Celebrating 100 years of the singer and actress Julie London.

Human pollution has an impact on all environments across the globe, including in remote Antarctica.

Some types of birds prefer ground level water sources also, so even a plant pot saucer can serve during hot days. You don't need feeders during the summer, but water is crucial in times of drought.

The location of many of Indiana’s towns and cities is a result of geography, topography, economics, and the law—with a little nostalgia thrown in the mix.

Town boosters competed fiercely for the designation of county seat during the nineteenth century.

As cars are becoming safer to drive, we are becoming less safe driving them.

The name canna comes from the Greek word spelled "kanna," which means reed, though the canna plant does not have narrow reed-like leaves.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has firmly established itself on the US classical music scene, thanks in part to its first conductor, Fabien Sevitsky.

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We’re exploring music in and about the Americas during the first centuries of European colonization. We begin our journey in New France with the musical legacies of Jesuit missions, fur trading outposts, and occupied indigenous nations.

Mary Dezember reads her poems " Wild Conviction Epigraph: Poem 1," and "Poetry within the story: Poems 2-4" from her novel, Wild Conviction.

Gary—a city that social reformers had already dubbed the “City of the Century”—seemed a perfect site to try out new types of urban housing.