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.
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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.
BENNER: It all began with a tournament nobody wanted
AsIndianapolis celebrates another big win over Chicago in the form of the Big Ten’s football championship games and a share of the league’s men’s and women’s basketball tourneys, it’s important to note how it all played out.
HETRICK: The slings and arrows of making things up
This week, we dealt with the trial of alleged child-murderer Casey Anthony, the tribulations of congressman-cum-confessor Anthony Weiner, the revisionist American history of professor Palin, and assorted other tales.
George Benson to headline Indy Jazz Fest
Spyro Gyra and many other acts announced for 13th annual event
City’s only hotel water park dropping Holiday Inn brand
The hotel on the northwest side of Indianapolis will become the Caribbean Cove Hotel & Water Park on June 13 after more than 30 years as a Holiday Inn.
Review: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb and the Palladium
The country crossover (and original "True Grit" star) brought his act—and much of his family—to town.
Inaugural Chowdown Midtown event set for launch
Mirroring the popular Devour Downtown event, Chowdown Midtown features 34 restaurants in the Broad Ripple area offering specific menu options for the set price of $30. The event runs through June 16.
Indianapolis lands Big Ten football title game through 2015
Indianapolis outbid Chicago for the rights to host the Big Ten Conference football championship game through 2015 and also landed the 2014 and 2016 title games in men’s and women’s basketball.
Review: ‘Glee Live in Concert’
In short, if you love “Glee,” there wasn’t much not to love here.