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Conseco Inc. provides Medicare supplement, cancer, heart/stroke and accident insurance policies as
well as annuities and life insurance products through a nationwide network of distributors.
Will it be harder to attract businesses to the Newport Chemical Depot than to sell a house where a grisly murder took place?
Historic preservation groups are fighting to save a 1914 church at the northeast corner of Washington Street and German Church
Road in Cumberland. The congregation of St. John United Church of Christ has been working on plans to build a new church on
Carroll Road and struck a deal to sell the old one to a developer. The plans are rumored to include demolition
to make way for a CVS store.
IRL races on Versus garner 59.5 percent fewer viewers than ESPN and ESPN2 attracted in 2008. Viewership on ABC is down 3 percent.
This week, you can win one of 10 pairs of tickets to a special screening of "It’s a Wonderful Life" Dec. 3 at
United Artists Circle Centre 9. The tickets include a silent auction, a visit from Santa, and free appetizers in the theater
lobby.
All you have to do to enter is fill out the form here.
I’ll pick 10 entrants at random to win. While you are filling out the form, tell us what makes your life so wonderful. Your
answer won’t help you win, but it will give us something to run on our contest results page next week.
Last week,
we offered two sets of tickets to see singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen ("The Road Goes on Forever and the Party Never
Ends") Nov. 3 at the Murat Theatre’s Egyptian Room. Todd Snider and Bruce Robison are also on the bill.
The
winners? Jared Coppess and Brady Krueger. We also asked you to tell us your favorite three-named person. You can read some
of the responses here.
Indianapolis Civic Theatre presents "The Elephant Man," Oct. 30-Nov. 15. For details, click
here.
Cardinal Stage presents the comedy "Boom,"
Oct. 30-Nov. 15, at the Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington. For details, click here.
IU Auditorium presents Bob Dylan, Nov. 2. For details, click here.
Actors Theatre of Indiana presents "My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra," Nov.
4-15, at Carmel Community Playhouse at Clay Terrace. For details, click here.
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre presents "The Casket Girls," Oct. 29-30, at Pike Performing
Arts Center. For details, click here.
Clowes Memorial
Hall presents The Swell Season (best known for the title song from the movie "Once"), Nov. 2. For
details, click here.
Oct. 29
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Ensemble 48 provides the live musical soundtrack for this
silent classic, considered by many to be one of the first great horror films. F.W. Murnau’s expressionistic, very atmospheric
1922 film is being offered as part of Butler University’s Mahler Project. For details, click here.
Oct. 30-31
Cabaret at the Connoisseur Room
While the name may not be familiar, I promise that
you’ve heard Catherine Russell sing. While she’s earned her R&B and pop cred from working with the likes of Paul Simon,
Chaka Khan and David Bowie, and released two acclaimed solo discs, she’s also had a parallel career as a top go-to performer
for commercials. As such, she’s lent her very flexible voice to ads for Oil of Olay, Dairy Queen, Wishbone and J.C. Penney.
You can hear some of those oh-so-brief musical moments here.
For details on the show, click here.
Nov. 2
Basile Theatre, Indiana History Center
In celebration of what would have been legendary
violin teacher Josef Gingold’s 100th birthday, the Indianapolis Violin Competition of Indianapolis presents this tribute concert.
I have a selfish take on this event. The day I moved to Indianapolis I suffered through an awful theater production.
Fearing the worst, I communicated to my yet-to-arrive family that maybe Indianapolis was going to require more of a cultural
adjustment than I thought. But just a few days later, I attended a Circle Theatre concert tribute to Gingold, the visionary
violinist who founded and led the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Saddened that I never had the chance to
see Gingold play, I nonetheless had my faith restored in what Indy could put together.
Could this one-time-only
event rival that one? The talent is certainly there, including Andres Cardenes, Miriam Fried, Bella Hristova, Nai-Yuan Hu,
Jamie Laredo and the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi. For details, click here.
Oct. 30-Nov. 1
Hilbert Circle Theatre
The latest from the creative mind of Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra pops impresario Jack Everly is this world-premiere program combining music with magic. The entertainers gathered
to front the ISO include Joseph Gabriel, who headlines Caesar’s Magical Empire in Las Vegas, the quick-change duo David &
Dania, comic magician Les Arnold, and cabaret singer Christina Bianco. For details, click here.
Indianapolis-based Centaur LLC, owner of Anderson’s Hoosier Park horse track and casino, missed a $13.4 million interest payment due Tuesday on its more than $400 million in outstanding debt, putting the company in default with its lenders.
The economy grew at a 3.5-percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in two years, fueled by government-supported spending on cars and homes.
Big write-downs on raw land and projects under development led to a wide third-quarter loss for Duke Realty Corp.
Baldwin & Lyons Inc. on Thursday morning reported a record third-quarter profit, thanks to big investment gains and an increase
in premiums.
Indianapolis-based trucking company Celadon Group Inc. on Wednesday reported lower revenue and profit during its most recent
fiscal quarter, and also announced plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange instead of the NASDAQ starting
Nov. 10.
Chrysler has returned $5.5 million in bonds to an Indiana county to settle a dispute over millions of dollars the county spent
toward a transmission plant that a Chrysler supplier stopped building last year.
Indiana schools are making huge strides in teaching students math required for careers in science, engineering and information technology jobs. But education experts point to stagnant test scores on national math exams as confirmation that many students still are not excelling, or are not even proficient, in the subject.
Just over half of students at state-supported, four-year institutions in Indiana graduate within six years—a tremendous
waste of resources by both students and taxpayers. The number of citizens with bachelor’s degrees is one of the surest
indicators of economic success in a 21st century economy driven less by workers’ hands
and more by their heads.
