Arts & Culture

Are you in a bit of a First Friday rut? Tired of cheap wine in plastic cups? Or bringing the fam along? Let us help.

The theme might remind you of 1981 prom night, but “Journey” can carry serious meaning. The closing event is a good example.

“Pregnant Women are Smug’ is a popular one,” she says. “Often, someone wants us to sing it to their pregnant friend in the audience.”

“Gandolfo’s is my new go-to spot,” says CityWay resident Zachary Lockett. “You feel like you’ve walked into a corner deli in New York.”

SI and GQ stuff the Pacers, Tony Dungy tweets his wisdom, Hinkle prepares to show off its makeover, and more.

“There’s a lot to it as far as obviously your typicals, the songs and the lines, but also the acrobatics,” he says. “There’s a lot to get in my head, but it’s getting there.”

“We’re capitalists because we’d rather be happy. And blissfully successful. And able to take any extra money we have to buy a killer pair of pumps.”

Including the best Dairy Queen commercial never made.

For Bird, the commitment to giving goes back to his upbringing in French Lick, “growing up in a small town” where he and his family “didn’t have a lot,” he says. “But we were greatly benefited by gifts.”

Via @PaulPoteet: “I’m not sure my head should ever appear so close to a pumpkin. There’s an awkward Renée Zellweger before/after vibe.”

Loved ones hope a social-media campaign organized around a hashtag—#JusticeForAbdulRahmanKassig—will convince his captors to spare the Indianapolis native’s life.

“Most exorcists would agree that when people go on ghost hunts, they’re really encountering demons,” says Father Vincent Lampert.

“I think with almost every book I’ve written somebody says, ‘It reads like a novel,’ and I always like to hear that because it means that I’m using facts in the way that a novelist uses invented things.”

We’re debuting The Replay, your weekly roundup of the best, worst, and just plain offbeat stories in the sports realm. We trust they’re all worth your timeout.

Booze-related injuries are comparatively rare on Indiana trails. Of greater concern is the threat of dehydration, which can happen when you try to replenish your sweaty, overheated body with booze instead of H2O.