You-review-it Monday
Martha Graham Dance Company? Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra? “The Lego Movie”? What did you hear, see or do on the A&E front this weekend?
Lou Harry
Articles
LOU’S VIEWS: IRT triple play shows gentle side of Vonnegut
Before he was a literary icon, Vonnegut was a struggling writer finding his voice through short stories. Three are woven together into the play “Who Am I This Time?”
DINING: Husk-y newcomer The Tamale Place added to market options
The place Guy Fieri visited on “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” opens a City Market spot. Here’s a review.
Announcing the next IBJ A&E Road Trip: We’re going to Canada!
Care to join IBJ’s Lou Harry on a trek to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (with a side trip to Niagara Falls and the Shaw Festival)? Details here.
You-review-it Monday: Super Bowl ads, Vonnegut on stage, and more
What did you think of this year’s Super Bowl ads? Apart from the fact that they were (slightly) better than the game?
DINING: The bowl and the beautiful
For many eateries, soup is an afterthought. But not for Soupremacy, where it’s the main event.
At Perfect North, there’s no business like snow business
“The first year, we had about 700 visitors,” said Chip Perfect. “That’s a typical Saturday for us now.”
LOU’S VIEWS: Caving in to ‘Caveman’ spear pressure
I’ve been avoiding “Defending the Caveman” since the early 1990s, when Rob Becker’s one-man show still featured Rob Becker playing Rob Becker.
Think warm: Eddie Izzard, Tim McGraw, Cirque and more coming this summer
And, for those who really like to plan ahead, super heroes are set to fill Bankers Life Fieldhouse next January.
2014 Forty Under 40: Wesley Zirkle
Wesley Zirkle, 38, negotiates a wide range of deals, including signage and naming rights, primarily in the motorsports business, as executive vice president at Just Marketing Inc.
2014 Forty Under 40: Pete Ugo
Crowe Horwath LLP partner Pete Ugo joined the firm’s South Bend office after graduating from Notre Dame, and transferred to Indianapolis in 1998.
2014 Forty Under 40: Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas, 39, a U.S. Army veteran, earned a degree from the Robert H. McKinney School of Law at IUPUI by taking night classes and working during the day. He’s now an associate at Lewis Wagner LLP.
2014 Forty Under 40: George Srour
George Srour, 30, has raised more than $2 million to open community-built, stakeholder-sustained academies in Uganda via Building Tomorrow Inc. In 2014, ground will be broken on the 30th school with a goal of 60 by 2016.
2014 Forty Under 40: Bob Shaver
Bob Shaver, 31, is a board member of Slow Food USA, an organization with over 200 chapters around the country. He was pleasantly surprised by the local culinary scene when he moved here.
2014 Forty Under 40: Todd Sermersheim
Todd Sermersheim, a 38-year-old vice president at Relativity Sports, counts as clients Arizona Cardinal Larry Fitzgerald, Chicago Bears Devin Hester and Alshon Jeffery, and Indianapolis Colt Pat McAfee.
2014 Forty Under 40: K. Alicia Schulhof
K. Alicia Schulhof, 34, a senior vice president for IU Health, initially thought she wanted to be a physician. But while studying at Purdue University, she became involved in student organizations and found she enjoyed the administrative and leadership side.
2014 Forty Under 40: Megan Robertson
Megan Robertson, 31, the campaign manager for Freedom Indiana, was originally a pre-vet major, but she didn’t enjoy spending time in the lab.
2014 Forty Under 40: Ilya Rekhter
While at Indiana University, Ilya Rekhter, now 25, was intrigued by transportation—specifically why fuel efficiency and safety have improved but there still wasn’t a way to know when your already-20-minutes-late bus would arrive. His solution: DoubleMap, a bus-tracking application.
2014 Forty Under 40: Luke Phenicie
Luke Phenicie, 37, a partner at Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Co., joined the firm in 2004 as an associate, was promoted to vice president, then principal, then to partner at age 32—the youngest in the firm’s history.
2014 Forty Under 40: Emily Pelino
Emily Pelino, now 32, took over the troubled KIPP Indianapolis charter school in 2009 after a disappointing four-year charter review (and after four previous leaders since 2004).