Arts & Culture

“Now, in addition to having a vibrant local food/local beer movement, [Indianapolis has] a parallel local arts movement.”

“We will continue to search for any information which will lead us to answers in Lauren’s disappearance,” says Charlene Spierer.

Q: Think you could still squeeze into that old Batman costume? A: I’m wearing it now.

“I called my tights my python pants, because they nearly strangled me to death,” says Ward.

The geographic features revealed on the Indiana trails highlighted in this issue were surprising—from the prehistoric bog by the dunes to a sandstone canyon—making hiking and biking them all the more entertaining.

“I have a tree that drops what a friend says are persimmons, but the fruit doesn’t look like the grocery-store variety. What gives?”

“I think it’s just a fundamental need—food, clothing, and shelter,” says Reitz. “It’s something that you hope that everybody in our world, especially our city, has access to.”

Stewart, as is his wont, snarks about an exchange between Indiana’s 8th-district U.S. House rep, Larry Bucshon, and White House science advisor John Holdron.

The funnyman Gaffigan posted a clip to his 2.1 million Twitter followers after attending the Indy NFL organization’s training camp.

In 30 years, Indy has shared as many good times—and bad—with our Colts as Baltimore ever did. We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. Most of all, though, we’ve cheered.

In the show’s season opener, Irsay played the de facto leader of a shadowy cabal of NFL owners.

“This is probably the mecca for people-watching in Indianapolis,” says Scott Pallikan, an IFD Station 32 fireman. “You’re going to see pretty much everything the city has to offer.”

Fans of the bivalve can celebrate the return of the “r” months while perched at the raw bar inside Craig Baker’s new house of surf and turf.

“It was great to win $4,000. But I let them set my painting on fire and chainsaw it in half anyway.”

Via @RbtKing: “If Scotland goes independent I’m going to have to find a kilt to wear to work tomorrow.”