Culture

Exploring 100 acres of the “not-so-secret” garden

OUT ON THE TOWN EMMA EDICK EEDICK@BUTLER.EDU In about 20 minutes’ time, you could stroll from Butler’s campus to the place where Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster picnic in John Green’s novel “The Fault in Our Stars.” The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres sits in the backyard of the Indianapolis…
The waffle files

HALEY BAAS STAFF REPORTER National Waffle Week was the first week of September, and the entire month is dedicated to honoring National Breakfast Month. In recognition of these notable dates, I decided to try out a few different waffle recipes and shares the best. The first recipe I made was for cinnamon roll waffles. I…
ButlerPalooza lineup unveiled

TYLER WAGNER twagner@bumail.edu STAFF REPORTER The Butler University Student Government Association announced last week via its Facebook and Twitter accounts that Lupe Fiasco and Smallpools will be rocking the South Mall at this year’s ButlerPalooza. The duo of acts appear to hint at a trend, as last year’s ButlerPalooza lineup also included a rap set…
Seasonably early “Blizzard” to hit campus

HALEY BAAS hbaas@butler.edu Staff Reporter Butler Theatre begins its performance season this month with “The Blizzard,” which Butler’s website calls “a romantic tale with a twist.” Butler’s production is based on the novel by Russian author Alexander Pushkin. The play features a young aristocratic woman and the circumstances that befall her. She first falls in…
Bulldogs of Butler

Spotlighting the everyday humans around campus SARAH COFFING scoffing@butler.edu ASST. CULTURE EDITOR A group of shirtless fraternity brothers lingers on the Mall. They throw their frisbee back and forth between bouts of laughter and proud high-fives. In between congratulations and taunts against the opposite team are random outbursts of “The Boys are Back in Town,”…
Out on the town: Indianapolis Cultural Trail

EMMA EDICK eedick@butler.edu STAFF REPORTER You may have driven through, or even explored, one of the six unique cultural districts in Indianapolis before.But have you discovered them all in one day? The Indianapolis Cultural Trail links neighborhoods and entertainment attractions together with Indy’s six cultural districts. The eight-mile bike-and-pedestrian pathway stretches from Broad Ripple Village…
Out on the Town: Indianapolis Culture Trail

Photos By Amy Street
From “Arts, Etc.” to “Culture”

BRITTANY GARRETT bgarrett@butler.edu CULTURE EDITOR Young adults lounging in late summer air with novels in their hands, two runners giving each other high fives as they pass, peers rushing to retrieve the scattered items from a woman’s dropped bag. These are not scenes from a utopian-based film. They are realities witnessed from a gazebo…
Marine band music man comes to direct

TYLER WAGNER twagner@bumail.edu STAFF REPORTER There’s not yet a table prepared for visiting students in Col. Michael J. Colburn’s office. There’s only a lonely set of chairs, but experience already hangs in bulk on the walls, and ornate awards of every imaginable size garnish the shelves, seemingly multiplying with each swivel of the head.…