to oblige ... until now.

Some theaters have started to offer special "tweet seats" from which audience members can follow a play-by-play thread of information about a performance and share their own insights.

"To tweet or not to tweet is a question that many performing arts organizations have wrestled with [for] the past few years," says Chris Pinelo of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO).

Herzog's Doc Brings Prehistoric Paintings To Life

By editor • Dec 10, 2011

This interview was originally broadcast on April 20, 2011. The Cave of Forgotten Dreams is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

In 1994, three French cave explorers discovered hundreds of prehistoric paintings and engravings on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in southern France.

Carbon dating has since shown that the depictions of rhinoceroses, lions, cave bears, horses, bison, mammoths and other animals are between 30,000 and 32,000 years old.

Discussion: The Year In Music, 2011

By editor • Dec 8, 2011

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Peppermint Cheesecake

By The Hungry Hoosier - Scott Hutcheson • Dec 6, 2011

Peppermint Cheesecake

Crust  

20 vanilla sandwich cookies 
3 tablespoons melted butter

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We The Animals

By Nick Schenkel • Dec 2, 2011

We the Animals, a debut novel by Justin Torres. The book is narrated by the youngest of three sons as chapter by chapter they 'tear' their way through childhood.

Purdue Black Cultural Center's Bomba de Loiza

By Mike Loizzo • Nov 29, 2011

WBAA's Mike Loizzo talks with Bill Caise, assistant director of the Purdue Black Cultural Center & Twana Harris, the center's artist-in-residence, about the Black Cultural Center's fall festival: Bomba de Loiza, which explores the Afro-Latin culture. The show is Friday (Dec. 2) 7-10 p.m. at Loeb Playhouse at Purdue's Stewart Center. More information is HERE.

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes novel

By Nick Schenkel • Nov 25, 2011

London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer, Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder.