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The latest from Twyla Tharp
June 11, 2008
Comments(3)The pride of Portland, Indiana, choreographer Twyla Tharp premiered a new work, “Rabbit and Rogue” with the
American Ballet Theatre last week, earning a range of reviews from enthusiasm to dismissal .
In reading them, I was taken back...
MoreChicago's Muti pageant
June 10, 2008
Comments(4)I’m sure there are arts patrons in Central Indiana who travel across the border to hear the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. I just don’t know any of them.
For most of us, the musical difference between a true world-class orchestra like the...
MoreYou-review-it Monday
June 9, 2008
Comments(6)Welcome to Monday.
I hope your weekend was a satisfying one. Mine included trips to Buck Creek Players to see the musical
"Honk!" (where my son slept during the second act) and to Tibbs Drive-in (where my son slept through the...
MoreArt & Nature Park
June 6, 2008
Comments(4)Here's more on the works that will be part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art's Art and Nature Park, courtesy
of IBJ reporter Jennifer Whitson.
Atelier Van Lieshout, a Danish studio run by artist Joop van Lieshout,...
MoreFirst look: IMA park art
June 6, 2008
Comments(6)IBJ reporter Jennifer Whitson takes over the blog today with a sneak peek at some of the work planned for
the Indianapolis Museum of Art's backyard.
Today, the IMA is releasing preliminary renderings for three of the eight inaugural artworks slated...
MoreSummer on the tube
June 5, 2008
Comments(9)Since “The Sopranos” staged its final hit, “Desperate Housewives” became, well, desperate, and “American Idol”
lost some of its water-cooler luster, I’m hearing fewer people outside of the media talk about television
shows. (Except for...
MoreCrow kicks off Lawn season
June 4, 2008
Comments(3)I’ll admit that I never quite got a handle on Sheryl Crow. As catchy as some of her songs are, her hits
always seemed all about the chorus. No harm there—just nothing that made me want to go out...
MoreThe man who improved improv
June 3, 2008
Comment(1)Half my lifetime ago, I journeyed across the country from East Coast to West and found myself on my own
for a few days in Los Angeles. Looking for some cheap entertainment, I picked up a $6 ticket to see...
MoreIBJ Movie Night: Get Smart
June 3, 2008
Comments(45)Want to join IBJ for a screening of the new comedy "Get Smart," starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway?
It's happening June 17 at AMC College Park
For a pair of tickets, just take both of the following steps:
1. Post a comment...
MoreYou-review-it Monday
June 2, 2008
Comments(6)I wish I had more to report from the weekend, but I was under the weather and didn't get to take advantage
of Indy's offerings.
If nothing else, I had hoped to get out to The Jazz Kitchen for Sunday night's...
MoreBigger names at Indiana casinos
May 30, 2008
Comments(0)It seems like Indiana’s casinos are starting to step up when it comes to consistent summer showroom entertainment.
Now it’s just a matter of figuring out how to...
MoreConcerts: the great outdoors?
May 29, 2008
Comments(12)This week, Sheryl Crow launches the season for the Lawn at White River State Park and Eric Clapton plays
Verizon Wireless Music Center.
It seems an appropriate time for you to offer what you see as the pros and cons of...
MoreOn Sydney Pollack
May 27, 2008
Comments(10)The sad thing—well, one of the sad things—about the death of filmmaker Sydney Pollack yesterday is the nagging
feeling that there should be more to be excited about on his directing resume.
Pollack, a native of Lafayette who grew up...
More500 winners: Florence, Jim and us.
May 27, 2008
Comments(8)I'd like to add one brief A&E thought to all of this weekend’s Indy 500 coverage: Two of the reasons
why it's still possible to love the race--even if you aren't an open-wheel racing fan--are Jim Nabors and
Florence Henderson.
That...
MoreGreatest plays of all time?
May 23, 2008
Comments(2)A few days ago in this blog, I mentioned Daniel S. Burt's book "The Drama 100: A Ranking of the Greatest
Plays of All Time."
While we can all agree that such a list is highly subjective, we can probably...
More'Rent' at a theater near you
May 22, 2008
Comments(0)Yes, "Rent" -- the movie -- already played movie theaters (and didn't do particularly well). But now it
looks like it's getting another shot. Not a second run of the film, though. This will be a from-the-stage
performance of the hit...
MoreIn you face: 3-D on the way
May 22, 2008
Comments(0)1500 movie screens across the country will be upgraded to 3-D. So announced Regal Entertainment Group on Tuesday.
What was once a gimmick, now looks to be the standard for future moviegoing. This summer's "Journey to the
Center of the Earth"...
MoreBeyond 'Dancing with the Stars'
May 21, 2008
Comments(4)So TV's "Dancing with the Stars" has another winner.
Hooray.
I caught some of the finals last night without having seen the rest of the series. And having been to
Dance Kaleidoscope's season ending performance Sunday, I'm curious as to whether the huge...
MoreArts and depression
May 20, 2008
Comments(6)Two books I’m in the midst of reading combine to raise questions about the future of art and audiences.
The first, “Against Happiness,” posits that our society’s increased emphasis on smoothing over the rough edges
of life (through pharmaceuticals and...
More“Sweeney” at IU/“Idols” at Purdue
May 19, 2008
Comment(1)While the reaction seems to be very positive for this year’s Broadway series here in Indy (which includes
local premiers of “Wicked” and “Avenue Q”), some theater buffs have wondered if we’ll ever see the tours
of the acclaimed John...
MoreYou-review-it Monday
May 19, 2008
Comment(1)For me, the weekend included a local premier at Theatre on the Square, a popular revival at Beef &
Boards and a mix of old and new with Dance Kaleidoscope. Plus a stroll through the Broad Ripple...
MoreLet the art fair season begin
May 16, 2008
Comments(2)This weekend marks the unofficial launch of the summer art fair season, with the Broad Ripple Art Fair sure
to attract mobs to the Indianapolis Art Center grounds (weather cooperating, of course).
I'm a fan of BRAF and its end-of-summer-IMA-bookend,...
MoreArt auction record shattered
May 15, 2008
Comments(6)Last night at Sotheby’s auction house in New York, a 1976 angst-infused triptych by Francis Bacon sold for
$86.3 million. Apparently that’s the highest price ever paid at auction for a piece of contemporary art.
My instinct was to ask...
MoreRobert Rauschenberg R.I.P.
May 14, 2008
Comments(5)Few artists in history have changed the rules the way Robert Rauschenberg, who died Monday at age 82, did.
By incorporating found objects (a pillow, a stuffed goat…) into his paintings, Rauschenberg challenged contemporary
art and artists to connect their work...
MoreThe ‘Times’: Nothing in Indy
May 13, 2008
Comments(18)Readers of the New York Times received their “Summer Stages” preview in Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section.
The annual piece offers a rundown of what’s happening around the country in Dance, Theater, Pop/Jazz and
Classical Music. And while the Cleveland and...
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Cats out of the bag. The object of the game is to get acquired. That means the company has no idea how to grow beyond a certain point. Email is a 1990s technology. I have laughed at this company since day one. Such a small bit player. If it was anywhere but here, it wouldn't be newsworthy.
Esther, Indy has passed Chicago in the local government corruption arena. Don't downgrade us. We're No. 1 in the Midwest.
Does the buyer get to keep the recent Accu-Chek J.D. Power award? Be careful, those Swiss cannot be trusted. Last June they pimped Mayor Ballard and former Governor Daniels at a media op, announcing plans to invest "$300 million at its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2017," only to turn around and close the Roche Nutley, NJ facility and eliminate 1000 jobs there later the same week. It seems that healthcare can be innovated only as long as money is to be made. Right now Roche seems to have big eyes for China: there are many Chinese in China and potential billions in Swiss francs! Since Roche is having difficulty with US insurance companies swallowing the bill for overpriced cancer drugs (with debatable efficacy) why not sell insurance to the Chinese and market the drugs to them there? There is a name for these sort of business practices however proper decorum precludes it use in this forum.
Same kind of Luddites who oppose I-69. Guessing their 501(c)(4) application probably sailed right through the IRS.