Replaceable furniture may be a modern convenience, but is it worth it? Woodworkers in and around Monroe County, who focus on ...

What happens when local news coverage disappears? LP asked journalist Steve Hinnefeld to look at the daily news landscape in Bloomington, Indiana. He interviewed people at several local news outlets ...

Rick Clayton strode through an empty church, past the platform where he used to preach, between the pews he’d love to sell but can’t give away. To make the former Harmony Baptist Church feel less ...

Good things are always happening in our public schools. It’s hard to see that if you read the news these days. There are all-consuming culture wars being manufactured by individuals far away. These ...

Medical training has long been incorporated into Bloomington Fire Department operations, with emergency medical technicians acting as first responders to medical emergencies. But two years ago, the ...

Murals have been around for as long as there have been walls and humans to paint on them. But as photographer and writer M.J. Bower shows in this photo essay, Bloomington, Indiana, has seen a ...

Now in its 50th year, WTIU has an extensive history of making long-form documentaries that tell Hoosier stories — rural, small-town, and world-renowned stories. Creating highly regarded films is ...

I came out as queer/bisexual/pansexual in my early 20s. I realized that I should actually start listening to those “girl crushes” I’d been noticing all my life. A few years later I met Josie, and we ...

Sheri Priddy knew something was seriously wrong. For the three days in November 2023, her symptoms had been getting stranger and stranger. It began with some double vision, something she’d experienced ...

It’s 1976: The Ramones have just released their first studio album, and the Sex Pistols are still a basement nightclub band in Sheffield, England. Before punk rock seized American counterculture, the ...

To be inside the music, to hear it, to feel it, from within a group of musicians. To be surrounded by sound, to be one of the people creating that sound. “Incredible,” “amazing,” “extraordinary” are ...

In February 2025, more than one thousand law professors and constitutional scholars, including sixteen from Indiana University, signed a bipartisan letter issued by the American Constitution Society ...