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See what relatives look like with a Charlie Chaplin or handlebar style.

James Spencer Russell enjoyed an impressive career in New York in the ’60s, when his work—which ranged from Pop to Abstract Expressionism—was shown at the Smithsonian and featured in the movie Midnight Cowboy.

Since their first appearance at the Gospel Music Workshop of America, Krash Krew has worked with and appeared with recording artists such as Kirk Franklin.

Kids can see a modern Christmas classic for free—if they get ready for bed early.

Sports observers waxed sarcastic and mournful about the Colts’ ugly home loss to the Rams—but hey, they won four nights later! Meanwhile, Dario Franchitti closed his IndyCar and 500 racing career as the Indiana State Museum’s resident mastodon tweeted, “I’M STILL HERE.”

Narrated by actor Christopher Plummer, the film features saber-toothed tigers, mastodons, and wooly mammoths, recreated by hit-or-miss CGI in their original habitats of beautifully depicted Utah and South Dakota, as they would have looked during the final days of the last of five Ice Ages our world has experienced.

Finding a complete set of hyoid, or throat bones, is a huge find. These belong to Fred, a mastodon discovered in Fort Wayne (and pictured here).

Our expert pulls up a chair and assesses a new furniture exhibit.

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.”

If you have a ticket for the blockbuster Star Wars exhibit at the Indiana State Museum you might still wait in line to enter the actual gallery. Here’s another idea: Detour to a pair of new Lincoln attractions instead.

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If it’s true that family reunites in the afterlife, sooner or later I’m bound to bump into Abraham Lincoln.

Fresh off of his latest good fortune—a four-year, $22-million pact with the Indianapolis Colts—Andrew Luck appeared again downtown, this time among the throngs at a Monday night showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Indiana State Museum’s IMAX Theater. The Stanford-educated shoulders on which the city’s football hopes now hang sported a gray Nike T-shirt, and Luck was also in athletic shorts and sandals, low-key attire for Peyton Manning’s heir.