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John Legend replaces Aretha Franklin as Jazz Fest headliner

Aretha Franklin is out, and John Legend is in for the 10th annual Kroger Indy Jazz Fest. Although festival organizers announced in February that the ...

Indy.com Staff in Music at 06:45 PM on 05/07/08 | 10 Responses

Tags: indy events, indy concerts, indianapolis concerts, indy jazz fest, indianapolis entertainment, indianapolis jazz festival

Top 10 Live: The week's best concerts

The Top 10 Live is a collaborative effort between Indy.com and Indianapolismusic.net 1. Tegan and Sara 7:30 p.m. May 8, Egyptian Room, 502 N. New ...

Indy.com Staff in Things to do, Music at 04:27 PM on 05/07/08 | 0 Responses

Tags: top 10 live, indy bands, indy events, indy concerts, indianapolis concerts, indianapolis entertainment, indy music scene, indianapolis bands

What Happens In Vegas

There's an unwritten rule about romantic comedies that is pretty much a given. No matter how formulaic the script, if the audience falls in love ...

Indy.com Staff in Movies at 03:14 PM on 05/07/08 | 0 Responses

Tags: comedy, Cameron Diaz, Lake Bell, Rob Corddry, Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Krusiec, Dennis Farina

Q&A with musical multiculturalists DeVotchKa

The Denver band DeVotchKa, which plays May 10 at The Vogue, is known for weaving polka, mariachi and gypsy jazz into the fabric of indie ...

Indy.com Staff in Things to do, Music at 02:12 PM on 05/07/08 | 0 Responses

Tags: indie rock, polka, mariachi, gypsy jazz, band interviews

Semi-pro football player gets bruised but not paid, and that's OK with her

Valerie Wydock has bumps and bruises all over her body. She has a disease, and she wouldn't cure it even if she could. For two ...

Indy.com Staff at 01:58 PM on 05/07/08 | 0 Responses

Tags: football, profiles, indy faces

The weekly dish: Whammy Bar

The updated Whammy Bar is open longer than before, and its menu selections have been simplified The Music Mill, a Northeastside staple for live music, ...

Indy.com Staff in Dining at 01:11 PM on 05/07/08 | 0 Responses

Tags: bar food, indianapolis restaurants, indy restaurants, indianapolis food, indianapolis dining, indianapolis dining reviews, indianapolis restaurant reviews

Culture Club: the week's top arts and culture events

1. "Street and Elite: The Sartorialist's View of the Economics of Style" 7 p.m. May 8, Indianapolis Museum of Art, $8 (public), 4000 Michigan Road, ...

Indy.com Staff in Things to do, Culture at 12:25 PM on 05/07/08 | 0 Responses

Tags: culture club, visual arts, indy theater, indy artists, indy plays, indy culture, indianapolis culture, indianapolis artists, indianapolis performances

Forbidden Kingdom

Beware when a new film insists on reminding you of its "first" onscreen pairing of star actors X and Y. Like Nigerian "investors" e-mailing strangers ...

Indy.com Staff in Things to do, Movies, TV and Celebrities at 12:52 PM on 05/06/08 | 1 Response

Tags: movies, celebrities, Forbidden Kingdom

WIBC gains listeners; WFMS stays No. 1

News and talk station WIBC gained listeners during its first three months at FM radio frequency 93.1, jumping from No. 5 to No. 2 in ...

Indy.com Staff in Things to do, Culture at 01:47 PM on 05/05/08 | 0 Responses

Tags: radio, WIBC, WFMS, arbitron

The weekly dish: S.I.

Earlier this year, the Scholars Inn on Mass Ave. loosened its bookish bow tie and underwent an extreme makeover. After closing to the public in ...

Indy.com Staff in Dining at 09:48 PM on 05/04/08 | 2 Responses

Tags: burgers, fries, dining reviews, indy restaurants, restaurant reviews, Fish

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The weekly dish: Whammy Bar

The updated Whammy Bar is open longer than before, and its menu selections have been simplified The Music Mill, a Northeastside staple for live music, ...

Staff on Whammy Bar at 01:11 PM on 05/07/08

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Staff on Wearable Art Galleria Grand Opening at 04:39 PM on 05/05/08

The weekly dish: S.I.

Earlier this year, the Scholars Inn on Mass Ave. loosened its bookish bow tie and underwent an extreme makeover. After closing to the public in ...

Staff on Scholars Inn Restaurant & Lounge at 02:21 PM on 04/23/08

The weekly dish: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers

If the crowd clamoring in the entry area at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers was any indication, then Carmel has plenty of red-meat fanatics. Families and ...

Staff on Red Robin at 03:45 PM on 04/16/08

The weekly dish: Smokehouse on Shelby

Take a 1950s-style diner, add barbecue and blues, and you get Smokehouse on Shelby, the newest occupant of the Fountain Square Theatre Building. It's an ...

Staff on Smokehouse on Shelby at 03:41 PM on 04/09/08

Dining review: Mudbugs Cajun Cafe

Carmel's Mudbugs Cajun Cafe serves comfort food with a warm Southern flair, ideal for spicing up a dreary day or celebrating a sunny one. On ...

Staff on Mudbugs Cajun Café at 04:52 PM on 03/27/08

2 for $20: Center Stage Cafe

Easily passed over, where Central and Fort Wayne avenues split into Downtown, sits Center Stage Cafe. Ben and I visited on a snowy afternoon and ...

Staff on Center Stage Cafe at 05:34 PM on 03/26/08

Dining out: Bistro de Paris

Carmel's Arts & Design District continues to expand its cosmopolitan offerings, this time in a culinary-arts format with Bistro de Paris, a cozy Main Street ...

Staff on Bistro de Paris at 11:31 AM on 03/26/08

Dining out: Hollyhock Hill

Hollyhock Hill has been a Far Northside Indianapolis staple since 1929, and, while our family hasn't been visiting that long, it has become tradition for ...

Staff on Hollyhock Hill at 11:38 AM on 03/20/08

Dining out: Charleston's

As chains go, Charleston's isn't overwhelmingly corporate. Two area locations (Castleton and Westfield) are the sole Midwestern representatives of eateries otherwise located in Arizona, Nebraska, ...

Staff on Charleston's at 02:05 PM on 03/19/08

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Top 10 Live: The week's best concerts

Top 10 Live is a collaborative effort between the Indy.com staff and Indianapolismusic.net. 1. The Black Keys w/ Jay Reatard 8 p.m. April 13, The ...

Indy.com Staff in Things to do, Music at 10:44 AM on 04/14/08 | 9 Responses

Tags: Country Music, live shows, rock 'n' roll, indianapolis concerts

Adventure: Painting the figure

Certain artists have always amazed me with their annoying, cloying pretentiousness, their false bravado, derring-do and ever-so-precious fashion ensembles, and the way they explain their ...

Konrad.Marshall in Things to do, Culture at 10:39 AM on 03/11/08 | 12 Responses

Tags: Art, painting, adventure, Herron, indy arts, indianapolis arts, indy art scene, indy painting classes, indianapolis painting classes

What's so great about ...

... P.F. Chang's? I ask because a recent indy.com straw poll indicated that people are really keen on that restaurant, more so than most Asian ...

Indy.com Staff in Dining at 11:20 AM on 03/14/08 | 10 Responses

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Put Comments Back on Party Crasher!

Dear Indy.com, Now that you've switched from INtake to Indy.com, I think you need to put the commenting feature back on the Party Crasher galleries. ...

randydaytona in Things to do, Nightlife at 01:47 PM on 01/23/08 | 39 Responses

Tags: intake, photos, Indy.com, Party Crasher, girls, Comments, Interaction

Talk to Me-DVD

I just watched the Don Cheadle film "Talk to Me," and found it a wonderful film, one that is sure to be on my best ...

joe.shearer in Things to do, Movies at 01:58 PM on 11/07/07 | 3 Responses

Tags: Movie, Don Cheadle, review, DVD, Talk to Me, Cedric the Entertainer, Martin Sheen, Martin Luther King Jr.

Aaaannn Coulter

OK, she's not an interesting person in the sense that she's a movie star or TV star -- and she might not even be human ...

Jenny Elig in TV and Celebrities at 01:48 PM on 11/05/07 | 13 Responses

Tags: Coulter, Ann, Famous People

Jens lekman in Bloomington

This Tuesday night, Jens Lekman will be playing what i hope to be a wonderful set at Jakes in Bloomington. Alongside will be local Totally ...

adam_k in Music at 12:41 PM on 10/24/07 | 6 Responses

Tags: Music, Concerts, shows, dancing, jens lekman, bloomington

'Popular' kids: An interview with Nada Surf

Nada Surf's biggest hit ever was a novelty song called "Popular" (I'm head of the class/I'm popular/I'm a quarterback/I'm popular) released in 1996. After the ...

Matt Gonzales in Music at 11:46 AM on 10/18/07 | 5 Responses

Tags: Music, indie rock, nada surf, pop