Circle City

“I’m very bullish on Indianapolis.”

“Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you feel about malevolent cryptids), it doesn’t live in Indiana.”

“You get to see the story through a child’s eyes.”

“It’s such an amazing time to be alive if you enjoy beef, beer, and whiskey. Indianapolis is just lousy with incredible examples of those indulgences.”

“Before the program even began, the crowd delivered each a standing ovation, awed by two statesmen who eschewed speaking in soundbites in favor of fully formed U.N. draft resolutions.”

“Whether it’s legal or not, people do it.”

For days, word had gone out about an event at Eastgate Shopping Mall: At an annual art festival, the renowned German-born sculptor Adolph Wolter would give a demonstration with a live model. The model for Wolter’s rendering of ancient Egyptian royalty was to be reigning 500 Festival Princess Kay Sims. But alas for Sims, she […]

“I was surprised at just what a sucker he could be.”

“I was excited and, at the same time, so sad because I was going to leave my family back home.”

Add the literary world to Martha Hoover’s ever-growing list of credits.

“For a state that looks like an elaborate Children of the Corn backdrop, the pickings are slim.”

In 1981, Coby Palmer, Ed Walsh, and Gary Johnson found out that the big Halloween bash they always attended wouldn’t be held that year. So they decided to have their own fun in costume, organizing a group of 70 or so men on three chartered buses for the first “Bag Lady Bus Tour,” a crawl […]

You may remember him from his kitchen antics on Good Eats, where he extolled the virtues of kitchen scales and probe thermometers. Or you might know him from the more recent Cutthroat Kitchen, where he reduced contestants to cooking meals in cages with lobster claws on their hands. However you know him, Food Network host […]

You may remember him from his kitchen antics on Good Eats, where he extolled the virtues of kitchen scales and probe thermometers. Or you might know him from the more recent Cutthroat Kitchen, where he reduced contestants to cooking meals in cages with lobster claws on their hands. However you know him, Food Network host […]

A new funding source might help woo the big-box retailer to the city center.