Archive for February, 2009
My lovely, talented, particular-bordering-on-obsessive wife plans and produces a damn fine event called the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange. Now in its third year, the Exchange caters to artists who put a contemporary twist on traditional crafting techniques. The 2008 fair was such a smash success that the host site, vendors, and patrons clamored for more. Much [...]
You wanna know why there aren’t more people involved in the legislative process? It’s boring. Really boring.
After waking up at an obscene hour to talk about Indy.com with a room full of public relations professionals at the Indiana History Center, I rushed to the Statehouse to make it to a Senate Pensions & Labor committee [...]
At first I chafed at the idea of the Indianapolis Star’s forced furloughs, but two beers into a Friday afternoon lunch at Spencer’s Stadium Tavern I was pretty ok with it. I had those beers with Clay Robinson, a professional beer brewer who worked at Rock Bottom Brewery from 1999 to 2002 and The Ram [...]
The Dockers rehearse in an immaculately kept basement filled with pop culture collectibles dating back to the ’60s and heavy on horror. The basement, like the band, is an adult’s take on a 16-year-old’s mindset and going into my Sunday afternoon visit with them I wondered how exactly I would shoot and edit a “safe [...]
Those turtle boys don't cut 'em no slack.
Josh Christopher is a nerd; unassuming, unapologetic, unconcerned with what people think. I was hired by a production company to interview Josh last week for a project related to the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. He doesn’t have the biggest collection of toys, comics, shirts, or [...]
Ernie Pyle, dog. And Ernie Pyle's dog.
On the recommendation of a co-worker, Indiana University professor Nancy Comiskey invited me to Ernie Pyle Hall in Bloomington to speak to her feature writing class about multimedia storytelling. I rarely feel like an adult but standing at the front of that class, dispensing career advice to men and [...]
Despite the well-publicized tribulations of the newspaper business, I enjoy my job day-to-day. I generally get to leave the building and interact with people, writing stories and shooting video for the web. Yesterday I visited two artist’s studios at the Stutz; today the Indianapolis Zoo and the University of Indianapolis’ jazz ensemble rehearsal.
I went to [...]
A friend clued me in to PeTA’s newest gimmick: underwriting Indiana trash pick-up in exchange for wrap ads that read, “Meat Trashes the Planet: Go Green – Go Vegetarian,” and feature what appears to be PeTA’s conception of a male resident of our state. While I agree with the premise, that factory farming is greatly [...]
