Indy’s personal-finance guru on his new book series, his writing soundtrack, and why he’s called a chintzy tooth fairy.
Casey Patrick
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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.
Adam Wren
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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.
Sam Stall
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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.
Jonathan Scott
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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
IM Editors
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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?”
Sam Stall
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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.
Sam Stall
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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.”
Lauren Stark
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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.
Michael Rubino
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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.
Matt Gonzales
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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.
Keith Roach
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Unspoken Rules of Brown County
If you’re wearing overalls, you better play in a bluegrass band.
IM Editors
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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.
Matt Gonzales
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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.