Arts & Culture

“The band, for all intents and purposes, from the beginning, was me and a gang of buddies here and there that would change and morph,” Edwards says. “My 20s had ended, and that band kinda felt like my 20s.”

“There’s something in this collective that is just a little bit magical,” says O’Connell. “If it wasn’t the right group of seven people, it’d be different. But with this lineup, somehow the bigger group makes things more fun.”

“Look hard enough and you can see the influence of Letterman everywhere. The internet has become the home of stupid pet tricks and prankish stunts, and the baffling absurdist comedy of Late Night is now mainstream.”

While the Boston Pops Orchestra is known for symphonic renditions of popular contemporary hits, in the spring of its 132nd season, the group pays tribute to a historic American composer with By George! The Boston Pops Plays Gershwin, led by conductor Keith Lockhart. The show arrives at the Palladium in Carmel on April 2 as […]

The move would have closed the book on a long planning process and fundraising campaign by the nonprofit, which opened in its present location on Senate Avenue in 2011.

According to Indianapolis Museum of Art research, the public only spends about 5 percent of its leisure-time activity going to museums. So what’s the IMA to do? Attract the other 95 percent with flowers.

One of Irvington’s original arteries makes a comeback.

If you, like many spectators, suffered from fencing withdrawal after the end of the Rio Olympics, you’re in luck. You can see live, competitive fencing in person this week at the 2017 NCAA National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Fencing Championship hosted by the University of Notre Dame and Indiana Sports Corp. This is the first year […]

“I was supposed to be writing another play. Suddenly, there was a shift of energy, a wake-up call, a force that I couldn’t ignore—and without completely understanding the urgency, I knew I had to follow this story.”

“A house with this sort of stuff in its background is called a ‘psychologically affected property,’ because unlike a cracked foundation or bad electrical repairs, its impact on a buyer’s decision is purely psychological—unless there’s a big bloodstain on the living room floor that needs to be sanded out.”

Bland picks are The Big Bang Theory of March Madness, and I have no use for them anymore.

According to the marquee, “Miley Cyrus Unplugged” was slated to happen at The Vogue … on April 1, 2008. Not realizing it was a prank, Cyrus fans from across the Midwest made a beeline for Indy and began queuing up for tickets. They were not amused when they learned it was merely an April Fool’s joke.

“I do remember that he was swearing after we went off air,” recalls one of Knight’s former ESPN broadcast crew members. “Something or other was always pissing him off.”

“When you have a guy who’s a genius, a lot of people don’t understand him,” says Lawrence Funderburke. “Not to excuse anything he’s done, but he thinks differently and he sees differently.”

Yellow light … yellow light … yellow light … green light! And they’re off.