Arts & Culture

“I look at this and I think, Whoa! That is a lot of work.“

“I know I’m biased, but Hilbert Circle Theatre is one of my favorites.”

Everyone’s Irish on March 17—but here’s how to really act the part.

From quoting Forrest Gump to a St. Elmo shout-out, Manning delivered a fitting farewell to his 18-year career.

Indianapolis has a proven track record, and, after all, there isn’t a city in America that can host large tournaments as well as Indy.

The feds say a mural technically belongs to the artist for his or her lifetime plus 75 years. But here in the rain-soaked, sun-bleached real world, no outdoor painting survives that long.

There are more reasons than ever to linger downtown—primarily thanks to the trailblazing path.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines. And let the bass drop!”

Is it time to love Tom Crean again? After a Big Ten title, the folks at tomcreanbuyout.com apparently think so.

“That was trial by ambush,” says Buck. “Sure, go ahead and bring in the assistant pro from the golf course, who was doing the wife in the sand traps. Just bring him in. It was all part of the game.”

“The publishers consider this to be almost an alternative history of Indiana.”

Then there’s the house, the most visible manifestation of Steve Hilbert’s megabucks lifestyle. Built over several years by Hilbert and his ex-wife, it embodies the sort of wealth that even some nations would envy.

Call him the old-school Donald Trump: Elwood native Wendell Willkie won the GOP presidential nomination in 1940 by emphasizing his business cred as a CEO. Merrie Melodies used Willkie as a punchline a few years later, when Bugs Bunny said, “IT AIN’T VENDELL VILLKIE!”

With Donald Trump and wife Melania Trump dragged into the fray, the feud was no longer just a regional skirmish pitting a flamboyant Hoosier millionaire against a meat-and-potatoes billionaire from America’s Dairyland. It was a critical mass of heavyweight egos, with jealously guarded private lives hung out on the courthouse clothesline.

If you want the best coach in the Big Ten, look to Iowa.