Sam Stall
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Indianapolis Monthly
- Top 5M sites
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- Jul 21, 2026
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The Emerging Artists In The Indy Arts Scene (opens the original)
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At the age of 10, Brazilian native Luzemberg Santana won what amounts to a professional dancer’s version of the lottery. The odds against him were certainly as long as those against the average Powerball player. He was one of 62,000 children who auditioned for a scholarship to the ultra-prestigious Bolshoi Theatre School in Brazil. And he became one of only eight of those applicants to receive a scholarship. “I had to live far away from my family for eight years until I graduated,” Santana says.
Sharks In Indiana? (opens the original)
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Q: I’ve heard there are bull sharks in the Ohio River. That can’t be true … can it? A: While the chance of the highly aggressive predator (a confirmed man-eater) cruising the Ohio River is low, it isn’t zero. The beasts can live in fresh water and so have, in fact, managed to invade rivers and lakes around the world. Disturbingly, two were captured—in separate incidents—in the Mississippi near St. Louis, each having traversed the 700 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Experts say the Ohio may be a t
The Card Crime Wave (opens the original)
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JUST BEFORE THE 2023 Gen Con gaming extravaganza opened at the Indiana Convention Center, two New Yorkers carried out an odd crime. Thomas Dunbar and Andrew Giaume—who were known in the gaming community and had attended Gen Con as buyers for years—slipped into the vendor area and used a pallet jack to stroll out with boxes full of brand new packs of trading cards. Then they loaded the booty into a rented vehicle and headed back East. This was no penny-ante theft: The cards were later valued at $
Chasing Amelia Earhart (opens the original)
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AMELIA EARHART ACCOMPLISHED a lot during her 39 years of life, but she’s remembered most for vanishing on July 2, 1937, while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. And that doesn’t seem fair to journalist and author Rachel Hartigan, whose book, Lost: Amelia Earhart’s Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life, discusses the three main theories about what became of her and her navigator Fred Noonan. What is universally agreed upon is that the pair someho
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