SOOFI: Islamic finance edging into ever-larger deals
Asset-laden institutions sidestepped financial crisis.
Asset-laden institutions sidestepped financial crisis.
The NFL and the players' union decided Thursday to keep the current collective bargaining agreement in place for an additional 24 hours so that negotiations can continue.
Two racetrack owners have signaled they’re interested in buying Indiana Live racetrack and casino in Shelbyville as the facility begins to sort out its massive debt.
Every business sector has influential players, whether they are in the public eye or wield their influence behind the scenes.
In a better world, politicians would talk to voters as if they were adults. They would explain that discretionary spending has little to do with the long-run imbalance between spending and revenues.
What we get with Reagan are a series of disconnects and contradictions that have led us to a situation in which a president widely hailed as a hero of the working class set in motion policies that have been mind-bogglingly beneficial to the wealthy and devastating to working people and the poor.
National Book Award-winning Poet Terrence Hayes speaks as part of the Kellogg Writers Series at the University of Indianapolis on Feb. 24. Details here.
Indyprov and ComedySports Indianapolis team up for “Laff-a-Thon 4,” a Feb. 26 noon-midnight performance benefiting a different charity each hour. Hourly raffles are also part of the improvisation fest. Details here.
Jennifer Coolidge, best known for her roles as Paulette the manicurist in “Legally Blonde,” Stifler’s mom in “American Pie” and just about every film by Christopher Guest, takes to the Crackers Comedy Club stage in Broad Ripple, Feb. 24-26. Details here.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art offers a chance to have the inside track in your Academy Awards pool by presenting two of this year’s Oscar-nominated Best Documentaries (“Waste Land” and “Exit Through the Gift Shop”) and a nominated Best Foreign Film (“Dogtooth”) all on Feb. 26. Details here.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony Feb. 25-26 with guest pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Details here.
So given Indianapolis’ central location, what’s a gambler to do when she gets the urge to press her luck? Figuring that out is nearly as hard as deciding whether to hit or stand on 16.
For starters, the Pacers have to believe in themselves.
Building Tomorrow, which builds schools in Africa, usually finds its support on college campuses.
E.Com Technologies LLC, which serves the large Centennial subdivision in Westfield, cannot expand its service territory without the state agency’s permission. Charges of anti-competitive behavior led to the decision.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir offers Haydn’s “Creation” Feb. 18-19. Details here.
The IndyFringe Building houses “Three Arab Plays,” Feb. 18-19, selected and directed by Paul Hildebrand of Hanover College. Details here.
Indy Film Fest continues its Roving Cinema series by screening Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Feb. 17. Details here.
The Indiana Art Fair sets up at the Indiana State Museum Feb. 18-20. The event features more than 75 artists. Details here.
The lineup for UINdy Jazz Week, Feb. 21-26, includes Bosso Rio Sextet on Feb. 21, tenor saxophonist Rich Perry on the 23rd, and saxophonist Buddy Watson on the 26th. Details here.
Sarah McLachlan performs at the Murat Theatre at Old National Centre Feb. 17. Details here.
The Indiana governor received just 4 percent of the vote among potential Republican presidential candidates at the Conservative Political Action Conference. But an IUPUI political science professor says the weak showing shouldn’t dissuade Daniels’ supporters.
Local entrepreneurs sometimes sell promising companies early because Indy is too small of a market, goes one explanation. But the market’s size might not be the real reason.
Feb. 13
Central Library
It’s interesting how, with the passage of time, popular films can become “art” films. Consider two crime stories playing in alternative movie spaces this weekend. On Friday, The Indianapolis Museum of Art screens Robert Aldrich’s “Kiss Me Deadly,” featuring Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer. It’s part of the Winter Nights film noir series (and it includes a cartoon before the feature). Details here.
On Sunday, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art kicks off its series of films paired with a complementary book with “Dial M for Murder,” the Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly. Following the screening at the Central Library, Paul Katz of the Herron School of Art and Design discusses the film and the thematically related book “The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde. Details here.
A South Bend firm has a bishop’s go-ahead to publish a $1.99 iPhone application to help Catholics through the process of confession.