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Politics
On Election eve, Carlos May's campaign again raised questions about the origin of fraudulent campaign materials.
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News Blog
Indy Food Fund is accepting applications for grants and loans to engender healthy and nutritious projects in Indianapolis neighborhoods now through Dec. 14.
- by Sara Davis
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Tags: Environment, food, funds, community gardens, market stands, value chain projects, nutrition programs, food hubs, farmers’ markets, farm-to-institutions projects, urban farms, healthy corner store, marketing, consumer cooperative, healthy, Feature, Feature
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News Blog
The data shamans at the U.S. Census Bureau periodically compile interesting holiday-related facts from their vast trove.
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Comedy
Amy Sedaris talks female serial killers, Martha Stewart, cheese balls and bags of rusty nails ahead of her appearance Thursday at Madame Walker.
- by Scott Shoger
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Tags: Comedy, Amy Sedaris, Strangers with Candy, fabric line, Spirit & Place, Jerri Blank, Florrie Fisher, play, crafting, rusty nails, popsicle sticks, Video, Feature, Feature
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Written + Spoken Word
Vonnegut's plain-spoken quality is generously displayed in a new Dan Wakefield-edited collection of letters, which addresses, in turn, the business of writing and his family life.
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Comedy
"The web is a great tool that unfortunately also happens to be a coward's wet dream."
- by Maxwell Cothrel
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Tags: Comedy, Kyle Kinane, comedy, Crackers, Kyle Kinane, comedy, Crackers, Crackers Comedy Club, Video, Feature, Feature
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Visual Arts
It was supposed to have been a lighthearted scene, but as Schweitzer got deeper into planning her own wedding, she elected to have centaurs attack the bridesmaids.
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Visual Arts
Soldiers turned artists and victims turned advocates will be in town Sunday to cap off Spirit & Place with an afternoon of programming devoted to arts and the veteran.
- by Scott Shoger
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Tags: Visual Arts, Armistice Day, Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day: Healing through the Humanities, Spirit & Place, Indiana War Memorial, Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, Ehren Tool, Renee Klish, Mark Vonnegut, So It Goes, literary journal, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, J.T. Whitehead, Feature, Feature
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Sports + Recreation
A new game developed by Bottom Line Performance and the Dayspring Center invites players to confront problems that face the homeless or near-homeless.
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Film + TV
The Sessions is unflinching, moving and often funny, and Skyfall is one of the year's best movies, period. Plus: the Indy LGBT Film Fest and Claire Denis at IU Cinema.
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Arts + Entertainment Blog
Our picks for the final weekend of Spirit & Place include Bali Dream (a Balinese version of A Midsummer Night's Dream) and the Great Pumpkin Fling.
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Theater + Dance
IRT playwright-in-residence James Still's latest, about a stressful holiday reunion, isn't quite the next great American play.
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Theater + Dance
Worthwhile and often funny, this highly-referential tale of a home-schooled ingenue entering high school is also overlong and a little too hectic.
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Visual Arts
Ritchford's geometric designs, which have a drugged-out hazy aura that you'd expect from a show named after a Can album, balance precision and imperfection.
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Visual Arts
It's all about video games as art - and art inspired by video games - at a Spirit & Place-related exhibition opening Friday with a panel discussion.
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Visual Arts
Gone are the levitating figures in profile that heretofore dominated Ragsdale's work; in their stead are playful, earthier figures imbued with a sense of depth.
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Film + TV
Frontline provides an inside look at assisted suicide, focusing the majority of the 90-minute documentary on assisted suicide advocate Final Exit Network, and its series of legal struggles, which has resulted largely in victories for the assisted suicide movement.
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Theater + Dance
Butler Dept. of Theatre, in collaboration with a team of Balinese theater artists, presents a beguiling and hilarious version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Classical Music
For its seventh Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra classical
series weekend, guest conductor Eugene Tzigane led an all-Spanish inspired
program featuring guitarist Miloš Karadaglic.
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Classical Music
American Pianists Association finalist Sean Chen gave a
stunning Indy debut at the second of the APA Premiere Series.
- by Tom Aldridge
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Tags: Classical Music, Bach, Bartok, Ravel, Gluck, Beethoven, Sean Chen, Kirk trevor, dazzling, Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, Review
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Profiles
There are some in creative enterprises who want the whole fame and riches thing. And then, there are others...
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Profiles
You probably remember the songs, ones like “Take the Long Way Home” and especially “Give a Little Bit." What you may forget, or may not have ever known, is the voice behind them.
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Profiles
David Darling, who will trade ideas with two other experts on play as part of Spirit & Place's Public Conversation, talks with us about music as a birthright.
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Live Music Reviews
Randy Blythe and co. prove exactly why they are the Kings of metal and no one's going to be taking their crown anytime soon.
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Street Team Blog
We had a great turn out to help us paint the town red at this past Thursday's Yelp event at the Mavris!
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Markets + Cooking
Jason Anderson, a student at The Chef's Academy, headed to IPS last month to whip up a tangy marinated veggie salad as part of the Chefs Move to Schools initiative.
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A Cultural Manifesto
Kyle Long spotlights the fresh and innovative sounds coming out of the South American music scene over the last year.
- by Kyle Long
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Tags: South America, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Meridian Brothers, Bomba Estereo, Bonde de Role, Ana Tijoux, Criolo, Ondatropica, Mati Zundel, Las Malas Amistades, Novalima, Baile Funk, Cumbia, Champeta, Audio, Feature, Feature
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Gadfly
Each week, NUVO illustrator Wayne Bertsch turns his keen comic eye to the news headlines ...
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Girl, in Transit
The 2012 election was a milestone in many regards, but Indiana public transit is still lagging behind.
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Barfly
No shame in loving this band.
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Hoppe
America may be divided, but that division has less to do with opposing ideas about how to solve the country's problems than it does with one side's trying to resist the momentum of history.
