LOPRESTI: Queen of Indy sports putting final touches on legacy
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Arts & Entertainment
LOU’S VIEWS: Getting bearings at Indiana State Museum’s skateboard show
Try to wrap your head around why skateboard and rider don’t separate when both are 20 feet in the air. Imagine the calculations required to figure out how to stay on a halfpipe?
Butler corrals performing venues under new executive director
The hiring of Texas arts administrator Ty Sutton is part of a strategy to streamline ticketing and booking at campus venues and enhance Butler’s presence as an arts destination.
Ticket giveaway: Penrod Art Fair
Win tickets to the annual event at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Priority list includes Penrod Art Fair, Indy Jazz Fest, more
The performing arts season officially begins with a jam-packed weekend. Here’s some help choosing.
Theater at Fort Benjamin Harrison finds new life
This October, the 86-year-old theater will come to life again. A collaboration between a local arts organization, Partnerships for Lawrence, and the city of Lawrence, which is paying for repairs, is making it possible.
Horse industry worries about plans to curb casino subsidies
Horse track operators and breeders are concerned the good times might be trotting to a close as some states move to rein in a lucrative subsidy that's helped prop up their long suffering-industry.
DINING: At the intersection of meat and music sits Kuma’s Corner
Want to eat a massive burger while your pulse is pounded by Metallica’s greatest hits? Fountain Square has a new eatery for you.
LOPRESTI: Trying to be optimistic about Indiana college football
Failure on the gridiron is all too familiar here, so don’t overlook these recent highlights.
DINING: At the intersection of meat and music sits Kuma’s Corner
Want to eat a massive burger while your pulse is pounded by Metallica’s greatest hits? Fountain Square has a new eatery for you.
LOU’S VIEWS: Children’s Museum highlights faith journeys
Combining photos with audio, video, artifacts and architectural re-creations, “National Geographic Sacred Journeys” follows the spiritual treks of four fictional young people.
Indiana Beach resort sold to amusement park firm
The 89-year-old entertainment venue in Monticello is becoming part of a new California company with more than a dozen parks nationwide.
Hancock County weighing plans for new $30M fairgrounds
The Hancock County project is proposed for more than 200 acres of county-owned farmland along U.S. 40 just east of Greenfield.
Review: ‘South Pacific’ at Beef & Boards
Can you think of another book musical this romantic, tense, funny and exciting in which there’s not a villain to be found?
2015-2016 A&E Season Preview
A seasoned arts-goer? Someone returning after a hiatus? An adventurer looking to try something new? Here are more than 125 events that could get you excited about the season.
Priority list include Alan Cumming at the Cabaret, First Friday art openings, more
Plus skateboard fun (and education) at the Indiana State Museum’s latest show.
The best of the most of Dig IN 2015
I couldn’t sample everything, but I tried most of what the annual White River State Park food fest had to offer.
Ticket giveaway: Van Halen
Not only will one winner score a pair of tickets to the concert, but also land a remastered “1984” CD.
A&E roundup: Artist-designed mini-libraries, tenants for Opera Center, more
Spotlight Players find a new home at Fort Ben. High school vocal competition winners converge on Kennedy Center.
Big Car’s Jim Walker uses creativity to lift neighborhoods, public spaces
Walker heads Big Car, which he describes as an “art-based, creativity-based not-for-profit that’s focused on community development.” Put simply, it uses art to jump-start neighborhood involvement and development.