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Libman leaves as Center for the Performing Arts boss
July 29, 2011
Comments(3)Claims "personal reasons." Frank Basile takes over temporarily.
MoreIBJ A&E Season Preview in the works
July 29, 2011
Comments(0)Deadline approaching. Get info in ASAP regarding the 2011/2012 season.
MoreTicket giveaway: Indy Fringe fest overnight VIP package.
July 27, 2011
Comments(180)Win passes to the August anything-goes theater festival...plus a stay at the Nestle Inn.
MoreReview: "The Eel Catchers" a new play by Bennett Ayres
July 26, 2011
Comments(2)Leading men Doug Johnson and Ben Tebbe bring weight to a surprisingly engaging historical noir thriller.
MoreYou-review-it Monday
July 25, 2011
Comments(8)Arlo Guthrie, ComedySportz, and more were on my schedule this weekend. What about yours?
MoreIBJ Night at the Movies: 'The Help'
July 21, 2011
Comments(92)I've got tickets to give away for a screening on Monday, July 25, at Castleton. Enter ASAP for a chance.
MoreNYC: "Catch Me If You Can" reviewed
July 21, 2011
Comments(2)Why so much scorn heaped on a show that should be hailed as one of the best new Broadway musicals in years?
MoreNYC: Shakespeare in the Park's 'Measure for Measure' reviewed
July 18, 2011
Comment(1)Shakespeare's 'problem play' gets a strong outdoor production in Central Park.
MoreYou-review-it Monday
July 18, 2011
Comments(4)Did you make it to Summer Celebration concerts? Symphony on the Prairie? The Phoenix Theatre's "With a Bang"?
MoreBroadway's 'Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark' reviewed
July 17, 2011
Comments(11)I wish I could tell you that the media’s cynical circus missed the show’s magical essence. I can't.
MoreCultural tourist NYC: Son of Pony poetry reading at Cornelia Street Cafe
July 16, 2011
Comments(3)In lieu/of a review/a poem
MoreCultural Tourist, NYC: 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' and interpolation
July 15, 2011
Comments(5)Three drag performers traverse Australia in an RV in Broadway's latest jukebox musical.
MoreThe Cultural Tourist, NYC: 'Hair'
July 14, 2011
Comment(1)First in a series of A&E reports from Broadway and beyond.
MoreA&E ticket giveaway: Lady Antebellum and Sugarland
July 12, 2011
Comments(159)Win tickets to concerts at this year's Indiana State Fair
MoreYou-review-it Monday
July 11, 2011
Comments(5)I'm on vacation. So fill me in on what I missed in Indy this week?
MoreMore on Tarkington launch: David Hyde Pierce + free DK, more
July 8, 2011
Comments(0)The latest stage at the Center for the Performing Arts celebrated with free performances by local groups.
MoreYou-review-it Tuesday: The 4th, Florence, etc.
July 5, 2011
Comments(5)See any bombs bursting in air? Catch a concert? Cool off at the movies?
More'Spring Awakening' to anchor Phoenix Theatre season
July 1, 2011
Comments(3)Acclaimed musical, along with Pulitzer-winner 'August: Osage County' in 2011-2012 lineup.
MoreI won't miss Metromix...just what it could have been
June 28, 2011
Comments(18)Thought on the folding of the Indianapolis Star's not-quite-alt weekly.
MoreTicket giveaway: Arlo Guthrie and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
June 28, 2011
Comments(90)Win a four-pack of tickets to see the folk music legend.
MoreYou-review-it Monday: Civil War at Conner Prairie and more
June 26, 2011
Comments(4)What did you see, hear or do this weekend?
MoreEarth, Wind & Fire joining up with Symphony
June 23, 2011
Comments(0)Also, ballet at the multiplex, B'way's original Javert with the ISO, and more.
MoreTicket giveaway: ComedySportz World Championship
June 22, 2011
Comments(71)Funny folks from around the world will be competing in Indy. Be a part of it (and shout out suggestions).
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.