Colts Kickoff Celebration: The best pre-game show you've ever seen. Art vs. Art: Truly smashing works. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Opening Gala: Hoosier Angela Brown returns from the Met. Penrod Art Fair: "Indianapolis' nicest day?" Maybe. The IMA's most crowded? Definitely. Gennett Records Walk of Fame: Celebrating Richmond's record-setting record company. This Week's Contest: Not only can you land a season pass to Theatre on the Square, you can get your name permanently attached to a seat.
Colts Kickoff Celebration, Sept. 6 at Monument Circle. In case you haven't noticed, Monument Circle has been undergoing a transformation over the past week that makes the Circle of Lights holiday celebration look like your kid's kindergarten pageant. A high-tech outdoor concert venue the likes of which downtown has never seen has been evolving, Transformers-like, around the various soldiers and sailors who populate our beloved monument.
The headliners, in theory, are Kelly Clarkson and Faith Hill. But the real stars of the evening have names like Manning and Harrison. When you consider that all the prep work going on is really just a warm-up for the really big show happening over in dome-land, you yet again get a sense for how truly big the Super Bowl win has been for the city.
Does the music really matter? We'll see. With this enthusiastic of an audience, with this pumped up of a city, with a Super Bowl rep to back up in the season's opening game, the crowd will be on the side of Clarkson and Hill. It's their game to lose. For more details, click here .
Art vs. Art, Sept. 7 at Fountain Square Theatre. Purists may balk, and if that's you, then go balk somewhere else. Art vs. Art has become a highlight of the Indianapolis art scene for good reason: It's fun.
The shock-and-awe fest pits the works of local artists against each other in head to head competition. The catch: the work not favored by the crowd gets sacrificed-destroyed-unless someone bids enough to buy. Think of it as "Survivor: Picasso" or "Peter Max Beyond Thunderdome."
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Opening Night Gala, Sept. 9 at Hilbert Circle Theatre. The last time I spoke with Indianapolis native Angela Brown, she was a promising soprano with an up-and-coming career. That was about seven years ago.
Since then, she's had her Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of "Aida," and the response has been nothing short of outstanding, landing her in the pages of O Magazine and Reader's Digest and onto the cover of The New York Times . It also opened the doors to theaters around the world, including the Paris Opera.
Soon she's back at the Met in both "Aida" and "Un Ballo in Maschera." But first: Indianapolis-where, on Monday, she'll be helping to open the season for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. A party on Monument Circle precedes the program. For more details, click here.
Penrod Art Fair, Sept. 8 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Which Penrod Art Fair do you want to attend? Though there's really only one, the way you approach it will determine what kind of day you have. For full preview, click here.
Gennett Records Walk of Fame, Sept. 8 on South First Street in Richmond. Randy Carmichael, the more conventionally named son of famed Hoosier songwriter Hoagy, will perform some of Dad's famous tunes at this free event celebrating Richmond's claim to musical fame, Gannett Records. For full preview, click here.
Contest: Theatre on the Square Season Pass This week, not only can you win a season pass to Theatre on the Square, but you can have your name or the name or your choice anchored to one of the seats in its newly renovated theater. That's five shows, including the soon-to-open "Midlife!: The Crisis Musical" (for more info, click here: tots.org ). For more contest details, click here.
Thursday, September 6, 2007 
Colts Kickoff Celebration: 
The headliners, in theory, are Kelly Clarkson and Faith Hill. But the real stars of the evening have names like Manning and Harrison. When you consider that all the prep work going on is really just a warm-up for the really big show happening over in dome-land, you yet again get a sense for how truly big the Super Bowl win has been for the city. 
cover of The New York Times . It also opened the doors to theaters around the world, including the Paris Opera. 
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