Emily Taylor

RFRA goes into effect next month—but the law won’t be the last battle over LGBT rights.

Rings, flowers, musicians, dresses—opening up weddings to a new segment of spenders could mean big bucks for the Hoosier bottom line.

A toast the best of the fermented offerings around town.

How to drink up the Bloomington Brewfest.

Sun King Brewery and Three Floyds release their third collaboration brew, Slacktivist.

Take a look at its barrel-aged cocktail program.

Indiana became the first state to enact an energy-savings plan and then slash it.

It might not generate the same headlines as some other policy issues, but this understated 2015 legislative item is hardly the least important.

Nathan Trapuzzano was set to celebrate his one-year wedding anniversary with wife Jennifer a month after the shooting. She gave birth to their child weeks later.

Headed to Clowes Memorial Hall? Oh Yumm! Bistro serves the best pre-show light dinner in the neighborhood.

Says the actress, “It is my belief that the greatest obstacles facing the transgender community are points of view that disavow our identities and suggest that no matter what we do, we are always the gender we are assigned at birth.”

“The moral of it is very much related back to what Whitman is trying to teach—that everyone is a part of everything, everywhere,” says Katherine Shelton (Caroline). “No one really dies, because everyone lives.”

A question remains: Is Freedom Indiana here to stay? “What I am willing to say is that we are certainly in a good position with HJR-3,” says campaign manager Megan Robertson. “Hopefully this is the last we hear of it, but if it’s not, then we will be back to fight it.”

“We came together to show the legislature that there are young people who believe in traditional marriage,” says Chris Knight, a student. “Other groups like Freedom Indiana have tried to push to the media that young people are on their side.”

“That is kind of my pet peeve,” Adam Graef says, “when you walk into a store, and something is really cool but not for sale.”