Michela Tindera

“I’m a huge fan of Mike Judge, and we joked about how many Office Space DVDs I’ve signed over the years at concerts.”

“I go after the Republicans. I go after the Democrats. I go after everybody.”

“I’d love to get Taylor Swift on our stage, which would endear me to my daughter. We’d sit Taylor down with a guitar and have her sing some old country songs.”

“My next look will be all of my hair turning gray and slowly falling out. It’s gonna rock!”

His days of singing at Potbelly may be over, but he still stops in for a sandwich.

“We drag queens can sit in front of the mirror for hours and say, ‘We could use another rhinestone here.’”

“What we do is similar to Whose Line Is It Anyway?—we make it up on the spot. We ask the audience for scenes, and then we go from there.”

On dating: “It’s not the guys, it’s once they tell their parents. They were there when HIV was considered a death sentence.”

“Pregnant Women are Smug’ is a popular one,” she says. “Often, someone wants us to sing it to their pregnant friend in the audience.”

“I frequent the museums, including the wonderful Indianapolis Art Center,” Knabe says. “I don’t know of another one of that caliber anywhere else.”

“It was great to win $4,000. But I let them set my painting on fire and chainsaw it in half anyway.”

Carmel native Julian Batts earned a dubious 15 minutes of fame in the spring by mispronouncing “Achilles” on Wheel of Fortune—after landing on the $1 million spot. But he recovered nicely, winning $11,700 and making the national-media rounds with a good attitude. This month,  he returns to college with his perspective intact and a cushy […]

“WFYI is producing a documentary on IndyFringe that will air around the country in August,” she says.

We caught up with the director of the Regions Bank Freedom Blast before the big bang.

“The whole downtown/midtown/uptown thing started in New York because that city is narrow and vertical,” says Matt Hale. “We’re a radial city growing out in every direction from the center, so it’s a stretch to say Indy has a midtown.”