Three years of work came to fruition today for Indy Reads with the 11 a.m. opening of its new bookstore on Mass Ave. A modest crowd filled the beautifully designed interior of the spot to take a look at the first bookstore to grace downtown since Borders left last year.
On March 23, the much anticipated film adaptation of The Hunger Games hit theaters nationwide, earning $155 million at the box office in its opening weekend. Before starring as Thresh in the movie, Dayo Okeniyi spent his college weekends as any college student in the Indianapolis area would—hanging out with friends in the midtown district. Though he grew up in Nigeria, Okeniyi moved to Indiana as a teen, graduating from Heritage Christian School in Indianapolis and earning his bachelor’s degree from Anderson University in Anderson.
I. The Vonneguts were here (and still are). The new Kurt Vonnegut mural along Mass Ave has made the likeness of Indy’s most famous author a permanent fixture of the cityscape. And the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, opened in 2011, allows visitors to lay fingers on the very typewriter keys the giant once tapped (and […]
