About AroundIndy.com, LLC
Now in our 7th year as of February 1, 2009
AroundIndy.com began its 7th year of operations on Feb. 1, 2009. We know and understand and fully appreciate that this would not have been possible without YOU!
Our site traffic currently ranks in the top 0.5% of all Web sites in America, according to Quantcast.com. THANK YOU to our hundreds of thousands of readers, users, podcast listeners and subscribers, advertisers, supporters and visitors for making this possible.
Thank you for using our Web site, and we hope you will continue to visit regularly when you just want to know what's going on around Indy! STILL all free for your personal use in 2009!
An Indianapolis Landmark. Take a 90-second trip around Monument Circle in the video shown above, shot by an AroundIndy.com staff member. Now you know why Indianapolis is nicknamed the "Circle City." Do you know how hard it is to drive all the way around Monument Circle without stopping just once? Then you can appreciate this footage! (Background music courtesy of Mic Gillette. Used with written permission.)
2009 ROSE Award Honoree
On March 4, 2009, 89 individuals were recognized at the Indiana Roof Ballroom as 2009 ROSE Award Honorees by the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association and the city of Indianapolis. The Recognition of Service Excellence awards are presented annually to hospitality workers and volunteers who help create a positive experience for visitors to Indianapolis.
I'm proud and honored and humbled to have been one of the 89 honorees in 2009, for five years of volunteer work with the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival. Thank you for this recognition!
Background
AroundIndy.com, LLC is a LOCALLY owned and operated independent Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) organized and properly registered with the Indiana Secretary of State in accordance with the laws of the state of Indiana. AroundIndy.com, LLC is owned and operated by lifelong “Hoosiers” (a nickname for Indiana natives) born in Indianapolis and raised right here in central Indiana. This Web site is NOT operated or controlled by some big out-of-state media conglomerate that has no interest or stake in or knowledge of Indianapolis and central Indiana.
THERE IS NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST in any aspect of our operation. No one has ever paid us a penny to promote their event listings over others, or to the exclusion of others. We publish all events of which we are aware on a nonpartisan basis. We've never given preferential treatment to any venue or organization in exchange for advertising or payment of any kind. And we've never accepted a freebie (theatre tickets, free admission, passes, free meals, or anything else) from any venue found on this Web site. Any paid advertising found on this site does not create favoritism in our event listings. All event listings accepted for publication are published free without cost or obligation of any kind.
AroundIndy.com, LLC is not the parent company or a subsidiary of any other company or organization. Just to be clear, we are NOT affiliated with:
the city of Indianapolis
Indianapolis Downtown, Inc.
Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association
Arts Council of Indianapolis
any other city or government agency
any other organization
However, we gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of Indianapolis Downtown, Inc. in providing many of the event listings that appear on this Web site. And we thank the Arts Council for giving us permission to publish their event listings.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis is one of America’s great cities. With
a population of 781,870 (2000 census), Indianapolis ranks as the 12th largest city in America. With top-notch facilities and
venues like White River State Park, the Indianapolis Zoo and White River Gardens, the NCAA Hall of Champions, the Indiana State Museum and IMAX 3-D Theatre, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, the Indiana History Center, and beautiful Victory Field—all within a stone's throw of each other—Indianapolis offers a virtual plethora of things to do and interesting, exciting events every day of the year. And that's not to mention the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the RCA Dome, the Indiana Convention Center, Circle Centre Mall, the unique, one-of-a-kind Indianapolis Artsgarden, the world-class Children's Museum of Indianapolis, the Indiana State Fairgrounds and Pepsi Coliseum, the renovated and expanded Indianapolis Museum of Art, and lots, lots more across the city and across central Indiana. If you can't find some interesting things to do in Indianapolis and central Indiana, you aren't trying!
Central Indiana is a great place to live and a great place to visit. Hoosiers love to have a good time and this Web site attempts to identify the places, events and venues where you can do so. We hope our enthusiasm and passion for Indianapolis and central Indiana is reflected on this Web site. Incidentally, we're going for the “G” rating (or “E” for everyone) on this Web site—venues and advertisers please plan accordingly in developing your ads.
Free Listings
Subject to our acceptable use guidelines, we will list your things to do in Indianapolis and central Indiana FREE
on AroundIndy.com: garage sales, fairs, festivals, conventions, museum exhibits,
gallery openings, club meetings, church bazaars, sports events, bake sales, fish
fries, parish festivals, concerts, business meetings, trade shows, family or class reunions, flea
markets, motorcycle rallies, seminars, workshops, fishing tournaments, piano recitals,
special church services, charity events or fundraisers, your band's gigs, or just
about any other upcoming event that is open to the public, anywhere in Indiana. Make AroundIndy.com your one-stop center for information about what's going on in Indianapolis, central Indiana, and across the state. Submit an Event.
Is your organization hosting an annual convention, business meeting, or other event in Indianapolis? Ask your company's Webmaster to add a link to AroundIndy.com so that those attending your event will be able to find things to do in Indianapolis after the day's business is adjourned. See How to Link to our Web site.
Be sure to Bookmark this Web site (Netscape) or mark it as a Favorite (Internet Explorer) so you can return to it easily. You may submit events by e-mail, fax, or our convenient online Web form. We reserve the right to decline to list any submitted event for any reason without notice.
Modus Operandi
Why do we list events so far ahead of time? Why do we repeat the same event daily over a long period of time? We're kind of like your local newspaper, except for this: If your local newspaper publishes the dates for an exhibit and you miss that issue of the newspaper, the information is gone. But if you miss the same exhibit today on our site, the information is still there tomorrow and every other day of the exhibit until it ends. Makes sense to us!
Indianapolis hosts millions of visitors annually
for tourism, conventions, business meetings, sporting events, major events like
Indiana Black Expo, the Circle City Classic, the Indianapolis 500, Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, the inaugural Red Bull Indianapolis Moto GP in 2008, and other such events.
So:
Are you traveling to Indianapolis soon, or are you in an area hotel room right now? Pull us up on your laptop and find out what's going on today or tomorrow around Indy.
Are you coming to Indianapolis in a few months for any of the reasons named above? It's easy to plan ahead for things to do in Indianapolis and central Indiana while you will be in town.
It's fast and convenient to get a list of actual upcoming events taking place around Indy. Works just as well for locals and native Hoosiers, too!
This is not 100% of all events taking place in central Indiana. Other information sources may list different events. We're working diligently to identify as many as we can, but we're sure there are lots of other activities taking place daily that do not get reported here. The nature of events reporting is such that some events will be on our Web site for months in advance, others for just a few hours or days before the event begins. The event listings change every day—so check back regularly!
Be aware that because changes do occur, you should always verify each event listing with the venue, which brings us to this:
Verify All Events
One of the things that has surprised us about operating this Web site is how often the details of an event change AFTER the event has been published—the time or the date or even the venue changes. And the number of event cancellations is significant. We publish all events in good faith, and we believe the information is accurate at the time we publish an event. But you should ALWAYS verify each event listed herein with the venue. To facilitate this, we provide telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and/or Web addresses whenever possible.
Tickets to Indiana Events
Tap directly into the nation's most secure marketplace for premium seating and tickets to sold out events, through our affiliate agreement with the nation's largest independent licensed ticket broker, TicketsNow.com. Tickets to many Indiana events—and lots of other events across the nation, too—are typically available here even when other sources may have none remaining. Click the image at right for tickets to Indiana events.
You can also find tickets to Indiana and national events from these ticket brokers who advertise on AroundIndy.com: Tickco.com, OnlineSeats.com, GoTickets.com, ChicagoGigs.com, TicketSolutions.com, TicketSpecialists.com, and MyTicketMarket.com.
You can almost always find a ticket to any concert, theatre or sports event in Indiana and nationwide, even sold-out events, by checking the ticket brokers' ads here on AroundIndy.com.
Local and Regional Advertised Listings
All event listings are free. But if you want to call special attention to your event, take advantage of our very affordable advertising rates to run one or more display ads for your event. At these prices almost any advertiser can afford a display ad. Click here for Advertising Rates and Information.
Best Viewing Experience
Windows users employing Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) with the browser window maximized will experience the best and most consistent viewing of this site. Older browsers that do not support styles may produce unpredictable results when attempting to display this site.
Regardless of which browser you choose to use, we encourage you to upgrade to the most recent version for an optimum viewing experience. We regularly review the site on both Windows and Macintosh computers using Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla, Firefox, Flock and Opera browsers, and have found the site to look fairly consistent on all these platforms, with only minor discrepancies in the way in which the various browsers interpret the HTML code.
It's About Time
All event listings on this site are local times at the venue, which may not coincide with Indianapolis time.
IMPORTANT TIME INFORMATION. Legislation enacted by the Indiana legislature in 2005 moved most of Indiana to Daylight Saving Time from spring to fall each year. Indianapolis is on the same time as New York year-round; an hour ahead of Chicago year-round. If an Indiana venue listed on this Web site is on a different time from Indianapolis, the local time at the VENUE and the time in Indianapolis are BOTH displayed at the top of those pages on this Web site.
A few Indiana counties in northwestern and southwestern Indiana are an hour behind Indianapolis (they are on Chicago time). On this Web site, this primarily affects the listings for casinos in Lake and Vanderburgh Counties, and the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville.
WINDOWS USERS: If you are on Indianapolis time, and use the Calendar function in Microsoft Outlook to keep track of your appointments and meeting times, you should set the Time Zone in your computer's Control Panel to "(GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada)," and you should check the checkbox that says "Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes." To set the correct time zone, go to the lower right-hand corner of your screen, right-click on the time, then choose "Adjust Date/Time" from the popup menu. Then click the "Time Zone" tab on the "Date and Time Properties" dialog box that appears on your screen.
