IBJ Staff

This week, one of the Midwest’s most unusual music contests swings into high gear with the start of the final round of the American Pianists Association’s 2009 Classical Fellowship Awards. Staged every three years by the Indianapolis-based APA, the Classical Fellowship Awards are structured to minimize the tension of head-tohead combat by stretching the competition […]

What Blue-Lock does is complicated:It provides what is known as “virtual cloud computing.” So when Vice President Brian Wolff explains the concept, he simplifies it-by using Legos. He puts down one block to represent a computer server. “In the old world,” he says, “you’d put a physical server in place and then you would load […]

With a name like The Legend, expectations run high. Luckily for us, The Legend Classic Irvington Café (5614 E. Washing ton St., 536-2028) met them. Our final Urban Spoon query led us to the cozy, classy east-side eatery, nestled in the heart of one of Indianapolis’ first suburbs. The lunch crowd was sparse on our […]

Indiana lawmakers are stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place when it comes to fixing the state’s bankrupt unemployment insurance fund. Should they stick it to businesses to raise enough money to erase the half-billion-dollar deficit or should they slice benefits for the jobless during the worst recession in a generation? The sensible […]

With a name like The Legend, expectations run high. Luckily for us, The Legend Classic Irvington Café (5614 E. Washing ton St., 536-2028) met them. Our final Urban Spoon query led us to the cozy, classy east-side eatery, nestled in the heart of one of Indianapolis’ first suburbs. The lunch crowd was sparse on our […]

The NCAA tournament is expected to pump more than $7 million into the local economy, and some downtown business owners are counting on that cash to help them through the recession. Downtown officials say Indianapolis caught a big break in the way the tournament has shaped up. With a shorter travel time, fans of teams […]

The Purdue men’s basketball team is in Glendale, Ariz., getting ready for its Sweet 16 showdown with Connecticut. The fifth-seeded Boilermakers have won five straight games, but they’ll have to play their best to knock off the top-seeded Huskies. UConn has beaten its first two opponents by a combined 82 points. Tonight’s game tips off […]

A Marion County Corrections Officer has been accused of molesting a teenage girl for nearly two years. Richard Alsup, 39, faces charges of child molestation, incest and sexual misconduct with a minor. The 14-year-old victim says she was raped twice in early March at Alsup’s west-side apartment. When questioned, investigators say Alsup wasn’t sure if […]

The National Weather Service is sponsoring a storm spotters’ class tonight in Fishers. An instructor will describe cloud and wind patterns associated with severe weather, and how to interpret weather radar data. The class is free and open to the public. It begins at 7 p.m. at Fishers Town Hall Auditorium, 1 Municipal Drive.

Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, the city’s fifth-largest law firm, announced this morning that it is cutting 25 employees, including 10 lawyers, two paralegals and 13 staff people. The cuts represent 7 percent of the firm’s attorneys and 13 percent of its support personnel. Managing Partner Kendall Crook said the sour economy continues to affect […]

Last week, as part of a contest to win tickets to see Todd Rundgren at the Vogue, I asked you to fill in the blank: “I don’t want to work/I just want to ___________ all day. Your answers didn’t impact the outcome, but here are some of the more interesting responses. “I don’t want to […]