October 2014

“A lot of kids our age were doing it,” says Madeleine. “We didn’t think anything at all was going to happen. We just did it for fun.”

With its selection of multicultural restaurants, Michigan Road’s busy northwestside corridor could be your new international lunch or dinner destination.

The meringue, a classic French cookie, can be spun to look like candy corn, as Carrie Abbott of Newfangled Confections demonstrates here.

A rustic-chic accessory that merges leather and beads.

Wear your words with a splatter tee and smoking slippers, coffee mug and clutch—and more.

If her location was a leap of faith, her dishes are just as daring.

Each item on the kids menu at Fall Creek Place’s cozy Shoefly Public House is named after a child in the owner’s family. There is even a selection of craft sodas to wash it all down.

Sooner or later, most cavers pick up a nickname. His was Slim Tim. One hundred and twenty-five pounds of sinew and muscle stretched taught on a lean frame. Part slingshot, part projectile, he zipped through cracks where other bodies wouldn’t fit.

Over the last decade, Ohio’s capital has built on its reputation as the corporate headquarters of Abercrombie & Fitch, The Limited, and Victoria’s Secret to become one of the country’s most fashion-forward places.

These spots for everyone are designed to remove obstacles, not fun.

It’s the first boutique to concentrate on the local design industry, which includes both established labels and promising up-and-comers.

“I frequent the museums, including the wonderful Indianapolis Art Center,” Knabe says. “I don’t know of another one of that caliber anywhere else.”

The Harrison Center for the Arts executive director unwinds in this cozy Herron-Morton Place retreat, where pieces from bookshelf frills to vintage trinkets convey a meaningful narrative.

For one, a couple adopts a depressed hedgehog and seeks therapy for the varmint.

If you want to know where the real action is at Union 50, Cunningham Restaurant Group’s natty new spot for broad-shouldered American fare, look no further than the bustling pick-up window into the kitchen.