Arts & Culture

Watch these pieces that Zamata has written and performed, and tell us she’s not the next Tina Fey.

It’s a hilariously GIF-able moment in his “New Kid” episode from the NBA’s Dream Big campaign—even if Hibbert himself got schooled by Charlotte’s Al Jefferson last night.

Our Irish friends constitute only 11 percent of the population, but you wouldn’t know it from the number of local bars with names like O’Hooligan’s and Hidey McCarkey’s.

The case of former Brownsburg resident Matthew Reed—detailed in IM’s March 2014 feature “Alienated”—might presently be Indiana’s most famous extraterrestrial encounter. But it’s certainly not the first.

The chiseled, twang-centric sensation Steve Grand will perform on the main stage at the festival on June 14, with his viral hit “All-American Boy” in tow.

Via @Churchie84: Someday, a Midwestern insurance salesman will proudly say, “I edited the 2014 Academy Award movie montages as an intern.”

Mike Terry, IndyGo president and CEO, claims that the benefits of expanding our public-transportation system would justify the cost. “This is about economic development, not social services.”

For her role as a pill-popping matriarch in this season’s August: Osage County, Streep has been nominated in the Best Actress category at Sunday’s Academy Awards. It’s the eighteenth nomination of her film career, more than any other actor in history.

“I’m the one who gets out in the open and runs around. A lot of my teammates hide and shoot. I come and get you,” says George Hill in regards to paintballing.

By decisively winning the 1926 Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, Charlie Wiggins, a humble mechanic from Indy’s south side, earned the nickname “The Negro Speed King”—almost 65 years before Willie T. Ribbs would become the first black driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.

No doubt, Indy has quite an array of intriguing things to explore, but here are 26 of the city’s most noteworthy musts.

Dickinson Custom Furniture & Kitchenware Indiana cutting board$56. Homespun: Modern Handmade 869 Massachusetts Ave., 317-351-0280, homespunindy.com Kurt Vonnegut finger puppet$6. Kurt Vonnegut Library Gift Store 340 N. Senate Ave., 652-1954, vonnegutlibrary.org Hoosier Momma Bloody Mary Maker$5.99 to $9.99. Sold at Marsh, Meijer, Kroger, and other locations, hoosiermomma.com Studio Indiana fine-art photography books and prints $22 and […]

Jog your memory, while meeting the new issues on the block.

The Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association’s monthly art tour has changed a lot in seven years, now boasting nearly 40 participating studios and galleries—plus a huge range of unofficial events.

Some of the most compelling parts of our city and its history have identified with the term “Naptown.” And the more confident we get, the more we use the name.