Review: Dance Kaleidoscope’s “Love Is…”
Latest from David Hochoy and company focuses on romantic connections and disconnections. Plus 2010/2011 season info.
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Liza, more with ISO in 2010/11 season
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra announced its 2010/2011 season today and the lineup includes some famliar pop names as well as a long list of conductors, returning and new. The latter, of course, is of significance to anyone wondering who will eventually take the now-vacant position of ISO Music Director. Those leading the ISO for the […]
DINING: With a bit of pluck, wing chain takes first Indy outpost
Second in our month-long series of reviews of animal-named eateries. This week: Buffalo Wings and Rings.
LOU’S VIEWS: Bill T. Jones’ company dances through history at IU
A few weeks back, I wrote about the two collections of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia on display at the Indiana
State Museum. Over the past week, two additional encounters with Abe reminded me that there is no shortage of material to be mined from
the life of the 16th president.
HETRICK: Like natural disasters, aftershocks of grief linger
Five years ago this week, I took figurative bullets to the head and heart. My personal Richter scale was shaken more violently
than by any tremor ever measured on any anthill, or Port-au-Prince or Concepción.
BENNER: Erskine shows us why he’s a Hoosier gem — twice
Carl Erskine isn’t just from Anderson, Indiana. He is Anderson, Indiana.
‘Avatar’ vs. ‘Hurt Locker’: Lou’s Oscar predictions
Play along as I pick the will win/should wins in Sunday night’s Academy Awards.
Museum attendance, and museum stress, up
A report from the American Association of Museum’s notes increases, particularly in Midwest.
You-review-it Monday: Bill T. Jones, Harold Lloyd, etc.
So fill me in. What did you see, hear or do this weekend?
Convention center tours part of larger tourism strategy
Executives of Gen Con, one of the city's largest conventions, visited Indianapolis last week to get their first glance
of the construction of the Indiana Convention Center expansion. Local tourism officials are using such tours to market the
larger space.
SURF THIS: Think your family is awkward? Check this out.
Sharing this guilty pleasure makes me feel a little … well, grimy.
DINING: Mane attraction added to Fountain Square fare
Fish and chips are, of course, a staple at new pub.
LOU’S VIEWS: Thinking magically at the Indiana Repertory Theatre
“It will happen to you.” That’s what Joan Didion tells us right up front in “The Year of Magical Thinking,” the one-woman play based
on her memoir of the same name.
Indianapolis International Airport’s art collection grows
The new work was delayed by 16 months because the artist’s New Orleans home and studio were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
BENNER: Ticket sales are key to keeping Big Ten games
What’s happen off court at the Big Ten Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments could be as interesting as what happens on.
Ticket giveaway: Indianapolis Civic Theatre’s ‘Carousel’
Indianapolis Civic Theatre will be presenting the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic “Carousel” March 12-28. More information on the production here. Want to win a pair of tickets? All you have to do is post a comment below and name your favorite R&H song (or your favorite person named Roger). I’ll pick one winner at random. […]
Comedy club reopening under new ownership
New local owners of Morty’s Comedy Joint on East 96th Street plan to open the club on March 4. It has been closed since early
January.
State Fair to feature Japan
Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday that this August's fair will showcase Indiana's relationship with Japan.
Bid to move casinos inland pulled from House floor
Rep. Bill Crawford unexpectedly pulled the measure after the House defeated his amendment to allow inland casinos while approving
another one to shift some of the tax burden from two central Indiana horse racing tracks with slot machines.