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Current Events
The voter registration deadline for people wishing to participate in the 2012
election is Oct. 9 - less than two weeks away.
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Current Events
This week's important stories told to you in 17 syllables. On the docket this week: Payne, pepper spray and a fact check.
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Current Events
Mayor Greg Ballard changed precinct lines and polling locations and co-mingled several precincts within given one polling location - five polling locations each handled voting for elections for five different precincts during the primary.
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Current Events
Parent Power will host an IPS school board candidate forum from 6-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 at Martin University. On Oct. 11, Hoosier Environmental Council will host Lt. Gov. candidates
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Politics
The Indiana Debate Commission announced Tuesday that Hoosiers can now submit questions for two debates it will host in the U.S. Senate race and three debates in the governor's race.
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Politics
Thanks to Rupert Boneham, John Gregg and Mike Pence for taking the time to give us a taste of what they're about and how they might handle some of the issues facing our governor.
- by Rebecca Townsend
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Tags: Politics, 2012 election, Rupert Boneham, John Gregg, Mike Pence, governor's race, Indiana governor, leadership, candidates, political platform, Mitch Daniels, state government, mass transit, education, LGBT, gay, economy, economic development, agriculture, energy, coal, environmental issues, climate change, Duke Energy, Indiana Statehouse, Editor's Pick, Feature, Feature
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Classical Music
Debussy was right in predicting that his influence would skip a generation, says James Briscoe, director of a showcase of the composer's work starting Sept. 29.
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Film + TV
Filmed here from February to May and now airing Wednesdays on TV One, 'Parole Diaries' follows nine Corrections officers as they handle their enormous caseloads.
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Visual Arts
Though much of Kerns's work is raw and unpolished, its sense of seriousness and urgency proves compelling.
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Theater + Dance
Amazing things happened in Bloomington last weekend as students embraced artistic director Michael Vernon’s challenging program of 20th-cent choreography.
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Film + TV
The Master was, by report, a larger movie, but director Paul Thomas Anderson cut out the scenes unrelated to the love story. What’s left is insufficient.
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Written + Spoken Word
One of three finalists will win the Emerging Author Award at this Saturday's Indiana Authors Awards.
- by Emma Faesi
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Tags: Written + Spoken Word, Indiana Authors Awards, Emerging Author Award, John Green, Barb Shoup, Dan Wakefield, Douglas Light, Christopher Coake, Sherri Wood Emmons, Feature, Feature
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra musicians rejected the latest offer from management because either side could opt out of the proposed five-year contract after three years.
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Visual Arts
Tulsa artist Erin Turner brought her depictions of tornadoes, made from chicken wire and newspapers, to Rocky Ripple, Indiana.
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
The ISO players' lockout continues into its fourth weekend with a second players' concert scheduled at the Palladium.
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Theater + Dance
The Indiana Performing Arts Center production featured fabulous singers, but their performances largely fell flat, lacking emotional investment.
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Classical Music
Guest violinist Caroline Goulding startles the well filled Indiana History Center
with her playing as Kirk Trevor begins his 25th season as the ICO music
director.
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Classical Music
The American Pianists Association begins its quadrennial
Classical Fellowship Awards season with the first of five chosen finalists.
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Music Blog
Banjo-player-drummer-pianist-guitarist-singer-lyricist Scott Avett of the Avett Brothers talks about chapter two of the group's musical career, as well as his own work as a painter.
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Music Blog
The Avett Brothers bring their reliably energetic act -- and polished new album -- to the Lawn.
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Profiles
"Maybe in a record or two it’ll stop being 'Nick Waterhouse, the Retro-Soul Guy' and it’ll be 'Nick Waterhouse.'"
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Profiles
Henry Rollins, he of the spoken word artistry and roaring punk anthems, will be in Indy Friday.
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Profiles
One of the most convincing arguments you could make for the overlap between rap lyricists and poets would no doubt include a great deal of the work of Aesop Rock as evidence.
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Profiles
It only seems natural for a musician named Andrew Bird to be migratory.
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Live Music Reviews
Prince is working to remind us that there is no "I" in team, that when we proudly recite the words "freedom and justice for all," we remember the all.
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Profiles
Adam Turla was packing boxes when I called him. Lots and lots of boxes.
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Live Music Reviews
"Their sound filled the venue's airspace, creating an opaque sense of dread and disorientation." Sean Armie reviews Lower Dens at Russian Recording studios in Bloomington.
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Music Blog
Photos of Sunday Funday block party by Kristen Pugh, including DJs Crookshanks, Action Jackson, A-Squared Metrognome and more.
- by Kristen Pugh
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Tags: A-Squared Industries, Andy Skinner, Crookshanks, DJ Action Jackson, DJ Metrognome, Sunday Funday, Block party, Sun King, Sun King Brewing Company, Slideshow, Feature, Feature
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Music Blog
Photos of Sunday Funday block party by Kristen Pugh including Indian City Weather, Hotfox, Freddie Bunz, NoExit, Ghostown and more.
- by Kristen Pugh
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Tags: Freddie Bunz, Ghostown, Hotfox, Indian City Weather, NoExit, Block party, Sunday Funday, Sun King Brewing Company, Slideshow, Feature, Feature
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Live Music Reviews
"A gifted multi-instrumentalist exploring the vast gamut of musical Americana..." Sean Armie reviews Andrew Bird at the Old National Centre.
- by Sean Armie
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Tags: Live Music Reviews, Andrew Bird, Here We Go Magic, Indianapolis, Folk, Americana, Old National Center, Murat Theater, Bluegrass, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, Review
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Music Blog
Photos of Sunday Funday block party by Kristen Pugh including Oreo Jones and Party Lines.
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Live Music Reviews
Lora Olive captures Slash at the Egyptian Room on Sept. 25 and Joey Harris writes about it.
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Dining Out
Newly opened in the bungalow that once housed Boogie Burger, La Chinita offers both Asian and Latin flavors, from tacos to bubble tea.
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A Cultural Manifesto
Kyle Long talks class struggle and merengue with Dominican punk rockers La Armada.
- by Kyle Long
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Tags: La Armada, Los Vicios De Papa, Chicago, Dominican Republic, Melody Inn, merengue, bachata, punk rock, hardcore, Los Hermoanos Rosario, Indianapolis, Audio, Feature, Feature
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Abdul
The TIF district fight is symptomatic of something much deeper, much like a couple arguing over too much sugar in the coffee when they are really fighting about something else.
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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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Abdul
I only spent about 40 minutes with the new Public Safety Director designee, Troy Riggs, but based on our brief interaction, I already like the guy.
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Gadfly
Each week, NUVO illustrator Wayne Bertsch turns his keen comic eye to the local headlines.
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Girl, in Transit
After nearly a year, desensitization is bound to happen.
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Hoppe
Smartphones are another part of the big lie we keep telling ourselves about the world we live in.