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Ask Me Anything: Creek Stewart, TV Survival Guru

Survivalist questions for “Fabio of the Forest.”

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Speed Read: Pete the Planner

Indy’s personal-finance guru on his new book series, his writing soundtrack, and why he’s called a chintzy tooth fairy.

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Social Media: Historic Photos from the Indianapolis Press Club

When Prohibition ended, the boozy, bawdy days of the Indianapolis Press Club began. Patrons favored a martini “so potent that on the third sip” their tongues would be “paralyzed,” according to one account.

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Dewey Decibels: The Hoosierist Takes on Loud Libraries

Add in the din of people clacking away on computer keyboards and chatting on their cell phones, and one starts to see why libraries are as noisy as a 5-year-old’s birthday party.

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Three Hoosier Connections to Georgia O'Keeffe

As a young artist in New York, O’Keeffe learned brushwork from Nineveh native William Merritt Chase, one of the country’s foremost Impressionists.

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Best of Indy: City Life

Featuring the best Twitter follow, zipline, tech seminar, new IMS track tradition, ice skating, and more

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Saying Goodbye to Indy's Most Fabled Hotel

Mick Jagger dined by himself in the restaurant. “Is [Indy] really just surrounded by cornfields?” he asked some patrons. “Are you really just pioneers?”

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The Hoosierist: How Santa Claus, Indiana, Got Its Name

Eventually, The Nameless Town-ians met at a log church on Christmas Eve of 1852 to pick a moniker.

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My Look: Blake Cardenas's Cowboy Hat

“I’d love to see Sofia Vergara in one,” he says. “She’s Colombian, and we like to stick together.”

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My Best of Indy: Abdul-Hakim Shabazz

“I’m a spirits guy—the basics,” he says. “Pretty much a 60-year-old white man in a 40-something-year-old black man’s body.

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Off The Wall: Scott Stulen at the IMA

Stulen even has plans to create an occasional “open office” in the museum, when his staff will work in the entry pavilion so visitors can come up to share ideas.

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Speed Read: 10 Outtakes from A Christmas Story

Warner Bros. asked Porky’s director Bob Clark to make a sequel to his blockbuster sex comedy. He said he would—if the studio would bankroll A Christmas Story.

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Unspoken Rules of Brown County

If you’re wearing overalls, you better play in a bluegrass band.

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A Review of Indy Writes Books: A Book Lover's Anthology

Literary superstar John Green gets top billing, but it’s the lesser-known names that make it worth the price of admission.

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Exchanges Welcome: The Fate of the Mall

Millennials might be a bigger threat to malls than online shopping, which the public assumes has hurt malls more than it has.

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