Friday, June 26, 2009
(Social Justice) Stonewall commemoration postponed
Posted by David Hoppe on Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:00 AM
This just in: the Stonewall Commemoration listed in this week's Go & Do section for this Sunday has been postponed. Here is the message NUVO received...
It is my sad duty to inform you that Sunday's Stonewall Rally in Indianapolis has been postponed. In order to ensure that this event is a success, we have decided to postpone this event until October. We apologize to those who have agreed to speak and hope that they will still consider speaking at the event in the future. We feel it is better to wait, cancelling our current plans, in the hopes that we can provide an even better event later in the year.
It is our current hope that this event will occur on Coming Out Day on October 11th. This will fall in line with our original plan to host a satellite event of the Million Gay March which was also postponed from June 28th to October 11th. We will still be actively seeking speakers for this event.
Thank you so much for all of your continued encouragement and we sincerely apologize if we have inconvenienced anyone due to the postponing of this event. We have already put a lot of time and effort into planning, which means it will be only that much better with more time to plan and organize.
Zac Hart
Indy Impact
Sports & Rec (Sports) Volunteer at Tennis Championships
Posted by David Hoppe on Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:00 AM
This just in...volunteers needed for the Tennis Championships...
Volunteer Opportunities Still Open at Indianapolis Tennis Championships
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indianapolis Tennis Championships Presented by Lilly continues to recruit volunteers for its upcoming tournament held July 18-26 at the Indianapolis Tennis Center on the campus of IUPUI. It takes 800 dedicated and energetic volunteers to ensure the success of the tournament every year. Volunteer positions are open in the areas of box office clerks, ushers, operations, marketing and more.
Interested volunteers may register online at https://2009ITC.theregistrationsystem.com. Participants must sign up for a minimum of four shifts in order to have volunteer status. Deadline for registration is July 1.
Tournament volunteers enjoy a number of benefits including four complimentary tournament tickets, a tournament T-shirt, free volunteer seating with a credential during matches and discounted food vouchers.
The Indianapolis Tennis Championships Presented by Lilly is a world-class ATP Tour event held annually in Indianapolis and is a part of the Olympus US Open Series. The event traces its roots back to 1921 and has hosted such notable players as Pete Sampras, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors and Andre Agassi.
Sports & Rec (Sports) Beas: Pacers picks and World Cup soccer
Posted by Laura McPhee on Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:00 AM
Things I've tossed around while wondering when the last time was that three entertainment icons passed away in a 60-hour window of time the way Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson just did:
AND WITH THE 13TH PICK . . . The Indiana Pacers select a three-inches-shorter version of Jeff Foster only with better perimeter skills and less of a receding hairline. Taking 6-8 blue-collar forward Tyler Hansbrough out of North Carolina might be an important piece in Indy's character overhaul, but does it really matter if this latest good guy is seated next to the team Gatorade cooler most games?
Much as I would love to see Hansbrough prove critics wrong, his most important contribution, at least initially, will be that legendary work ethic during, before and after Pacers practices. No one is going to outwork the kid, so let's hope all that hustle and sweat become contagious.
AND WITH THE 52ND PICK . . . The Indiana Pacers select a point guard, even though they have two pretty good ones in T.J. Ford and Jarrett Jack and another they can't seem to get rid of in Jamaal Tinsley. It will be interesting to see what's in store for A.J. Price out of Connecticut. If he and Hansbrough didn't know each other before, they soon will. They might even be best buds by season's end given all of those end-of-the-bench chats during games.
One thing is certain and that's that Indiana drafted two young men unaccustomed to losing. North Carolina and UConn are as good as it gets on the collegiate level. Think back to last year when Brandon Rush (Kansas) and Roy Hibbert (Georgetown) were drafted and you see what Larry Bird is trying to do here.
My thinking was that the Pacers use their second-round pick on a '3' who could supply instant offense off the bench when Danny Granger needed a breather. But at 52, the pickins' are slim. Bird knew this and took the best player available. If Indiana misses the playoffs yet again, Price might go in the books as the last player ever selected by Bird.
IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD . . . On Sunday, the United States takes on global men's soccer power Brazil in the championship game of the Confederations Cup tournament, the springboard to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Didn't know this? Yeah, you and millions of others.
Soccer isn't making strides in popularity in the United States as much as it's taking baby steps. In Brazil, Spain, England, Italy and New Zealand, every match is embraced like Americans do Super Bowls. Here soccer is the snot-nosed little brother of football, basketball, baseball, golf, tennis and to some extent hockey.
If Landon Donovan and his teammates shock the world by beating Brazil, the U.S. team will immediately become media darlings. Letterman will come calling. Conan, too. Sports networks and Internet websites will beat this too-good-to-be-true story into the ground. Then after about a week Letterman will stop calling. Conan, too.
That's soccer. That's America. That's soccer in America.
Models wanted for Black Expo fashion show
Posted by David Hoppe on Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:00 AM
This just in from Indiana Black Expo. They need models for a fashion show...
Just a heads up. We will be holding 2 additional audition opportunities for anyone that missed our first casting for the fashion show. Below are the details for you:
Wednesday July 1st
7pm-8pm
120 E. Market St. (2nd floor)
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Saturday July 4th
12-2pm
Lafayette Sq Mall (main entrance)
Have a great day!
Leslie Turner, Agency Director
LModelz Model Management
P.O. Box 681166
Indianapolis, IN 46268
317/345-8521
www.LModelz.com
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Bring your CDs to Herron
Posted by David Hoppe on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:00 AM
This just in from Herron...
Artist requests public's assistance creating an installation at Herron School of Art and Design
Indianapolis - Artist Leticia Bajuyo is not only creating an intriguing installation for Herron School of Art and Design's upcoming 3x3 exhibition, but is also saving hundreds of CDs from filling landfills. And she has invited the public to participate.
Bajuyo's installation, Entropy, amasses a huge collection of CDs and DVDs which contain pieces of information that have become memories since the information can no longer be accurately reproduced. Bajuyo has formed the CDs and DVDs into a vortex - a swirling world of information, experiences, and memories - that spans the gallery space and rises to a height of 22 feet.
Bajuyo is asking that rather than discarding unwanted discs, that they be contributed to the installation. The artist will properly recycle the discs when her project is complete. Discs can be dropped off at Herron, 735 W. New York St., anytime between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday (6/25-26) or Saturday (6/27) from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. There are also opportunities to assist the artist with the installation. Anyone interested in volunteering should call (317)278-9473 or email nmoshier@iupui.edu.
About the exhibition
Opening June 30, 3 x3 is a unique exhibition experience: three regional curators were invited to select one artist from their city or region to exhibit at Herron. Allison Peters, Director of Exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, selected Juan Angel Chavez; Jay Jordan, an independent curator and former director of the New Center for Contemporary Art in Louisville, has selected Leticia Bajuyo; and Maiza Hixson, Associate Curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, has selected Ryan Mulligan. Treated as three solo shows within the galleries, interesting intersections of contemporary art practice will be explored through exceptional displays.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
IAC Burke exhibition cancelled
Posted by David Hoppe on Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:00 AM
The exhibition of rock portraits by artist Philip Burke that was previewed in the current issue of NUVO and supposed to open this weekend at the Indianapolis Art Center has been cancelled. Instead, the IAC will be showing new work by Melissa Sarat, paintings inspired by New Orleans, called "New Orleans Table: Paintings by Melissa Sarat." That exhibition runs through Aug. 23 and will be reviewed by Dan Grossman in next week's NUVO.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Sports & Rec (Sports) Mike Beas: Are the Colts' yesterday's darlings?
Posted by Laura McPhee on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:00 AM
To hear the so-called experts talk, 2009 is going to be the year of the Indianapolis Colts. The year the franchise begins its descent back toward mediocrity, that is.
Beloved head coach Tony Dungy has retired to NBC's broadcasting booth and once-great receiver Marvin Harrison, 36, is off fishing for a fatter paycheck from some other gullible team owner even though he's not nearly the offensive weapon he was three or four years ago.
Indy is now being led by a man in Jim Caldwell that most of us wouldn't recognize if he asked us directions to the frozen foods aisle inside our favorite grocery store — if Peyton Manning or Dwight Freeney were accompanying him . . . maybe — and the offense is in desperate need of a quality third receiver to go along with Reggie Wayne and Anthony Gonzalez.
Concerns don't stop there. Will the offensive line mold back into something special? Is tailback Joseph Addai going to return to form or eventually grab some pine in favor of lightning-fast first-round draft selection Donald Brown out of UConn? So many questions and not a single answer. Not now. It's June.
In case you haven't heard, Tom Brady is back, which means everyone has New England on track for a 14-2 — at worst — stroll through the upcoming regular season. Baltimore will be there, they say. San Diego and Pittsburgh, too. Indianapolis, meanwhile, isn't stockpiling the same preseason love. The Colts are yesterday's darlings, the once-sleek Ferrari soon to be passed by newer models.
As in life, cycles are part of athletics. Where there is an up, a down is waiting in the wings, and vise versa. Indianapolis has rattled off seven consecutive winning seasons, averaged 12 victories per year over that stretch and picked up a Super Bowl trophy along the way. The fall is coming, and I'm not referring to September 21.
But the 2009 season? I don't think so. Manning is 33, not an arthritic 43 or wide-eyed 23. He's got two, perhaps three great seasons left in the tank, so I wouldn't be throwing out those 8-8 predictions so effortlessly. When Manning is on his game, he can carry a team.. Besides, he's at his best when people are counting him and his teammates out, which means the 10th 4,000-yard season of his fabulous career is likely on the near horizon.
Prediction: 11-5. If Bob Sanders can stay healthy — a huge 'if' indeed — we'll say 12-4.
PARTING SHOT: Attempting to make sense of last season's mid-season slump, Notre Dame men's basketball coach Mike Brey was recently quoted as saying, "If we could play in the Big Ten, maybe that would help us a little bit."
Huh?
Just when we were led to believe underachieving Charlie Weis, the modern-day H.R. Frumpenstuff, was the biggest bonehead on the South Bend campus, the Vitalis-slicked Brey steps to the forefront hauling this bag of verbal manure.
No word as to whether Brey was implying the Big Ten provides easier competition or if his program would benefit geographically due to lessened travel time compared to current Big East road destinations such as Syracuse and Connecticut.
In the meantime, Brey needs to keep doing what he does best, which is strive for mediocrity while remaining third fiddle in this state. You know, the way Digger Phelps used to.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Tavis Smiley at Clowes this Friday
Posted by David Hoppe on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:00 AM
This just in from Butler and Clowes Hall. Tavis Smiley will be on hand for a showing and discussion of his new documentary...
FRIDAY, JUNE 26TH, 2009 AT CLOWES MEMORIAL HALL
FREE ADMISSION - TICKET NOT REQUIRED
7:00PM Screening of STAND
8:30PM Post-screening discussion and Q&A session
For more information contact 317.940.6444 or visit butler.edu
Tavis Smiley comes to Indianapolis to premiere his new documentary, STAND, which chronicles Smiley's five-day journey with 10 of his closest friends throughout Memphis and Nashville in the summer of 2008. Amidst the backdrop of the 40th anniversary commemorating the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the historic rise of then-Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate, the film provides a revealing look at a unique group of scholars, musicians, and social critics who confront their values and beliefs as pioneers of social progress. And, in rare and poignant moments, it demonstrates the love they share as brothers and friends.
The screening will be followed by discussion of the film and a Q&A session with the audience, featuring Tavis Smiley, Deputy Mayor Olgen Williams, Brandon Cosby (Principal, Shortridge Magnet High School for Law and Public Policy), Asiah Gayfield (President, Butler University Black Student Union), Dr. Terri Jett (Associate Professor of Political Science, Butler University), The Honorable William A. Crawford (State Representative) and moderated by Amos Brown (Radio One Indianapolis).
This event is brought to you by the following partners: Office of the Mayor-City of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Public Schools, Indianapolis Urban League, Indiana Civil Rights Commission, Indiana Commission on the Social Status of Black Males, Eastern Star Church, Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee-Race and Cultural Relations Leadership Network, Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Indianapolis Chapter of The Links, Inc., Circle City Chapter of the Links, Inc., National Pan-Hellenic Council of Indianapolis, National Council of 100 Black Women, Inc. - Indianapolis, 100 Black Men of Indianapolis, Inc., Shortridge Magnet High School for Law and Public Policy, Urban Mission YMCA
Broad Ripple Art & Design this weekend
Posted by David Hoppe on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:00 AM
This just in from Broad Ripple Art & Design...
You are invited to our studios on Saturday, June 27th, from 4-7pm where we'll be hosting a special 'Art Stimulus' sale. All works will be priced 10-50% below standard pricing to help you continue to collect art even in these economically challenging times.
We hope you can come by, enjoy a glass of wine, and take a look at each of our latest works as well as some blasts from the past. If you'd like a preview, please visit www.teribarnett.com and/or www.dougarnholter.com. If you find something you like but are unable to make the open house, let either of us know and we'll make arrangements to get the piece to you.
Thanks so much and we look forward to seeing you on the 27th!
Studio Address: Broad Ripple Art & Design
5368 Winthrop Avenue, Indianapolis, 46220
Phone: 317.254.8096
Map: Google Map
Gilbert & Sullivan by popular demand
Posted by David Hoppe on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:00 AM
This just in from the Indianapolis Opera...
Indianapolis Opera today announced the results of patron voting to select the third of three productions for its 2009-2010 season. By popular vote, the selection was Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, which will be performed on March 19th and 21st.
"The results of the vote were very interesting. Our audience really showed a breadth of interest, but two favorites emerged," commented Indianapolis Opera executive director John Pickett. "The selections of Verdi's La Traviata and a Gilbert and Sullivan work were almost tied. Because we have already announced one of the leading operas in the Italian repertoire for next season, we elected to schedule Gilbert and Sullivan for our next season and to include La Traviata in the 2010-2011 season."
"The strong vote for Gilbert and Sullivan was probably influenced by the enthusiastic reception this season's production of The Pirates of Penzance generated," said Indianapolis Opera artistic director James Caraher. "Of the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire, The Mikado is among the most operatic in its musical qualities, and the stage set is often reminiscent of the Madame Butterfly set, both taking place in Japan." The Mikado was last performed in Indianapolis in 1985.
"The story and characterizations are equally as funny as those in The Pirates of Penzance, and we are fortunate to have stage director Bill Fabris reprise the highly praised style we saw in Pirates in the upcoming Mikado production," added Caraher. "We think this lively, melodic experience will be just what our audience needs at the end of the winter."
Cast Announcements
Indianapolis Opera also announced principal cast members of its first two season productions.
"The cast lists for our first two productions resonate with artists who have succeeded in singing at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as artists who have received critical and audience acclaim for recent IO performances," said Caraher. "We are very fortunate to have Angela Brown and Jane Dutton, both Indiana natives who have performed at the Met.
"In addition, for a number of the artists, our engagement enables them to add a new role to their repertoires, which is one of our important artistic goals, especially for Angela and Jane."
Character: Artist (Prior IO performance) * designates IO debut, and # designates a role debut for this artist
Ariadne auf Naxos: by Richard Strauss, October 2nd and 4th
Ariadne/Prima Donna: Angela Brown # (Aida, Porgy and Bess), Indianapolis native
Bacchus/Tenor: Arnold Rawls (Il Trovatore)
Composer: Jane Dutton # (Falstaff, Il Trovatore), Columbus, IN native/Fishers resident
Zerbinetta: Rachele Gilmore # (Tales of Hoffmann), Indiana University graduate
Stage Director: Joachim Schamberger (Tosca, Das Rheingold)
La Boheme: by Giacomo Puccini, November 20th and 22nd
Mimi: Maureen O'Flynn,* Metropolitan Opera, La Scala
Rodolfo: William Joyner (Tosca, Madame Butterfly)
Marcello: Sean Anderson (Pirates of Penzance)
Musetta: Laura Pedersen (Traviata, Romeo and Juliet)
