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Art museum to charge for parking
The Indianapolis Museum of Art will charge $5 for parking starting Sept. 1. The new fee comes a year after the museum opened an outdoor sculpture park that drove up attendance.
HETRICK: Does then and there top here and now?
In a meeting last week, I found myself reminiscing with my first client about a conversation we’d had with then-Indianapolis mayor Steve Goldsmith 17 years ago.
DINING: Heat, drink and be merry at Fireside Brewhouse
Last in a month-long series of reviews of “heated” eateries.
LOU’S VIEWS: In the City of Angels, the stars aren’t only on screen
Greetings from California, where the question of the week was, “Is L.A. a theater town?
Earth, Wind & Fire joining up with Symphony
Also, ballet at the multiplex, B’way’s original Javert with the ISO, and more.
LEADING QUESTIONS: State Fair’s boss plans for big bash
How does a celebration of agriculture stay relevant? What happens after the cows go home? Cindy Hoye has answers.
BENNER: America should cut LeBron James a little slack
Isn’t it funny—or, maybe, not so funny—how we like to hate on sports figures?
STYLE: Local entrepreneur teaches upholstery staples
Shelly Leer had planned to start ModHomeEc on a small scale, but has found it tough to keep it there. She’s had to double class sizes from three students to six since January and has started offering three-day, out-of-town workshops in Chicago.
DINING: Hotcakes Emporium serves big, light and fluffy stacks
Housed in what was, briefly, the home of a failed deli, Hotcakes Emporium has the key elements of the breakfast joints I grew up with at the Jersey shore.
LOU’S VIEWS: Exploring museum’s new discovery channels
It’s impossible for those of us who have raised kids with the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis to imagine what it’s like to enter it, as a child, for the first time.
Northern Indiana casino cutting 50 full-time jobs
Majestic Star Casinos general manager Larry Buck says the changes at the two casinos on Lake Michigan in Gary were recommended by efficiency consultants hired by its creditors.
What’s driving engine28.com?
This week, I’ve joined 20 other theater journalists—and a team of top arts editors—to create an experimental pop-up newsroom in L.A.
Tony Awards actually deliver this year
It was a predictable year for the awards, but Neil Patrick Harris and company offered a quirky, fun show. Some thoughts.
You-review-it Monday
Did you take young ones to Let’s Meet PBS Kids in the Park? Hang with a more mature crowd at “Avenue Q”?
Black Expo aims for more family friendliness
Indiana Black Expo is working to overcome last summer’s shootings and a recent staff mutiny, but observers say the root of the problem is declining interest among African-American adults in its signature event.
LOU’S VIEWS: Soul searching on ‘Avenue Q’
The R-rating-worthy, ‘Sesame Street’-style show gets its regional theater premiere at the Phoenix.
DINING: Broad Ripple newcomer worth a side trip
First in a month-long series of reviews of “heated” eateries. This week: Fire by the Monon.