Conner Prairie sees attendance, giving increase in 2009
Conner Prairie saw increases in both daily admissions and giving in 2009 and ended the annual period in the black for the
fourth year in a row.
Arts & Entertainment
Articles
Scoop: ‘Office’ worker to perform at Cabaret
Malora Hardin–Jan from “The Office”–just booked for The Cabaret.
Indianapolis (Museum of Art) vs. New Orleans (Museum of Art)
It’s an art-world smack-down.
Ticket giveaway: Cirque du Soleil’s “Alegria”
Score opening night tickets to the international sensation.
Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger approved with conditions
The Justice Department imposed major conditions upon Live Nation and Ticketmaster in approving the companies’ merger, moves
that
Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney said would have the effect of lowering ticket prices.
Why is the room – and that vase – spinning?
Indianapolis Art Center adds drinks to pottery class.
‘Crazy Heart’: Your thoughts?
Sneak preview audiences caught the Jeff Bridges film Thursday evening.
LOU’S VIEWS: Flagrant fouls make Globetrotter win dubious
Thoughts on the Globetrotters, Phoenix Theatre’s “Housewives of Mannheim,” and Beef & Boards’ “The Foreigner.”
HETRICK: Awed by America’s generous help for Haiti
I much prefer a nation that can be more the world’s benefactor and less the world’s cop.
BENNER: I’m more interested in soccer all of a sudden
Despite my American bias, there’s no doubt that soccer is the world’s game.
A&E ticket giveaway: $3 Bill’s “Mustache Weather”
See the Indy-based comedy group, fresh from their appearance at the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival.
Bogdanovich at the IMA, ATI’s nuns, and more
Arts organizations fill out their winter/spring lineups.
Kerasotes planning to sell theaters to AMC
Kerasotes, the nation’s sixth-largest movie house chain, has four theaters in the Indianapolis area; AMC, the No. 2 player, has two.
ICVA hotel-room bookings ahead of schedule
Groups that committed in 2009 to hold meetings in Indianapolis in future years booked a total of nearly 688,000 hotel-room
nights, a number that exceeded ICVA’s goal by 5 percent.
Strike out the band: Cleveland Orchestra not coming to Bloomington
Musicians hit the picket lines today, forcing the last-minute cancellation of an IU residency.
City Market redevelopment hopefuls have ambitious plans
City Market’s board president warns financing will challenge any of the six groups that responded to Mayor Greg Ballard’s
request for business ideas.
You-review-it Monday
Last weekend’s A&E events included trips back to the 1970s at the IMA and the 1940s at the Phoenix Theatre.
Hotels spark expansion of downtown skywalk system
Two walkways that will connect to the new Marriott Place hotel will extend downtown’s network of skywalk and underground pedestrian
paths to a total of 12 hotels with more than 4,700 rooms–the most of any downtown in the United States.