Circle City

Why isn’t a rolling bar powered by tipsy people constantly teetering into the canal or plowing into pedestrians? Because a company employee known as “The Bar Handler” always steers.

March 28, 2014 — Paul George signed his first major endorsement deal, that with Gatorade. In doing so, he joins the likes of Peyton Manning, Dwyane Wade, Serena Williams, and Derek Jeter on Team G. Here’s his first TV commercial for the brand, a 15-second shot that finds him hemorrhaging the sports drink.

Says the actress, “It is my belief that the greatest obstacles facing the transgender community are points of view that disavow our identities and suggest that no matter what we do, we are always the gender we are assigned at birth.”

“Whether you find it in a little jazz club, or on the street, or on a big stage, or on national television, talent is talent,” Kaufman says. “If you refuse to listen to somebody just because he or she was on a reality show, then you’re making your choice based on bad criteria.”

Julianne Swartz uses photography, plus magnets and other everyday items, in her installations. The lenses in different pieces of work help transfer these mundane objects into “magical moving pictures.”

“If you spill that on my costume, I’m leaving you here,” said a man in Halo armor to his friend wielding a slushy.

“I feel like we are doing this by ourselves and fighting a losing battle,” says Rev. Charles Harrison.

“I really want people to know how my story started and the values and hard work that I embody,” he says. “A lot of my friends are from these amazing mountain towns. I want people to know that where I come from, it’s different. I hope it says something about my character.”

The Slaughterhouse-Five building inspired the title of what is arguably Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous work. In 1945, he was in its basement when the Allies rained bombs down on Dresden in World War II.

From @TheJennaBee: “‘There’s nothing wrong with ladies playing basketball. I just don’t want to see it.’ – very single guy next to me.”

This much Matthew Reed believes: After seeing the ball of light through his windshield, and before waking up alongside a country road, he was abducted by extraterrestrials. And as implausible as that might sound, it wasn’t the first time.

Our Irish friends constitute only 11 percent of the population, but you wouldn’t know it from the number of local bars with names like O’Hooligan’s and Hidey McCarkey’s.

The case of former Brownsburg resident Matthew Reed—detailed in IM’s March 2014 feature “Alienated”—might presently be Indiana’s most famous extraterrestrial encounter. But it’s certainly not the first.

The chiseled, twang-centric sensation Steve Grand will perform on the main stage at the festival on June 14, with his viral hit “All-American Boy” in tow.

Via @Churchie84: Someday, a Midwestern insurance salesman will proudly say, “I edited the 2014 Academy Award movie montages as an intern.”