‘Spring Awakening’ to anchor Phoenix Theatre season
Acclaimed musical, along with Pulitzer-winner ‘August: Osage County’ in 2011-2012 lineup.
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Indiana State Museum hopes for new start
The Indiana State Museum begins a new fiscal year Friday with a different governance structure and a $1.1 million surplus.
BENNER: A love lost rarely returns—except at Victory Field
Like most young boys in the 1950s, baseball was my first sports love.
WEB REVIEW: Searching, for free, for the next great song
NoiseTrade helps you discover, download and keep songs…in exchange for your e-mail address and ZIP code.
DINING: Transitional signage masks above-average pizza
First in a month-long series of reviews of newish pizza places. This week: Eagle Creek Pizza.
LOU’S VIEWS: Conner Prairie’s best raid plans
If you asked me a week ago what I knew about Indiana’s direct involvement in the Civil War, you would have been met with a blank stare. Then I was part of the regiment that helped kick the raiding party out of Indiana as part of the new “1863 Civil War Journey: Raid on Indiana” interactive exhibit at Conner Prairie.
Transportation museum eyes excursion trains to downtown Indy
As efforts drag on to study and fund a commuter rail system using the former Nickel Plate rail line, the group now using the 37-mile corridor to run excursion trains in Hamilton County and to the Indiana State Fair is looking at running its trains farther south—to downtown.
Indianapolis Museum of Art drops student-run security
The IMA is back to using traditional security guards after IUPUI vetoed its plan to use federally funded work-study students.
Ticket giveaway: Arlo Guthrie and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Win a four-pack of tickets to see the folk music legend.
I won’t miss Metromix…just what it could have been
Thought on the folding of the Indianapolis Star’s not-quite-alt weekly.
Appeals court: Eiteljorg estate trustees breached duties
A panel of state appellate court judges backed a trial court’s decision, determining trustees for the estate of Harrison Eiteljorg breached their duties by failing to distribute more than $1 million to his two sons.
You-review-it Monday: Civil War at Conner Prairie and more
What did you see, hear or do this weekend?
Art museum to charge for parking
The Indianapolis Museum of Art will charge $5 for parking starting Sept. 1. The new fee comes a year after the museum opened an outdoor sculpture park that drove up attendance.
HETRICK: Does then and there top here and now?
In a meeting last week, I found myself reminiscing with my first client about a conversation we’d had with then-Indianapolis mayor Steve Goldsmith 17 years ago.
DINING: Heat, drink and be merry at Fireside Brewhouse
Last in a month-long series of reviews of “heated” eateries.
LOU’S VIEWS: In the City of Angels, the stars aren’t only on screen
Greetings from California, where the question of the week was, “Is L.A. a theater town?
Earth, Wind & Fire joining up with Symphony
Also, ballet at the multiplex, B’way’s original Javert with the ISO, and more.
LEADING QUESTIONS: State Fair’s boss plans for big bash
How does a celebration of agriculture stay relevant? What happens after the cows go home? Cindy Hoye has answers.
BENNER: America should cut LeBron James a little slack
Isn’t it funny—or, maybe, not so funny—how we like to hate on sports figures?