What I Know: Lee Hamilton
Editor's Note: Former U.S. House representative Lee Hamilton's wife Nancy died in Bloomington on Aug. 11, in an accident when her own car rolled...
Introducing: The Light Fantastic
“I’m a city person,” artist/designer Vito Acconci says one late-spring afternoon as he watches workmen build his first Indianapolis project, a complex series of lights and pipes in and around the sidewalk beneath the Virginia Avenue parking garage downtown. “If I see a street, I understand it.”
Raising the Bard
Starved for a little culture, or perhaps a little starlight? This weekend, there is ample opportunity to satisfy your need for both. After a year-long hiatus, Heartland Actors Repertory Theatre's Shakespeare on the Canal has happily returned to White River State Park. This season's play—Othello—is the fourth that HART has staged (for free) i
Ball State Students Debut Vonnegut Library Exhibit
Honestly, I didn’t pay that much attention while reading Slaughterhouse-Five in high school English class. Even though it was short compared to other required books—I’m looking at you, Crime and Punishment—I didn’t fully understand the themes. So when assigned to check out a public media event for a new exhibit fashioned by Ball State University students for the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, I was a bit apprehensive. My Vonnegut knowledge was slim. Yes, I knew that he was from Indiana and that I should be proud of that. I also knew that he had one heck of a mustache. And that’s about it. So when I walked into the KVML yesterday, I was a clean slate personified, although my soul felt dirty for the Slaughterhouse-Five crime.
Indy Pride Festival: By the Numbers
Tens of thousands came out for the annual Circle City IN Pride Festival on June 9, and the organizers' final numbers are in. Per Indy Pride's own by-the-numbers Facebook post on June 26 and Stephanie Swanson, chair of Circle City IN Pride, here are some figures from that Saturday festival and the week of events leading up to it: