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Will shoppers buy $18 fly swatters?-WEB ONLY
Fritz King pines for a $65 dish rack. It isn’t just any dish rack. This is bright orange polypropylene filled with green-tipped dish-holding fingers. The punchy, futuristic houseware calls to King from a high shelf at the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Design Center. “Look at this wonderful, sculptural piece,” King said. A self-described “design freak,” […]
DINING: SIAM SQUARE-WEB ONLY
It wasn’t the buzz that finally got us to Siam Square, the Thai restaurant in Fountain Square we’ve heard so much about. No, we were led there by the luck of the draw. Or the spin, as it were. This month, we threw caution-and dining preferences-to the wind and employed the help of the Urban […]
EDITORIAL: Don’t give up on local reform-WEB ONLY
Most Hoosiers fall under the jurisdiction of 26 separate local government officials. Indiana has 239 library districts, 293 school districts, 886 “special” districts, 1,008 townships and 10,300 local officials. What is it going to take for us to peel off some of these unnecessary layers, which are clogging up government and eating up precious tax […]
Slicing Benefits-WEB ONLY
Huntington Bancshares last month stopped contributing to 401(k) retirement plans of its 650 Indiana workers. Earlier, Lafayette-based Wabash National Corp. trimmed the amount it gives to 401(k) plans for its 3,100 employees. Ohio-based Huntington, along with Wabash and scores of other Indiana companies, is taking a scalpel to fringe benefit plans to relieve financial pressure […]
A&E: IAC turns the familiar into new art-WEB ONLY
This week, familiar objects take on new looks and meaning at the Indianapolis Art Center. There is plenty to like-and plenty to be annoyed by-at the Indianapolis Art Center, which is featuring a trio of related exhibitions through April 19. All deal in some way with existing or found objects. The most ambitious-and least focused-of […]
Hard work, but no pay-WEB ONLY
The most up-to-date report about white-collar job losses in Indianapolis comes every Monday at dawn in the parking lot at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church. The number of cars that pull in to attend the weekly gatherings of the Business and Professional Exchange has more than doubled in the last two months. Inside, men and […]
EYE ON THE PIE: War did not end the Great Depression-WEB ONLY
It’s time to set the record straight. It was not World War II that moved America out of the Great Depression. When we talk about the American economy, we discuss the actual or “real” goods and services produced in this country. To compare one year with another, we must remove price changes so we can […]
SPORTS: Taking Sycamores to final looks easy in retrospect-WEB ONLY
A friend asked me to share singular moments or entire movements that have changed the face of intercollegiate athletics over the years. Title IX would be a prime example. On my list was a game that took place 30 years ago this month. It was Michigan State University versus Indiana State University in the championship […]
SURF THIS: YouTube isn’t the only place to watch, share videos-WEB ONLY
By now, it seems nearly everyone on the planet has heard of YouTube, Google’s popular video sharing site. You’ve probably either watched a video there-whether for research or to laugh at someone falling down. You might have even posted something. But you might be surprised to know that YouTube isn’t the only such site available, […]
PNC plans return to ‘old-fashioned’ lending standards-WEB ONLY
Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group Inc. acquired struggling National City Corp. on Dec. 31 for $5.6 billion. Before their merger, PNC had no presence here, while Cleveland-based National City had 172 Indiana branches, including 75 in the Indianapolis area. PNC CEO James Rohr, 60, recently sat down with IBJ to discuss the merger, the recession […]
BEHIND THE SCENES: Salsa Dancing-WEB ONLY
Nadia Alvarado calls herself a salsera. By day she works toward her master’s in philanthropic studies at IUPUI, but five nights a week she lets down her raven hair, dons a swinging skirt and allows herself to be dipped and twirled across any dance floor that’ll have her, as long as there’s salsa music playing. […]
DINING: SIAM SQUARE-WEB ONLY
It wasn’t the buzz that finally got us to Siam Square, the Thai restaurant in Fountain Square we’ve heard so much about. No, we were led there by the luck of the draw. Or the spin, as it were. This month, we threw caution-and dining preferences-to the wind and employed the help of the Urban […]
Hotels wary of shouldering larger load-WEB ONLY
Raising Indianapolis’ tax on hotel rooms-already one of the highest rates in the nation-could be the tipping point that causes conventioneers to bypass Indianapolis, some industry experts say. Marion County hotels already pay 16 percent in sales taxes-the 9-percent innkeeper’s tax, plus the 7-percent state sales tax. An increase in the innkeeper’s tax would push […]
Ringing up fewer sales-WEB ONLY
Forget for the moment Brightpoint Inc.’s $344 million loss in the fourth quarter. It was mostly indigestion in the form of a goodwill impairment charge from buying Europe’s biggest wireless distributor in 2007. Just how the recession has gotten Brightpoint’s number is perhaps better reflected in a more mundane measure: After years of torrid gains […]