Culture

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.…
Literature comes alive with Visiting Writers Series

SARAH COFFING scoffing@butler.edu ASST. CULTURE EDITOR More than 400 of the world’s best writers have come to Butler University since 1989 to participate in the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. The program’s goal stays the same this year: to allow Butler students and the Indianapolis community the experience of a lifetime—to hear from…
“Dance is a universal language” Members of Butler Ballet tour Europe

EMMA EDICK eedick@butler.edu STAFF REPORTER An American-themed pizza restaurant, with walls decked in Route 66 signs and Top 40 Radio playing in the background, is where Butler Ballet ate one night last May. But this was not down the street in Indianapolis; this was the first night they arrived in Poznan, Poland. After…
Take one down, pass it around, 131 beers on tap

HALEY BAAS hbaas@butler.edu Staff Reporter A crowd of Broad Ripple bar-goers lines up to try out Broad Ripple’s newest bar. The new bar showcases craft beer, including 50 Indiana beers and 50 international beers. HopCat boasts the title of Indiana’s largest beer bar with 131 beers on tap. The new bar opened in Broad…
The Butler Ballets

MALLORY DUNCAN AND BREANNA MANLEY | Arts, Etc. Asst. Editor and Staff Reporter The Butler University dance faculty is contemplating adding a sixth ballet to its repertory. The dance department has been rotating five ballets—Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Swan Lake and Coppélia—for many years. “As a faculty we are trying to enhance what we offer…