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Kokomo Opalescent Glass opened in 1888 with Louis Comfort Tiffany as a client. On a five-buck factory tour, you’ll feel the heat from the original furnace, visit the master glass-blower’s studio, see where employees signed the walls more than 100 years ago, and shop for art glass.

There wasn’t much to admire about IU’s sloppy Sweet 16 loss to Syracuse on Thursday. But CBS sideline reporter Rachel Nichols liked what she saw in star Hoosier guard Victor Oladipo—or so one would think, judging by this unfortunate photo posted on Deadspin. 

Mike Botkin is a lifelong Purdue Boilermakers fan. He has been offering the dissenting opinion on the IU hoopla all season.

Editor’s Note, March 27, 2013: This article originally appeared in the July 2004 issue of IM alongside this feature story. In 2009, actor Johnny Depp played Dillinger in the movie Public Enemies, about the Indiana desperado’s notorious Depression-era crime spree. Earlier this month, the Indianapolis International Airport announced plans to display Dillinger’s 1933 Essex Terraplane. […]

Though the ambush in Chicago cut short Dillinger’s crime spree and meteoric rise to fame, it sealed his reputation as one of the great bank robbers of all time. And his untimely, violent death made him an idol.

But do his moves hold up off the court? You decide—here’s a two-year-old video of Oladipo, in a country-clubby cardigan, performing at an IU event as a freshman, making a suave through-the-crowd entrance and crooning the R&B singer’s “U Got It Bad.”

As IU prepares to take on the Syracuse Orange this Thursday night in the Sweet Sixteen, we turned to the oddsmakers for encouragement.

Phoenix Theatre vet and Bloomington resident Diane Kondrat will bid farewell to the Indy theater scene after her role in The Lyons is complete. She recently spoke with IM about why she chose this part as her last before making her next move.

Legendary coach Bob Knight, Victor Oladipo, and Cody Zeller have all landed on the iconic weekly magazine’s cover, recently and over time. See the best of the rest IU basketball SI covers over the years.

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard that President Barack Obama has penciled in Indiana at the top of his bracket for the 2013 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

His knees cracked down onto the cold, hard concrete floor. Jarhead followed him with the still-warm barrel of the gun. Touched the rear of Dote’s skull. … Jarhead was restless and a bit worried. He hadn’t beat on a bag since the robbery. He needed to expand his lungs. Feel some flesh give.

Usually we can’t take our eyes off of Victor Oladipo, but today we couldn’t help wondering which lucky kids got the honor of surrounding him on the Sports Illustrated cover. Dustin Dopirak of The Hoosier Scoop tells us that most of the covermates are IU athletes, and tweets from IU athletic departments confirmed the appearance of baseball, soccer, football, and volleyball players and a (swollen-eyed) wrestler.

Oladipo threw down a huge dunk at Chicago’s United Center against a Fighting Illini squad that simply watched (presumably in amazement) from midcourt.

March 15, 2013 — Indiana University men’s basketball star Victor Oladipo, a potential Player of the Year winner among the NCAA ranks, throws down a 360-degree slam dunk against Illinois in IU’s opening game in the Big Ten tournament. The Hoosiers went on to win by a score of 80-64.

It’s April in 1865. General Robert E. Lee has surrendered, and Southern soldiers are retreating home. For many of them, it takes days and weeks to return from Appomattox.The slaves are freed. And it just so happens to be a time that people of Jewish faith are preparing to celebrate Passover. It is also a sad time for African Americans as they discover President Abraham Lincoln’s passing.