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ON THE WEBColumnist Jordan Fischer answers a reader’s question about terminology when making compari-sons. Fischer writes that the choice of “from,” “to” or “than” following “different” in comparisons is largely one of personal preference – albeit one influenced by national-ity.To read more visit currentinfishers.com
Jason Reitman’s “Men, Women & Children” is a noble ef-fort but not a successful film. It’s worth a look on video, because there are a few moments of quiet power in its ensemble cast and intersecting storylines. Other sections, though, wander. To read more, visit currentnightandday.com
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As a way to keep his mind active, col-umnist Mike Redmond has recently undertak-en the home study of a new language. Well, new to him, anyway. He is trying to learn Italian so that he may add it to the languag-es he already speaks so poorly – French, Russian, German, Spanish and Pennsylvania Dutch – that when he tries to use them, native speak-ers beg him to return to English. To read more, visit currentinfishers.com
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This week, Don Knebel writes about the Topkapı Palace, the most visited spot in Istanbul. One of the reasons for this popularity is its claim to house an unrivaled collection of an-cient religious treasures important to Jews, Christians and Muslims. To read more visit currentinfishers.com
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DISPATCHESFishers Parks & Recreation awarded – The Indiana Parks and Recreation Asso-ciation (IPRA) has selected Fishers Parks & Recreation as the 2014 recipient of an Award of Excellence for the Nickel Plate Amphitheater Art Series. Fishers Parks & Recreation strives to host diverse community events that recognize local talent in Fishers. Alongside Fishers Parks & Recreation, Judge Dan Henke was se-lected as the recipient of the Elected Offi-cial Award recognizing an outstanding elected official who has enhanced parks and recreation in the community. Fish-ers Parks & Recreation’s Advisory Board President, Cindy Davis, will be presented the Award of Excellence recognizing an outstanding citizen board member who has enhanced parks and recreation in the community. All three awards will be presented on Jan. 15 at the IPRA’s Annual Awards of Excellence Banquet.
4-H enrollment deadline – 4-H enroll-ment for the 2015 year will soon end. In 4-H, youth develop leadership and citi-zenship skills by participating in one of nearly 40 organized 4-H Clubs. Subjects include: science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); agriculture; citizenship; healthy living; art; consumer and family sciences; and more. Enroll online by Jan. 15 at https://in.4honline.com or by visit-ing the Hamilton County Purdue Exten-sion office, Noblesville from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. The $25 fee per child includes all Indiana 4-H program fees. For more information, visit www.extension.purdue.edu/Hamilton and click on the youth tab.
HCLA partnerships luncheon – The Ham-ilton County Leadership Academy invites you to Workforce Development through Service and Partnerships: What is Your Role? Featuring Governor Mike Pence and a panel of Hamilton County leaders who are already successfully partnering with the education and nonprofit sectors, the luncheon event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at The Mansion at Oak Hill. Cost is $35 and includes lunch and two follow-up brown bag lunches on Feb. 19 and March 19, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Fishers Library. More information will be given at the luncheon. Register online at www.hcla.net by Jan. 15.
We used to do canning here
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Many of us are fortunate to have a convenient stock of store-bought canned foods on the shelves during
the cold days of winter. For an even more fortunate few, the resurgence in popularity of home canning allows
some industrious suburban homesteaders to enjoy their summer garden vegetables in January. Just over a hundred years ago, Fishers was a commercial producer of canned vegetables, especially tomatoes that were the fruits of labor of the local farmers.
The Fishers Canning factory opened in 1912 at the end of South Street by the railroad tracks. A long wooden-sided warehouse with open windows to let the heat of the late summer canning process escape, its location near the Fishers station allowed for swift rail transport of its products, as well as easy receipt of tin cans from such companies as the American Tin Plate Company in Chicago and the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company in Elwood. Elwood incidentally remains involved in the canning business to this day as home to the main processing plant for Red Gold Tomatoes.
The enterprising days of the Fishers Canning factory were few. The factory was defunct by the end of 1915. While in operation, it employed over 20 workers, most of whom were women. It took its place among a myriad of local canneries that opened in small towns across America at the turn of the century.
The rise of the local cannery can be attributed to a number of factors, stretching back to the Civil War when there was a great need for non-per-ishable canned foods for soldiers. The industrial canning process had been introduced to the U.S. in 1812 in New York by Robert Ayars, who popular-ized the use of tin-plated wrought iron cans rather than glass for food storage. War and industrialization increased canning production, but it was the 1904 widespread implementation of the double-seam tin can that lead to a boom in canning factories. The double-seam tin can elimi-nated the need for solder when sealing the ends of the can, which increased manufacturing speed, reduced cost, and made a local cannery a potentially lucrative business venture with a cheap supply of tin cans.
Numerous towns surrounding Fishers had local can-neries by 1915, including Indianapolis, Noblesville, Atlanta, Carmel, Westfield, Tipton, Fortville, Pendleton, Lapel and Anderson. Women comprised the majority of employees
in part because food preparation was considered women’s work and because of the seasonal nature of the industry. The bulk of the can-ning work was completed after the spring and summer harvests. WWI and the Progressive Era further spurred canning production and the regulation of factory conditions re-spectively, and inspired the humani-tarian work of local women’s clubs. A notice in the June 10 edition of the 1922 Carmel Standard newspaper states that the women’s group of the Carmel Friends Church worked for a day at the Westfield Canning Company, donating their earnings to the church.
Review of the 1915 Annual Re-port of the Indiana State Board of
Health is noteworthy for its lengthy sections on Sanitary Food Laws and Indiana canneries. The Board of Health inspected 159 existing canning factories in 1915, down from 241 in 1914 in its effort to regulate sanitary condi-tions. The Fishers Canning factory was not included on the list of canneries by 1915. The Annual Report acknowl-edged that the past season had been a difficult one for the industry. A saturated market and a poor growing season meant the end of the Fishers Canning factory.
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The local Girls on the Run council is set to begin spring sessions for girls in grades three to eight.
GOTR is an international organiza-tion with a central Indiana council that serves Hamilton County and
the aim is to instill confidence through physical activity and interactive lessons.
“We harness the power of move-ment, and that can be running, walking, etc., and we teach the girls life skills so they are ready for adolescence,” said Kelley Stokesbary, Council Director for Girls on the Run Central Indiana.
GOTR Central Indiana partners with several schools in Fishers including Hoosier Road, Sand Creek and Lantern Road Elementaries as well as Riverside Intermediate and Riverside Junior High. GOTR also works with Orchard Park Presbyterian church in Carmel. Girls usually attend meetings twice a week at their home schools or at Orchard Park.
“We try to get the girls to conceptualize the effects of their actions,” said Stokesbary. “One activity is for the girls to sit in a circle and one
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girl has a ball of string. She holds the string and tosses the ball to another girl in the circle and it’s tossed around until the ball is gone. Someone pulls on the string and it becomes a messy web. It’s a way to conceptualize gossip and to see how it affects everyone.”
Meetings usually consist of a lesson from the GOTR curriculum, followed by a physical activity and
then discussion. Adult volunteer coaches run the sessions and GOTR requires that at least two coaches be present at each session. Some of the coaches are teach-ers and some are community volunteers.
Registration for the spring sessions opens on January 24; most of the ses-sions will start the week of February 23 and the 5k race will be held on May 9 at
the Saxony development in Fishers. Anyone wish-ing to register, help with the race or to volunteer as a program coach should visit http://gotrci.org.
Stokesbary described what she sees as the biggest benefits to Girls on the Run. “Definitely there is a boost in self-confidence. The age range we work with can be a rough period in girls’ lives and to be able to give them a booster shot of confidence and empowerment is a big plus.”
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With his Chicago roots, Bob Jaeger wanted to bring authentic deep-deep dish pizza and Italian
beef to Indianapolis.He did so with South
of Chicago Pizza & Beef to Indianapolis (619 Virginia Ave.) three years ago. Last year, Jaeger and Phil Lothamer brought the concept to Fishers. Lothamer is the majority owner of both restaurants and Jaeger serves as founder and a co-owner.
South of Chicago Pizza & Beef will mark its first anniversary at 13578 East 131st St., on Jan. 28. The restaurant is in the Saxony mixed-use development off Olio Road.
“Our pizza is definitely by far and away the best pizza in Indy,” said Tony Panepinto, a No-blesville resident who is general manager of the Fishers restaurant.
Fishers was the perfect place for the second South of Chicago Pizza & Beef, Panepinto said.
“We’re doing phenomenal business,” Panepinto said. “Fishers is growing and the economical development plan for this area is huge to of-fer Chicago style Italian beef and pizza. The town of Fishers and the community have been wonderful.”
Panepinto is familiar with Chicago specialities as he grew up in Northwest Indiana.
The restaurant offers a full bar and a selection of craft beers. Panepinto said there are plans for
Authentic Chicago fare in Saxony
some specials to mark its first anniversary but nothing is set yet.
There is buffet, featuring thin and deep dish pizza, on Monday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is $10.50, including tax and a drink.
The Gonnella French bread the restaurant uses is shipped from Chicago daily.
“Most of our ingredients originate from Chi-cago as well,” Panepinto said.
The Indianapolis restaurant is on 619 Virginia Ave.
Panepinto was in the restaurant business in college and was working in construction man-agement before taking the South of Chicago job.
The restaurant is open from Sunday to Thurs-day from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. The bar is open until mid-night through the week and 1 a.m. on weekends.
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Tony Panepinto, general manager, shows off a pizza. (Photo by Beth Taylor)
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Commentary by Mike Colaw
All right, I know Christmas is over, but this one has been tough. A friend of ours passed
away on Christmas day. It was a day of laughter and joy in the morn-ing as the kids opened presents,
followed by tears in the afternoon. Then the age-old question always seems to reemerge…why? Why does life work this way?
After years of education I can honestly say I still don’t really know why. The more I learn the more I realize I am truly finite, limited and small. I have, however, observed these two things watching quite a few families struggle with death.
First, there is a big difference in how people grieve if they believe all that is and ever will be is in this material world as opposed to those who truly believe there is more. I use the word “truly” on purpose. There are many who call themselves Christian, but aren’t really follow-ers of Jesus. The ones who truly, deeply believe often have less regret, incredible hope and cope much better with the passing of their loved one.
Second, relationships matter the most when life begins to slip away. I’ve never heard some-one say, “I wish I would have bought more cars” or “I wish I would have opted for the iPhone
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6 plus, instead of just the iPhone 6.” Material things are almost always minimized during the final stages of someone’s life. Relationships consume most conversations, either a desire to strengthen them or regret because they wish they would have given them more priority.
This Christmas may have been filled with tears, but it wasn’t really sad. The family had such a deep faith, and the father and husband who passed away worked so hard to live a life filled with Christ-like love, that honor and legacy seeped out of every story. Do I understand ex-actly why life has to work this way? No, I don’t. Do I fully believe that faith in Jesus can make an incredible difference in how life and even death is dealt with? Absolutely, yes.
Dr. John Piper says it like this. “There will be a serenity beneath the eye and care of God that surpasses anything we have known here on the softest summer evening by the most peace-ful lake at our most happy moments.” That sounds mighty nice. I personally may not un-derstand why life works this way, but I like the benefits of believing in the one who does.
Mike Colaw is the director of minis-tries at Trinity Church. You may e-mail him at justthink@ luke117.com. Visit his Web sites www.trinitywes-leyan.com or www. luke117.com
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Four kid-friendly sledding destinations are close to Fishers residents. Families can bundle
up and bring sleds and to-boggans for local winter fun.
Heritage Park at White River at 10595 Eller Rd., Fishers
Heritage Park has a gentle slope. Drive until the road ends in a parking lot at the top of the hill. Restrooms are available.
Cool Creek Park at 2000 E. 151st St., CarmelCool Creek Park has four sledding spots from
which to choose. After you arrive at the park, turn left and drive until you reach the parking lot
where you will be able to see the hill. The first spot is just a short walk from a wooden bridge over the creek at the bottom of this hill. The sec-ond spot is on the other side of a thin tree line. It is an ideal place for little ones because it has a good incline and plenty of room at the bottom to stop. Opposite of these are two steeper spots.
Fort Harrison State Park at 6000 N. Post Rd., Indianapolis
The sledding hill at Fort Harrison is one of the largest hills in the area. There is an entrance fee of $5 per car. Go to the park entrance at Post Rd. and 59th Street and drive up Shafter Road. Park-ing will be north of the hill. Public restrooms are at the end of the road.
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minutes with John Brass
By David Nance
Meet John Brass, rental manager of the Fishers Do-It Center.
What is your favorite restaurant here in Fishers?“The Stacked Pickle, usually for their hamburg-ers. I go there three or four times a week.”
What local events capture your attention?“We have our annual Customer Appreciation Dinner or Lunch that we have here at the store. It’s usually in September. Every Novem-
ber we have our Christmas Showcase here in the store.”
If you could travel any-where in the world, where would you go and why?
“I’d probably go to Montana just to go hiking. No lodge, just a tent, whatever I can carry on my back and whatever I can find.”
Five Minutes With is a recurring feature of Current in Fish-ers. If you or someone you know would like to be featured, please e-mail [email protected].
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The Eye 4 Group takes a four-pronged ap-proach to meeting clients’ needs for the design
and fabrication of signs and customized branding solutions. The extensive
line of products and services Eye 4 Group offers serve to increase brand visibility for clients.
The number 4 has significance—it represents the four components of the business. The group has an eye for design, metal fabrication, signage and project management while four core team members make up the management team.
“With our combined experience, we wanted to offer a different method of taking care of our customers. We can work with an existing brand, or we can create a new brand identity and design and fabricate marketing pieces, ranging from businesses cards and car and wall stickers to metal signage here on our premises,” said Eye 4 Group’s CEO, J.R. Knight.
After scouting business locations for three months, the Fishers location quickly became the stand-out. “We liked that the town was becom-ing a city and growing as we were growing. The location provided access for our clients, which was primary, and being close to the Fishers downtown, the Fishers Marketplace development and close to I-69 helped us choose this location,” said Knight, a Noblesville resident.
The start-up company needed a specific build-ing with plenty of space for growth.
“The location needed to have a combination of docks and drive-in doors for our trucks, as well as a nice store front, which can be a challenge to find,” said Eye 4 Group’s COO, Kyle Leis. Leis leads the fabrication of the metal signage.
“Originally, we thought that we wanted to stay under 10,000 square feet. When we saw this
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Location and motivated staff help Eye 4 Group double
first-year sales projections
location that had 15,000 square feet, we took a leap of faith. The owner of the property worked with us, and as soon as we landed this space, the facility was full of projects,” said Knight.
Since opening in January of 2014, the com-pany has quickly doubled its first-year sales estimates.
When business partners Knight and Leis started their business plan for Eye 4 Group, they knew they wanted to implement an employee-friendly business model. “Right out of the gate, we set up a benefit plan to include retirement, flexible vacation, time off and a fitness program. It was important to instill this framework up front,” said Knight.
“Companies that don’t focus on employees get
stale, and they aren’t enticing to qualified em-ployees. We wanted to be a cool place to work,” said Leis.
Eye 4 Group enjoys taking projects that are outside the scope of functional design. “We’ve had clients come to us with a loose concept, and it’s been amazing to watch Cheryl, our designer, and Kyle bring a project to life,” said Knight. One customer wanted an elaborate wall-mounted structure to enhance a room design. The Eye 4 Group achieved a visual appealing, sustainable display. “It’s the fun version of engineering,” said Leis, who formerly owned a metal fabrication business.
“What I love about our business is that no two projects are the same, and the reaction we get
from our clients when a project is complete is very gratifying,” said Knight.
Eye 4 Group has plans for steady growth. “We look forward to offering jobs to the community, as we focus on achieving 30 percent growth per year in the next five years,” said Leis. “We want to set our goals high and continue to build local as well as national accounts.” Eye 4 Group will grow each facet of the company in 2015.
Knight believes that having the four compo-nents of the business will keep the company strong. “If we have a year of growth in design work, we will focus on that work while obtaining projects in our other areas,” he said.
“We want to be the household name in Fishers as the solution-based company in the design and fabrication field. If I can’t create a solution, I can find someone for you who can. We’re not afraid to share work with other small businesses,” said Leis.
The Eye 4 Group is located at 13095 Parkside Dr. For more information, visit www.eye4group.com
Kyle Leis and J.R. Knight design and create marketing pieces. (Photo by Beth Taylor)
Honeycomb wall-mounted design at a student housing complex in Bloomington. (Submitted photo)
Tom Wood signage project (Submitted photo)
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between employer expectations of manner, cre-ative thinking and collaboration.
In fact, a 2013 survey of 500 top US executives cited a gap of soft skills as twice as important as technical ability. Leadership and computer ability combined made up the remaining 25 per-cent of the concern. Is it more difficult to teach someone to keep their elbows off the table or chemistry? The comparison is simplistic; but it manifests a fundamental truth. In failing to in-culcate social order across all communities, we may be unintentionally perpetuating isolation, segregation and unemployment.
Kudos to HCLA for creating this opportunity for regional discussion (to attend, visit www.hcla.net). The Brits may be right when they urge us to “mind the gap.” A misstep now could be fatal.
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Commentary by Terry Anker
Our British English language progenitors are often despaired by our misuse of the words they’ve given us. To be sure, we’ve taken some of the aristocratic air off of the mother-lounge; but in fairness, we’ve also managed to incorpo-rate dozens of new words, ideas and languages and made what could have died with the sun-set of the Empire into a living and vibrant lexicon. In London, one rides a lift, rents a flat, and minds the gap – while we colonials take an elevator, lease an apartment and watch our step.
Over lunch on Jan. 22 at Oak Hill Mansion in Carmel, Gov. Mike Pence with a panel of busi-ness and community leaders aim to address the “skills” gap. Inspired by the event invite and amused by how our linguistic forbearers might have interpreted the couplet, I undertook to better understand the phrase. The “gap” refers to the space between skills required for a job and the skills possessed by the would-be job-seeker; but it also indicates a significant breach
Mind the gap
Terry Anker is an associate editor of Current Publishing, LLC. You may e-mail him at [email protected].
Sometimes it’s really difficult to let go. When we founded our enterprise back in 2006 we had one newspaper, and every ounce of our focus went directly into it. Now, eight-plus years later and on the brink of launching Cur-rent in Geist, our sixth title, on Jan. 27, we ac-tually have let go, in a sense. As we continue to grow our company – and we will add titles well beyond Central Indiana – we’re not nearly as immersed in the news and information the papers convey on a weekly basis or that our web sites do “as news happens.” Our time is fairly fractured, and we are pulled in several directions; that’s actually progress. And so we have relinquished control of the content man-agement of all titles to Sophie Pappas, who now is our editorial director. All the managing editors will report to her –a drastic departure for us – because it just makes good sense. Sophie came to us last year, having moved back to Zionsville from Iraq, where she was a freelance reporter for multiple media orga-nizations. An Indiana University graduate, her experience is deep, given her relative youth, and she has distinguished herself at Current in multiple ways as a managing editor of one title and eventually two. In coming around to this decision, we had some give and take with Sophie about where we saw the news orga-nization going, and her vision aligned perfectly with ours. She is a believer in research, which, as you might know, powers our content deci-sions and has since Day 1. She is as organized as they come, she in inventive and she is a solid leader. Having her at the helm allows us to focus on revenue and growth strategies. We have high confidence in her abilities to take our products to the proverbial “next level.” So-phie will want to hear from you, so send your comments, tips, ideas and otherwise pertinent information to her at [email protected]. You’ll find her virtual door to always be open. Young lady, the wheel is yours.
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You
too? I thought I was the only one’. – C.S. Lewis
B E L I E v E I T !Our nation has all sorts of arcane, nonsensical laws on the books. Each week, we’ll share one with you. In Ohio, if you ignore an orator on Deco-ration day to such an extent as to publicly play croquet or pitch horseshoes within one mile of the speaker’s stand, you can be fined $25.
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Left behindCommentary by Danielle Wilson
My husband Doo is really annoying me right now. He’s planning his third (or maybe fourth; I’ve lost track) ski trip in as many weeks while completly ignoring my panicked pleas to cease and desist. Do men simply not get how tough it is to be left alone, nay abandoned, with kids during the winter months? Does he not under-stand that for every night he is gone I’ll morph into a strung-out single mom battling home-work and volleyball practice and most likely an illness or two? Why does Doo put me through this Every. Single. JANUARY!
And of course, I can never remember to just let him play out his fantasies. Instead, I release my inner Kraken with all the reasons he simply must not go: “We can’t afford it.” “Who will put Maddie on the bus?” “Presidents Day is a ridiculous time to ski; crowds and ticket prices skyrocket.” “But you already have two trips planned!” “Waa, waa, waa!”
As you might imagine, my litany of nega-tions never goes over well. In fact, it generally has the opposite effect, making Doo more determined than ever to have his way. Case in point, he’s currently adding March dates to his snow sabbatical. “Quit raining on my parade!” he growls.
He may have a point. My bitter old ninny routine does dash a few hopes. But Doo is so myopic when it comes to scheduling fun that I feel compelled to provide clarity. He doesn’t consider childcare, carpool logistics, kenneling, money, really anything that goes into prepar-ing for his jetting off to Breckinridge and leav-ing me at home. And even though I’m confident he’ll eventually face the facts- that a couple of weekends is more than enough to placate his Rocky Mountain yearning- I’d just like to have him validate my concerns before stomping off to sulk in the corner. Or better yet, approach the conversation with “I know I’ve been work-ing a lot, but I’d really like to spend some time with [insert male friend]” and “I understand it will be a pain for you managing everything while I’m gone, but skiing is my passion.”
Unfortunately, so is boating and hunting. He goes through the same neurosis at the begin-ning of each summer and fall as a new season beckons: “Two months in the Bahamas!” “Eight weekends hunting!” “I love being independently wealthy with no kids!” Alas, it’s usually not until after I’m all lathered up that he returns to this world. I need to remember that I married Doo because he’s a dreamer and because he challenges me to step outside my perfectly practical cube of a box. I just wish it didn’t happen every January.
Peace out.
Danielle Wilson is a contributing columnist. You may e-mail her at [email protected].
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Diavolo: “Architecture In Motion” – Brace yourself for a full-throttle evening of entertain-
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feats of world champion stunt performers, gymnasts and martial artists at 8 p.m. Jan. 16 and 17 at The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts, 3 Center Green. Thrilling and playful, Diavolo creates a powerful and pro-vocative production that will amaze you. In-ternationally renowned for the unique way in which they reinvent dance, re-imagine theatre and redefine thrills, Diavolo takes movement, athletics and daring to the extreme, creating abstract narratives about the human experi-ence using surreal architectural set pieces. For more information, call 843-3800 or visit www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org.
Winnie the Pooh Day – Guests can enjoy a variety of games inside and outdoors to
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Art exhibit – The latest exhibit, “Collaboration: painters, poets, playwrights, singers, song-
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If I Stay – The Westfield Washington Public Library, 333 W. Hoover St., will screen its next
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Tania Castroverde Moskalenko, president and chief executive officer for The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, admitted she has a
wish list.“I absolutely love Leonard
Cohen and I would love to pres-ent Leonard Cohen,” she said. “I’d love to present Santana and Dolly Parton. There are many rea-sons why that may or may not happen.”
Moskalenko said those would be three artists she would love to present that she hasn’t had the opportunity to do so yet.
Moskalenko, who started her job in August 2012, shared with Current some thoughts on what she has observed during her first tenure.
What performers have resonated most with the Paladium audiences?
“As a non-profit, mission-driven organization our goal is to provide a variety of offerings to the community. Now the most popular, and we measure that of course by ticket sales and attendance, is the country series and the songbook series. Those are the strongest genres so to speak. However, we have differ-ent performers that do quite well. So when we have ‘80s rock or early ’90s rock artists they sell quite well.”
Are most of those country and Songbook performances sold out?
“We do live in a culture that is very celebrity-driven. The sellouts are always going to be the artists who have very high visibility. For example, Tony Bennett was a sellout. Willie Nelson was a sellout. The artists who have attainted celebrity status sell out. Even in the classical music genre, where we present someone like Yoyo Ma. He’s a cellist who has achieved celebrity status worldwide. When we present Yoyo Ma, we know we’re going to sell out the hall. In the spring (April 26) we are presenting Itzhak Perlman, who has also reached celebrity status and we’ll sell out the hall. Then you present a performer who may not have that visibility in any genre whether it’s country, classical or jazz, and it’s more of a challenge to sell out the hall. As a mission-driven organization, we believe that strength-ening our programing is not just presenting high-visibility or celebrity-status artists but it’s also to push the envelope in introducing new artists and introducing artists we know will not sell out the hall. But we also know it will introduce our community to new music or art forms. It’s very important we remain innova-tive in that way and we give artists the oppor-tunity to present their work to Central Indiana. While the finances are very important, it’s not
the only scorecard to measure success.”
Is there any genre that doesn’t connect with the Center’s audiences?
“Contemporary dance is not something that the masses are attracted to. It’s important to present movement but it’s also a challenge. For me, it’s one of the exciting things to present.”
Is there a timetable for announcement of the 2015-16 lineup and will it be a similar mix?
“We expect to make our lineup announcement in late spring. We’ll present some big names and at the same time we’ll present new art-ists. At the same time, we’ll present artists that appeal to a younger generation. I think the mix will be the same. We hope to have increased performances, especially since it’s our fifth anniversary (the Paladium opened in January 2011). We’ve moved our annual fund-raising gala and Great American Songbook Hall of Fame to October. The past few years it’s (the gala) been in June. We moved it to Octo-
ber so we can kick off our fifth anniversary in a big way.”
Do you have personal favorite?“I have lots of favorites. I love attending clas-sical music at the Paladium. The acrostics are perfect for classical musical. It’s a wonderful experience to sit in the Paladium and listen to an orchestra play music. It’s really unequalled.”
What’s the best part of your job?“When the performances are going on, the best part of my job is to look at the faces of our patrons because the experience of enjoy-ing music is everything from ecstatic to joy to happiness. Sometimes it’s a transformational experience and you see it depending on the type of music. Unless I’m out of town, I’m at the Paladium for every show. I see people’s faces and the experiences they have with family and friends. At the end of the day, that is why I do what I do is to be able to provide those moments of inspiration and transforma-tion to our community and the people that come to the concert.”
Palladium CEO reflects on her first two years
Tania Castroverde Moskalenko, president and chief executive officer for The Center for the Performing Arts. (File photo)
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The Center Presents: Diavolo: “Architecture in Motion” • The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts hosts this amazing production which includes breathtaking dance and graceful stunt performers, gymnasts and martial artists. • 3 Center Green, Carmel • Tonight at 8 p.m.; Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. • Tickets start at $15. • Call 843-3800 for tick-ets. • www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org
Winter Nights Film Series at the Indianapolis Museum of Art • The IMA offers an escape from the cold and the chance to view classic films on the big screen. Tonight’s movie is “Spirited Away” (2001). • 4000 Michigan Rd., Indianapolis • Tonight at 8 p.m. • Tickets $9, $6 for members and students. • 923-1331 • www.imamuseum.org
Hopwood Cellars to enjoy award-winning wines that are made from Midwestern grapes and stay to listen to live music from Acoustic Catfish. • 12 E. Cedar St., Zionsville • Tonight from 8 – 10 p.m. • Free • 873-4099. • www.hopwoodcellars.com
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Down1. Epitome of simplicity2. Freeloader3. Symbol of mourning4. Rewards for waiting tables at O’Charley’s5. Terre Haute coll.6. Nabisco cookies from Marsh7. Indiana farm fence features8. Marengo Cave sound effect9. Noblesville Common Council roll-call vote10. Selfish sort11. Owner of a stud farm12. Common Indiana National Guard address13. Carmel Dads Club members18. Mellencamp song: “No Better Than ___”19. Family group23. Ruth’s Chris menu phrase24. Mister at the Rathskeller Restaurant25. Indiana town with a military academy26. Island strings27. Type of Zionsville HS rally29. 2nd year student at WHS30. WTHR anchor Stehr33. Name on an Indy golf course, tavern, restaurant and park34. Financial institution on N. Meridian St. for school personnel: Abbr.35. “Hey...over here!”37. Cable TV award won by Peyton Manning38. Ingersoll’s partner39. Cafe Patachou sandwich, for short40. Cartoonist Jim Davis’ summer sign41. Lacking purpose44. Indiana Roof Ballroom galas45. Carry out, as a law46. Former Colts coach Marchibroda48. Hoosier Park horse color49. Sagamore Institute think tank nugget51. Hoosier Forest nut tree52. Synthetic silk53. Increased56. White River fisherman’s whopper?57. Shideler Dermatology Group concern58. Clock standard, 4 hrs. ahead of EDT59. ___ de Janeiro60. FHS girl’s close chum, briefly61. Conseco’s new name, initially62. Carmel Racquet Club match part
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