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LOU’S VIEWS: A ballet blockbuster tops 2009’s list of favorites
Here are the 10 offerings that I most enthusiastically recommended to friends and readers in the past year.
Last-minute gift ideas
By giving tickets to A&E events, you get a sincere thank you now and another one later.
Symphony ousts maestro, reports historic budget gap
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra experienced a year of financial and leadership shocks, as it reported a $2.8 million
budget shortfall and abruptly dismissed Music Director Mario Venzago.
Missing ATI’s “Frog and Toad”
A rights battle keeps an Indy holiday tradition from happening.
Where do you stand on Barbie?
The iconic doll is the subject of a Children’s Museum exhibition. Join in on the debate here.
STYLE: For Billingsley, ties come out as winners
Birk Billingsley, of Krieg DeVault LLP, sidelines in neckwear.
LOU’S VIEWS: Merits of Barbie exhibit debatable
IBJ Style columnist Gabrielle Poshadlo joins in to discuss the latest Children’s Museum show.
DINING: New Conrad eatery offers a taste of the good life
We take a taste of the offerings at the new wine bar at the Conrad.
BENNER: Sports movement has a sunny past, cloudy future
More on the history of Indianapolis’ amateur sports initiative.
Opera directors create $40,000 challenge grant
Indianapolis Opera board Chairman Garry Fredericksen says in a recent appeal for donations that the company is in a “battle
for survival.”
IBJ Movie Night: ‘It’s Complicated’
Want to win passes to a screening of the new Meryl Streep/Alec Baldwin film?
IBJ Night at the Movies: “Sherlock Holmes”
Win tickets to the latest Hollywood take on the world’s greatest detective.
Review: “Star Wars in Concert”
A symphonic take on the six-film cycle highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of George Lucas’ epic vision.
You-review-it Monday
Did you feel Forced to go to “Star Wars in Concert”? Follow the tide to “Yuletide Celebration”?
Indiana weighs changes to combat out-of-state casinos
State lawmakers are weighing possible changes to state gambling laws at a time when growing competition from out-of-state
casinos threatens to cut into business at Indiana’s 11 riverboat casinos.
‘Kirkus’ killed
“Kirkus Reviews,” one of the leading sources of book criticism, has folded. Why you should care.
Arts group names president
David Lawrence, who has been acting president at Arts Council of Indianapolis since July, continues the task of leading an organization that has seen its
funding fall dramatically in the past year.