DINING: Take your pick(les) of interesting choices at Black Market
First in a month-long series of reviews of new arts district eateries.
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LOU’S VIEWS: Playing catch-up with Indy stage productions
Reports on shows by Actors Theatre of Indiana, the Phoenix, ComedySportz, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and more.
Ticket giveaway: Indy Fringe fest overnight VIP package.
Win passes to the August anything-goes theater festival…plus a stay at the Nestle Inn.
Review: “The Eel Catchers” a new play by Bennett Ayres
Leading men Doug Johnson and Ben Tebbe bring weight to a surprisingly engaging historical noir thriller.
You-review-it Monday
Arlo Guthrie, ComedySportz, and more were on my schedule this weekend. What about yours?
LOU’S VIEWS: Spidey crashes, other Broadway shows soar
Thoughts on “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” “Catch Me If You Can,” Shakespeare in the Park, and more.
IBJ Night at the Movies: ‘The Help’
I’ve got tickets to give away for a screening on Monday, July 25, at Castleton. Enter ASAP for a chance.
NYC: “Catch Me If You Can” reviewed
Why so much scorn heaped on a show that should be hailed as one of the best new Broadway musicals in years?
Ticket giveaway: Cirque Du Soleil’s “Dralion”
The Dralion that gives title to the latest Cirque Du Soleil show coming to Indy is derived from the melding of dragon and lion. Enter below by writing in your favorite combo-beast (of yours or someone else’s creation) and you could win a pair of tickets to see “Dralion” at Conseco Fieldhouse Aug. 3-7. Early […]
Cultural tourist NYC: Son of Pony poetry reading at Cornelia Street Cafe
In lieu/of a review/a poem
NYC: Shakespeare in the Park’s ‘Measure for Measure’ reviewed
Shakespeare’s ‘problem play’ gets a strong outdoor production in Central Park.
Broadway’s ‘Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark’ reviewed
I wish I could tell you that the media’s cynical circus missed the show’s magical essence. I can’t.
You-review-it Monday
Did you make it to Summer Celebration concerts? Symphony on the Prairie? The Phoenix Theatre’s “With a Bang”?
Cultural Tourist, NYC: ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’ and interpolation
Three drag performers traverse Australia in an RV in Broadway’s latest jukebox musical.
LOU’S VIEWS: Ife sculptures at IMA paint a thousand words
I love a good creation story, and the Yoruba people of the ancient city of Ife, in what is now Nigeria, have a doozy. It involves a god indulging in a bit too much palm wine, a snail-shell full of soil, a chameleon, and a chicken (with five toes).
DINING: Same menu, new venue for downtown Bazbeaux
It was foolish, I suppose, to walk into Bazbeaux’s new Mass Ave location expecting anything culinarily different from what was served across the street at its former downtown site.