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The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association says it needs more sales and marketing firepower to fill an expanded convention center and adjacent hotels. That means asking the city’s Capital Improvement Board-one of ICVA’s primary sources of funds-for a budget increase of up to 50 percent at the worst possible time. ICVA says it needs an […]
Growing up in Broad Ripple, Ted Miller was one of the “kids on the bridge,” who hung out where Guilford Avenue passes over the Central Canal. Miller was a Broad Ripple bartender during college, then left for a decade spent working in brewpubs in Seattle, Hong Kong, the Caribbean and Taiwan. But when he decided […]
Catheter Research Inc. should have disappeared a long time ago. But the Indianapolis company has persevered through numerous challenges-17 straight profitless years, a bankruptcy reorganization, a stint as a subsidiary of Biomet Inc., and a dispute among its owners. It now is flying high-even in the midst of a bad economy. Catheter Research grew its […]
The best theatrical adaptations of literature don’t require that you first read the original. They aren’t “Cliff’s Notes.” They don’t tease. They exist independent of their sources. And they don’t make you feel like you are in a classroom rather than a theater. For a terrific example of an adaptation that works, go no further […]
I had friends who insisted for years that, when they went to Chicago, they had to go to Adobo Grill. When the restaurant opened up a location on Indy’s north side, those same friends, rather than celebrating, didn’t get around to dining there. And now that Adobo has moved downtown (its former space became the […]
A year ago this week, my wife Cherí and I celebrated our first anniversary with the honeymoon we were too busy to take after our wedding. We told some friends we wanted a place that was warm, romantic and unpretentious. We wanted to wear shorts and T-shirts, not cruise-ship chic. They recommended Turks and Caicos, […]
When Stacie Floyd enrolled her daughter Kyli in kindergarten at Christel House Academy, she hoped Kyli would be able to earn a high school diploma there. Now, six years later, Floyd will get her wish. The academy, a K-8 charter school, launched a campaign this year to raise money for a $5 million high school, […]
The best theatrical adaptations of literature don’t require that you first read the original. They aren’t “Cliff’s Notes.” They don’t tease. They exist independent of their sources. And they don’t make you feel like you are in a classroom rather than a theater. For a terrific example of an adaptation that works, go no further […]
Media pundits regularly call the current economic crisis the worst since the Great Depression. One of the few Indianapolis financial experts who’s actually qualified to make such a comparison is Donald C. “Danny” Danielson, the 89-year-old vice chairman of City Securities Corp. For Danielson, who still comes to work every business day, the Great Depression […]
Of this, that and the other while wondering if NBA Commissioner David Stern had just taken a hit off Michael Phelps’ bong when he proclaimed this to be “the golden age of basketball” during his all-star weekend news conference in Phoenix. OK, perhaps the marijuana reference is a little harsh, but the golden age of […]
One of the largest independent survivors of the subprime debacle is staking its future on a real estate appraisal business based in Indianapolis. Kansas City, Mo.-based NovaStar Financial Inc. last year paid $750,000 in cash and a portion of future profits to acquire control of Indianapolis-based PipeFire LLC and rename the business StreetLinks National Appraisal […]
The Capital Improvement Board, short of cash and doing whatever it can to remain solvent, is considering asking a group of original investors in Circle Centre mall to forgive $34 million they loaned the city toward the construction of Conseco Fieldhouse back in 1997. Fair enough. The companies that invested demonstrated they were civic-minded when […]
I had friends who insisted for years that, when they went to Chicago, they had to go to Adobo Grill. When the restaurant opened up a location on Indy’s north side, those same friends, rather than celebrating, didn’t get around to dining there. And now that Adobo has moved downtown (its former space became the […]
Welcome to the convention of the future. Salespeople you’ve never met will approach you with an uncanny, maybe even unnerving, familiarity and strike up conversations eerily close to your thoughts. Signs and data centers will flash messages tailored to your interests, guiding you to displays, meetings, and products ro and services. You won’t need cash […]
First the good news about Indiana’s insolvent Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund: As part of its $787 billion stimulus, the federal government has just agreed to stop charging interest on its loans to pay benefits to the jobless. President Obama’s package allows Indiana to continue zero-percent borrowing for unemployment insurance through 2010, a provision that will […]
