Monthly Archives: August 2025

2025 Fringe Reviews

August 21, 2025 | by CJ Woods III

Two of the offerings from the 2025 Indy Fringe Festival will be available again at the end of this week. See “13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview,” presented by Carmel Indiana’s University High School. This lively play has two college recruiters interviewing high school seniors to fill the … Read More

Georgia Gianakos Buchanan Releases 5th Book at Age 99

August 21, 2025 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Georgia Gianakos Buchanan has just released her fifth book, Chasing The Stars: The Golden Age of Movies and TV…and Beyond, an illustrated memoir of her encounters — and, often, friendships — with many famous stars while serving as the TV-Radio and Movie Editor of The Indianapolis News in … Read More

Excluded and Unwelcome

August 21, 2025 | by Steven R. Barnett

Two hundred years ago, Indianapolis was a village where English, German, French, and native Lenape was spoken in the log cabins and among the trees of the dark forest. Eighty years later, a daily worker “Parade of All Nations” — Serbs and Syrians, Hungarians and Romanians, Irish and Germans, Lithuanians … Read More

Rhonda Hunter’s Cancer Journey

August 21, 2025 | by Al Hunter

Warning. This is a self-serving article about my hero (my wife, Rhonda) and her year-and-a-half-long cancer ordeal. During our 2023 Irvington ghost tour season, she discovered a bad spot on one of the toes on her left foot. The ring toe to be specific (the little piggy that got no … Read More

Everyday Awareness

August 21, 2025 | by CJ Woods III

“I meant to tell you,” said the woman standing next to me at the bar, “that I like your pool case.” The bar was Si Greene’s, and I was there to play pool. On that day, in addition to the pink pool case that I carry, I was also wearing … Read More