Arts & Culture

Ronnie Schneider, a UNC recruit from Bloomington, and his partner Paul Oosterbaan of Kalamazoo, Mich., will face off against Carmel’s Rajeev Ram and his pal Brian Baker. All four are American.

The gaming convention came and went in downtown Indianapolis, and with it, a wide swath of styles graced the figures of role-playing types and fantasy lovers.

This month, Hoosier Julie Perry releases the second edition of a book that has turned into a bible for becoming a crew member on glamorous mega-yachts. Here’s the article that started it all.

Earlier this month, IM reported that the Indiana State Fair—that bastion of deep-fried butter—was taking baby steps toward appealing to a more refined class of locavores and epicureans, primarily at the DuPont Food Pavilion.

A Gen Con convention-goer delivered an unlikely but warm homage to beloved, genteel painter Bob Ross, star of the painting TV show shot at Ball State.

The Trekkies from Five Year Mission are boldly going where no nerds have gone before: writing a song about each episode of the original, 1960s Star Trek series.

The intimacy of the venue and the performance shone through Panic!’s willingness to joke around on stage and fill awkward pauses with ’90s cover songs

My mom introduced me to Styx. She used to pop in the greatest hits album when we were driving down the interstate and let the sweet rock ’n‘ roll sing through the speakers.

More than 160 young Hoosiers sent in tapes of their finest vocals for a chance to battle at the State Fair’s rendition of American Idol, its first-ever Vocal Throwdown.

This smartly paced documentary film now showing at the Indiana State Museum comes across as a 40-minute visual love letter to “the predator we love to fear.”

I hope that running 200 miles between now and the next Indy Honor Flight on September 7 will help raise awareness—and a few dollars, through your donations—to help get another veteran to Washington.

Just watch out for that cameo from the top Manning in charge: Archie shows up late in the clip, and looks a bit too comfortable and natural wigging out.

Stockannette and the Yarnburners, a group of 14 serious knitters and crocheters from all over Indiana, joined forces to create the “piano sweater.”

The majority of these songs provide mellow-rock moodiness that begs for a beer or three. While that held true for this live show, it was also amped up a significant notch.

Indianapolis charter schools are signing up students as fast as they can find them. Will reform spell the end of traditional public education?