May 2016

“Try to set up a lemonade stand on park grounds any other day of the year, and you’ll get a lesson not in capitalism but in how hard it is to do anything on government land without filling out lots of forms.”

That brew you’ll chug at the 500 this month? It probably made a pit stop at Monarch Beverage Company first. May kicks off the busiest time of the year for the distributor, which handles so many bottles and cans, it had to go robotic.

Colorful dollhouse cottages cozy together along communal greens, sidewalks lead to front stoops, and built-in flower boxes overflow on tidy porches, resembling the Florida Panhandle villages Hoosiers frequent on family vacations.

Louisville may have two famous minutes of thundering action this month, but another well-bred Kentucky city, Lexington, has virtually everything else equestrian.

Bone up on the May 15 fundraiser for IndyHumane, now at Garfield Park.

Catch casual, monthly jazz riffs by moonlighting ISO players every first Tuesday of the month at the Chatterbox.

“There’s a truly heartfelt desire to stay here. That’s what the heart says. The intellect says, You can’t stay.”

The blow-your-hair-back speed, the pageantry, the people watching—yes, the spectacle, in all the word’s connotations—surpassed my expectations.

“You could consider being on different NBA teams similar to being in a tribe on Survivor, where you don’t necessarily like everyone. In the NBA, you can’t choose who you share a locker room with.”

“Choose your playing partners carefully.”