An illustration at Santa holding a stein and preztel at The Athenaeum Foundation Christkindlmarkt

The Athenaeum Foundation’s Super Markt

The Athenaeum joins a crowded field to serve up what organizers call the “perfect” Christkindlmarkt.

The Ticket

Fall arts preview

Tweets of the Week: Celebrities at IU, Rogue Geese & More

@IUBloomington offers the week's best #humblebrag: "Just another day at IU (with Grammy Award winner Joshua Bell and Academy Award winner Meryl Streep)."

Video: Elvis's Last Show, in Indy Six Weeks before Death

He has more than 6.5 million "likes" on Facebook, a testament to his enduring claim to the throne as the King. Yes, today marks the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley's untimely and unsightly death, in 1977 but six weeks after his final concert ever. That show took place at Market Square Arena in downtown Indianapolis 
TedX 2014

Talks of the Town: CreativeMornings and TEDx Indianapolis

Local experimental-art collective Know No Stranger lampooned Silicon Valley product launches. The pitch: a robot, Ascme, that only responded to “the crispy rhythm of monosyllabic speech.”

Culture Q&A: Darius Rucker

"When it’s over in country music, it’s going to be time to go fishing."
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Dinner and a Show

Eight Indy locals share where they love to get dinner before or after a performance.
Douglas Wissing

Q&A with Douglas Wissing, Author of IN Writing

"The publishers consider this to be almost an alternative history of Indiana."
Indiana State Fair stage collapse

Seeking Survivors: On Writing About the Indiana State Fair Stage Collapse

I had been going back to the night of August 13, 2011, time and time again, in quick succession. And I was shaken.