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News Blog
One garden. One Earth House. A bunch of people that know something about gardens. A bunch of recycled materials. A few hours. That's all you get. Tomorrow.
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News Blog
A local action group founded by Innovative Indy Summit aims to create a local currency for Central Indiana.
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News Blog
Two more weeks for someone to say something stupid. Two more weeks of potential posturing. Still it's two-week's notice: On March 9, they will be gone.
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Environment
Hoosiers interested in how Indiana's state
forests are run can share their views at a series of open houses starting next
month.
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Social Justice
1,000+ will attend a March 6 kickoff of the Indianapolis Congregation Action Network, a launching point for dialogue between policy-makers and Hoosiers hit by recession.
- by Dan Mundell
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Tags: Social Justice, Indianapolis Congregation Action Network, IndyCAN, Light of the World Christian Church, Saint Anthony's Catholic Parish, Greg Ballard, Frank Straub, Maggie Lewis, Central Christian Church, Feature, Feature
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Current Events
Local death penalty abolitionists will gather at 4:30 p.m. on Wed., Feb. 29 at the Capitol Rotunda to celebrate life-alternatives to the death penalty.
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Current Events
More than half the Hoosiers completing the Indiana Civil Rights Commission's Statewide Perception Survey report experiencing discrimination.
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Current Events
From March through September, state
experts will review everything from invasive species to forest resource management plans onsite in Indiana's forests.
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Opinion
I have seen this city change from a crumbling, decaying hulk into a bright, innovative metropolis. Promises of better pay elsewhere cannot dissolve Hammer's attachment.
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Opinion
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce wants accountability, it seems, for everyone but ... the chamber itself.
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News Blog
Progress can be logged on the journey to equality, but there's a long way to go.
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Politics
A bill that would render the state's historic preservation tax credit useless for at least a decade passed the Senate on Wednesday.
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News Blog
If you know a kid who is destined to change the world, nominate them for a Children's Power Award - scholarships, grants and exposure are all part of the package.
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Current Events
Nearly 100 homes were damaged, including 19 that
were destroyed, 20 with major damage, 11 with minor damage and 48 otherwise affected.
- by The Statehouse File
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Tags: Current Events, Tornados, Southern Indiana, Clark County, Jefferson County, Ripley County, Scott County, Washington County, Indiana Department of Homeland Security, Video, Feature, Feature
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Current Events
Donation by text is a simple way to support ongoing relief efforts. Send $10 to Red Cross or Salvation Army by texting "REDCROSS" to 90999 or "HOOSIER" to 80888.
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Politics
Indiana Gasification is expected to produce synthetic gas for about $6.60 per dekatherm, while natural gas prices are currently below $3. For this it wants a tax credit.
- by The Statehouse File
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Tags: Politics, Indiana Gasification, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, Leucadia National Corp., Rockport, coal gasification, Mitch Daniels, Brian Bosma, natural gas, tax credits, smoking ban, taxpayer refunds, Indiana Statehouse, Feature, Feature
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Politics
Gov. Mitch Daniels will choose the state's next Indiana Supreme Court justice from among two attorneys and one judge already serving state government.
- by The Statehouse File
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Tags: Politics, Indiana Supreme Court, Randall Shepard, Mark Massa, Jane Seigel, Cale Bradford, Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission, Mitch Daniels, deadlines, Indiana Statehouse, Feature, Feature
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Politics
Without a woman on its Supreme Court, Indiana is an outlier on gender diversity - in the company of only Idaho and Iowa.
- by The Statehouse File
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Tags: Politics, Indiana Supreme Court, gender equality, male-dominated sports, Mitch Daniels, Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission, Randall Shepard, Myra Selby, Jane Seigel, glass ceiling, ole boys' network, Sally Kenney, workplace discrimination, Feature, Feature
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News Blog
More than 1,000 people of faith will unite across racial, economic, religious and neighborhood lines to connect 10,000 Indy recession victims to jobs.
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News Blog
Chu's visit came following last fall's announcement that the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI would receive a $1.3 million DOE grant.
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Current Events
This week's important stories told to you in 17 syllables. On the docket this week: James Murdoch, Asian Carp and the best argument for contraception.
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Current Events
Take the day-after edge off of the St. Patty's annual beer, whiskey and corned beef trifecta with a Sunday afternoon ride with the Central Indiana Bicycling Association.
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Current Events
Environmental watchdogs worry a bill consolidating Indiana's environmental oversight boards will result in "less public input, transparency & quality decisions." Act now to mitigate.
- by NUVO Editors
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Tags: Current Events, Hoosier Environmental Council, Indiana General Assembly, Indiana Environmental Rules Board, air pollution control board, water pollution control board, solid waste management board, governmental consolidation, efficiency efforts, environmental oversight, Indiana Statehouse, Opinion
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Current Events
This marks the spot where we celebrate the stellar career of a true football hero. We'll miss you, Peyton. Indy will never be the same.
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News Blog
An I.U. geophysical experiment detected unusual seismic signals associated with tornadoes that struck regions across the Midwest last week.
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Written + Spoken Word
David Welky's well-researched, plain-spoken history of the 1937 Ohio River flood tells why the disaster happened and what we have and haven't learned from it.
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Visual Arts
Sheila Ferguson, aka JealousyJane, calls herself a "country girl at heart," able to cook, can and run a farm, but coming into her cosmopolitan self as a full-time designer.
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Film + TV
A new film by Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki tells of a community coming together to do right by a boy marooned in a French port town.
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Film + TV
A conventionally constructed documentary about the 3,000-mile, coast-to-coast bike race Ride Across America matches gorgeous scenery with brutal action.
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Visual Arts
We break down Midwest Fashion Week by the day, from March 10 to 17, and chat with MFW founder Berny Martin about how far his six-year-old event has come.
- by Scott Shoger
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Tags: Visual Arts, Berny Martin, Midwest Fashion Week, Nataliya Kitic, Shop Midwest, Children's Fashion Show, Monday Night Fashion, Fashion Inside Out, The Art of Fashion, Food Meets Fashion, DSI Design for Change Gala, Feature, Feature
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Theater + Dance
Yuppie slapstick that never lets its implicit self-loathing get in the way of the laughs, 'God of Carnage' starts with the foot on the accelerator - and keeps it there.
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Visual Arts
Stein would've become an anthropologist if he hadn't gone into design; such is his interest in the way environment influences the way people act and dress.
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Visual Arts
A Fort Wayne-based haute couture designer with a taste for soft fabrics, Thomas got back into the game in earnest with last fall's Midwest Fashion Week.
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
A small crew of restoration experts and neighborhood activists are working to save the Rivoli Theatre, an Eastside movie house fallen into disrepair.
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Visual Arts
Janz, a BSU architecture prof interested in self-building in low-income areas, is curating a show featuring repurposed couches as building material.
- by Scott Shoger
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Tags: Visual Arts, Wes Janz, Ball State University, Arthur M. Glick JCC, One Small Project, self-building, couches, pallet garage, found objects, Herron School of Art and Design, Feature, Feature
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Visual Arts
Two Singapore-born illustrators cover the waterfront, from bizarre figure studies to Betty-Page like sirens, handguns dripping ooze to melting pink elephants.
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Visual Arts
Baker's menagerie in porcelain includes animals formed from parts of various species, usually embellished with threatening horns in unexpected places.
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Visual Arts
For Inger and Siskind, whose collaborative show, 'Seeking Shelters,' opens Friday at Gallery 924, art is a last line of defense.
- by Dan Grossman
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Tags: Visual Arts, Sofiya Inger, Ellie Siskind, Seeking Shelters, Gallery 924, Song of Solace, Shelter from the Night, Dorman Street Saloon, Coat, Indianapolis Art Center, Gallery 924 at the Arts Council, Feature, Feature
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
A new WFYI doc about Indiana aviation will likely take home local Emmys for its gorgeous aerial photography. Downtown Indy has never looked better.
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Visual Arts
Four generations of Guatemalan painters impress, notably the youngest, Thais, just out of high school but already renowned for her portraits of the Mexico national football team.
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Classical Music
Guest conductor Susanna Mälkki raises the roof with Rachmaninoff's final composition, "Symphonic Dances," in a Symphonic Hits program.
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General
The Indiana State Fairgrounds hosted the 2012 Boat, Sport and Travel Show, Feb. 17-26.
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General
The Indiana State Fairgrounds were home to the 21st Annual Motorcycle Expo Feb. 24-26.
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General
The Indiana State Fairgrounds hosted the Midwest Reptile Show on February 26th.
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Film + TV
An Iranian domestic drama about a squabble in court that grows ever more complicated, 'A Separation' won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
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General
The Polar Plunge 2012 fundraiser for Special Olympics Indiana took place Saturday at Eagle Creek Reservoir.
- by NUVO Editors
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Tags: General, Polar Plunge, Special Olympics Indiana, wrestlers, plungers, Naptown Roller Girls, costumes, fundraisers, Eagle Creek Beach, Slideshow, Feature, Feature
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Classical Music
IVCI 2010 gold medalist Clara-Jumi Kang joins the ISO for
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in a program filled with hits, including more
Mendelssohn.
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Live Music Reviews
Monologues, Airstream trailers, fake grills, picnic tables, survival: inside the mind of Maynard James Keenan.
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Profiles
Denver indie pop trio Tennis brought their warm, easily enjoyable sound to Radio Radio Monday night in support of their sophomore album 'Young & Old.'
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Profiles
Today's Note For Note features a local producer and a California songbird wgho delve into the moody blues - 2012 style.
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Profiles
This English foursome sat down with NUVO to talk about their influences, and their new album Junk of the Heart.
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Album Reviews
Today's Note For Note features two New York-based bands, both signed to Indiana-based labels, who produce noise and/or introspection. Whichever you prefer.
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Album Reviews
Reviews on music from local labels Joyful Noise and Sacred Phrases.
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Album Reviews
Award-winning writer Micah Ling critiques new releases from two singer/songwriters.
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Live Music Reviews
After two albums and a few EPs, Puscifer has now become a live act, a multimedia presentation featuring prerecorded comedy bits, set changes and the band's hypnotic brand of brooding electronic dance music.
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Live Music Reviews
Truly experimental folk rock is not dead. But Indy-based purveyors of said genre, The Dwellers, shall record no more.
- by Grant Catton
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Tags: Live Music Reviews, The Dwellers, Andrew Gustin, Christian Taylor, American Syndrome, Mad Anthony, Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes, White Rabbit, White Rabbit Cabaret, Feature, Feature
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Profiles
The Bonesetters are quickly making an impression on the local indie scene with their folk-inspired alternative sound.
- by Grant Catton
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Tags: Profiles, Rock, The Bonesetters, White Rabbit, She Does is Magic, Laura K. Balke, Everything Now!, Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos, Dan Snodgrass, White Rabbit Cabaret, Review
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Music Blog
A host of Indy impresarios are featured on this new video from Oreo Jones' upcoming album.
- by Katherine Coplen
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Oreo Jones, Grey Granite, Young Carolyn, DMA, Heavy Gun, Lisa Berlin, Heartbeat, Video, Feature, Feature
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Music Blog
Let your inner do-gooder out this weekend with two music events benefitting Indy non-profits.
- by Katherine Coplen
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Tags: Rock, Heartbeat, First Friday, Neon Love Life, Polar Plunge, Beta Cell Bash, Talbott Street Nightclub, Blue Wren Studio, Goliathon, Red Light Driver, Feature, Feature
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Album Reviews
A scientific survey which shows the consequences of too much, and too little, attitude.
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Live Music Reviews
Frampton riffs verbally on the loss of his hair and musically on a beloved found guitar at an early March show in the Murat Theatre.
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Profiles
Profiles of Indiana labels Joyful Noise and Secretly Canadian.
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Live Music Reviews
Despite moving to California to pursue a career as a punk rock star nearly 20 years ago, The Ataris' Kris Roe still feels right at home in Indiana.
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Profiles
Neon Love Life announced their breakup yesterday, but their three-year run leaves an indelible mark on the city's music scene.
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Profiles
Indiana is dotted with prestigious local record labels. We've gathered short features on 25 of them for your perusal.
- by Justin Spicer
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Tags: Profiles, record labels, Eonian, Auris Apothecary, Flannelgraph, Joyful Noise, BlueSanct, Audio Recon, Family Vineyard, Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian, Asthmatic Kitty, Daddy Real, Eradicator, XRA, Rad Summer, Owl Studios, Roaring Colonel, Hermetic, GloryHole, Standard Recording, Gulcher, Plan-It-X, Feature, Feature
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Music Blog
Heartbeat is daily music news you'll love to hear from NUVO music editor Katherine Coplen.
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Profiles
These labels want to get the kids hooked on sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll - and cassettes.
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Live Music Reviews
The singer-songwriter will perform Sunday at Wheeler Community Arts Center.
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Profiles
DIY greats and Boston-begun, Indy-run labels Plan-It-X and BlueSanct are featured.
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Profiles
Toby Leaman, bassist of Dr. Dog, talked with NUVO about the band's latest record Be The Void.
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Profiles
The 3rd Annual Girls Rock! Indy Annual Fundraiser featured music by Hero Jr., Red Light Driver and Neon Love Life.
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Album Reviews
Justin Spicer reviews Learner Dancer release on GloryHole Records, as part of a continuing series on local labels.
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Dining Out
Coal has an outstanding beer selection and a fresh, nicely peppery Arugula and Poached Pear Salad, but the pizza itself is a bit of a disaster.
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Dining Out
Neil revisits Capri 10 years after his first review to find a menu that's thoroughly accomplished and perfectly executed, though not particularly challenging.
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Beer Buzz
Irvington's Black Acre Brewing Company opened Feb. 22 with a range of 15 guest taps; their own lineup of brews will debut mid-March.
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A Cultural Manifesto
Kyle Long takes us back to a local label in '70s Indy: 700 West.
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A Cultural Manifesto
Galactic played an inspired set Sunday night at the Vogue. Trombonist Corey Henry continually stole the show, wowing the audience with his staccato riffing and freestyle raps.
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Girl, in Transit
On a recent trip, Ashley Kimmel discovered some strange cultural differences between Indianapolis and Chicago transit-riders.
- by Ashley Kimmel
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Tags: Social Justice, Girl, in Transit, Ashley Kimmel, transit, Chicago, MegaBus, buses, public transportation, IndyGo, Feature, Feature
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A Cultural Manifesto
Fundraiser to be held in his honor this Saturday by IntoSalsa group.
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A Cultural Manifesto
DJ Stephan informs and entertains as an African music DJ.
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Girl, in Transit
Yesterday I rode the bus for the first time in a while. When I made it to my seat, I was overcome with a sense of home.
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Hoppe
State Treasurer Richard Mourdock has decided the time has come to unseat St. Richard. Once, not so long ago, a challenge like this would have been unthinkable.
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Gadfly
Every week, NUVO cartoonist Wayne Bertsch turns an eye towards the news headlines for the subject of his 'Gadfly' comic.
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Barfly
Just in time for the Barfly Art and Music Show, Wayne's got some words for The Classless.
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Hoppe
If Republicans were to be honest about it, they would admit that Barack Obama looks more like one of them than, well, a Democrat.
- by David Hoppe
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Tags: national politics, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, media coverage, sound bites, climate change, 2012 election, Opinion
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Gadfly
Every week, NUVO cartoonist Wayne Bertsch turns an eye towards the news headlines for the subject of his 'Gadfly' comic.
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Barfly
Mashup Monthly is this Saturday at Locals Only.
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Check out this incredible time-lapse video of the Milky Way and other celestial gorgeousness by Randy Halverson.
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This week's offbeat sports stories: Pat Knight makes dad proud, Linspired ice cream and sports announcers' hard knocks.
- by Justin Cross
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Tags: Sports & Rec, Pat Knight, Bobby Knight, Rants, Jeremy Lin, Ben and Jerry's, Ice cream, Stools, Falls, Announcers, Lakers, Makeup, Video, Feature, Feature
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Jeb Corliss flies through the air like a bird. Unfortunately, a mountain recently got in the way.
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Chick-Fil-A restaurants are hoping local sons will tolerate their mothers taking them out on a date.
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These kung-fu bears are adorably talented - and probably even more deadly with their stick-twirling abilities.
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You may not have ever considered living in a teeny-tiny house - but what about one the size of a two-car garage in beautiful Hawaii?
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This week's offbeat sports stories: Ex qb sets paper airplane record, marathon cheating and a lost testicle.
- by Justin Cross
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Tags: Paper airplanes, World records, Golf balls, Marathons, Wrestling, Lawsuits, Testicles, Cheerleaders, Referees, Video, Feature, Feature
