Michael Schrader

See the 25-minute firework display condensed a bit more than a minute.

Take a look at our sped-up clip from Tuesday’s World Cup viewing party held downtown.

IndyCar drivers’ wives, fiancees, and girlfriends donned evening gowns and cocktail dresses and gathered on the Yard of Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a promotional photo shoot.

The lavish show at the Alexander hotel brought together local salons to raise awareness for clean water in Central Indiana. Eye-popping outfits ahead.

The night’s apex arrived, quite literally, with performer La Fleur Soleil’s acrobatic showing, which withstood a minor technical difficulty to put on a subtly astounding display of burlesque-geisha passion.

Shops including James Dant, Leather Feather Stone, and Righno Boutique all set up on the scene, either in a freight container behind the venue or in the Sanctuary’s main chamber.

Tanjerine’s spirited mix-off competition Wednesday night, held in a rehabbed former church building, kick-started its four days of events.

Says the artist, “If my pictures have a message, it’s an organic message. It’s not like I set out to improve rights for LGBT people.”

Jim Wilke, a former rider in the International Gay Rodeos, is featured in the exhibit, and spoke at the museum about openly gay life in the American West.

Ringing in 2014 in nostalgic fashion, the voices and players in Margot evoked memories of now-vintage times when fans first saw their live act or put on that vinyl.

New this year: Online voting for the People’s Choice winner before the opening of the gallery as well as at the show.

A number of attendees, whether in homage to Pardo and his love of color or else seeing the evening as a chance to break away from typical Midwestern style, turned out in eye-catching styles.

The deadlines to garner tickets to the Nov. 1 events are at hand: Oct. 25 for the dinner and Oct. 30 for the artist’s talk and cocktail time. If you can’t make it, perhaps you’ll catch Pardo wandering through the Matisse exhibit at the IMA. He says he’s a fan.

We asked 11 people attending Indy’s first-ever Festival of Faiths just what that word—faith—means to them. Here are their answers.

Fan-favorite pieces and drawings that reveal the artist’s thought process are on display from Oct. 13 through Jan. 12, 2014, in one of the most comprehensive collections of his work to date.