Here’s a roundup of 10 or so links to catch you up this Monday — here too soon!
- ISTEP update: A plan to shorten this year’s massive test could go before the General Assembly as soon as today. (IndyStar) | Parents and teachers are set to rally at the Statehouse. (Fox59) | Schools chief Glenda Ritz is on board with Gov. Mike Pence’s consultants’ ideas. (Chalkbeat)
- Did you catch Sunday night’s “Saturday Night Live” 40th anniversary special? I can’t pick a favorite sketch or cameo; I’m just going to relive it in the live blogs of the NBC event. (MTV)| Lorne Michaels on seven key moments in the show’s history. (New York Times)
- Extraordinary: Carmel won a record-tying 29th girls swimming state championship this weekend. (IndyStar)
- A video purporting to show the mass beheading of Egyptian Christian hostages was released Sunday by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group. (USA Today)
- Anti-GMO blogger Vani Hart, aka The Food Babe, is “a raving lunatic.” (Jezebel) | This post got people talking. (Facebook)
- Does the Hillside neighborhood’s industrial pollution and history of clouded property titles warrant a wholesale bulldoze? Follow-up on last Sunday’s report on a suspected serial killer dumping bodies. (IndyStar)
- An unaltered photo from a magazine shoot of model Cindy Crawford, 48, in lingerie is sparking discussion about beauty and how women are portrayed in the media. (USA Today)
Cindy Crawford’s April spread in Marie Claire features 100% non-retouched photos. Take a bow Ms. C. pic.twitter.com/ttQz2BcRfg
— Charlene White (@CharleneWhite) February 13, 2015
- Snoop Dogg will be in Indy on Friday to perform a 2-hour DJ set and three songs. (IndyStar)
- My vote for weirdest story from Valentine’s Day weekend: An Indiana couple tied the knot Saturday at a local White Castle. That reception’s food could cause issues that interfere with the honeymoon. (WTHR)
- What a “front freaking yard” looks like in Boston after this weekend’s record-setting “snow hurricane.” (Boston Globe)
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