For all the heat and sunshine, July can be a cold, dark hole in the Indianapolis
sports calendar. Other than the ever-beloved Indianapolis Indians, sometimes there’s not much going on.
There’s nothing like following the wildly influential thinker Charles Darwin’s own footsteps, which I had the pleasure of doing by visiting the beautiful, mysterious, isolated and enchanted Galapagos Islands.
Were you first in line to see the boy king at the Children’s Museum? Check out more Rickeys at the Indianapolis
Art Center? Or take advantage of the no-cover Friday night performance at the now-smoke-free Jazz Kitchen?
I caught up with…
This week, catching "Octopus" at the Phoenix and opening night on the Prairie.
The city’s latest aspiring ballet company, Indianapolis City Ballet, is making good on its promise to bring international stars to town for a gala event at the Murat Theatre, Sept. 12. IBJ’s Kathleen McLaughlin takes over the blog today for…
Ground will be broken today for another leg of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. Also being touted: A $2 million memorial to great humanitarians (including Susan B. Anthony, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Albert Einsten).
Take a look at renderings of the…
As of tomorrow, June 26, the city’s top jazz club, The Jazz Kitchen, will adapt an all smoke-free/all the time policy.
You can still puff on the patio, but the club itself–which hosts top national and local musicians–with stress clean air…
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is hoping to make a big splash with its about-to-open King Tut exhibition. (For details, click here.)
But are artifacts from the boy king a big enough draw to get you to part with $25…
A number of arts organizations are making the push now for your votes in The Indy Channel’s A-List competition. Soon we’ll be seeing Nuvo’s Best of picks and the latest superlatives from Indianapolis Monthly.
Question: What is the value of such…
For me, the weekend (starting with Thursday, of course), included a belated trip to “Octopus” at the Phoenix Theatre and a mellow opening night for Symphony on the Prairie, featuring the music of the Grateful Dead. In and around those…
When you play Skee-ball and aim for the
100-point hole, you miss most of the time. However, if you aim for the 30, you have a much better chance
of scoring. You might not get a high score, but you’ll win enough
tickets to want to play again. How does that translate into my dining
experience at the new Dave & Buster’s?
Yes, I waited a while to embrace this particular communication tool, but I’m now official a part of the Twitter world. Want to follow? Just click on the site and add IBJarts to you list.
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All the dialogue in the previous post about David Letterman’s apology to Sarah Palin sent me searching for previous comedian apologies. Here are some I found:
Jamie Fox to Miley Cyrus.
Bill Maher to Pope Benedict
Al Franken to John…
(Lou Harry is now twittering the arts at IBJarts. Follow along…)
After a few days of back-and-forthing, David Letterman has offered an on-air apology to Sarah Palin for a joke he made referencing her daughter. In case you missed it, here’s…
(Hey Twitter-ers: Follow Lou Harry’s A&E at IBJARTS)
The Indianapolis International Film Festival has announced its lineup for its shifted-to-summer 11-day July event. You can find the full schedule here.
As previously noted, the festival has not only shifted time, but location as…
Jeremy Efroymson recently agreed to return to the financially flailing Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art as its executive
director and work for free. Efroymson, one of the museum’s early leaders, has a strategy for seeing IMOCA through a financial
rough spot, but what remains unclear is how the museum will wean itself off his support.
It felt weird to pull into a gas station parking lot in search of lunch. But we forgot we were in a former auto repair shop
as soon as we walked into Maxine’s
Chicken & Waffles, attached to the Citgo station at Ohio and East streets.
This week, for me, included Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre’s “India Ever After” and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s tribute to Irving Berlin. More on both in the upcoming IBJ print edition.
I also enjoyed strolling through White River State Park for the…
Some quick notes:
-If you had mixed feelings about the Tony Awards coverage on Sunday (and have a bit of a mean streak in you), then check out this hilariously rude recap from the knuckleheads at Broadway Abridged. And if…
Hot on the heals of its successful run of “Does This Show Make My Butt Look Big,” Theatre on the Square will soon announce a July opening for a new below-the-belt show, “America’s Next Top Bottom.”
The “inter-active, reality late-nite series,” a staple at…
