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BOEHM: Inside the 1987 Pan American Games

Pardon me for reminiscing on this 25th anniversary of the 1987 Pan American Games. Others have told how the Indianapolis “sports strategy” helped regenerate downtown, grow IUPUI, and establish Indianapolis as a major league city and a convention destination.

SHELLA: Voters are pretty good at limiting terms

Mitch Daniels is leaving office because of a term limit. As he departs at the end of his second four-year hitch, a recent independent poll placed the Daniels approval rating at 66 percent, showing a large majority of voters still approve of the job he’s doing.

KETZENBERGER: How newspapers shot their own feet

Mr. Chapman lived across the street from my elementary school, in a ramshackle house behind the candy store. I’d seen him around, but never met him until I started to deliver the Auburn Evening Star along 15th Street.

WINSTON: Invest in young African-American males

I am the parent of a seventh-grader who looks forward to this school year with excitement, hope and a sense of optimism. Unfortunately, many of her peers do not share those thoughts. I am particularly concerned about African-American males.

DAVIS: Daniels stood on Democratic shoulders

It’s getting close to election time. I find many voters are feeling a depressed malaise. When we feel that way, it’s hard to imagine regaining the energetic confidence we could have, and that we need to succeed.

SOUDER: Mourdock will win easier than you think

Among news people in Indiana there is an excited buzz: Mourdock may be in trouble in his Senate race against Donnelly. Indiana Democrats were swamped in the 2010 elections.

EARLY: Mourdock firmly in Jenner tradition

It’s nine weeks until the election, and Richard Mourdock from southern Indiana and Joe Donnelly from northwest Indiana are in a barn-burner race for the Senate seat. I am going to vote for Mourdock because I like his “tell it like it is” style, much like my all-time best Indiana senator, William Ezra Jenner.

VAUGHN: Pence plays games with the uninsured

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the vast majority of the Affordable Care Act, it threw a curveball to politicians like Gov. Daniels and Mike Pence, who were counting on the court killing the implementation of national health reform.

Also this week

Music in the Garden, Indianapolis Jazz orchestra, Aug. 30 at Garfield Park. Details here.

The Contours celebrate 50 years of Motown music, Aug. 30-31 at Conner Prairie Amphitheater. Pop rocker Jon McLaughlin plays Sept. 1. Details here. 

“The Sound of Music” closes out the Summer Nights film series at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Aug. 31. Details here. 

Gordon Bonham performs at the Indianapolis Artsgarden Sept. 4. Details here. 

Rascal Flatts takes the stage at Klipsch Music Center, Aug. 31. Kelly Clarkson and The Fray follow on Sept. 2. Details here and here. 

Big & Rich is the latest act to play Hoosier Park Racing & Casino, Sept. 2. Details here.

MOURDOCK: Bring solid Hoosier values to bear on the process

There’s a lot of sincere talk these days about compromise. Most Hoosiers honestly struggle with the question of whether we need to get tough on Washington and firmly stand our ground against business as usual or “compromise” and strike the middle ground. It’s a fair and natural dilemma.

IBJ A&E Season Preview

Make sure to pick up a copy of the upcoming IBJ, on newsstands Saturday. It contains the annual IBJ A&E Season Preview, featuring dozens of critically selected picks for the coming months—plus Talking Points, our IBJ list of top performing arts organizations, and a first look into upcoming IBJ A&E Road Trips

“Seven”

Sept. 5-8

Butler Studio Theatre

Butler University Theatre and Phoenix Theatre team up for this staged reading of a unique play in which seven different playwrights crafted monologues culled from interviews with female world leaders. A combo professional/student cast performs the piece, which kicks off the season for Butler Theatre. Details here. 

“Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”

Sept. 5-30

Indiana Repertory Theatre

We have met the enemy, and he is us. Such has been the core of many dramatic works going back to “Oedipus”. But the most famous hero/villain-in-one-body belongs to Dr. Jekyll. The Robert Louis Stevenson creation goes back to 1886, but has been tinkered with and transformed so many times in film and on stage that the story might actually have become suspenseful again. The Indiana Repertory Theatre opens its season with Jeffrey Hatcher’s 2008 adaptation (no, this isn’t the musical), which takes an interesting approach to casting the villain. Details here.

ODLE: Attack the scourge of abandoned houses

The announcement of a potential Super Bowl bid for 2018 is creating a buzz, reminding us that Indianapolis and central Indiana are now on the national, even international, stage in many ways.