You-review-it Monday

November 9, 2009
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For me, the weekend including a trip to the Cabaret at the Connoisseur Room to see the original musical revue "Enter Love," featuring the songs of Lynn L. Lupold. Plus a visit to Carmel's Evan Lurie Gallery for the Walter Knabe show. More on both in an upcoming column.

I also was honored to be a guest speaker at the Writers' Center of Indiana's "Gathering of Writers and Readers," which not only gave me the chance to talk about collaborative writing, but also to put faces to many of the state's top published authors. I'm looking forward to digging into and discussing their books in the near future here and in the print IBJ.

On film, I finally got around to seeing "Metropolitan," Whit Stillman's low-key but oddly compelling 1990 film about preppy teens in New York. I stumbled on it because of the odd and wonderful serendipity of Comcast's free On Demand movies. Personally, I don't want to know what sort of dart board is involved in the bizarrely random selection of films that show up there, but I love clicking in each week to see what's being offered. Then again, I like looking for library books from the shelving cart.

Speaking of books, I've been engrossed in Mike Sacks' "And Here's the Kicker," a collection of smart, informed, and fun interviews with humor writers. Included are a wide range of creative types, including the late great Larry Gelbart, Bob Odenkirk (co-creator of the outstanding "Mr. Show," the insightful Merrill Markoe and David Sedaris, who has achieved near rock-star status by reading his funny memoirs. Any interested in how comedy is made should take a look.

And you?

What did you see, hear, read or do this weekend?

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  1. First, the Athenaeum is going to have to get past the hurdle with the Lockerbie residents and the agreement that the parcel would be residential. Second, and in my opinion, this prime piece of property should include parking, PLUS, a black box theater(s), some market rate and affordable artist housing and a plan to renovate and reconfigure the second story theater. I would negotiate to add the DeHaan property surface parking lot into the development mix, place a one story surface parking garage on the DeHaan lot on the street level (for the Dehaan tenants use during the daytime) and add a second story to the garage that would become an addition to the current second story theater and then change the direction of the theater by moving the stage across the alley and on top of the DeHaan lot parking. You can add all the stage elements that are currently missing from the Athenaeum stage to make it more attractive for use by Ballet, Opera and traveling productions. Plus, the theater changes would probably help solve some of the soundproofing issues. Alas,it does not seem to be a part of the strategic plan to conduct a study to determine best use of the property. Seems like the current plan is a quick and easy move that ignores the property best use/potential and any strategic property planning for the effect on future generations.

  2. I recall that MSA's pilings are still in the ground and hard to remove. It’s not likely any proposal will include significant underground construction/parking because of this. Start adding 2 floors of retail, 8 floors of parking and 5-10 floors of possible hotel, and/or 10-20 floors of residential, and you are at 30 floors already with possible expansion of all the uses. But then again I could be wrong.

  3. Accoriding to their website there is no deadline to the Do Not Call list. What is this article referring to??

  4. On what planet are they entitled to this largesse from the stockholders? These people make multi-million dollar salaries: Pay for your own personal travel.

  5. It matters because they're already paid enormously fat salaries: Pay for your own personal travel. Being "taxed on it" isn't a valid excuse--so what? They're still being gifted a raft of luxury perks from somebody else's money on top of an enormous, lavish salary.

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