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Nov. 3
Murat Theatre
The pride of Chesterton, Jim Gaffigan, may have stretched in recent years—including a dramatic Broadway stint in “That Championship Season,” but his bread and butter has been, well … foods, which dominate his stand-up act. Have a Hot Pocket before you go. Details here.
Nov. 2-Jan. 13
IndianapolisMuseumof Art
With work spanning from the seventh century to yesterday, this special exhibition includes more than 250 objects, including a 26-foot scroll. You think figurative representation doesn’t exist in Islamic art? You’ll think again after seeing this exhibit, which was launched at Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art. It travels to Newark and Portland after it leaves here. Details here.
Nov. 2-11
Various locations
The theme of the festival this year is “play,” and you might have already noticed instructions on downtown, Broad Ripple and other sidewalks for mini-competitions. These Gamespots are just the beginning of Spirit & Place events. You can create your own musical instruments Nov. 3 at Big Car Service Center, see NPR’s “Only a Game” host Bill Littlefield Nov. 4 at the Athenaeum, play 19th-century party games at Conner Prairie Nov. 6, or try life-size board games at Garfield Park on Nov. 10. For a full lineup of events—and for a map of Gamespots—click here.
“Drinking Made Easy” traveled to Indianapolis to sample several of the city’s hotspots and their cocktails. The episode airs Wednesday night on cable network AXS TV.
Democrat John Gregg has been trying for months to paint Republican Mike Pence as an extremist, and his latest ad is the most direct attack in the governor's race to date.
Over the past month, Mitt Romney has aggressively appealed to moderate voters. President Barack Obama, for some reason, hasn’t.
The U.S. economy finally seems to be recovering in earnest, with housing on the rebound and job creation outpacing growth in the working-age population. But it will take years to restore full employment. Why has the slump been so protracted?
Apparently, the Republican Party has waged a war on women. I’ve heard this from the mainstream media, many Democratic candidates and even a few Indiana University professors.
Theresa Rebeck’s play gets ideal cast for local production…if only it had a different ending.
Leading off the latest restaurant and retail roundup: A couple of national chains including Olive Garden and Ulta Beauty are expanding in central Indiana and a couple of others including Einstein Bros. Bagels and Goodwill are moving.
Politics is an amazing, yet perplexing, profession. I have often wondered why President Obama trails Mitt Romney by a large margin in rural areas.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg has hauled out the canard that Mike Pence is a “show horse,” not a “work horse,” based upon two “polls” in 2006 and 2008. Neither was scientific: They were anonymous, voting multiple times could be easily done, and rivals could rig the voting.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP’s profit more than doubled in the third quarter, helped by huge gains in the fuel-products side of its business following several acquisitions.
If you know me, I think you agree that I am not a firebrand partisan with automatic reactions based on my Democratic Party affiliation.
All of a sudden, when I check out news stories on the Internet, a negative political ad pops up and I can’t make it go away. That is, unless I want the news story to go away, too.
It is only a few days until the election, and the Mourdock-Donnelly Senate race is still in limbo.
Politics is about compromise. But compromise is always around an agenda and elections are about agendas.
Almost every politics-attentive person around Indianapolis probably sees the Nov. 6 elections as of huge consequence.
Americans seem to be full of contradictions. Perhaps that is why we are so admired, and yet so hated, by the rest of the world.
With Indiana ranked a dismal 48th for voter turnout, you would think Republicans and Democrats could agree that our state needs to take aggressive steps to increase the number of active voters.
