Monthly Archives: August 2024

ARTI Awards Announced

August 15, 2024 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indy Arts Council has announced the 2024 ARTI Award winners and performers ahead of its annual Start with Art sold out event on Thursday, August 22 from 3-5 p.m. at the Indiana Roof Ballroom. Since 1987, Start with Art has kicked off the fall arts season in … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 16-22

August 15, 2024 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, August 21, 1924: The city board of public works awarded contracts for the remodeling of the City Market with the main objective of improving its sanitation. The old floor of the market building will be torn out and a new cement floor with proper drainage … Read More

Signs of the Times

August 15, 2024 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

This column first appeared in Sept. 2011. School’s in session . . . take it slow . . . let our little shaver grow . . . Burma Shave. The back roads of America once served as the platform for one of the most successful advertising campaigns of the 20th … Read More

Reggie Harding & The Supremes

August 15, 2024 | by Al Hunter

Detroit 7’0″ high school phenom Reggie Harding had a brief, but hauntingly promising, stint with our Pacers fifty years ago during the team’s first season in the upstart ABA. He had recently been cut loose by the Chicago Bulls after just 14 games into that milestone season of 1967-68. Harding … Read More

The Bottle Farm

August 15, 2024 | by CJ Woods III

On my way from home and toward the Irvington Presbyterian Church, I passed a house at the corner of Lowell and Layman Streets. In my 1.2 mile walk to the place where I practiced singing in preparation for a choral performance with Harmony Collected, an arts group affiliated with the … Read More