DINING: Food carries the day at Punch Bowl Social
The Circle Centre newcomers isn’t just another interactive party palace.
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LOU’S VIEWS: Documentaries highlight Heartland Film Festival
Real-life stories outshine fiction films at the Oct. 20-30 cinematic soiree.
High school football playoffs started innocently enough
Did you hear the one about the time the high school football team in Indiana flew to play another high school football team in Indiana? It’s 1973, and football is the little brother in Indiana. There are no Indianapolis Colts. No Lucas Oil Stadium, nor RCA Dome. The high school season is over by early […]
UPDATE: Indiana State Museum announces $17.8M renovation project
The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites plans to pump more than $10 million into the Indianapolis museum in White River State Park and more than $7 million into 11 historic sites it manages around the state.
Review: ‘Into the Woods’ at Beef & Boards
Beef & Boards proves that, theatrically, it’s not just interested in comfort food.
Evermore music event organizer says festival insolvent
The organizer for the Evermore Music Festival is telling vendors and bands that his business is insolvent and does not have enough money to fully pay them for their work on the inaugural event, which fell far short of attendance projections.
Indiana Landmarks mounts campaign to restore historic clock
Historic preservation not-for-profit Indiana Landmarks is leading a fundraising campaign to restore the 80-year-old “Ayres clock” mounted on the corner of Circle Centre mall at Washington and Meridian streets.
Cash-strapped Indiana zoo could lose nearly half its animals
The national association that accredits zoos and aquariums has given Mesker Park Zoo one year to fix maintenance concerns. Mesker Park is only one of four accredited zoos in Indiana.
Priority list includes music of Prince, lots of Shakespeare
Plus, you can call her a one-hit-wonder, but Maria Muldaur has been exploring and creating ever since that hit.
Hancock County, 4-H leaders at odds over $18M fairgrounds
County officials and the local 4-H group disagree over who should control a proposed $18 million project for a new county fairgrounds.
COUNCIL: A monument to blacks that’s meant for all races
Being the first black reporter at IBJ, the Smithsonian’s new African-American museum spoke to me in a special way. But it can also speak to people of any race—as long as they’re willing to listen.
LOPRESTI: Every sport has its Vinatieri, bless that ageless right leg
Let’s meet others who are the oldest in their sport.
Mother of injured student sues over Westfield stage collapse
The complaint alleges the Westfield Washington School Corp. did not properly supervise the employee who constructed the stage, leading to a student’s injuries.
Phoenix Theatre raises $5.1M toward new complex
Officials said Wednesday they are launching a capital campaign to raise the final 40 percent of their fundraising goal. They also unveiled designs for the project by Indianapolis-based Ratio Architects.
Priority list includes Crossroads Comedy fest, a Sgt. Pepper celebration, more
Plus Beef & Boards goes “Into the Woods” for the first time.
Ticket giveaway: Haunted Hilbert
Win a pair of tickets to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s Halloween fundtraiser.
DINING: New to the area, Firebirds takes familiar flight path
Handsome bar with bold lighting? Check. Big, comfortable booths? Check. Visible kitchen? Check. Food choices that require no explanation? Check.
LOU’S VIEWS: Phoenix ‘Starcatcher’ is moving in more ways than one
Plus thoughts on the IRT season opener “The Three Musketeers.”
LOPRESTI: Recalling the Cubs’ still-magical 1908
Those boys of summer won the World Series in front of a crowd of … 6,000.
IBJ Movie Night: Win tickets to a sneak preview of ‘The Accountant’
Math skills not required to score passes to a screening of Ben Affleck’s latest film.