This and that: A Friday edition
A little of this and a little of that as we all load up for the holiday weekend.
Thanks to Purdue Convocations, sponsoring today’s Based in Lafayette. Save $5 on the biggest shows of the season with the Convos Back to School Sale! “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Live in Concert” combines live orchestra, turntables and electronics with a screening of the Academy Award-winning film. Broadway tours stopping in West Lafayette include Tina Fey's “Mean Girls,” Tony Award-winning musical comedy “Hairspray,” the remarkable true story “Come From Away” — the small town in Newfoundland that opened their homes to 7,000 stranded travelers on 9/11 – and “Shrek The Musical,” based on the beloved DreamWorks animated film. Buy tickets here.
This and that as we all load up for the holiday weekend.
NEW ERA FOR PURDUE FOOTBALL: New coach. Renovated Ross-Ade. It all starts at noon Saturday for Purdue. Here’s the question … where will it finish?
CASON FAMILY PARK GROUNDBREAKING NEXT WEEK: West Lafayette officials will officially break ground on Cason Family Park at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, at 2500 Cumberland Ave. The park – anchored by a restored, one-room schoolhouse the Cason family donated to the city and on ground the family donated – will include $19 million in trails, a 4.2-acre pond for boating and fishing, a pavilion for events, playgrounds and more than three acres of forest restoration areas throughout. For more, here’s a look at the plans and inside the schoolhouse: “WL set to go on Cason Family Park, centered by one-room schoolhouse.” For the groundbreaking, parking will be available across Cumberland Avenue at Connection Point Church.
LABOR’S DAY IN THE PARK: The 42nd annual Labor Family Picnic will be 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, at Lafayette Columbian Park. The day includes food and games, starting at noon, free Columbian Park Zoo admission, free train and pedal boat rides, a Kroozers Car Club show, live music and more. The picnic is sponsored by the Lafayette Chapter of the Northern Indiana Area Labor Federation.
LAFAYETTE CITIZENS BAND, FINALE: The last Lafayette Citizens Band concert of the summer will be 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4, at the Columbian Park Amphitheater. The pre-concert performance comes from The Star City Quintet at 6:15 p.m. As always, it’s free.
100 COOKS WHO CARE: LTHC Homeless Services is back this year with 100 Cooks Who Care, an Oct. 28 event that brings together local chefs (professional and notable amateurs) to serve samples of their signature dishes in a fundraiser for the Lafayette nonprofit. Tickets for the event, at the Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds, are on sale now for $75 a person or $600 for a table of eight. For tickets, a list of chefs and to donate in their names, go to: lafayette.100cookswhocare.com
OTHER READS …
Reporter Mark Alesia, writing in Raw Story, had an account about how Satanic Planet, a band affiliated with The Satanic Temple, scored a gig Sept. 28 at the Indiana Statehouse, after challenging state officials who allowed a Christian band to play a rally at the building earlier this year. Enter at your own soul’s peril: “Hell's bells: Satanic band set to rock Indiana’s capitol building.”
What an amazing site at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln Wednesday, when 92,003 fans watched the Nebraska volleyball team beat Omaha in straight sets. They’re calling it the biggest crowd to ever see a women’s sporting event. Here’s an account from ESPN reporter M.A. Voepel: “Nebraska volleyball sets world record for women's sports attendance.” And here’s a way in to see the team’s Tunnel Walk, a staple during Nebraska football’s glory days, shared Wednesday when the volleyball court was at the center of Memorial Stadium.
Reporter Marianna McMurdock, writing for The 74, had a solid interview with Emmy Martin, the editor of The Daily Tar Heel, after the North Carolina independent student paper conceived and pulled off a stunning front page presentation after a student killed a professor on campus on Monday. The cover, boiling down a string of texts students sent during hours spent hiding in classrooms and labs as police searched for the killer, was an instant classic in journalism circles, even prompting a social media post from President Joe Biden. Check the cover below. And here’s McMurdock’s conversation with Martin about how the front page came together: “How A Student Paper Visualized Gun Violence and Captivated the Nation. 'To see such a huge response from our community and also people across the nation has helped us keep going on,' says Daily Tar Heel’s Emmy Martin.”
Thanks, again, to Purdue Convocations for sponsoring today’s Based in Lafayette. Save $5 on the biggest shows of the season with the Convos Back to School Sale. Buy tickets here.
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I hope the new Cason Family Park includes Pickleball courts. West Lafayette needs outside courts that are free to use.
That front page - stunning, heartbreaking.