Lou Harry

Take a weekend to savor local flair and flavors in Tennessee’s Maker City.

The musical phenomenon Straight No Chaser, birthed at IU, comes to the Murat this month. We trace their unlikely journey, the fits and starts, strokes of luck and setbacks, in an oral history.

What’s so funny? These top-shelf comedy experiences, all just a road trip away.

Cinephile and freelance writer Lou Harry offers his top 10 recommendations from the Heartland International Film Festival.

Longtime IRT artistic director Janet Allen takes her final bow.

In a sea of fan-favorite games mixed with the new guard, we’ve rounded up this year’s best played at the convention of gamers.

Tess Gunty publishes her first novel to favorable reviews.

This month, a local Shakespeare company stages a hip-hop version of Richard III at the Taggart Memorial Amphitheatre—A treatment almost as new as the venue.

Here’s your cheat sheet to the best films (and one cringey) showing at next week’s film festival. Enjoy 12 days of motion pictures at the artsy Windsor Park movie cinema or from the comfort of your home starting June 15th.

The state’s most spectacular hotel sets the scene of So Cold the River, a horror film adapted from Bloomington author Michael Koryta’s novel.

A local entrepreneur rolls the dice on an Underground Railroad board game and learns about his heritage along the way.

No joke: Comedian Lewis Black is chairman of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library board.

Nearly 40 years after Robert Weide began working on a documentary about Indiana author Kurt Vonnegut, the film finally hits screens this month. We caught up with the director to ask, among other things: What took so much time?

The international film festival premieres this week. Here’s eight flicks to add to your watch list.

Let the games begin.