What to do this week? Priority list includes beer at Conner Prairie, sweet soul music, more
Also, professional dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and more are paired with young talent at the Tarkington.
Lou Harry
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Review: Indiana premiere of ‘Big Fish’ proves a catch
The intimate space at Theatre at the Center helps the intimate musical about father/son relations.
DINING: Local pancake house chain delivers them fluffy and hot
Yes, I’ve driven past them many times. But only recently did I learn that the Flap-Jacks Pancake houses that dot central Indiana are a locally owned operation.
Alan Cumming coming to the Cabaret; ATI schedules ‘Sweeney Todd”
It’s that time of year. Performing arts schedules rolling in for September and beyond.
Priority list includes 500 Festival Parade, ‘School House Wrong!,’ more
Hollywood stars may be in short supply, but athletes will be out in force for the annual balloon-bedecked march/drive/stroll through downtown.
Review: Dance Kaleidoscope’s ‘The Next Wave’
Brock Clawson’s “Lake Effect Snow” offered “a sometimes creepy, often beautiful, occasionally casually violent, always searching series of movements seemingly on land and in the water.”
LOU’S VIEWS/DINING: What’s brewing at new dine-in movie theater?
Here’s how the Texas-based Flix, which recently opened its first Indiana location, tweaks the moviegoing mix?
Spotlight highlights
The annual fundraiser offered a wide range of central Indiana talent. Which groups raised the bar?
Ticket giveaway: Broad Ripple Art Fair
The annual event fills the grounds of the Indianapolis Art Center May 16-17. Enter here to be part of the fun.
Priority list includes Broad Ripple Art Fair, Wes Montgomery music, more
Plus Dance Kaleidoscope invites a quartet of outside choreographers to guide its performers for its weekend of performances.
State Fair free stage concerts include Indigo Girls, Village People, Big & Rich, more
Lennon & Maisy of TV’s “Nashville” also set to appear. Schedule runs Aug. 7-23.
DINING: A pair of new eateries add to the SoBro corridor
Dancing Donut and Indy Tacos back 54th between Keystone and the Monon Trail more appetizing.
LOU’S VIEWS: The wheeled deal at the IMA
The fact that I never dreamed of cars didn’t diminish the appeal of “Dream Cars”
IBJ movie night: Win screening passes for ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’
Carrie Mulligan stars in the latest adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel.
Priority list includes a new music festival, a Grammy-winning quartet, more
Inaugural Virgina Ave. Folk Festival puts music on nine stages. At Speak Easy, designers reconfigure Hollywood.
Rev’s top five dishes
My favorites from among the dozens of food samples at the event, kicking off the month of May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
REVIEW: ‘Typhoid Mary’ at the Phoenix Theatre
Playwright-in-Residence Tom Horan offers his take on the story of the notorious disease carrier.
DINING: Options limited, flavors strong at Wildwood Market
Let other eateries offer epic menus with page after page of something-to-please-everyone options. Let other places walk you through a line of ingredients to pick.
LOU’S VIEWS: Laugh-a-lot ‘Spamalot’ gets ambitious Civic production
You could feel that split between those who knew what would be catapulted over the French castle wall and those baffled, at least at first, by what all the silliness was about.
Indianapolis Museum of Art to launch preschool in fall
In a partnership between St. Mary’s Child Center and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 16 slots are available for students to enroll in a new museum-housed preschool, with classes beginning in August.