ADELOWO: Biggest business casual problem is its tricky definition
When it comes to business casual, we can all agree on one thing: No one really knows what it is.
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DINING: Bar or restaurant, Drake’s serves up fun menu choices
New Clearwater Crossing venue Drake’s straddles the increasingly blurry line between restaurant and bar, beckoning patrons with the promise of fun. “Come play,” its tag line implores. Its ambitious menu, meanwhile, hints at more.
LOU’S VIEWS: Hoosier writers’ novels transcend novelty
Recently, I dug into the books of three Indiana writers who beat the odds.
BENNER: When our heroes fail, we love to take it personally
Few things rouse us more than a fall from grace, and the more precipitous, the better. Sports so deliciously delivers grist for our grindstone time and again.
Colts trying to tackle proposed ticket-tax hike
The Indianapolis Colts are playing defense as city leaders move to hike a ticket tax on downtown events by 67 percent. The team says raising the tax on tickets from 6 percent to 10 percent will harm its bottom line and that of local businesses that rely on Colts fans.
Indianapolis conservation prize growing to $250,000
Zoo CEO Michael Crowther says multiyear funding from the Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation enabled the increase in The Indianapolis Prize's cash award.
Indiana panel backs stage-rigging rules extension
An Indiana House committee has endorsed a two-year extension of regulations on temporary outdoor stage rigging developed following the deadly State Fair stage collapse.
Deadline looms; more added to ‘War Horse’ road trip
Join our readers and me on a one-of-a-kind trip to Cincy to see a one-of-a-kind show.
Priority list: A&E choices for Jan. 24-30
Tiempo Libre at Clowes Hall and “Next to Normal” at the Phoenix Theatre among this week’s picks.
Ticket giveaway: Devour Downtown plus the ISO
Win a $60 dining certificate plus tickets to hear Saint-Saens’ “Organ Symphony.”
REVIEW: ISO’s “Hairspray” stands tall
An outstanding company and bigger-than-Broadway orchestra make for a must-see.
Widow of Holiday World’s president gains park control
A judge has placed control of a southern Indiana theme park in the hands of the widow of the park's late president.
Pence inaugural events to draw thousands of people
Thousands of people are expected during two days of public events leading up to the inauguration of Republican Mike Pence as Indiana's 50th governor.
DINING: Split opinions on new alley eatery
First in a month-long look at Clearwater-area restaurants.
LOU’S VIEWS: Pictures perfect at the Eiteljorg show
Whether in a dog-eared magazine or on the gallery walls of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, the photography from National Geographic magazine continues to stun.
ISO far from $5M goal as deadline nears
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has raised barely half the $5 million the organization says it needs by Feb. 3 to live up to the terms of a contract it negotiated with musicians last fall.
HETRICK: Let’s do the write thing; cease the cursive meddling
Must children learn to drive horses and buggies so they can understand their great-great-great-grandparents’ mode of transportation?
BENNER: The sports year 2013 has a hard act to follow
In sports, as soon as you think you have the answers, new questions arise. The test never stops. Then again, I’m sure you business types will say, “Hey, it’s like that where we reside, too.”
Speedway agrees to major overhaul in ADA settlement
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will make millions of dollars in updates to settle a Department of Justice investigation that found more than 360 violations of federal disability law.