LEADING QUESTIONS Not-for-profit prez: ‘Take a breath’
Keira Amstutz of the Indiana Humanities Council has counterintuitive advice for fundraising pitches, plus counsel on
finding balance and avoiding overthinking.
etc.
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The incredibly expanding theater seat
A new study reports that (surprise), Americans are getting bigger, and so are our theater seats.
You-review-it Monday
Neil LaBute’s “Reasons to be Pretty” opened at the Phoenix. The Symphony offered a John Denver tribute. What did you do this weekend?
Children’s Museum to offer preschool
Tuition will range from $350 to about $1,050 a semester depending on the number of days a child attends.
LOU’S VIEWS: Best of the Fest … and more
Baseball doc and drama from Finland among strongest offerings.
DINING: Eye has new Broad Ripple focus
The new edition of The Red Eye is only a short designated-driver ride from most Broad Ripple night spots.
HETRICK: We’ll have our reunion, but you can’t have yours
Throughout our 234 years, each wave of immigrants feared the one arriving before it.
SPORTS: Sports suffer even as participation, attention grow
Will we ever return to the halcyon days dominated by the likes of Foyt, Andretti, Rutherford, Mears and the Unsers?
Ad firm unit studies impact of social media on movie biz
At a time many local advertising agencies are struggling, one firm is growing with an unusual new division aimed at measuring
the effects of social media on movies and actors. Bradley and Montgomery late last summer launched Fizziology as a stand-alone
enterprise.
Civic Theatre gears up for capital campaign
Actress and former Indiana Repertory Theatre staff member Megan McKinney has been hired to prepare for the three-year fundraising
initiative.
Super Bowl Host Committee beefs up its staff
Three of the six additions are executives on loan from the Indiana Sports Corp. and the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors
Association.
‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ among local premieres at TOTS
Theatre on the Square 2010/2011 lineup also includes “Superior Donuts.”
Ticket giveaway: Indianapolis International Film Festival
Score tickets to the baseball fan doc “Ballhawks” or the feature “A Little Help” starring Jenna Fischer.
You-review-it Monday, er, I mean Tuesday
Symphony on the Prairie’s 4th of July tradition was just one option.
New Conner Prairie exhibit could be set in 20th century
Work is starting at the former site of Liberty Corner on a new exhibit that will be announced in late summer or early fall.
SURF THIS: Two sites meet demands of meeting planners
E-mail is a great communication tool. But sometimes, it simply falls flat on its face. TimeBridge and Tungle help users get down to business.
WEB REVIEW: Two sites meet demands of meeting planners
E-mail is a great communication tool. But sometimes, it simply falls flat on its face.<
BENNER: Blown calls aren’t a tradition worth preserving
When glaring, outcome—or history-altering—gaffes can be almost immediately rectified, why wouldn’t anyone want to
get it right?