Best of Indy

Seventeen outstanding new reasons to love the city, everything from a music-video bar to a trampoline park.

The best gluten-free pizza, craft cocktail mixer, delivery service, salmon, Bloody Mary bar, restaurant makeover, doughnut holes, wine room, fresh bread, beignets, new menu, local spirit, mini desserts, ice cream, counter seats, crab rangoon, and more

The best Brazilian wax, hair blowout bar, juice cleanse, TRX class, nail polish lab, straight-razor shave, ballet classes, and more

The best book of 2012, season concerts, Super Bowl leftover, literary souvenir, museum overhaul, fashion photography, new concert venue, artistic discovery, museum exhibit, and more

The best weeknight scene, cheap thrill, local beer selection, holiday family fun, day in the park, wedding band, kids’ class, happy hour twist, and more.

The best baby-shower gifts, men’s shoes, barware, bath fixtures, imports shop, craft supplies, Indiana-pride tees, gift shops, party frocks, patterned tights, and more

Five great picks in Indy’s neighbor to the north.

Pat McAfee won’t use urinals in public restrooms, and he always washes his hands. Because you never know who’s watching. “What usually happens is, people see me, and then tweet about it,” he says.

Music videos and cocktails mix like J.Lo and backup dancers—this we learned from Tini, a petite bar with TVs where a four-round night might go something like this:

Signed works by major artists fill the Conrad’s new Long-Sharp Gallery, an extension of Rhonda Long-Sharp’s renowned online dealership, Modern Masters. Here, her rules for investing in fine-art prints:

When Bluebeard opened in June, word of its Bohemian cuisine and cocktails spread like a meme. The deconstructed menu changes nightly, but order from each category and you can’t go wrong.

Six reasons to race over to Lino’s Coffee, a real-deal Italian cafe inside Dallara Automobili:

The only question now is how to use the sexy cold cuts from Smoking Goose Meatery. Here, some tasty ideas.

Some people say you can read the quality of a restaurant in the way it cooks a steak ordered medium-rare. Others use the poached egg, or the quality of the table bread, the pluckiness of the staff, the cleanliness of the washrooms. I’ve decided that such merits lie beneath the melted Gruyere of French onion soup.

Find the best picks for the book-club member, the city-chic niece, the snowboarding son, the choosy mother-in-law, and the domestic-goddess pal in your midst.