Deadline to avoid litigation for Glass Ave project set for July 30 daily-jeff.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from daily-jeff.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As retailers continue to tap into the social capital wielded by online media personalities, New Albany-based retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is set to launch a new brand Thursday driven by a partnership with uber-popular social media influencer sisters Charli and Dixie D’Amelio.
A&F s Hollister brand worked with the D’Amelios to create a line of apparel called Social Tourist, which includes dresses and skirts, basic essential items, gender-inclusive pieces and swimwear.
Social Tourist “reflects Gen Z’s unique lens of living in a digitally native environment,” according to an Abercrombie & Fitch press release.
Each month, new merchandise from the line of apparel will drop into stores and online.
IQpack Hires President insideindianabusiness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insideindianabusiness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Voice commands can put New Albany residents in touch with city services, events
ThisWeek group
Anyone wanting to know details about the city of New Albany s events or services need only ask a smart-speaker device for help.
Both Amazon Echo and Google Home will respond to a new voice-command program that allows residents and visitors to ask questions about the city, such as, “Who is the mayor?” or “When is trash day?” said city spokesman Scott McAfee.
“I think it just gives residents another way to access other information,” he said. “I’m not sure it was available before.
“If you ask for the New Albany Walking Classic, you’ll get a date for the New Albany Walking Classic” – which is Sept. 19.
Jonah Crismore. Photo by Martin Boling
by PETER DORFMAN
In January 2020, when Jonah Crismore was interviewing for the position of executive director of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater (BCT), the dimensions of the COVID-19 crisis were only dimly visible. “There were rumblings that things might get bad, but it wasn’t until February, when I accepted the job, that it became apparent how bad the pandemic would be,” Crismore says.
Undaunted, he brought his wife, Amanda, to Bloomington from Fort Wayne, Indiana. “We really wanted to be here,” he says, “and we knew how supportive the community was toward the theater. We’d been going to shows at the BCT since the early 2000s. I couldn’t pass up being part of its story.”