Sam Stall

The notoriously ornery Guns N’ Roses caused the latest start of all time at the Noblesville venue. Here’s why.

Q: Is there any place in this town to get an old manual typewriter fixed? My grandfather’s 40-year-old model broke, and he refuses to use anything else.
Allison W., Indianapolis

When every other person passing you on the Monon offers some sort of greeting, it gets pretty old.

These are the shocking, headline-grabbing crimes from the 10 most notable killers, kidnappers, and thieves ever to prowl the underbelly of Indianapolis.

Q: I know Long’s is famous for its yeast doughnuts, but what’s the second-best thing on the bakery’s menu?

Carol C., Carmel

Q: I understand that the orangutans for the Indianapolis Zoo’s new exhibit are already holed up on the grounds someplace. Where are they staying, what do they do all day, and can I see them?

Victoria W., Indianapolis

Q: What can the astronomers at Butler’s Holcomb Observatory actually see? Indy’s light pollution is so bad, I can only make out a few stars from my backyard.

Jason H., Indianapolis

Q: Recent surveys place Indiana among the fattest states and high on the list for smoking. Are there any surveys that rank the state high for something good?

Q: Do we have mountain lions? I have a relative in Southern Indiana who insists they’ve returned.

Benjamin C., Indianapolis

Q: Someone told me that the restaurant where I eat pork tenderloin sandwiches is serving a fake—something called a pork fritter. What, exactly, is an “authentic” pork tenderloin, and are they really that hard to obtain? 

If the soreness of one’s writing hand is a gauge of literary success, Indy-based novelist John Green is on a tear. He recently inscribed every copy of his new young-adult book, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton Juvenile), out this month, and needed steroid treatments to sign all 150,000 autographs. “When I did a bad one, I wrote a secret URL on the page that takes you to a video of me apologizing for the bad signature,” says the 34-year-old, who has a huge fan base online. Half a million people subscribe to his YouTube channel, Vlogbrothers, on which Green and his brother Hank do stuff like perform Star Trek parody songs and discuss the travails of the writing process. Like Twihards and Gleeks, their fans even have a nickname: Nerdfighters.

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Q: I read that my license to carry a handgun is no good in Ohio. What gives?

Hank M., Carmel

Picking the most pivotal sports moment in Indy’s recent history, the Pan Am Games or the Super Bowl, is no contest. One changed the course of the city’s future and proved it could handle the world’s largest events. The other was a football game.

Q: I caught a glimpse of the guy who drives my neighborhood’s ice-cream truck. He’s so sketchy looking, it made me wonder what else they sell out of that van. Are these people vetted?

William E., Indianapolis