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State arts commission budget down 20 percent
July 13, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinA 20-percent budget reduction for the Indiana Arts Commission will affect as many as 400 grant-dependent organizations
across the state. The agency’s overall budget will shrink from $4 million in 2009 to $3.2 million for the
next two fiscal years.
MoreHETRICK: It's hip to be simple, so let's take advantage
July 13, 2009
Bruce HetrickA gentleman from Fort Wayne died last month. The cancer caught up to him just a few days before his 80th birthday. Like many
of us native Hoosiers, this fellow was born of working folks. His dad was a traveling hardware salesman,
his mom a homemaker.
MoreBENNER: Time for some perspective on Tony George's legacy
July 13, 2009
Bill BennerReports of a Hulman-George family feud proved dead-on accurate when matriarch Mari Hulman-George issued a statement June
30 confirming the ouster of her son, Tony, as CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the family business empire. Shortly
thereafter, Tony George also resigned as CEO of the Indy Racing League.
MoreDINING: (Piz)'Za made for the middle of the night
July 13, 2009
Lou HarryIf 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.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Here's the best from International Film Fest
July 13, 2009
Lou HarryThis 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.
MoreState, city agencies get new round of federal arts funding
July 7, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinIndiana and Indianapolis arts agencies will receive more than a half-million dollars in federal stimulus money to help save
jobs at local organizations, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today. A second round of American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act funding includes $250,000 for the Arts Council of Indianapolis.
MoreSURF THIS: Let's just back up ... with a Drobo
July 6, 2009
Jim CotaHard drives fail—almost all of them, at one point or another. Back-ups are a little clunky to set up
and keep up with, so most people I know ignore it. I finally decided I couldn’t avoid it any longer.
MoreBENNER: Indiana Fever are adding a little sizzle to summer
July 6, 2009
Bill BennerLast week’s column about the wide array of events on our July sports calendar in Indy was glaringly lacking in
one aspect: The Indiana Fever. As of this writing, they are the hottest team in the WNBA, reversing an
0-2 start and racing to six straight victories.
MoreIndianapolis 500 movie racing toward big screen
July 6, 2009
Anthony SchoettleA locally born initiative to make a movie about the first Indianapolis 500 has cleared a major obstacle to getting its project
to big screens nationwide by May 2011—in time for the race's centennial.
MoreLegislature snubs casinos, but forms study committee
July 6, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerIndiana's struggling gambling industry didn't get the relief it sought during the special session of the Indiana General Assembly.
But embedded within the budget bill approved June 30 is a provision creating a gambling summer study committee. Its recommendations,
due by Dec. 1, may make or break several of Indiana's casinos.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Breaking with the past at Tut show
July 6, 2009
Lou HarryI entered "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharoahs" (at the Children's Museum of
Indianapolis through Oct. 25) with a limited knowledge of Egyptian history—and by limited, I mean
loose threads picked up from a handful of Mummy movies, the Bible, and a few too many productions of "Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
MoreDINING: Backward-named eatery, forward-thinking fusion
July 6, 2009
Lou HarrySearch the Web for Naisa and you may come up with the North American International Auto Show or the Native American and Indigenous
Studies Association. Neither has anything to do with the new Naisa Pan-Asian Cafe (1025 Virginia Ave., 602-3708), where the
name comes from simply reversing the letters in the word Asian.
MoreDINING: Upscale eatery makes its mark on Shelbyville casino
June 29, 2009
Andrea Muirragui DavisOne of just three Maker’s Mark restaurants in the country—the others are in Louisville, Ky., and Kansas City,
Mo.—the upscale eatery would have been a good fit in downtown Indianapolis or in one of the suburban dining-and-shopping
meccas.
MoreBASILE: Following in the footsteps of Darwin in the Galapagos
June 29, 2009
Frank BasileThere's nothing like following the wildly influential thinker Charles Darwin's own footsteps, which I
had the pleasure of doing by visiting the beautiful, mysterious, isolated and enchanted Galapagos Islands.
MoreBENNER: July events rely on big names to draw a crowd
June 29, 2009
Bill BennerFor all the heat and sunshine, July can be a cold, dark hole in the Indianapolis
sports calendar. Other than the ever-beloved Indianapolis Indians, sometimes there's not much going on.
MoreKing Tut crowds not necessarily bonanza for Children's Museum
June 29, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinThe gilded exhibit, a happy byproduct of the museum's close relationship with an Egyptian institution, is more of a gift than
a major moneymaker.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Must-sea Phoenix drama
June 27, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, catching "Octopus" at the Phoenix and opening night on the Prairie.
MoreDINING: Game on at food-and-play spot
June 22, 2009
Lou HarryWhen you play Skee-ball and aim for the
100-point hole, you miss most of the time. However, if you aim for the 30, you have a much better chance
of scoring. You might not get a high score, but you'll win enough
tickets to want to play again. How does that translate into my dining
experience at the new Dave & Buster's?
MoreDINING: No waffling, Maxine's delivers
June 15, 2009
Andrea Muirragui DavisIt felt weird to pull into a gas station parking lot in search of lunch. But we forgot we were in a former auto repair shop
as soon as we walked into Maxine's
Chicken & Waffles, attached to the Citgo station at Ohio and East streets.
MoreArts backer Efroymson returns to contemporary museum he helped start
June 15, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinJeremy Efroymson recently agreed to return to the financially flailing Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art as its executive
director and work for free. Efroymson, one of the museum's early leaders, has a strategy for seeing IMOCA through a financial
rough spot, but what remains unclear is how the museum will wean itself off his support.
MoreDINING: Binkley's Kitchen & Bar reclaims former drug store site
June 8, 2009
Lou HarryBinkley's Drug Store occupied the corner of Kessler and College from 1928 to the early
1970s. Its namesake now occupying the same spot, Binkley's Kitchen & Bar, seems equally built
to last—a friendly neighborhood joint that glances back without wallowing in nostalgia and stays progressive without
being
trendy.
MoreWhite River park passes on balloon
June 8, 2009
IBJ StaffConner Prairie has $2.2 million riding on a ballooning exhibit that opened June 6. One thing that won't stand in the way of
its success is a competing ride--at least not at White River State Park.
MoreStitcher is more than just Pandora for news junkies
June 1, 2009
Jim CotaStitcher bills itself as "a leading mobile audio company that provides a revolutionary media service which allows audio content
to be easily aggregated, organized and shared on mobile devices." It's sort of like DVR for radio.
MoreFireworks show fizzles under financial constraints
June 1, 2009
If you don't get your fireworks fix on July 4, you'll no longer have another chance this year to be awed by the colorful displays.
MoreSkyline Club gets behind local artists
June 1, 2009
The Skyline Club has reserved one wall of its main dining room for local artists and will also host a series of artist receptions
for its members and the general public.
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Good ole' Obamacare. Thanks liberals and those who didn't bother to vote.
Yes. Blame those who were too lazy to go vote Obama out and those who voted him in again. That's my take on it. I know folks won't get it on the left. OK. Start berating me now!
Serioulsy, people are AGINST this project? Most communities would be salivating over a project like this. You'd rather have an empty eye-sore gas station and shacks posing as apartments? This project is exactly what BR needs. BUILD IT MR MAYOR. And yes, I am a BR resident, and have been for 20 years.
As a St. Vincent employee of over 20 years, I am saddened and disheartened by this announcement. Unfortunately, as the healthcare "industry" continues on this political and corporate path, all that St. Vincent Hospital has stood for spiritually for its employees and this community is being sucked dry. I know it truly has no choice. It is not just Obamacare or just competition or just any single thing. This trend started long before I was even born when the government became involved in healthcare and it became an "industry." I grieve for those who will lose their jobs, one of whom may be me, but I also grieve for this hospital which I have served for over 20 years. May God give us and it the grace to withstand the future of healthcare.
Why do people constantly harp on this issue and act ignorant about what a city population measures? A city's population is the city's population. There is no argument or debate about it. If you want to measure the density of a city--measure it. If you want to measure the size of a metropolitan area, then measure the metropolitan population. City boundaries cover different sized areas--and they always have (though the disparity has probably increased since about 1900 or so when more cities began annexing their surrounding communities). For example, San Francisco only covers 49 square miles while Houston cover nearly 600 square miles. No one argues about the population rankings of either city even though they clearly cover extremely different sized areas. Indianapolis is the 13 largest city by population in the U.S. That is a fact. While the population of a metropolitan area may give you a better sense of how large a community is, as noted, even metro areas can vary widely in the size of geographic area they cover--so that is not a perfect comparison either.