Arts & Culture

Rent Directly across from Mass Ave, Circa Apartments is no cookie-cutter complex. A local design studio created a hip lounge area with garage doors and a makerspace for residents. 617 N. College Ave., 317-668-4042, liveatcirca.com Rummage A strip of warehouses has become an under-the-radar retail niche. One of the businesses is Reclaimed Vintage Industrial, where […]

“I could never really play covers. I couldn’t pick out the tunes because my ear wasn’t trained enough and I didn’t know enough chords. But I could write tunes.”

As we grow older, our individual parenting styles become—whether we want them to or not—our parents’ styles. This can be good or bad, depending on your own circumstances, but mainly it just is. If your mom stressed Bible-learning and puritanism, then you will too at some point, even if you spent your 20s and 30s […]

“Through these portals Pass the World’s Best Musicians.” Thus proudly proclaimed a sign over the door of Henri’s Cafe Lounge, in its day a hotspot on Indiana Avenue. The musicians pictured above are among the legendary ones who took the stage there: Wes Montgomery on guitar, Willis Kirk on drums, Monk Montgomery on bass, and […]

• Schedule home plumbing work for the third Thursday in March. • St. Elmo’s Beefsteak—which is organized for March Madness viewing, and mostly men-only—takes place March 16. • The ladies’ version is the same day at the northside Harry and Izzy’s. Both events are sold out already. Kiss up to your boss for an invitation. […]

“It’s tough to connect the NCAA’s actions in Indiana, Houston, and North Carolina except with a simple, cynical equation: More outrage equaled more action.”

Don’t expect to score a parking spot in the attached lot. And don’t get creative with the unmarked areas on the outer edges. Stick with your chosen seat at the community table, even if a more desirable end spot becomes available. It says it right there on the menu: “Modifications politely declined.” Free refills on […]

Almost a decade ago, I wrote a profile of Martha Hoover—she of the Patachou empire—and interviewed an up-and-coming chef for the story, an accomplished toque who seemed genuinely annoyed and perplexed by Hoover’s success and diners’ cult-like devotion to her menus. “What’s so special?” the chef sniffed. “It’s just a bunch of omelets.” Let the […]

If Paul George were to get traded today or if he is simply allowed to up and leave at some point hereafter, his Pacers tombstone would be brutally plain and to-the-point, if Sports Radio Guy had his way: 2010–2017 Paul George was, by some accounts, a superstar in the NBA. He was breathtakingly talented on some […]

“The Hoosierist figured he would need to chat with two or three government wonks to find a definitive answer for this one. Instead, he discovered the City of Indianapolis’s municipal code absolutely obsesses over tree maintenance.”

“My generation, we generally aren’t listening to jazz or care to know anything about it. I’m glad I’m able to be a vessel who can introduce them to it.”

For an outfit that keeps some 31,000 plant specimens on its property (someone, probably an intern, actually counts them), the Indianapolis Zoo is pretty discriminating when it comes to donations.

“We’ve been asked the size of various body parts—although I don’t know why I should be bashful about that, because our new president talked about it.”

What I remember most were his eyes—those large brown eyes that seemed to see right through you, right into your mind, and to know at once if you were speaking the truth.

Through the muddy fields and bare-tree forests of Central Indiana, the foxhounds scamper. The older animals, their black and brown spots faded to white, lead the pack with a spring in their step, their noses twitching. All of them have gone through months of training for outings like today’s.