Columbia Club

“I met him (Jay Z) at a party, and his friends were saying how much they loved me. Then a few weeks later, I get a call from Jay Z. I know. Showbiz.”

A wonderfully poignant turn came courtesy of accompanist Ben Toth, whose arrangement of Sylvia Plath’s “Mad Girl’s Love Song” let Jackson wrap his voice around every sad, sexy line.

Previous incarnations of his ‘Cocktail Hour’ show featured arrangements of songs by Joni Mitchell, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, and Amy Winehouse.

One of the best moments of the evening came early on as she started into the brilliant mash-up of two pop-music nuggets, Ellie Goulding’s “Starry-Eyed” and Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games.” That’s when the night’s brief drama played out.

Benanti has shared the stage with numerous Broadway stars, co-owns Kristen Chenoweth’s TV curse, and kills it on Twitter. Here she comes, Indy.

Since the General Assembly lowered the daily gift-reporting minimum from $100 to $50 in 2010, steakhouses and other nice restaurants in Indianapolis have noticed a change in the dining habits of legislators.

The Australian performer, appearing at the Columbia Club on April 11, isn’t sure how she acquired her musical tastes, “but the muses responsible should probably be arrested.”

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