Indiana State Fairgrounds

More than three decades after founding Deer Creek, two local music industry legends team up with other big names to start a new festival this month.

Hi & Mighty will release twin gins this spring, a preview of the craft distillery’s future bar, family-friendly cocktail garden, and space to eventually grow their own botanicals and herbs for gin production.

If you hear a frightening rumble this week, it’s just the stampede for Dave’s Coffee Cakes when the Junior League of Indianapolis Holiday Mart returns to the Indiana State Fairgrounds after last year’s hiatus.

Because Legos are not just for kids anymore.

There’s so much to see, it’s nearly overwhelming.

Indianapolis Monthly will have a reporter and photographer covering the event at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Follow along with live updates below.

“On my most fruitful trips, I meet a local craftsman who does something really cool. Hopefully, I develop a relationship with that person for future clients.”

Pilsners, wheats, and porters first. Palate-crushing IPAs later.

Want more leg room at the IRT? Reserve an aisle seat or the back row of the balcony. The best view and sound, though, is—surprise—up in the balcony.

From July 31 through August 17, the Coliseum Concert Series will bring its first batch of performers through the spiffed-up multipurpose facility.

By decisively winning the 1926 Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, Charlie Wiggins, a humble mechanic from Indy’s south side, earned the nickname “The Negro Speed King”—almost 65 years before Willie T. Ribbs would become the first black driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.

Eleven parties, festivals, and games you won’t want to miss in 2014.

“I think I was about 7 years old. The morning after my parents had a party, I got up and tried some 10-hour-old Michelob,” she says of her first beer. “Not good, but that was my first.”

Meet the Flockers—Indy’s urban chicken farmers—plus look back on Indy 500 Snake Pit hijinks, the State Fair food romp, and a pair of brew-drenched events.

Question: How much do those fancy helicopters the TV stations use cost?