Archive for June, 2009

John Dillinger reached out from the grave and stole the last three weeks of my life. I traveled to Crown Point, I spent a day in Mooresville. I spent a full eight hours sifting through archived stories in the Star’s vertical file. I drove to Chicago for a press screening for “Public Enemies” only to [...]

Indianapolis is a small town and it’s my job to know what’s going on but I am always surprised by what slips by me. Today’s surprise was a double whammy because two people I know have done something really cool and neither of them told me about it. A while back two women I know [...]

National mixed martial arts promotion King of the Cage visits Indianapolis tonight and three guys from my gym are fighting on the card. Each of them is at a turning point in his career – one is on the verge of turning pro, one is waiting for fight with the national promotion he signed a [...]

“What do we do with these,” Johnny Depp asked, looking at the wireless microphone in his hand. Michael Mann, the producer and director of “Public Enemies,” had just given a short speech and introduced his co-producer and the film’s primary players in Depp, Christian Bale, and Marion Cotillard. With no clear conclusion, the group stood [...]

I spent yesterday in Mooresville, Ind. interviewing John Dillinger’s nephew Mike Thompson and his great-nephew Jeffrey Scalf, the owner of the Dillinger trademark. They had more stories than I have a use for but I thought this one was worth sharing. One morning in 1970, Mike heard a knock on the door when he was [...]

With just a few more bureaucratic hoops to jump through and a bit more construction, Sun King is almost ready to start production. The public’s first opportunity to sample Sun King recipes will be the Phoenix Theatre Brew Haha – the MECA homebrewer’s association will create pilot batches using Colt and Robinson’s recipes. If you [...]

Last month I learned that my creative output is subject to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Or simply put, if you run Taffy into the ground with work he has no energy to post amusing stories and commentary for the benefit of the 14 people who read this blog. May brought the re-branding of Indy.com to [...]