festivals

How to avoid the lines, what to taste, and the edible accessory you’ll want to wear.

Even if you’re a native of the Windy City, these 25 ideas make it possible to play tourist in your home city.

A law enforcement leader says 92,000 comers descended on Indy Pride’s annual LGBT festival downtown, with roughly 35,000 goers at the companion parade.

“When I build a team, I want diversity,” says Fever head coach Lin Dunn. “I imagine a team like a bowl of fruit: apples, peaches, pears, bananas, and some nuts. Different perspectives and different personalities. You can’t have too many nuts, though!”

Hundreds of humans and pets descended on Garfield Park for a record-breaking romp that included pet pools, food trucks, and a canine-couture show.

Grammy nominee Mary Lambert will sing, as will Indy’s own Men’s Chorus. And there will be pets.

Those 2014 Cadillac Barbie Pride Parade grand marshals include “a Bag Lady, an Indiana Fever guard, and two prominent soldiers in the battle against HJR-3.”

“What people have experienced at Oranje is a mix of fine art and live music in a nontraditional venue,” says Ryan Hickey. “That’s what we’re going for with this, too—blending different art forms together in a unique space.”

By its own admission, G.B.F. makes for a perfect marriage of Stephen King’s Carrie and Mariah Carey’s ill-fated Glitter flick. And as that flick is already in this film fest’s rear-view mirror, here are three worth viewing yet this weekend.

We asked 11 people attending Indy’s first-ever Festival of Faiths just what that word—faith—means to them. Here are their answers.

Catch her capering while you can: The multitasker will perform her routine at the appropriately titled Red Dress Fantastically Fun Jaunt in the morning before serving as grand marshal of the event’s costume parade.

Coming soon: Indy’s most prestigious movie festival and more than 100 films that probably won’t return to local theaters. Here’s a cheat sheet for taking it all in.

On September 21, the annual IUPUI regatta pits members of the school’s community against each other in a festive, free, spectator-friendly canoe relay. Here’s how to join the fun.

Indy’s own Lily & Madeleine, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, and many more musical performers and entertainers populated the stages as festival-goers strolled the park and shopped local styles.

If the Fair is for eaters, Dig IN is for foodies.