Michael Rubino

Marion Academy promised to restore order in the classrooms and on the streets of Indianapolis. But when the charter school for juvenile offenders opened last August, it delivered chaos. “Sometimes, I think some of our students would be better off in jail. They’re safer there. Isn’t that a horrible thing to say?”

One of Indy’s best-kept secrets just got spilled: Draft magazine named The Koelschip one of its Top 100 Beer Bars.

The 12-tap bar opened in early April to serve local brews with a sidecar of nerd-stalgia.

From funky to fruity to flowery, the offerings from Central State will stretch your vocabulary, expectations, and understanding of microbiology.

Look out, Paul George is bound to put up video game numbers—for NBA 2K17.

“The can looks like one you might’ve seen at the track back in the day. It might be a conversation starter with some of the old-timers.”

Trump has had plenty to say about his sports heroes and himself. And sometimes those statements strain believability. Here, a quiz to see if you can tell fact from fiction.

The beards behind the beer have grown their south-suburban outpost in sleepy Bargersville into a farm-to-table gastropub worth the drive.

“We’re doing ‘weird stuff’ by local standards, but globally, it’s not that weird.”

Even a D chemistry student who doesn’t know a Schlenk flask from a Straus flask (guilty and guilty) would feel at ease in the school-lab-like tasting room at Broken Beaker.

Is it time to love Tom Crean again? After a Big Ten title, the folks at tomcreanbuyout.com apparently think so.

When paired with a free app, the interactive duck features stories, music, and learning-based games. It’s a rare example of a consumer electronic conceived in Indy.

Civic vision, opportunism, and lots of volunteerism take Indy’s sports rep from sorry to super.

According to a report in Variety, Jim Jones, the infamous Hoosier who led more than 900 of his followers to a mass suicide in 1978, will be the focus in Season 1 of a yet-to-be-named anthology crime drama (think Fargo) for the cable channel.

Chris Carlson left Indianapolis with his three grandsons for a male-bonding adventure in the Grand Canyon. Then he went to prison.