Monthly Archives: January 2023

Clerical Error Productions Brings Beckett to District Theatre

January 26, 2023 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The pandemic has exposed all of us to the unique demands of confinement on body, mind, and relationships. In 1961, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett dramatized the confinement of one woman tethered to the earth in the tragicomedy Happy Days. Clerical Error Productions will be bringing the play, a … Read More

Neighborhood Poetry

January 26, 2023 | by CJ Woods III

On January 12th of this new year, one of the members of the neighborhood community page to which I belong started a trend on the social media site. She challenged the other members of the page to help dispel the winter blahs by writing a haiku. (Editor’s note: a haiku … Read More

100 Years Ago: Jan. 27-Feb. 3

January 26, 2023 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, January 29, 1923: Spring isn’t here yet, but marble games are, and that’s a sure sign nice warm weather isn’t very far away. There’s something that gets in a kid’s blood along about this time of year, and there is just one way to get … Read More

A Stitch in Time

January 26, 2023 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

This column first appeared in February 2012. People often ask me the most common item that I find as I travel through Indianan helping people sell their antiques. There are several things that come to mind. Quilts and sets of Grandma’s china would definitely be on the list, as would … Read More

Wendell Ladner The ABA’s Brawling Burt Reynolds, Part 2

January 26, 2023 | by Al Hunter

I grew up a gym rat. I’ve mentioned before how my parents used to take me down to the Fairgrounds, drop me off at the player entrance at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum and leave me there for an hour or so while they traveled over to the TeePee Restaurant for … Read More