EDITORIAL: Race officials can’t let up
It’s important to many inside and outside of racing, and to the Indianapolis economy, that the team in charge not let up in seeking the broad audience the Indianapolis 500 deserves.
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DINING: Chef Alan Sternberg’s Maple Leaf Duck Breast
Rising Star chef Alan Sternberg dissects a favorite Cerulean dish
LOPRESTI: Hinkle Fieldhouse innovative when it was built—and today
The arched steel trusses enabled the roof to cover a couple of acres without the need for beams, providing the vast and wide open spaces inside that would give the gazillion visitors to come in future years the sensation they had wandered into something that was part-gymnasium, part-national park.
LOU’S VIEWS: Zack Neiditch and Zach Rosing playfully tweak local theater
The duo has built a reputation as innovative independent producers and a go-to, work-for-hire team that actors hunger to work with.
BRENNER: How to innovate in a century-old medium
The growth of pure-play streaming providers disrupts our business on a daily basis. This is the wrong time for broadcast radio to believe its position will go unchallenged.
BOHANON & STYRING: Uber is a model for new workplace
The workplace of the future will not be a specific location. It will more and more be wherever people find ways to temporarily interact.
SKARBECK: Blockchain might remake payment system
Originally developed as the record-keeping technology behind the digital currency bitcoin, blockchain’s open-ledger system is predicted to transform finance and many other industries.
WILLIAMS: How to make your firm truly innovative
One of the biggest barriers to innovation is aversion to risk. This starts at the top. Nothing stops innovation faster than the executive kill card.
BROWN: Don’t stand still as change whizzes by
Embracing change and disrupting yourself isn’t easy, and sometimes it’s not much fun. But it may be better to try to ride the tsunami than to outrun it.
ANING: Leveraging diversity to fuel innovation
If a team is homogenous, its members will more likely arrive at similar conclusions in thought. Conversely, dissenting opinions lead groups to look at problems and evaluate solutions differently.
JONES: ChaCha was a great idea that ran out of money
I still believe my decade-old vision is sturdy and world-changing, because even the best computers and algorithms are still able to answer only about 60 percent of the random questions asked by on-the-go people, doing real life.
RAY: Let’s close the gap for women in tech
The root of the problem is the lack of computer science education in our schools.
LOU’S VIEWS: Stunning production could change fate of actor Chris Stack
Indy native featured in Goodman Theatre’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s underappreciated American classic.
KIM: Will election give investors performance anxiety?
With both presidential candidates predicting doom if the other is elected, it’s useful to take a cool, analytical look at how stocks have performed in past presidential/congressional elections.
DINING: Lab-themed bar tweaks formula
Rather than mask the science, Broken Beaker Distillery embraces it with a fun name, laboratory logo, scientific imagery and real-life alcohol creation.
BOHANON & STYRING: EPA’s regulations may have gotten out of hand
The Environmental Protection Agency has since morphed and grown since it was created in 1970. We study bureaucracies. It’s a pretty good rule of thumb that bureaucracies tend to grow.
LOPRESTI: Indians/Clippers is big rivalry, without the standard animosity
The local boys and their Columbus counterparts are as evenly matched as they come.
Presidential circus shortchanges voters
We need a decent candidate who will listen, not tell us what to do.
Red Line story was one-sided
Coverage of the City-County Council referendum vote May 9 promoted the superficial IndyGo talking points but omitted the opposition’s criticism. Where are the facts?
HETRICK: Millennial essays reveal wide range of pain
As a baby boomer, I sometimes hear my peers dissing millennials. I can assure you: The world’s in good hands.