The Hoosierist

Locally, the story contains about as much truth as the rumor that Old Lady Ferguson, who lives three blocks over, is giving out full-sized candy bars to trick-or-treaters this year.

Fans will sit in the north vista as ground-hugging aircraft blast by at 200 miles per hour.

Sir Ian “Gandalf” McKellen goes for $80,000 to $100,000. And beaming in William “You Know Who He Is” Shatner will set you back $100,000.

No one has shouted “It’s a new track record!” at the IMS for a long time.

How did the Pacers get their name? And why do some IndyGo buses make a melodic whistling noise?

During his Southern Indiana childhood, The Hoosierist freely used this pseudo-word.

Add in the din of people clacking away on computer keyboards and chatting on their cell phones, and one starts to see why libraries are as noisy as a 5-year-old’s birthday party.

Eventually, The Nameless Town-ians met at a log church on Christmas Eve of 1852 to pick a moniker.

Question: How much do Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders get paid?

Booze-related injuries are comparatively rare on Indiana trails. Of greater concern is the threat of dehydration, which can happen when you try to replenish your sweaty, overheated body with booze instead of H2O.

“I have a tree that drops what a friend says are persimmons, but the fruit doesn’t look like the grocery-store variety. What gives?”

The St. Elmo shrimp cocktail sauce is always hot, but I swear that some days it’s hotter than others. Is that possible?

While we were busy dreaming up big ideas to improve the city for the August cover package, our columnist had to rain on our parade.

We’ve enhanced our look online for tablet, smartphone, and desktop. You’ll find a site that’s easier to navigate and read, with more rich content and offerings. Plus, it’s just plain handsome.

There are plenty of games at Gen Con, and plenty of gamers to play them—49,000 last year and probably more for this edition, which runs through Sunday at the Indiana Convention Center. As The Hoosierist is pathologically afraid of dice (especially the ones with lots of extra sides), however, he spent his Gen Con session […]