Entertainment

The Hoosier rocket man talks about life in the International Space Station.

There’s a video monitor in the library with a welcome message from Morley Safer that comes on every few minutes. At one point, it started skipping, and he sounded like Max Headroom.

I’ve become aware that my coworkers and friends are watching. I’m deathly afraid that someone will compile a gag reel of me scratching or tripping over the retention wall of books that pens me in.

Coming soon: Indy’s most prestigious movie festival and more than 100 films that probably won’t return to local theaters. Here’s a cheat sheet for taking it all in.

A caravan of imagined art vehicles, inspired by the campaign to build an Indy Fringe Truck that will bring theater to festivals across the state.

Two nights before playing a concert sponsored by marketing-tech company ExactTarget at Lucas Oil Stadium, the rockers popped up on The Lawn downtown.

Not long ago, we in Indy bid farewell to her. But bringing the human condition of suffering to light and finding the humor within the pain are two reasons she says she couldn’t turn down the role of Sonia.

When it was released last month, the Washington Post wrote that March “should be stocked in every school and shelved at every library.”

In the past five years, those involved with “Evening with the Stars” have established it as one of the best performances money can buy in Indianapolis.

Indy’s own Lily & Madeleine, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, and many more musical performers and entertainers populated the stages as festival-goers strolled the park and shopped local styles.

“A hilljack is somebody that’s smart enough to take what you got and make what you need. I don’t own a gun. Guns are expensive, so I made a potato gun, which is cheap.”

“This was during Judy Garland’s wild period, and everyone was on pins and needles to make sure she got to Clowes Hall …”

Regarding the Flowbee, no one remembers who won, but the auctioneer made good use of the “hair today, gone tomorrow” slogan.

Earlier this month, IM reported that the Indiana State Fair—that bastion of deep-fried butter—was taking baby steps toward appealing to a more refined class of locavores and epicureans, primarily at the DuPont Food Pavilion.

A Gen Con convention-goer delivered an unlikely but warm homage to beloved, genteel painter Bob Ross, star of the painting TV show shot at Ball State.