Bruce HetrickDecember 3, 2007
Lou Harry is Arts & Entertainment Editor for Indianapolis Business Journal, where his A&E review column
appears weekly. He has also written on cultural matters for Variety, TheaterWeek, Stagebill, InTheatre, Gadfly,
Seven Arts, Mental_Floss, Indy Men's Magazine, Arts Indiana...
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Cory SchoutenDecember 3, 2007
Looking for flowers downtown? There's a new arrangement, thanks to a shakeup among locally based florists.
Enflora Flowers for Business, part of McNamara, plans to open in Chase Tower in early February. And...
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December 3, 2007
You hear it over and over. Lots of young families would live downtown, or in the surrounding neighborhoods,
if Indianapolis Public Schools didnâ??t have a poor reputation. Rather than risk their childrenâ??s education,
they bolt for township schools or even...
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November 30, 2007
When Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Formula One parted ways this summer, more than one person in Indianapolis
muttered, â??Good riddance.â??
F1â??s leader, Bernie Ecclestone, was viewed as arrogant, pushy and greedy. Just the same, the city likes
the
prestige of hosting...
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Cory SchoutenNovember 30, 2007
A final discussion question to consider today: What retailers, restaurants or development methods are missing
from Indy? Plenty of new names are entering the market, and "green" building seems to be gaining...
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November 29, 2007
Clarian Health wasnâ??t able to get its $75 million medical complex near Muncie off the ground partly because
doctors balked.
So much sentiment poured out in favor of the home team, Ball Memorial Hospital, that Clarian couldnâ??t sign
enough doctors to...
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November 28, 2007
The Wall Street Journal carried an interesting op-ed piece yesterday by a researcher who claimed cities are
putting their eggs in the wrong basket by trying to attract young single professionals with a â??brew-latte-and-they-will-come-approach.â??
Joel Kotkin, presidential fellow at Chapman University,...
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Cory SchoutenNovember 28, 2007
Several downtown projects, including Lucas Oil Stadium and the JW Marriott, will add new dimensions to a
skyline that hasn't changed much in the last dozen years. What is your favorite building...
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My favorite magician is Mickey in Fantasia.
I ate at a Steak n Shake a couple of weeks ago and was amused to see a poster of him (and a lineup of employees) just inside the entrance. You don't see that at other chains -- OK maybe Dave the Wendy's guy, but that was when he was also in their TV ads.
Well he wasn't a magician in the latest movie, but up in Fort Wayne he was featured on Happy the Hobo when I was a kid and I LOVED THE SHOW!
Shake Shack>Steak n' Shake
I really enjoyed the Hollywood Bar and Film works, they had good food and decent prices I understand that parking was one of the reasons for its closing. If other major events were going downtown parking was expensive if not impossible. Hope the new cinema bar will have parking.