Books, TV & Radio

Enter: John Green. Wearing a bumblebee suit.

Why kids are skipping time-outs in favor of “chime outs.”

“When you’re dealing with absolutes like eating and sleeping, every generation can relate to that.”

Roxane Gay sent a flurry of tweets to her 421,000 followers, blasting the MWW for its “fatphobia.”

Maybe Padma knew she would eventually be GIF’ed making St. Elmo shrimp cocktail face.

“You can cheat people blind if you want to,” Mike Bursaw says. “But how do you look in the mirror if you do that kind of stuff?”

That time they dressed in French-fry costumes.

There’s more than small-town snoops, redneck farmers, and zealous theocrats in Indiana.

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The radio program continues Luck’s support of public broadcasting and WFYI. Last year, he and his father, Oliver Luck, recorded a series of fundraising spots for the station in which they affirmed their enjoyment of National Public Radio programming.

‘Campus Canines’ is all shining coats and wiggling butts and wet noses and fetching red bandanas and big clumsy paw—pooch “person”-ality in spades—set against golden-hour backdrops of Bloomington limestone, hardwoods, and flowers.

Downloading the latest album can’t compete with the camaraderie of Record Store Day, April 22, which brings together music mavens from all over the city.

“Dave has always been a critic’s darling. As an interview subject, though, he had a reputation for being a little prickly.”

“Look hard enough and you can see the influence of Letterman everywhere. The internet has become the home of stupid pet tricks and prankish stunts, and the baffling absurdist comedy of Late Night is now mainstream.”

What I remember most were his eyes—those large brown eyes that seemed to see right through you, right into your mind, and to know at once if you were speaking the truth.