Entertainment

As the seventh and final season of the Hoosier-centric sitcom commences, we’re talking all things Pawnee.

Dr. James MacLeod drew a simple yet compelling cartoon within an hour of hearing about the attacks on satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Indy’s personal-finance guru on his new book series, his writing soundtrack, and why he’s called a chintzy tooth fairy.

“Only this kind of coverage could have brought the faces and missions of the movement to millions of otherwise-indifferent white dinner tables.”

Larry Legend loves opera? There’s a twist as unexpected as the one in Oedipus Rex. “Why not support the arts?” Bird says. “It’s important for the city and everyone who lives here.”

Via @notthatjohnking: “Attention All Local Business Owners: You do not have to put your kid in your TV commercial.”

If the piano popster himself looks dashing in the snow, his songs sound it.

It remains a wonderfully hopeful and care-releasing show in the Symphony’s season, apt to melt even the most resistant audience member’s icy viscera.

“I notice things, and I write them down,” he says. “Then I try it live. Sometimes, the best writing takes place onstage.”

Warner Bros. asked Porky’s director Bob Clark to make a sequel to his blockbuster sex comedy. He said he would—if the studio would bankroll A Christmas Story.

They say the best bands are greater than the sum of their parts. In the case of The Last IV, the parts are pretty excellent themselves.

The film selection sometimes strays a long way from the genre at Roving Cinema’s annual party. Even so, it’s one of our 10 Best of Indy holiday picks.

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

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

Tre Reising just got another work—the Emoji-centric, “sarcastically titled” Live, Love, Laugh, Laugh Until You Cry—installed at the airport.