Monthly Archives: December 2024

Applause!: Dec. 6-12

December 5, 2024 | by Weekly View

• Safe Park Indy is working on opening another parking facility for individuals living in their cars due to a big waitlist. Plans call for another to open in January next year on the north side. If you would like to donate to this initiative (the only one in Indiana), … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Dec. 6-12

December 5, 2024 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, December 7, 1924: Cool temperatures and damp streets did not keep Ku Klux Klan members from parading through downtown streets last night. Observers estimated 1,660 (Klan leaders claim 4,000) persons clad in robes and hoods tramped three abreast from the Pennsylvania Railroad Park at Hamilton … Read More

Irvington’s Disney Prince — Bill Shirley

December 5, 2024 | by Al Hunter

Al Hunter is on vacation. This is a reprint of an article he wrote in 2008. During the World War II years on through the I Like Ike years in America, Irvington had it’s own representative in Tinseltown. Irvingtonian Bill Shirley made fifteen movies starting in 1941 starring with Hollywood … Read More

Change Comes

December 5, 2024 | by CJ Woods III

The singer/songwriter Benard Ighner (1945-2017) wrote a song called “Everything Must Change,” which was featured on Quincy Jones’ 1974 album, “Body Heat.” I remember hearing Ighner’s voice that year, when my first child was 2 years old, and I sang the song early and often to the two women of … Read More