December 2012

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

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

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.

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.

True story: In the post-paper Kindle age, an independent used-book shop opened with enough bright-eyed enthusiasm to triumph over dark capitalist forces. Even if you adore your e-reader, you’ll love hanging out here just as much, thanks to a cast of winsome characteristics.

Even adults jump for joy here once they get out there and bounce up a sweat. Don’t fear the face-plant—grab a pair of issued sneakers and hop to it!

Untold chapters of local art history come to light through a series of enchanting design publications.