Setting the tone for the new year looks different for everyone; however, a tradition that many practice is setting a New Year’s resolution. Dating back 4,000 years, ancient Babylonians have been said to be the first to practice the tradition, according to the History Channel.

The second annual Christkindlmarkt at the Athenaeum will look a little different this year — a little more inclusive, that is.

Hanukkah continues. That means if you're in the right place, you'll hear a musical tradition that's been around for centuries known as klezmer. To learn more, WFYI’s Ray Steele spoke to Dr. Shawn Royer, the chair of music and theatre at Marian University in Indianapolis.

When Dominic Dorsey was little, he never saw a Santa Claus who looked like him. So when he and his community group Don’t Sleep created the Black Business Bazaar that happens every holiday season in Indianapolis, he made sure that the Black Santa Experience was part of it.

The human brain has to really fight the lure of a discount. Companies know this and use many tricks to push our buttons. But there's a way to outsmart them.

It took Lily & Madeleine almost four years to finish their latest album. But “Nite Swim” is finally out, and while there are some familiar sounds from the folk/pop sister duo from Indianapolis, the album is also a major departure from their previous work in several ways. Lily & Madeleine spoke to WFYI’s Ray Steele.

High School dropout is not how you might expect to begin a conversation about a new examination of John F. Kennedy. But the man who made this new docuseries about Kennedy is no ordinary high school dropout, Ashton Gleckman grew up in Carmel, and before he decided not to finish school, he had recorded a music album, he launched a successful YouTube channel, and since then, he has composed a lot more music for film and got into making films himself. His eight-part series for the History Channel is simply entitled “Kennedy.” Ashton Gleckman spoke via Zoom with WFYI’s Ray Steele.

“Frozen: The Musical” is part of the current Broadway in Indianapolis season, and it’s a homecoming for one of its lead cast members. Evan Duff is from Fishers, a graduate of Hamilton Southeastern High School. He is portraying the Duke of Weselton in the touring production of Frozen, and he spoke recently via Zoom with WFYI’s Ray Steele.

In 1995, Indiana began restoring the river otter population by introducing 303 otters at 12 sites around the state. 

It’s an old trail bell. But it’s not just any old train bell. It’s also the biggest prize in college football in Indiana. Literally. “It is a big bell. I think it weighs 350 pounds,” said Dr. Scott Feller, president of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, an hour northwest of Indianapolis. The bell is the Monon Bell, and Wabash doesn’t have it right now. The bell currently resides on the campus of Wabash’s rival, 30 miles south in Greencastle.