Arts & Culture

From the Saturday Night Live HR department: “Hard to believe our new cast member grew up a studious choir girl in Indiana. Here’s how she made it in showbiz.”

Via @chrisspangle: “It’s so nice to have a Bob Knight scandal again. It really takes me back to my childhood.”

Homesteading in the City, Deep Rock Tunnel photos, and curbing violence with Rev. Charles Harrison and the Ten Point Coalition. Those features, plus a review of Cicero’s new 10 West restaurant, a video recipe featuring a dressed-up tea egg, our columnists, and more stories and photos.

By the by, this isn’t the first time that IU has come under that faux-Fuhrer’s fire.

Why isn’t a rolling bar powered by tipsy people constantly teetering into the canal or plowing into pedestrians? Because a company employee known as “The Bar Handler” always steers.

March 28, 2014 — Paul George signed his first major endorsement deal, that with Gatorade. In doing so, he joins the likes of Peyton Manning, Dwyane Wade, Serena Williams, and Derek Jeter on Team G. Here’s his first TV commercial for the brand, a 15-second shot that finds him hemorrhaging the sports drink.

Most of the photos are shot with wide-angle lenses, capturing the timeless architecture along with the sweeping beauty each season brings the iconic Midwest campus.

Says the actress, “It is my belief that the greatest obstacles facing the transgender community are points of view that disavow our identities and suggest that no matter what we do, we are always the gender we are assigned at birth.”

This was a fully engaged audience feeding off the contagious, nonstop energy of the free-spirited five-piece act.

“President Obama and Vice President Biden stood up to shake my hand,” says Blanco. “It was a true sign of respect for my work as a poet. I thought, ‘These guys have my back.'”

The response from Fever leaders was swift, with the team’s most visible star, Tamika Catchings; head coach Lin Dunn; and general manager Kelly Krauskopf all weighing in on the matter.

“Whether you find it in a little jazz club, or on the street, or on a big stage, or on national television, talent is talent,” Kaufman says. “If you refuse to listen to somebody just because he or she was on a reality show, then you’re making your choice based on bad criteria.”

“The moral of it is very much related back to what Whitman is trying to teach—that everyone is a part of everything, everywhere,” says Katherine Shelton (Caroline). “No one really dies, because everyone lives.”

The players of Crispus Attucks High School wrote a new chapter in the book of Hoosier basketball lore—one in which underdogs could be kids from urban ghettos, could grow up shooting in alleys and parks, could be black and be a vital part of the glory of the game.

Julianne Swartz uses photography, plus magnets and other everyday items, in her installations. The lenses in different pieces of work help transfer these mundane objects into “magical moving pictures.”