interviews

“I learned how story was always meant to be for Indian women: Immediate, necessary and fearless, like all good lies.”

“I got the opportunity to write for shows because of my standup, not the other way around, so I prefer standup.”

“There is a Midwestern calmness, a stability of outlook, very well exemplified by Dick [Lugar] and many, many others, that goes over well in Washington,” says longtime Indiana congressman Lee Hamilton.

“The main problem with this [legislation],” says Mangan, “is that it’s creating legal tension between legitimate constitutional and human rights versus behavior-based groups that want to achieve a special status in the law.”

“Right now, in the majority of the state, if somebody wanted to hang up a sign that says, ‘No Gays,’ or whatever other term they decided to use, they could do that and be completely within the law.”

Paula Katz talks about being a one-woman-staff at the iMOCA and the blurry line between work and life.

A look into the eclectic career of Alan Cumming, including that Romy and Michele dance, his Cabaret days, and his award-winning cologne called Cumming.

Debut young-adult novelist and Indy native Francesca Zappia discusses her recently published book, Made You Up.

“Opening the brewpub was a way for me to create a little bit of England here.”

On dating: “It’s not the guys, it’s once they tell their parents. They were there when HIV was considered a death sentence.”

Question: How many push-ups can you do in a minute? Luck: Hopefully 35! I’m not very good at push-ups. I lost to my girlfriend in a push-up competition in college.

We caught up with the singer before the show.

Carmel native Julian Batts earned a dubious 15 minutes of fame in the spring by mispronouncing “Achilles” on Wheel of Fortune—after landing on the $1 million spot. But he recovered nicely, winning $11,700 and making the national-media rounds with a good attitude. This month,  he returns to college with his perspective intact and a cushy […]

“Everyone tells me to drive as fast as I can and see if I get a ticket [on the Babyface, a.k.a. I-65], and then try to get out of it by saying the highway’s named after me. It doesn’t work that way.”

We caught up with the director of the Regions Bank Freedom Blast before the big bang.