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Dec. 29
The Jazz Kitchen
The headliners are three of Indy’s most prominent musicians—Tad Robinson, Cynthia Layne and Gordon Bonham. But the sidemen are equally top-notch at this encore show of a 2012 Indy Jazz Fest performance. They include bassist Frank Smith, drummer Kenny Phelps, saxophonist Rob Dixon, organist Kevin Anker and keyboardist Reggie Bishop. Reservations very recommended. Details here.
Dec. 28-Feb. 3
Beef & Boards
Black comedies are nothing new. Back in 1939, Broadway was buzzing with a big hit about two murderous elderly women and their off-kilter nephews (one of whom thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt and buries bodies in the basement/Panama Canal). Beef & Boards revives the classic, using the talents of Jeff Stockberger, Eddie Curry and Doug Stark. Details here.
Upon learning he had a life-threatening illness, Colts Coach Chuck Pagano and his doctor chose a path of transparency too often eschewed in the world of professional sports. And the community has come to love him for it.
Indianapolis International Airport expected to have about 300 passenger flights arriving or departing on Wednesday, but a third of those were cancelled before midmorning. In addition, mall operator Simon Property Group announced its local shopping centers would close for the day.
The locally based flavor maker has agreed to reduce its usage of diacetyl, which had prompted fines from the state. The deal significantly reduces the amount of the penalty—from $325,500 to $99,000.
The deal gives the Indianapolis insurer a bigger slice of the growing market of patients covered by Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people.
Sen. Mike Delph said he believes the economic development organization is intentionally misleading the public about the number of jobs that companies receiving incentives create.
Shoppers were buffeted this year by a string of events that made them less likely to spend. The numbers also show how Washington’s current budget impasse is trickling down to Main Street and unsettling consumers.
Nearly three months to the day after being diagnosed with leukemia, the Colts' first-year coach returned to a team eager to reunite with a boss healthy enough to go back to work.
A report from a charter school sponsor trade group recommends closing charters that rank in the bottom 15 percent of their state's standardized test scores. Under that standard, 10 of Ball State's 38 charter schools would be closed.
The ruling means more than $6 million in student funding transferred from IPS to the schools' private operators should not have been taken away.
The company had faced a Dec. 31 deadline to have the turbines built in order to qualify for federal tax credits.
The owner of the restaurants, Fishers-based MSCB, switched to the new formats after terminating its contracts with the current operator, Indianapolis-based A Pots & Pans Production.
The last remaining store for the family-owned business, which recently shuttered its Castleton location, will stage a liquidation sale on Dec. 28.
I’ve been a regular visitor to Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and, when I was describing what troubled me most about the place to a wise foreign policy friend, he urged me to read the play “Three Sisters” by Chekhov.
Having survived the Supreme Court and the November elections, President Obama’s health care law now faces an even bigger hurdle: the reality of making it work.
Fifty years ago, the Marion County delegation to the Indiana House consisted of 12 men. Among them were Charles Bosma, Brian Bosma’s father; Jim Clark, Murray Clark’s father; and me.
I was out of town Dec. 14, when the Newtown, Conn., massacre took place and could only connect to my loved ones by phone. My fiancé wept uncontrollably: “I can’t imagine what it would be like to drop Mackie off at school, and never see him again,” she said, referring to our 2-year-old son.
Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of “gun control” advocates?
Walk any street in Jerusalem or other Israeli city and you will immediately note the presence of lots of school-age kids. They’re dressed for school, often holding hands as they wind their way through busy streets to various field-trip-type excursions.
