Indiana Blog Review

Mark Your Calendars

Jim at 11 AM Air Raid gives us the heads up that "Conner, along with locals Wolfy and More Animals of the Arctic, are hitting the Irving Theater this Saturday, October 7."

Indiana's Attraction for Comedy Central

Steph Mineart, "According to the Holiday World Blog, the Holiday World amusement park in southern Indiana will be featured on The Colbert Report in the next few weeks."

This, of course, follows The Daily Show's Dan Bakkedahl's visit to the Fort Wayne Roller Dome.

Midwest Music Summit

A complete review by Torpor Indy's music correspondent, The Kid.

Ghosts

Jim Chalex at IndyScribe gives  a great review to Historic Indiana Ghost Walk and Tours.

At it Again

Torpor Indy's The Kid has more on local music.

Hard Rock

stAllio! has a review of the recent Nine Inch Nails concert at Deer Creek.

Happy Trails and Otherwise

Doug Masson has a roundup of links to sources, primary and beyond, on the latest grants to greenways in Indiana.

Leo Morris sees the ominous hand of eminent domain.

Stil Ugly?

Torpor Indy's music correspondant The Kid has a review of Aberdeen City, Exra Furman and the Harpoons, and the new Ugly Monkey.

Casino Royale

Advance Indiana looks deeply into the lawsuit between Cook Group and Lauth over the French Lick casino.

Then Something

Torpor Indy's music editor The Kid interviews Muncie-based band "If Anything."

Lintel Soup

Brent Mundy reviews Underneath the Lintel at IRT.

(I fully support venues offering blogger-reviewers tickets.)

Your Attention Please

Torpor Indy introduces a debut column by new music editor, The Kid: a review of Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos.

Hopefully on a Kno-zone Action Day

IndyScribe informs us of the Bike IN at White River State Park May 20-21.  I'm a big fan of the Indy Parks Greenways, myself.

Gosh!

Did you know there's an independent movie about a guy forced to move back in with his parents . . . in Goshen, Indiana?  FWOb and Indy Scribe on Lonesome Jim.

Movie review: The Chronicles of Narnia

In the Agora reviews Disney's adaptation of the C.S. Lewis classic, The Chronicles of Narnia:

Narnia failed to impress. Although the talking-animal technology is decent, the Disney production is just that - a Disney movie made for children. The plot is painfully deliberate, rather than freely flowing (as it was written), and the humor and dialogue appears blatantly forced and contrived.

The difference between Lennon and McCartney

Paul Musgrave compares and contrasts the differences between John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's contributions to Christmas songs.

The anniversary of John Lennon's assassination in 1980 is tomorrow.  I write about my experience hearing about Lennon's death on that terrible day in my blog Random Chaos.

Bird's Eye View

Indiana Law Blog points out this shot of the NW Indiana lakeshore looking toward Chicago, from the Munster (Northwest Indiana) Times.

MORE: Deliberate Chaos posts a satellite photo of the shoreline from GoogleMaps.