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Social Justice
The non-profit group partners with a host of Indianapolis-area schools and children's groups to encourage kids to engage in healthy activities.
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We Are City formed after the Urbanized Summit last year at the which screened the documentary Urbanized. Those involved want to continue the discussion on what city life in Indy could become.
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News Blog
Bloomington Dr. Kamal Tiwari receives 42-month sentence and restitution order for $1.3 million defrauded from insurers and overprescribing painkillers.
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Politics
Amid the drama of city-county budget season: Off-duty police officers are under scrutiny for organizing Safe Neighborhoods, a private security company.
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Current Events
A peaceful army of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Indiana supporters is expected to flood the Indy Fringe Theatre on Sept. 29 and take up a series of deep-breathing warrior poses.
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Current Events
Technology cannot eliminate the plague of sexual violence that victims' advocates estimate recurs every two minutes in the U.S., but by arming people with a variety of at-the-ready response mechanisms, crisis-avoidance odds increase.
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Current Events
This week's important stories told to you in 17 syllables. On this week's docket: violent film criticism, old sheriffs and deadly golf.
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Politics
Young voters weigh in ... The poll found that 61% of voters ages 18 to 29 would like to see Obama get a second term, while 31% would rather see Republican candidate Mitt Romney win.
- by The Statehouse File
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Tags: Politics, Pew Research Center, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, voters, 2012 election, presidential politics, young adults, college students, Democrats, Republicans, messaging, Woodrow Myers, Dream Act, Indiana Secretary of State - Election Division, Marion County Clerk, voter registration, election issues, Feature, Feature
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Social Justice
People of color eat a lot of locally caught fish for economic and cultural reasons. But nationwide, efforts to warn anglers fail to reach many minority and low-income populations.
- by Environmental Health News
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Tags: Social Justice, Fish consumption warnings, water pollution, heavy metals, mercury, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes, University of Michigan, dioxins, pesticides, cancer, fishing, poverty, Hmong, Feature, Feature
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Current Events
At a Stand Down to provide a variety of services and goods for homeless and near-homeless veterans and their families, we visited some of the vets and asked about their thoughts.
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News Blog
A preponderance of evidence suggested that the governor had
at least one significant housecleaning chore left before leaving the
Statehouse ...
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Theater + Dance
An ensemble cast makes the most of Patrick Marber's play of bad manners, running through Sept. 29 at Big Car Service Center.
- by Scott Shoger
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Tags: Theater + Dance, NoExit Performance, Big Car Service Center, Closer, Tommy Lewey, Matthew Goodrich, Lisa Ermel, Sam Fain, Georgeanna Smith, Feature, Feature
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Written + Spoken Word
With help from Vonnegut fans like Michael Moore and Dan Wakefield, writer Corey Dalton will spend a week in a cell made of books to raise awareness of censorship.
- by Scott Shoger
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Tags: Written + Spoken Word, Corey Michael Dalton, Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, Slaughterhouse-Five, Banned Books Week, Republic, Missouri, Locked in with Vonnegut, censorship, Feature, Feature
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Visual Arts
Hundreds of pins in a wall map in Vining's studio point to places - from Anchorage to downtown Indy - where the social media-savvy artist has sold his work.
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Visual Arts
Hodgkin, a two-year Oranje vet, is into unusual canvases — from a Jimmy Swaggart LP to Ikea cutting boards.
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Comedy
A new management team has turned around the once-struggling Morty's, helping to build local careers while treating traveling comics fairly.
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
A new documentary tells the story of Rodriguez, an American psych folk musician whose work is celebrated in South Africa but virtually unknown in the U.S.
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Classical Music
Uindy begins its fall faculty artist
season with a concert featuring ISO conductor laureate Raymond Leppard.
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Classical Music
Faced with an ongoing lockout from their home venue, the musicians of the ISO gave a free benefit concert for the Metropolitan Youth
Orchestra.
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Theater + Dance
Millicent Wright makes Charlayne Woodard's words her own, but the script falls short, and Woodard's work is wearing out its welcome.
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Theater + Dance
Jennifer Johansen makes a stunning Going Solo debut in this one-woman show about a girl growing up in Apartheid-era South Africa.
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Theater + Dance
'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,' a 90-minute whirlwind of rock and politics, made its Midwest premiere last week at the Phoenix Theatre.
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
A statement by ISO management and players' response to their announcement of a third week of concert cancellation.
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General
Mike Allee snapped photos of Indy's biggest night of interactive art and music -- Oranje.
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
Scenes from a Saturday in Fountain Square, from troubadours Playing for Change to artists making a Masterpiece in a Day, with stops at an art fair and art parade.
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Profiles
Nick Selm discusses the scuzzy chaos and repugnant genius of Humans' newest masterpiece, Milk Pond.
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Profiles
"There’s a fine line between genius and stupidity.”
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Music Blog
Songbird Laura K. Balke on her year flying solo.
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Profiles
Ace One of Dead Man's Switch is more than a Rap Monster — he's a Rock Monster too.
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Profiles
Scott Hall profiles legendary jazz-funk artist John Scofield.
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Live Music Reviews
Peep photos from the Chiodos show on Saturday, September 15 at Old National Centre.
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Profiles
"I's almost like we're split into two different bands. Model is upbeat, more poppier side, Stranger would be the darker, strange side of things"
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Live Music Reviews
Jordan Martich reviews Minus the Bear's performance at The Vogue on Sept. 17 with Caspian and Cursive.
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Live Music Reviews
30+ years into their career, NOFX prove why they are still the kings of punk.
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Live Music Reviews
t was a great evening for lovers of true alternative '80s music.
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Live Music Reviews
Seldom are positive vibes so palpable at a rock and roll show.
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Live Music Reviews
Peek photos of Indy's night of interactive art and music, held at the State Fairgrounds.
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Live Music Reviews
Even more photos from Oranje, featuring Model Stranger, Verdant Vera and more.
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Live Music Reviews
The last pack of photos from photographer Kristen Pugh from interactive event Oranje.
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Live Music Reviews
Dan Axler caught all the action at Lotus Fest 2012, held September 19-22 in Bloomington.
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Live Music Reviews
Dan Axler caught all the action at Lotus Fest 2012, held September 19-22 in Bloomington.
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A Cultural Manifesto
"Raï music was the youth music of North Africa. It reflected everything a North African, Islamic-raised teenager wants to express. It was like the punk movement of the Arab world at that time. We sing about sex, drugs and everything you're not supposed to comment on in Arabic society."
- by Kyle Long
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Tags: MC Rai, Rai music, Tunisia, Algeria, Lotus Fest, Canteca de Macao, Slavic Soul Party, Delhi 2 Dublin, Bloomington, Fatoumata Diawara, Cheb Mami, Cheb Khaled, Audio, Feature, Feature
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A Cultural Manifesto
"I noticed a lot of artists in Spain weren't able to make a living off their music. They were signing with record labels or management agencies that would simply rob them."
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Hammer
As far as Hammer knows, no columnist has ever reversed the scenario and asked his or her readers to answer questions and solve the columnist's problems - until now.
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Gadfly
Each week, NUVO illustrator Wayne Bertsch turns his keen comic eye to the local headlines.
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Abdul
The Jail Commissary Fund collected $2 million from inmates and their families in 2011. Couldn't some go to help the sheriff cover the jail's growing health care costs.
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Korean War vet and retired U.S. Rep. Andy Jacobs, D-Ind., who served in Congress from 1965-1997, continues to challenge Hoosiers with his weekly mental joyride.
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Perspectives in Education
Perspectives in Education featured contributor of the week: Grassroots education-reform advocate John Harris Loflin on urban teacher-parent collaboration.
- by NUVO Editors
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Tags: education reform, charter schools, teachers, parents, urban schools, activism, Teachers for Social Justice, James Olivos, parent trigger laws, Indianapolis Public Schools, IPS, Opinion
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Hoppe
One of our city's most talented and provocative landscape architects, Fulford sought to help the rest of us see and experience the Midwest's many-hued gorgeousness.
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Bicycle Diaries of a Big Girl
A recent viral video of two Colorado cyclists being harassed by a driver stirs up conversation.
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Hoppe
Indy's big city/small town paradox: Will the Circle City ever take in its totality?
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Hammer
The 2012 election presents a restrictive environment for Indiana's electorate.