Hoosier Features

In Pioneer Park, the new Soaring Eagle Zip Line gives riders two thrills for the low $5 cost of one: load at the bottom, slide up the 600-foot cable, then zoom back down.

IM found a stash of yearbooks from Norris’s Clay High School in South Bend, spanning 1979 to 1981—a treasure trove of before-he-was-famous photos that, far as we can tell, have never been seen outside of Northern Indiana.

Built in 1961, the 2,864-square-foot limestone-brick estate with four bedrooms and two baths draws from Courtenay Macomber’s fascination with the famous architect Le Corbusier and his modular approach to design.

For Norris, now starring in Under the Dome, this month cements his reputation post–Breaking Bad, as Season 2 of his new vehicle premieres on CBS.

“Indy changed my life in every way,” says this cancer survivor who rides the coolest wheels (make that wheel) in town.

“The whole downtown/midtown/uptown thing started in New York because that city is narrow and vertical,” says Matt Hale. “We’re a radial city growing out in every direction from the center, so it’s a stretch to say Indy has a midtown.”

“This corner of Herron-Morton feels like Fountain Square when I opened the original Peter’s—and look what happened to that neighborhood,” says Peter George, co-owner of proposed restaurant Tinker Street.

Matt Morarity preserved the grandeur of the parlor, which already showcased a mosaic-tiled gas fireplace, stained-glass windows, and a 100-year-old grand theater chandelier (one of 15 such period fixtures throughout the house).

“When I won my first race, I wasn’t allowed to spray champagne because I was underage. So Dave [Letterman, co-owner of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing] decided to send me some.”

Don’t miss long-pot tea-pourer Li Min, visiting from China. “He pours teas out of a long spout while performing kung fu such that the tea goes five, 10, 15 feet into your cup.”

Now celebrating its 200th anniversary and more accessible with the opening of I-69 from Bloomington to Evansville, the town is at its best in early May.

About a year ago, Indy lawyer Bob Epstein looked around the country and realized there are about 60 Jewish film festivals—even one in South Bend—but that Indianapolis had never had one.

The city’s only hot-sauce tasting bar, homesteading boutique, and moto-style men’s shop fill out Recess’s corner.

Few homes on the market now will top the sprawling orientation of architect David Snapp’s main living spaces.

Her hometown race on April 12, the Carmel Marathon, is her sentimental favorite. It’s where she finished her 100th marathon, in 2012.