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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"And the success of the Indiana GOP to not allow an expansion of Medicaid had nothing to do with Indiana hospitals' financial woes? Fixed that for you; editorial bias rebalanced. Seriously, there are so many things wrong with Obamacare that the only way one can view it as a success is to assume that it was designed to fail our way into a government single payor healthcare system. The system is complex, creates huge regulatory burdens and overhead and yet still does not have adequate means to control escalating health care costs. But then when you elect a 10th grade math drop out with no quantitative reasoning skills to be President of one of the world's most important economies in troubled times, you can't really be surprised by blatant stupidity.
No NIMBYs here to chase off a decent development. We don't need tons of parking and we'd happily play the role of host to a downtown Whole Foods.
Whatever you do, don't change a single thing about Broad Ripple. I want it to look just like it did in the late '70s, with 30% of the north side of Broad Ripple Avenue burned out and plenty of places to park. That's right Broad Ripple, NEVER CHANGE. Let the world pass you by, don't improve your empty, abandoned lots full of weeds. Someday someone will want to film a zombie movie here.
Hollywood could step in and make a movie about the history about this forlorn series. It could be a full celebrity cast of characters. WOW. http://www.advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2013/02/indiana-taxpayers-forced-to-pay-for.html
This shouldn't come as a shock to many. Austin is a great city, and Indy needs to take some notes. Austin invests in decent transit options, has a highly educated workforce, embraces a creative class, and --despite being the state capital-- is not micromanaged by rural and suburban legislators. Want Indy to grow? Invest in the city (i.e. spend money). Raise taxes a bit, and use the money to improve education. And keep the state legislature out of Indy the other 9 months of the year.