Will Park Become the Film Mecca of the City? MARCH 2020 URBAN TIMES
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Will Park become the film mecca of the city? 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In this issue: Bates-Hendricks 34 IHPC adopts an identity as 'Preserve Indy' 15 Chatham Arch 33 Thousands of Madam Walker items now online 17 Cottage Home 43 Fall Creek Place 35 History 301: Fallout shelters had their day 18 Garfield Park 38 Herron-Morton Place 21 INRC report: Neighbor Power on the horizon 22 Historic Meridian Park 39 Holy Cross 23 The Hub opens as Near Eastside community art space 27 Lockerbie Square 37 The Old Northside Indy Parks: Douglas Park golf course spruced up 41 31 St. Joseph 32 ROW report: Capturing passion for waterways 45 Woodruff Place 36 No Ransom Place or Fletcher Place report this month. • DEPARTMENTS Urban Times staff Bill Brooks, editor and publisher. Business news 10 Spotlight: Galleries 25 Matthew Brooks, operations and advertising manager. IHPC report 13 Arts in brief 27 Deanna Stone, advertising and website maintenance Jeremy Crum and Beth Winterman, distribution. Old Southside report 16 Spotlight: Stages 28 Jeannie Kiley, editing. 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Minutes from downtown and the Monon Trail. till URBAN TIMES MARCH 2020 V Cover story Kan-Kan: More than independent films Filmmaking • For a report on the mecca can Brasserie part of the Kan- Kan Cinema and Brasserie, see the business news on transform page 10. neighborhood By BILL BROOKS Urban Times editor & publisher GROUP OF NEIGHBORS go to a LEFT: The largest of four thought-provoking movie; or screening rooms awaits seating, with an example in the A perhaps just an entertaining one. foreground. Outside, the friends end up standing out side the restroom, sharing their takes on BELOW: The space for the the film they just consumed. Brasserie sits open to the Or. lobby, with the patio seating viewable through windows. Or, by the end of March, they can go to the Kan-Kan Cinema & Brasserie, ON THE COVER: tucked away in the hilly Windsor Park A second-floor event space sits neighborhood, nestled up to Spades Park A WORK IN PROGRESS directly above the Brasserie, and just across a narrow street from the offering a handsome view of the historic Spades Park Library Spades Park Library. They can take in an just across the street. Through independent film that otherwise might the door on the left there's also never have seen an Indy screen. a small balcony space. They can leave one of the screening rooms (there are four of them), but instead THE CINEMA of scattering or heading to a neighborhood • Four screens, seating 145, 45, 35 and 12 hangout, they can head straight to the tables • Projectors for 35mm, 70mm and digital. both inside and outside the facility, and talk • Opening currently set for mid-March. it over while sampling food or drink curated • 59 off-street parking spaces. by Abby Meriss, chef of one of the most well-regarded eateries in the city, Bluebeard. THE PROGRAM And. • First-run independent films, rarely screened clas Yes, there's an "and." They can return sics and social issue documentaries. some weeknight for a film club meeting, or a • Future Filmakers Lab, partnering with Spades Park lecture by a university professor, or to see Library and Arsenal Technical High School.