DINING: At the intersection of meat and music sits Kuma’s Corner
Want to eat a massive burger while your pulse is pounded by Metallica’s greatest hits? Fountain Square has a new eatery for you.
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LOPRESTI: Trying to be optimistic about Indiana college football
Failure on the gridiron is all too familiar here, so don’t overlook these recent highlights.
DINING: At the intersection of meat and music sits Kuma’s Corner
Want to eat a massive burger while your pulse is pounded by Metallica’s greatest hits? Fountain Square has a new eatery for you.
LOU’S VIEWS: Children’s Museum highlights faith journeys
Combining photos with audio, video, artifacts and architectural re-creations, “National Geographic Sacred Journeys” follows the spiritual treks of four fictional young people.
Indiana Beach resort sold to amusement park firm
The 89-year-old entertainment venue in Monticello is becoming part of a new California company with more than a dozen parks nationwide.
Hancock County weighing plans for new $30M fairgrounds
The Hancock County project is proposed for more than 200 acres of county-owned farmland along U.S. 40 just east of Greenfield.
Review: ‘South Pacific’ at Beef & Boards
Can you think of another book musical this romantic, tense, funny and exciting in which there’s not a villain to be found?
2015-2016 A&E Season Preview
A seasoned arts-goer? Someone returning after a hiatus? An adventurer looking to try something new? Here are more than 125 events that could get you excited about the season.
Priority list include Alan Cumming at the Cabaret, First Friday art openings, more
Plus skateboard fun (and education) at the Indiana State Museum’s latest show.
The best of the most of Dig IN 2015
I couldn’t sample everything, but I tried most of what the annual White River State Park food fest had to offer.
Ticket giveaway: Van Halen
Not only will one winner score a pair of tickets to the concert, but also land a remastered “1984” CD.
A&E roundup: Artist-designed mini-libraries, tenants for Opera Center, more
Spotlight Players find a new home at Fort Ben. High school vocal competition winners converge on Kennedy Center.
Big Car’s Jim Walker uses creativity to lift neighborhoods, public spaces
Walker heads Big Car, which he describes as an “art-based, creativity-based not-for-profit that’s focused on community development.” Put simply, it uses art to jump-start neighborhood involvement and development.
LOPRESTI: How does Wayne’s treason fit among annals of turncoats?
Reggie Wayne is a New England Patriot. What next, Urban Meyer as a spokesman for Pure Michigan?
DINING: Pub migrates from Kilkenny to Carmel
I haven’t been to Ireland. So I can’t say for sure whether Carmel’s newly opened Langton’s Irish Pub, which bills itself as an “authentic Irish pub” should feature video screens visible from nearly every seat.
LOU’S VIEWS: We interrupt this program…
Indianapolis Opera does away with printed guides; what is gained, and what’s lost?
Ticket giveaway: ‘Rad Science: Skatepark Physics’ at the Indiana State Museum
Win tickets to see the new show, featuring 25 interactive and (shhh) educational stations.
Priority list includes a sampler feast in the park, around-the-world journeys, more
Plus a cabaret stint from Norm Lewis, Broadway star of “Porgy & Bess” and “The Phantom of the Opera.”
Thoughts on Indianapolis Opera’s ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat’
With its season opener, IO boldly placed a bet that it can retain and/or find an audience committed to discovery rather than recognition.
Indiana State Fair draws roughly 907,000 to fairgrounds
The Indiana State Fair Commission said that this year’s attendance total is the fifth highest on record. The fair closed out its 17-day run Sunday.