You-review-it Monday
This week, I re-encountered ‘Oedipus’ at the IMA and spent quality time in a Chicago bar with Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy. What about you?
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Articles
Indy art museum receives grant for Miller House
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has received a grant to digitize, catalog, and put online a collection of materials about a 1957 modernist-style home in Columbus designed by famed architect Eero Saarinen.
Carmel event firm sold, relocated to Castleton
EventzPlus, besides hosting large gatherings, will also offer daily office space rentals to small business owners.
DINING: (Syr)up-and-coming breakfast chain targets expansion
Second in a month-long series of Keystone Crossing/Clearwater Crossing-area restaurant reviews. This week: First Watch.
LOU’S VIEWS: Special Oed
Thoughts on ‘Oedipus Rex’ on the grounds of the IMA, Indianapolis Opera’s excellent ‘Faust,’ and more.
BENNER: With MSA, Lugar brought Pacers and sports downtown
Without Sen. Richard Lugar, we might not have the Pacers.
HETRICK: Thoughts on losing Lugar and his legacy of leadership
Dick Lugar inspired good people and whetted their appetite for public service.
Indiana State Fair makes management changes
The Indiana State Fair has hired a chief operating officer and a director of safety and security as part of management changes spurred by last summer's deadly stage-rigging collapse.
A question for Maurice Sendak
So, Mr. Sendak, what’s missing today in children’s literature?
You-review-it Monday
Did you get to First Friday? Or experience ‘Faust’ Friday? Or just get to ‘The Avengers’?
State unveils six food trails as part of tourism effort
The trails feature more than 90 locally owned food destinations in six regions stretching from northern to southern parts of the state. They were launched as part of Visit Indiana Week.
500 Festival Mini-Marathon preps for storms, winds
Organizers of the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon have taken extra steps to keep participants and spectators safe if the weather turns dangerous on Saturday.
DINING: Not quite as ordered
First in a month-long series of Keystone Crossing/Clearwater Crossing-area restaurant reviews. This week: Brewstone Beer Co.
LOU’S VIEWS: Midwest vision quest
Thoughts on “Art from the Heartland,” Mike Birbiglia and moonlighting by the “Avenue Q” puppets.
Butler University arts dean aims to link campus, city
Ronald Caltabiano says the Butler arts festival would feature talent from the university, affiliated organizations like Dance Kaleidoscope and Indianapolis Opera, and “extraordinary” guest artists.
Charity watchdog flags symphony’s fiscal troubles
ISO says Charity Navigator failed to account for endowment money that should have kept it off “deep trouble” list.
BENNER: Let’s hope Indiana-Kentucky rivalry won’t be gone long
I root for two teams: Indiana, and whoever’s playing Kentucky.
Review: IRT’s ‘The Miracle Worker’
The Keller/Sullivan battles have an edge-of-the-seat excitement that would put a WWF fan on seat’s edge.