ICVA hires White Lodging vet for sales position
Hotel sales and marketing executive Michelle Travis is joining the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association
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LOU’S VIEWS: Thrill parks offer rides of our lives
This week, three of my fellow IBJ scribes join me in picking our favorite area amusement park rides
DINING: The Eiteljorg cafe where soup is always on
If all outdoor dining were as comfortable and stress-free as Sky City Cafe’s, maybe I’d do it more often.
HETRICK: Visiting Alaska, and sticking final pin in the map
In my parent’s basement hangs a map of the United States stuck with multicolored push pins showing where they’ve lived
and visited. Until a few weeks ago, there were pins in every state but one.
BENNER: French Lick could become wealthy golfers’ paradise
On the eve of the U.S. Senior Open Golf Championship that will be played at Carmel’s Crooked Stick Golf Club, designer
Pete Dye’s first great masterpiece, I was fortunate to be invited to play his latest creation and maybe one of his greatest.
Tweeting on the lawn
Annoyed by text-reading patrons at concerts? Well, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra is now actively encouraging it.
For an upcoming concert at Wolf Trap, it will be Tweeting live program notes to audience members on the lawn during a performance of Beethoven’s “Pastoral.”…
500 Days of Summer thoughts
So, did you make it to the screening of “500 Days of Summer”? If so, what did you think?
I’ll let a few others post before I chime in with my thoughts.
How I spent my summer vacation
I just returned from a vacation with family at the New Jersey shore. But, of course, I didn’t leave A&E behind.
No, I didn’t catch any Atlantic City casino shows — although, I regret missing Chazz Palminteri do his one-man show,…
You-review-it Monday
I’ve been out of town this week, so I’ve missed, well, everything.
But I plan on catching up in a big way this week. In the meantime, tell me about your weekend arts experiences. Did you get to the latest “Smoke…
STYLE: New retailers add dimension to canal-side shopping
Along with the debut of this new column, focusing on style in Indy and beyond, comes a Broad Ripple shopping
shuffle, where the reorganization of two mainstays has given way to new life along the canal.
LOU’S VIEWS: Abe Lincoln is back at Spencer County theater
After I discovered it one summer, Lincoln Amphitheatre quickly became one of my favorite theaters in the state. Nestled
in a state park in Spencer County, the covered-but-still-outdoor theater’s anchoring attraction was a show about young
Abraham Lincoln, who spent his formative years just yards away.
DINING: We’ll take sushi over cigars, now and Zen
This week, our exploration of the city’s cultural district dining took us to Mass Ave, where the culinary cultural
offerings just might outnumber the artsy fartsy stuff. Our destination: Bu Da Lounge (429 Massachusetts Ave., 602-3643), which
bills itself as an Asian-inspired cigar bar but is generating buzz for its sushi selection.
IBJ Movie Night: ‘(500) Days…’
Want to join me at a sneak preview of the new romantic comedy “(500) Days of Summer” starring Zooey Deschanel? (More info on the film here)
I’ve got passes for the Wednesday, July 22 7:30 screening at AMC Castleton Square…
BENNER: Mom and Lance Armstrong had cancer in common
A few years ago, when cyclist extraordinaire Lance Armstrong was in the midst of his phenomenal seven
straight Tour de France titles, those yellow Livestrong bands seemed ubiquitous. But when Armstrong left
competitive cycling, gradually those rubber yellow bands faded from view. I kept wearing mine, however, to remind me of the
courage of my mother, Emma.
Get ready for Operapalooza
IBJ reporter Kathleen McLaughlin guest blogs today.
The Indianapolis Opera is adding another event to the busy fall festival scene, but it’s definitely striving to carve out a distinct niche. Operapalooza, planned for Sept. 11 and 12, will mix sets by…
NEA grants impact Indy arts groups
IBJ reporter Kathleen McLaughlin guest blogs today.
If our report last week about federal stimulus money for the arts piqued your interest, we have an update this morning from the Indiana Arts Commission. See the list below for details on who…
You-review-it Monday
So did you walk with dinosaurs? Hang out at Conner Prairie with the Symphony? Catch one of the final performances of “Octopus” at the Phoenix Theatre?
I spent Sunday afternoon at the oldest continually operating theater in the country catching a…
DINING: (Piz)’Za made for the middle of the night
If you’re in Broad Ripple and hungry for pizza, you’ve got lots of options. But what do you do if it’s the
middle of the night on a Thursday and you and your entourage have the munchies? Well, for that very specific
demographic group of pizza eaters, there’s now ’Za, which is open until 4 a.m. Wednesday
to Saturday.
Review: “Walking with Dinosaurs”
There are lots of ways that “Walking with Dinosaurs” (with performances through this weekend at Conseco Fieldhouse) could have compromised itself. It could have turned too jokey. It could have gone anthropomorphic or “Land Before Time” cute. It could have…
LOU’S VIEWS: Here’s the best from International Film Fest
This year’s Indianapolis International Film Festival gets rolling later this usual, with a bump to summer precipitated
in part by the moving on of its founder to the Nashville Film Festival and in part by the move of most of the fest (minus
parties) to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. We’ve spent the last few weeks reviewing most of the
features in competition.