INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Repertory Theatre’s (IRT) Executive Artistic Director, Janet Allen and Managing Director and COO, Suzanne Sweeney have announced  the company’s upcoming and powerful nine-play season. Productions will include F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ever-popular novel The Great Gatsby, IRT’s playwright-in-residence James Still’s world premiere of April 4, 1968, Indy’s beloved holiday tradition A Christmas Carol, Pulitzer […]

CROWN POINT — Dr. Cheryl Forberg, nutritionist and chef for NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” will be sharing insights on healthy eating and lifestyle habits during a presentation at the Franciscan Alliance Health and Wellness Expo on Saturday, May 2, at the Lake County Fairgrounds. The expo kicks off Indiana’s inaugural Biggest Loser RunWalk, which will

WEST LAFAYETTE — Charles Adler, co-founder of Kickstarter, an online platform for individuals to fund creative projects, will speak at 6:30 p.m. April 30 at the Anvil as part of the Forge Innovation Series, a speaking series that showcases Midwestern innovators and entrepreneurs. The Anvil, a community co-working space located at 320 North St., West

SOUTH BEND – Sounds by South Bend Music Festival (happening May 7-9) will host a very special SBSB Pre-Festival Preview Show on May 1, 2015 at The State Theater in conjunction with Downtown South Bend, Inc.’s First Fridays.  This concert features performances by strong female fronted bands including international touring act and harp folk rock

You’re Invited! This Memorial Day Weekend, downtown South Bend will transform into a massive Birthday Weekend Celebration, celebrating SB150 (our sesquicentennial), with 50,000 friends and neighbors! On May 22-24, 2015, visitors will experience food, kids’ activities, history, basketball, South Bend Cubs games, a zip line across the river, and plenty of music – including national performer

Thirteen NASCAR Sprint Cup teams are scheduled to test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Wednesday, April 29. Defending Crown Royal 400 at the Brickyard race winner Jeff Gordon and reigning Sprint Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick are among the drivers scheduled to attend. The test is open to the public at the south terrace

WEST LAFAYETTE — A professor at Purdue University who has studied the source of earthquakes in Nepal and other countries along the Tibetan Plateau says it is a very complex region influenced by powerful geologic forces. Lucy Flesch, an associate professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, uses GPS measurements of ground