Arts & Culture

@TheJennaBee at the Brickyard 400: “It’s only 9 am and I’ve already found my hero: a bearded gentleman wearing floral cut-off jorts. I love this place. #SuperWeekend”

“WFYI is producing a documentary on IndyFringe that will air around the country in August,” she says.

Despite his success and namesake, Chase Elliott carries himself without an air of pretension. Before a press conference, he sat quietly among the reporters who would soon ask him questions about pedigree and pressure.

“It’s never ending,” George says of being a NASCAR hauler. “It can take two minutes to get dirty and take you all day to clean it up.”

Entering its third year, the Brickyard GP offers a different variety of racing compared to the Indianapolis 500 or the Brickyard 400.

Wayne’s splashy arrivals at Colts camp are kind of a thing. In 2009 he showed up in a dump truck, wearing a hard hat.

Many NASCAR haulers were put on display for fans along Main Street Thursday—and we were listening.

“The best part is that there’s so much people don’t know about Slick Leonard,” says filmmaker Ted Green. “He’s a documentarian’s dream.”

The beribboned road leading to that neon-lit crescendo of summer, the Indiana State Fair, may provide an even better reflection of our agricultural heritage—and inspire the next generation to embrace it.

Until The Lawn has a permanent space, “it’s really nothing more than a temporary facility that could go away at a moment’s notice.”

The Indiana Repertory Theatre hired him to create an original work for each of its nine plays in 2014-2015, and his style couldn’t be more appropriate: “I tend to paint dramatic, mysterious paintings anyway.”

Hijinks ensued that included that rapper/host, current Indiana star Paul George, and now-erstwhile Indy joker Lance Stephenson.

A wonderfully poignant turn came courtesy of accompanist Ben Toth, whose arrangement of Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song” let Jackson wrap his voice around every sad, sexy line.

On July 12, Indiana Landmarks hosts its annual Treasure Hunt. Above, a few of the items we’d like to add to our chest.   Photos by Tony Valainis This article appeared in the July 2014 issue.  

See the hilarious clip—and find out why ‘Under the Dome’ star Dean Norris loves Indiana.