Entertainment

A law enforcement leader says 92,000 comers descended on Indy Pride’s annual LGBT festival downtown, with roughly 35,000 goers at the companion parade.

The annual event, put on by a Christ Church Cathedral women’s group, is more than an excuse to take your lunch break an hour earlier. It’s an exercise in Hoosier hospitality.

Bryan Fonseca and Jeff Martin transform the stage into an apocalyptic boxing ring. With the audience on both sides of it, theatergoers will be much closer to the action than usual.

Via @JoshuaOwen: “The saddest part of The Fault In Our Stars, was definitely when Augustus fell into the chocolate river and got sucked up into the tube. Sorry for the spoiler.”

Hundreds of humans and pets descended on Garfield Park for a record-breaking romp that included pet pools, food trucks, and a canine-couture show.

Grammy nominee Mary Lambert will sing, as will Indy’s own Men’s Chorus. And there will be pets.

The film is certainly carried by the performances of Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as its star-crossed, cancer-stricken couple, but it receives much-needed doses of gravitas and vigor from Willem Defoe as the eccentric author of the book over which Hazel and Augustus bond.

One of the best moments of the evening came early on as she started into the brilliant mash-up of two pop-music nuggets, Ellie Goulding’s “Starry-Eyed” and Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games.” That’s when the night’s brief drama played out.

Benanti has shared the stage with numerous Broadway stars, co-owns Kristen Chenoweth’s TV curse, and kills it on Twitter. Here she comes, Indy.

With John Green’s latest novel, The Fault in Our Stars, getting the Hollywood treatment, we decided to play casting director for his previous books.

@RealJohnGreen wrote the book on connecting with readers through social media. Here, a few of his most clever tweets.

Louis C.K. accomplished what the Indiana Pacers couldn’t Monday night—he got rid of LeBron James and the rest of the Miami Heat.

Originally, a grand arrival greeting had been organized for 9:15 p.m. Thursday—but then Voice victor Kaufman’s flight was delayed.

Via @PetethePlanner: “Weird day in Indy. The city got 3rd for #SuperBowl2018. The Pacers got 2nd in their playoff game. And @iamjoshkaufman got 1st on The Voice.”

What makes his victory so refreshing is the fact that the best vocalist on the show actually prevailed.