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Lou's Views
LOU'S VIEWS: Lurie-ing arts audiences to downtown Carmel
November 14, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, thoughts on exhibitions at Evan Lurie Gallery in Carmel and a new revue at the Cabaret at the Connoisseur Room.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Teaching the ISO new tricks
November 7, 2009
Lou HarryThe Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra combined magic and music with "Mysterioso."
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: A brave new preteen world at IRT
October 31, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, the young adult best-seller "The Giver" is staged at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. Plus some thoughts on school
field trips.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Phoenix show shipshape/Marxing time in Chicago
October 24, 2009
Lou HarryThe Phoenix Theatre's "Shipwrecked!" and "Animal Crackers" at Chicago's Goodman Theatre offer two kinds of stage pleasures.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Graven image conscious
October 17, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, Spanish artists explore the sacred and the IRT’s playwright-in-residence presents a haunted Abe Lincoln.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Heartland fest's bests ... and the rest
October 10, 2009
Rebecca Berfanger, Lou HarryWe review this year's Heartland Film Festival offerings. Check back often as we add entries throughout the event, which starts
Oct. 15.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Of 'Glee' they sing
October 3, 2009
Lou HarryFox's musical high school comedy is generating buzz in the A&E world.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Searching for the best in Eiteljorg's West 'Quest'
September 26, 2009
Lou HarryThis year's edition of the annual show and sale offers variations on familiar themes.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: City Ballet off to stunning start
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.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: A strong 'Wind' in Bloomington
September 12, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, three plays add up to a terrific start for the central Indiana performing arts season.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: 7&7 + B&B = remarkable footwork
September 5, 2009
Lou HarryIt might make some top 10 movie musicals lists, but it’s unlikely that “Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers” is on anyone’s list of favorite stage musicals. Which is why Beef
& Boards
Dinner Theatre’s current production of the show (running through Oct. 4) is so remarkable.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Quality time on the Fringe
August 28, 2009
Lou HarryBy definition, the non-juried IndyFringe festival has a crapshoot quality. My advice to new Fringe-goers is usually to
go to at least three shows and be fully prepared to hate at least one of them.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Trying out the games of Gen Con
August 24, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, reviews of new games found at Gen Con and a nostalgic misfire from Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: 'Pump Boys,' the IMA's 'Memory Cloud,' and Tarantino's latest
August 17, 2009
Lou HarryA musical returns with local cast intact, new lobby artwork at the IMA invites revisits, and Tarantino's new WWII movie disappoints.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Leguizamo tries out Indy
August 10, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, a film and theater star uses Indianapolis as a test market, Shakespeare holds a rain-soaked mob, and a somber ISO
plows
through a Beatles afternoon.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Thrill parks offer rides of our lives
July 27, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, three of my fellow IBJ scribes join me in picking our favorite area amusement park rides
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Abe Lincoln is back at Spencer County theater
July 20, 2009
Lou HarryAfter I discovered it one summer, Lincoln Amphitheatre quickly became one of my favorite theaters in the state. Nestled
in a state park in Spencer County, the covered-but-still-outdoor theater’s anchoring attraction was a show about young
Abraham Lincoln, who spent his formative years just yards away.
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.
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."
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Must-sea Phoenix drama
June 27, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, catching "Octopus" at the Phoenix and opening night on the Prairie.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Conner Prairie balloon ride marred by corporate logos
June 15, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, balloons take visitors into Conner Prairie airspace, a wizard to and from Oz, and a grieving curmudgeon to animated
adventures.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: IRT's 'Interpreting William' needs rewriting
June 1, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, William Conner on stage at the IRT and another chorus of "Tomorrow," courtesy of Beef &
Boards.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Rickey's sculptures, Phoenix's 'Zoomerville' advance Indy's art reputation
May 18, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, art in the wind and an original musical.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Rate expectations ... reviewing without stars
May 11, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, two community theater productions reinforce my decision not to give
"star" ratings.
MoreLOU'S VIEWS: Booking art on the library's pedestals
May 4, 2009
Lou HarryThis week, new artwork in front of the Central Library, and a Pulitzer-winning
play at IRT.
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The basic idea of nice apartments with parking and retail is a good one, but this design seems overwhelmingly big/tall for Broad Ripple. The size could be disguised a bit with lots of big trees/landscaping, but the complex is too massive to blend in easily. That section of canal between College and Westfield will also need to be upgraded on both sides. Nice apartments facing onto a nice promenade with shade trees/plantings could bring together the canal towpath/Monon recreation, the outdoor seating at existing restaurants, and this project into something that upgrades the whole area. A plan for the whole stretch makes more sense than facing nice new housing onto what looks like a ditch. Is there a plan? Does the public have input? Who pays? The apartment idea seems to be reasonable, but Whole Foods is not a good idea for appropriate retail. Besides the store being physically too big, there are already Fresh Market at 54xCollege and Whole Foods in Nora for fancy groceries. Good Earth and Kroger are within walking distance of the Shell site. There are at least 7 grocery stores within a safe bike ride. Whole Foods would add nothing but traffic congestion. This design is on the right track, but there needs to be more work done to ensure that it blends in with and enhances the existing community. A project that large will set a tone for that whole part of town. It could be a real asset, but only if done right.
I did not move to Zionsville to live in Carmel. This and the subsequent developments to follow will ensure a vanilla uniformity of strip malls and apartment buildings as we seek to bring our town down to the least common denominator. We were warned before recent elections that pro-development council members would make sure their friends (landowners and developers) would be able to make their millions off of the exploitation of Zionsville. Why in God's name would we sell out the best preserved small town in the State of Indiana?