May 17, 2013
Lou HarryThe state's largest newspaper is mum on whether reviews will continue after the Friday resignation of its fine arts critic.
Arts organizations are taking a wait-and-see attitude.
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March 23, 2013
Lou HarryThoughts on the latest from DK, Acting Up, and an American Pianists Association fellow.
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October 20, 2012
Lou HarryMy take on the Children's Museum attraction, plus generation-jumping thoughts on Jonathan Groff at the Cabaret and DK’s Beatles
celebration.
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July 7, 2012
Lou HarryPlus thoughts on ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’
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May 5, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinRonald Caltabiano says the Butler arts festival would feature talent from the university, affiliated organizations like Dance
Kaleidoscope and Indianapolis Opera, and “extraordinary” guest artists.
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April 20, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel expects the 2012-13 concert season, announced this week, to bring a healthy bump
in sponsor revenue.
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May 28, 2011
Lou HarryWhile his official tenure doesn’t begin until September, Krzysztof Urbanski’s unofficial coming-out party came
May 20-21 when he led the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for the first time since being named music director.
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March 25, 2011
IBJ StaffButler University said Thursday that it plans to close its Jordan Academy of Dance due to economic reasons. The academy, which
has more than 200 students, ages 3-17, will shut down May 31.
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December 15, 2010
The deal, expected to close by the end of the year, is valued at $1.6 million, including real estate. It will be Rick's Cabaret
International Inc.'s first location in Indianapolis.
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September 18, 2010
Lou HarryBallet's “An Evening with the Stars” fundraising event featured stars of the Bolshoi Ballet, American Ballet Theatre
and much more.
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July 24, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinLocal arts patrons Jane Fortune and her longtime partner Robert Hesse started City Ballet in the spring of 2009, but it was
more of a pitch than a reality. More than a year later, organization leaders are still not sure when they will hire their
own dancers.
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May 29, 2010
Lou HarryComplaints of cell phones, texters and candy wrappers are common. But what about seeing into the wings?
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April 2, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinA professional ballet company that formed in the wake of Ballet Internationale's collapse has closed its own doors.
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March 6, 2010
Lou HarryA few weeks back, I wrote about the two collections of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia on display at the Indiana
State Museum. Over the past week, two additional encounters with Abe reminded me that there is no shortage of material to
be mined from
the life of the 16th president.
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September 19, 2009
Lou HarryThe would-be Indianapolis City Ballet raised the bar high with a star-studded gala that brought together some of the top young
dancers in the
world.
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March 2, 2009
Gabrielle PoshadloAfter four years, the Red Room club in Broad Ripple is switching its salsa night from Wednesday to Thursday and local salseros
are worried about stepping on some toes.
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December 29, 2008
Lou HarryTraditionally, as the year winds down, critics' thoughts tend toward "best of the year" lists. But I'm feeling the
need for
a more accurate label.
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September 24, 2007
Jennifer WhitsonThe Cincinnati Ballet is taking an exploratory step toward a regional ballet company, announcing plans to stage a six-show
"Nutcracker" production here this December. The idea of a collaboration--where the two cities would share production and administration
expenses--has elicited mixed response.
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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.