Circle City

The deadlines to garner tickets to the Nov. 1 events are at hand: Oct. 25 for the dinner and Oct. 30 for the artist’s talk and cocktail time. If you can’t make it, perhaps you’ll catch Pardo wandering through the Matisse exhibit at the IMA. He says he’s a fan.

City-county councilman Zach Adamson and partner Christian Mosburg flew to Washington D.C. today, only partly by choice: The two can’t tie the knot in their home state, so they’re going where same-sex marriages are legally recognized.

From Big Ag to organic, rural to urban, and scientist to traditionalist, the following profiles highlight the diverse attitudes and approaches of Indiana’s current agrarian class.

Having a 20,000-acre spread, one of the largest farms in one of the nation’s most productive farm states, buys some clout.

First planted in 2010, The Feel Good Farm is a 60-acre, certified-organic growing operation near Sheridan, where the suburban sprawl of Hamilton County gives way to a flat landscape of fields, fencerows, and barns.

If you believe that Indiana farmers are weather-hardened old men who grow corn and soybeans, you might look at these tidy patches of naturally raised produce and see a garden—and, in the pretty thirtysomething who tends them, a gardener.

Baggott took an early retirement and, in 2010—just a year after ExactTarget surpassed $100 million in annual sales—purchased a 98-acre farm near Greenfield to raise livestock. Never mind that he had no agricultural experience whatsoever.

In simpler times, Bowman’s plan might have passed for good old Hoosier ingenuity. Unfortunately, Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company—and a notorious ball-buster—doesn’t see it that way. And neither did the highest court in the land.

Our expert pulls up a chair and assesses a new furniture exhibit.

We asked 11 people attending Indy’s first-ever Festival of Faiths just what that word—faith—means to them. Here are their answers.

She currently presides over WISH-TV’s newscasts at 6, 10, and 11 p.m. and maintains that she may very well “reinvent” what retirement looks like.

Downtown’s Old City Hall languishes, empty, as historical societies and city planners (and nearly everyone else) debate what to do with it. Here’s a look at some ideas that have already come and gone.

“What didn’t happen is enough people showing up to populate the structure we had built,” Venable says. But “Art is not for everybody,” says one IMA critic. “Art is for anybody, which is very different.”

Once a mechanical engineer, Brian Newton swept aside the stress of the workaday world to make “splendidly imperfect” brooms at Broomcorn Johnny’s.

The Indiana DNR has it that “Eastern box turtles are typically active from April to October.”