Monthly Archives: March 2013

Wins for Walker Career Center

INDIANAPOLIS — Students from Walker Career Center had a great showing at the annual Indiana Association of School Broadcasters competition. There were 25 schools competing in 24 different competitions. In Radio, senior, Peter Hood, won 3rd place in the Play by Play contest. His submission was based upon a Warren … Read More

Other Realities

On the last day of February, we saw the first harbinger of spring, a robin. Also, we were pleased when a pair of blue jays arrived to steal Squirrelie’s peanuts. During the West Nile epidemic, our jays disappeared, and we missed them. “Jay, jay, jay!” they shrieked when we raised … Read More

Twelfth Night at Wheeler Arts Community Theatre

INDIANANPOLIS — Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night or What You Will was written around 1600 and has been adapted numerous times from stage to film, television, and radio since the first known performance on February 2, 1602 at Middle Temple Hall in London on Candlemas (the Christian holiday celebrating the presentation … Read More

Blastoff!

A close encounter with NASA last week revealed an agency slowly but successfully transitioning to a leaner, science- and exploration-oriented entity. NASA seems to have shaken off its vulnerability to poor decisions made for them by political manipulation, and seems more resistant to budget-devouring black hole projects of the past. … Read More

Maple Syrup Road Trip

A reader sent an e-mail to the Creative Director of this paper and she forwarded it to me. Steve Meneely had read my “Road Trip” column and suggested that someone might take another trip to what he described as “the (only) national maple syrup festival.” So I did. The National … Read More