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Indianapolis Monthly received seven finalist nominations in the City and Regional Magazine Association’s annual national awards competition.

Indianapolis Monthly received 14 finalist nominations in the City and Regional Magazine Association’s annual national awards competition.

It’s kind of like our Oscars—without the red carpet. Or the designer fashions. Or the statues.

This guy gets paıd to hang out with the Sexiest Woman Alive. James Bond. Don Draper.

SI what? It wasn’t so long ago that we at IM put out a few similar issues in the month of March.

Delicious smack-talk: “#Colts will shred the Pats, so just for fun we’ll wager some pulled @IndianaPork. #GameOn”

Assuming that Andrew Luck would show up sporting his famous neckbeard, John Bragg prepped for the event by inviting his hirsute buddies into the studio for trial runs to see how the lighting would play on their whiskers.

“My father once wrote, we’re old-fashioned enough to believe much can be learned from the past, new-fashioned enough to search for ways to a better future,” Joan SerVass says. “I feel like this is something that needs to be preserved.”

IM faced stiff competition to take home the best-in-class recognition.

WISH-TV’s Indy Style pairs up with our own editorial and art teams to see what will make the cover of our 2014 Best Restaurants issue.

I was at a doctor’s office recently, and as I sat in the waiting room, I read People, easily the worst magazine in the universe.

“Some say that through his books, John gives a voice to teenagers. I humbly disagree,” Shailene Woodley writes in TIME. “I think John hears the voices of teenagers.”

More than 100 judges from the likes of Esquire, Bon Appetit, and Vanity Fair narrowed the field of finalists, including these from IM’s 2013 issues.

The couple’s knack for design explains why their shop feels like a minimalist-cool living room, with an inviting Erwin Lambeth couch, Tolix metal chairs, and colorful sheaves of magazines stacked on tables.

A trio of reasons to skip this trend—and what to wear instead.