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“I didn’t want the people who had followed me and bought my jersey to ever think I was leaving them,” McAfee says. “There was no way I could leave Indy. I owed this place.”

What’s love got to do with it? Depends on who you ask.

We’ll have whatever he’s drinking.

Dr. Krista Brucker, a reform advocate for opioid overdose treatment, fears Indianapolis is headed for deadly HIV and HIV and hepatitis C outbreaks.

Is there something in the water? We sent a writer and photographer into the deep end to find out.

Did Cleveland Bynum kill five people? According to a dead man, no.

“Once upon a time” seems like a good place to begin a story about Mab Graves, the self-taught, bubblegum-haired Pop Surrealist and growing object of widespread curiosity who looks as if she were sprung to life from one of her works by the flick of a magic wand.

Roxane Gay’s new book gave me the courage to say, “I’m fat.”

As a pizza place, it was a pizza place. But the main attraction at the old Paramount Music Palace was a massive Wurlitzer organ—with extra cheese.

If you don’t clean up Fido’s poop, you deserve to get bopped on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper.

“Trails have shifted from a want to a need in the last 15 years,” says Urbanophile blogger Aaron Renn. “Now, a great trail is an amenity and a new form of infrastructure your city and community have to have.”

Payne has been meeting neighborhood leaders and well-heeled donors to raise $100 million to connect underserved areas to the Monon and other greenways.

One dog-owner takes his Saint Bernard along on rides in a cart. Another lets his pooch scoot along on a skateboard. Even if you don’t cross paths with these regulars, chances are you’ll still see a creative rig.

At Joe’s Cycles, look for croques monsieurs, baguettes, and croissants come Tour de France time in July, but when the Vuelta a España rolls around in August, he’s all about the Spanish bocadillo.

Formerly known as the Zionsville Rail Trail, the Big-4 Rail Trail, a greenway through the heart of the northwestern suburb, is a favorite of children and parents, at the center of a sprawling system that spans Boone County.