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DINING: Zionsville’s Oobatz! earns its punctuation
New restaurant serves up pizza, pasta and more.
LOU’S VIEWS: A brave new preteen world at IRT
This week, the young adult best-seller “The Giver” is staged at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. Plus some thoughts on school
field trips.
Polis Center’s Spirit and Place Festival wants place on your schedule
The civic festival Spirit and Place, which runs Nov. 5-16, has been a fixture of the fall season since 1996, but organizers
are still trying to explain to Indianapolis residents what it’s all about.
RCI to become Wyndham Exchange; says Carmel jobs are safe
Despite a swooning economy that has hammered the time-share condominium industry over the last 18 months, Resort Condominiums
International continues to outperform its market. That’s not to say there hasn’t been some pain at
the company formerly headquartered in Carmel.
BENNER: Former volunteer Stevens now coaches a contender
Count Butler University basketball on the short list of teams that could make it to the Final Four.
Casting controversy for B’way “Miracle Worker”
Should deaf or blind actor be playing Helen Keller?
Hoosier Park owner misses $13.4M loan payment
Indianapolis-based Centaur LLC, owner of Anderson’s Hoosier Park horse track and casino, missed a $13.4 million interest payment due Tuesday on its more than $400 million in outstanding debt, putting the company in default with its lenders.
Downtown upscale eateries cancel their lunch plans
While fast food remains a favorite for value-minded patrons, several higher-end restaurants in the Mile Square and its nearby
environs have decided in the last year to pull the tablecloth out from under their lunch service.
Big screen Michael Jackson
“This Is It” hits theaters today for an alleged limited run. Will you be there?
Hendricks County offers land for hotel development
The Hendricks County Convention and Visitors Bureau said Monday that it is asking for proposals to develop a full-service convention hotel on up to 18 acres in Plainfield at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Highway 267.
You-review-it Monday
Did you spend quality time with the Symphony? Experience Andre
Watts at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center? Stop in to the Indiana Repertory Theatre for opening weekend
of "The Giver"?
Haunted houses avoid recessionary letdown because they offer escape
Even in bad times
people want to be entertained.” Nationwide, roughly 2,000 haunted houses, hayrides and other attractions
rake in $1 billion annually of the $7 billion consumers spend on Halloween, according to St. Louis-based trade group Hauntworld
Inc.
WTHR, WISH in dog fight for 11 p.m. news ratings
The disappointing debut of “The Jay Leno Show” at 10 p.m. on NBC has hammered ratings for the 11 p.m. newscast
of local affiliate WTHR-TV Channel 13, cutting its average audience by nearly half. But the Indianapolis NBC affiliate says
it will rebound in the fight with its CBS rival because the Leno show has fresh programming year around.
Ousted Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra conductor Venzago finally speaks out
Venzago said the abrupt dismissal has affected his ability to work this season, and that he received
an outpouring of sympathy from Indianapolis and the classical music world.
HETRICK: My Washington day in the war for health reform
I awoke long before the alarm sounded Tuesday. It’s not every day one testifies before Congress, so I was eager and
anxious.
LOU’S VIEWS: Phoenix show shipshape/Marxing time in Chicago
The Phoenix Theatre’s “Shipwrecked!” and “Animal Crackers” at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre offer two kinds of stage pleasures.
DINING: Beyond the bread at new Northside bakery
We finish off our 86th and Ditch month of reviews with treats from Great Cooks: The Bakery.