Arts & Culture

A couple of Butler greats—Gordon Hayward and Brad Stevens—draw raves and a rant.

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’m a spirits guy—the basics,” he says. “Pretty much a 60-year-old white man in a 40-something-year-old black man’s body.

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

Stulen even has plans to create an occasional “open office” in the museum, when his staff will work in the entry pavilion so visitors can come up to share ideas.

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.

If you’re wearing overalls, you better play in a bluegrass band.

Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay reveals his spending habits, and an NFL player from Muncie is dating professional tennis’s media darling.

Literary superstar John Green gets top billing, but it’s the lesser-known names that make it worth the price of admission.

Millennials might be a bigger threat to malls than online shopping, which the public assumes has hurt malls more than it has.

In the chaos of holiday shopping this month, it will be hard to imagine any aspect of the mall might be struggling.

“I still buy books at bookstores, and most of our children’s books come from Kids Ink,” he says. “I buy some YA titles there, too.”

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.

“It’s amazing,” said Hunter-Reay. “I’ll be able to bring my kids and my family back here for as long as I’m alive and show them what was achieved here.”