Kyle Ragsdale

For now, being back in business—at a place that seats just 34 in its main dining room—seems to have rejuvenated George’s spirits.

If Pearings’s 80-plus toppings can’t bring you to eat a cup of sea-salt–caramel–pretzel froyo this time of year, try a crepe.

They say the best bands are greater than the sum of their parts. In the case of The Last IV, the parts are pretty excellent themselves.

The Indiana Repertory Theatre hired him to create an original work for each of its nine plays in 2014-2015, and his style couldn’t be more appropriate: “I tend to paint dramatic, mysterious paintings anyway.”

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