NFL borrows from Indy’s Super Bowl playbook
League officials said a Super Bowl Village like the one in downtown Indianapolis will now be a requirement for future cities hosting the big game.
League officials said a Super Bowl Village like the one in downtown Indianapolis will now be a requirement for future cities hosting the big game.
About 65,000 central Indiana households representing more than 115,000 viewers are expected to tune in to the 3-1/2-hour WISH-TV Channel 8 broadcast of the nation’s largest half marathon.
I am often asked to give presentations recounting the success of the Indianapolis sports strategy. Of course, I speak to the event history and infrastructure investments going all the way back to the construction of Market Square Arena in 1974. But I also talk about the human impact.
The Indiana Achievement Awards is going on what organizers called a “sabbatical,” though its return isn’t guaranteed. The change is the result of a loss in grant funding for all not-for-profit programs at the IUPUI Solution Center, which organized the awards.
Imagine high school graduates from the Eli Lilly or the Cook Pharma Charter School of Chemistry.
Gary Patterson and Jason White bonded over their love of fashion and their frustration with Indianapolis’ shopping options, so they opened a boutique of their own.
Preliminary financials show the board that manages the city’s sports and convention facilities so far has lost nearly $350,000 due to the Super Bowl. That figure is expected to grow to $800,000.
“The Miracle Worker” opens at the Indiana Repertory Theatre April 17 and runs through May 20. Details here.
April 12 marks the opening of “Aziz + Cucher: Some People,” featuring immersive digital video by the artistic partners. Details here.
Country singer/songwriter Abigail Washburn performs at the Studio Theatre April 13. Details here.
Snarky stand-up comic Daniel Tosh performs two shows at the Murat Theatre April 17. Details here.
Bobby McFerrin brings his acoustic skills to the Palladium for an April 12 concert. Details here.
American Pianists Association’s 2009 Classical Fellow Adam Golka performs April 15 at Butler University’s Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall. Details here.
Pink Martini performs with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra April 13-15 at the Hilbert Circle Theatre. Details here.
“The Music Man” returns to Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre April 12-May 25. Details here.
Amelia Clark has been named vice president of community health at Meridian Health Services, a Muncie-based chain of primary and behavioral health care providers. She was executive director for the Jane Pauley Community Health Center in Indianapolis, which is part of Indianapolis-based hospital system Community Health Network. Clark holds a bachelor’s degree from IUPUI and a master’s degree from the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy.
West Lafayette-based Bioanalytical Systems Inc. did not renew the contract of Chief Financial Officer Michael Cox, instead replacing him with Jacqueline Lemke. Cox, who had been Bioanalytical’s CFO since 2007, will receive severance equal to his annual salary of $165,000, plus the value of his unused vacation days. Lemke, 49, previously served as Global CFO of Pendleton-based Remy International Inc. Prior to that, she was the finance chief of a division of Illinois-based Motorola Inc.
Nearly two-thirds of Hoosier business owners in a new survey said they are optimistic or moderately optimistic about the Indiana economy over the next six months. But high gas prices may dampen the enthusiasm.
A Russian timber tycoon who poured millions into a battery maker with Hoosier roots is the new owner of Ener1 Inc. Boris Zingarevich supplied $50 million for Ener1’s March 30 exit from bankruptcy and is moving its headquarters from New York to Indianapolis—already home to its core subsidiary, EnerDel.
The city’s public radio and television stations are more than holding their own, even as their commercial brethren continue to suffer from a now-5-year-old economic swoon.
Perhaps those of us who are not exactly Kentucky fans should be happy that the likes of Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Indy’s own Marques Teague won’t stay for four years,
A 70-year-old Trafalgar man who made empty promises of multimillion-dollar gifts to local cultural institutions was sentenced to six years of probation Thursday morning in an unrelated check-fraud case.
Hungary is being sued for political interference in awarding radio licenses, renewing doubts over press freedoms in the nation as the government tries to convince the European Union that it respects media independence.
The Laurence Hobgood Trio, featuring two-time Grammy-winning saxophonist Ernie Watts, performs April 9 at the Jazz Kitchen. Details here.
IU Opera stages Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" April 6-14. Details here.
Anna Lee Chalos-McAleese’s show at Gallery 924, opening April 6, features work inspired by patterns seen in cross-country flights over the Great Plains. Details here.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra offers the world premiere of Stephen Hough’s “Missa Mirabilis” April 5-7 in a concert that also includes Hough’s performance of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Details here.
On April 6, the Stutz Art Space gallery opens its “One-Peek Show,” offering a look at work that will be featured at the Stutz Artists Open House in May. Details here.
Grand Funk Railroad plays French Lick Resort on April 7. Details here.
Motus Dance Theatre stages the latest in its InsideOut Performance series, this time at the Indy Indie Artist Colony on April 6. Details here.
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre revives “Superhero: The Story of a Man Called Jesus,” April 6-7 at the Tarkington Theatre. Details here.
Ron Spencer, Gayle Steigerwald, Ellie Sellars and Karen Galvin share stories of Black Curtain, the first professional dinner theater in Indy, April 10 at this month’s Jabberwocky event organized by Storytelling Arts at the Indy Fringe Theatre. Details here.
Pulitzer-Prize winner Michael Cunningham (“The Hours”) speaks at Purdue University. Details here.
Backing from the East Coast media is what put Reggie Miller into the Hall of Fame. But that's not why he deserves to be enshrined in Springfield.
Healthcare Trust of America now handles property management and leasing for 29 buildings formerly managed by Hokanson Cos.
Indianapolis-based benefits brokerage FirstPerson acquired the small-employer human resource division of Indianapolis-based consulting firm FlashPoint last week in a bid to provide a wider array of services to small businesses.
Wall Street's favorable reaction came not only because harsh questioning by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices put in doubt the health reform law’s mandate that all Americans buy health insurance, but also because the justices raised the possibility that they would strike down requirements that insurers accept all customers, regardless of health.