Editing Evansville, Indiana (section)

==In popular culture==
===Film and television===
Game scenes in the 1992 film ''[[A League of Their Own]]'' were filmed at [[Bosse Field]]. It is the third oldest baseball stadium still in use in the United States (behind [[Fenway Park]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] and [[Wrigley Field]] in [[Chicago]]). The ballpark served as the homefield for the [[Racine Belles]]. Scenes from the 2014 [[Michael Rosenbaum]] movie ''[[Back in the Day (2014 film)|Back in the Day]]'' feature Green River Road in Evansville.

All exterior shots on the 1988–2018 [[sitcom]] ''[[Roseanne (TV series)|Roseanne]]'' are still photographs taken in and around Evansville. The Conners' house is at 619 South Runnymeade Avenue, and the Lobo Lounge is a pizzeria at the corner of Edgar and Louisiana Streets. [[Matt Williams (producer)|Matt Williams]], one of the show's producers, is a native of Evansville and a graduate of The University of Evansville theatre program. He is a co-founder of Wind Dancer Productions and has been involved with numerous sitcoms such as 'Home Improvement', movies and dramatic plays for Broadway.

''[[The Daily Show]]'' has featured Evansville in two episodes.  The first featured a story about comedian [[Carrot Top]]'s reopening of the historic Victory Theatre. The second poked fun at former mayor Russell Lloyd Jr. for skipping out on a city meeting to attend [[Cher]]'s Farewell Tour concert being performed on the same night at Roberts Stadium.

Evansville was also featured in [[Alton Brown]]'s series ''[[Feasting on Asphalt]]''. Alton and his crew visited the historic [[Greyhound Bus]] station for its [[vending machine]]s, the [[YWCA]] tea room for lunch, and the Hilltop Inn<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wegotbrains.com|title=Hilltop Inn - Evansville, IN - The Manliest Restaurant in America|website=www.wegotbrains.com}}</ref> for a [[Fried-brain sandwich|brain sandwich]] and [[burgoo]]. Other shows have included ''[[Ghost Hunters (TV series)|Ghost Hunters]]'' which investigated [[Willard Library]]'s "Gray Lady" ghost and ''[[Storm Stories]]'' on [[The Weather Channel]] documenting the devastating [[Evansville Tornado of November 2005|tornado]] that struck the city in 2005. The city was briefly featured in the 2007 ''[[Prison Break]]'' episode "[[Chicago (Prison Break episode)|Chicago]]". In 2012, Evansville was featured on the British television program ''[[Supersize vs Superskinny]]'' because of a poll that ranked the residents of the city as the most [[obese]] in the United States.<ref>

{{cite web
 |title=Fattest city designation lands Evansville on British TV program 
 |url=http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/jan/11/no-headline---ev_obesity/? 
 |work=[[Evansville Courier & Press]] 
 |date=2012-01-11 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116105512/http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/jan/11/no-headline---ev_obesity/ 
 |archive-date=2012-01-16 
}}</ref>

Evansville and neighboring Newburgh was the featured location for the feature film ''Back in the Day'' filmed in 2014.<ref>[[Back in the Day (2014 film)]]</ref>

Evansville is mentioned several times in the [[Boardwalk Empire (season 3)|third]] and [[Boardwalk Empire (season 4)|fourth seasons]] of the [[HBO]] series ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]''.

In 2021, an episode of HBO's "[[We're Here]]" was filmed in Evansville.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hbo.com/were-here/season-2/5-evansville-indiana |title=We're Here Ep 5: Evansville, Indiana &#124; Official Website for the HBO Series |publisher=HBO.com |date= |access-date=2022-03-09}}</ref>

===Literary media===
Evansville is featured in a section of [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s 1955 novel ''[[Lolita]]'', as well as [[Walker Percy]]'s 1962 novel ''[[The Moviegoer]]'', and [[Robert Silverberg]]'s 1969 science fiction novel ''[[To Live Again (novel)|To Live Again]]''.

Evansville is the primary location in the historical fiction novel, ''Invitation to Valhalla'' by Mike Whicker, published in 2004. The novel is based on the records of German spy Erika Lehmann's attempt to infiltrate the LST shipyards during WWII.

An Evansville couple is the focus of "Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story" by James Derk, based on a series of stories in the ''[[Evansville Courier & Press]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story|first=James|last=Derk|date=10 October 2006|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=1425957129}}</ref>

Evansville, under the name Vansul, appears as a slapstick satire in the [[post-apocalyptic]] novel ''Light of the Ancient Sun''.

Evansville is the hometown of the protagonist, Jack Crabb, in [[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]]'s 1964 book ''[[Little Big Man (novel)|Little Big Man]]''.  This is not mentioned in the 1970 cinematic adaption, ''[[Little Big Man (film)|Little Big Man]]''.