Simons are an asset to the community I found offensive the [April 20] article, “Simon says, city does.” The article goes on to question if the city got a raw deal from the Simon family, given all the tax breaks and other incentives extended to them, over the years, for the many projects that they […]
As a (former fulltime) ink-stained wretch, witnessing the demise of the daily newspaper is heartbreaking. I can’t imagine a day without the “morning miracle” in my hands over a cup of coffee. Nonetheless, major metropolitan newspapers have disappeared (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Rocky Mountain News), reduced circulation (The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News are printed only […]
Familiarity with a foreign culture and its traditions can mean the difference between success and failure, or at least avoiding embarrassment.
Rating doctors via online services helps consumers make better health care decisions.
Practicing medicine has never been easy, but the profession is becoming particularly trying. Insurance companies are pounding down costs to the point that good factory managers make more money than some family doctors. Insurers also second-guess diagnoses and treatments, forcing some physicians to prescribe remedies they feel are inadequate. As if doctors needed another Excedrin […]
Compared to most of the rest of the state and nation, Indianapolis is an occupational dynamo.
As health care slowly shifts to operate more like retail stores, patients’ opinions of doctors have become commonplace on more than 30 physician-rating Web sites, including a subscription service run by Indianapolis-based Angie’s List.
Fully 40 of Indiana’s 92 counties derived more than half of their earnings from commuters bringing back their compensation from somewhere else.
Dr. Dmitry Arbuck treats pain for a living. But he might have to start taking his own medicine. Arbuck has built a a practice that by all traditional standards is exemplary. But patient reports on multiple online rating services make Arbuck seem arrogant, incompetent and downright scary. “This Dr. . is a QUACK,” one patient a wrote […]
My excitement must have been evident to everyone on the street. I was being pulled in a rickshaw though the Indianapolis streets that Mayor Ballard had designated as the local Chinatown. There was a bicyclist providing the muscle power. He was about my age, an older fellow who needed the job, probably to supplement his […]
In just one year, Indianapolis’ unemployment rate has risen from 4.5 percent to 8.2 percent. But don’t expect local economic development officials to complain too much. Not when 74 of Indiana’s 92 counties have higher unemployment rates than Marion County’s. “When I took this job 15 months ago and the Dow [Jones industrial average] was […]
New York-based Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. will roll out its Izod/Indy race-inspired clothing collection in Macy’s stores nationwide in April.
New York-based Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. will roll out its new Izod/Indy race-inspired clothing collection in Macy’s stores nationwide in April. The launch will be accompanied by a national multi-million dollar advertising campaign as…
The Obama administration launched a new effort today to end a paralysis in lending, saying it will team with investors to sop up a half-trillion dollars of bad assets from banks that have been reluctant to make loans to consumers and companies. In announcing the program, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pleaded for patience, saying that […]
The Obama administration launched a new effort today to end a paralysis in lending, saying it will team with investors to sop up a half-trillion dollars of bad assets from banks that have been reluctant to make loans to consumers and companies. Wall Street seemed to feel rejuvenated by the plan, at least initially. In […]
When was the last time you took your child or teen-ager to hear classical music, or see a contemporary dance performance a
la Dance Kaleidoscope? When was the last time you went to see a play?
This week, pirates take over Indianapolis Opera, and a trio of plays isn’t the half of it at the Humana Festival of New American
Plays.
This week, pirates take over Indianapolis Opera, and a trio of plays isn’t the half of it at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. There is no logical reason for a man to be accidentally indentured to a pirate king because of a minor error…and stay on board for years. There is no logical […]
This week, pirates take over Indianapolis Opera, and a trio of plays isn’t the half of it at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. There is no logical reason for a man to be accidentally indentured to a pirate king because of a minor error…and stay on board for years. There is no logical […]
Last week, I offered tickets to see the April 24 one-night-only Patti LuPone concert at Clowes Memorial Hall. She’ll be performing her “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda” show, which includes songs from shows she coulda, woulda and sometimes shoulda been a part of. In that spirit, I asked those who entered the contest to pick an actor […]
