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Video: ISO Yuletide Singers 'Let It Go' at Circle of Lights

Broadway vet Ben Crawford and his merry band of mercenaries tackled that monstrous song from Frozen at the 52nd-annual event.

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Author James Tadd Adcox Reimagines Indy in New Novel

“The Indianapolis of Does Not Love is the Indianapolis of my memory: strange, flat, a little lonely, filled with secrets that are just beyond one’s sight.”

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Provocative Writer Randa Jarrar to Speak at Herron

“I refuse to sit quietly in the margins and only speak when I can ‘calmly’ educate and teach,” she says.

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Sneak Peek: The New Book From The Chicks on the Right

“We’re capitalists because we’d rather be happy. And blissfully successful. And able to take any extra money we have to buy a killer pair of pumps.”

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Culture Q&A: Michael Shelden, Indiana Authors Award Winner

“I think with almost every book I’ve written somebody says, ‘It reads like a novel,’ and I always like to hear that because it means that I’m using facts in the way that a novelist uses invented things.”

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Book Tour: Six Memorable Tomes Set in Indiana

Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler’s List is a collection of 17 stories about famous and less-than-famous Indiana residents from Fort Wayne native Michael Martone.

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The Three Weirdest Stories From Einstein’s Beach House

For one, a couple adopts a depressed hedgehog and seeks therapy for the varmint.

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No Joker: 10 Questions for TV Batman Adam West

Q: Think you could still squeeze into that old Batman costume? A: I’m wearing it now.

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Holy Smokes! 10 Questions for TV Robin Burt Ward

“I called my tights my python pants, because they nearly strangled me to death,” says Ward.

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Video: Jon Stewart Rips Indiana Congressman

Stewart, as is his wont, snarks about an exchange between Indiana’s 8th-district U.S. House rep, Larry Bucshon, and White House science advisor John Holdron.

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Jim Irsay Makes His South Park Debut

In the show’s season opener, Irsay played the de facto leader of a shadowy cabal of NFL owners.

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John Green’s Paper Towns Has Its Movie Starlet

Cara Delevingne will star alongside Nat Wolff, who was previously featured in The Fault in Our Stars and befriended John Green during that movie’s shooting.

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Brides and Prejudice: Philip Gulley's Latest Book

Says Gulley, “A decade ago, I created the little town of Harmony, Indiana, filled it with Quakers, and sent them a pastor named Sam Gardner to see what would happen. The series of novels had a good run, but I wanted to dabble in theology and pursued that genre of writing for a while. I missed Sam and the Harmony crowd, though, and decided to see what they had been up to in the intervening years.”

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Three Things We Learned From a Zombie Book

FEMA produced a report about preparing for the zombie apocalypse, justifying it by saying that preparing for fictional disasters can teach us about readying for real ones.

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The Story of Us

In the introduction, Madison explains that he set out merely to “update” his first comprehensive account of the state’s past, published in 1986. “But simply updating that book proved unwise,” he writes. “Because Indiana has changed. So has the knowledge of our past.”

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