The Hoosierist

Homesteading in the City, Deep Rock Tunnel photos, and curbing violence with Rev. Charles Harrison and the Ten Point Coalition. Those features, plus a review of Cicero’s new 10 West restaurant, a video recipe featuring a dressed-up tea egg, our columnists, and more stories and photos.

Why isn’t a rolling bar powered by tipsy people constantly teetering into the canal or plowing into pedestrians? Because a company employee known as “The Bar Handler” always steers.

“If you spill that on my costume, I’m leaving you here,” said a man in Halo armor to his friend wielding a slushy.

Our Irish friends constitute only 11 percent of the population, but you wouldn’t know it from the number of local bars with names like O’Hooligan’s and Hidey McCarkey’s.

Apparently, John Green’s bestselling novel about two star-crossed lovers is really, really good. The Hoosierist can only read a couple of pages before crying.

Finally a new constitution—the same one we have now, minus a slew of wacky amendments (I’m looking at you HJR-3)—was hammered out.

What’s with all the manhole covers here? Seriously, I’ve never been to another city with such an abundance.

The Hoosierist always figured television station call letters were burped out by a computer in the basement of the FCC’s headquarters. Boy, was he wrong.

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

For years, the Mozel Sanders Foundation’s Thanksgiving-dinner program has been the go-to event for people who want to do something more constructive on Turkey Day than stuffing their faces and watching TV.

Haunted leftovers, cupcake allergens, and the very rich. Ask The Hoosierist.

What are the Indianapolis Public Library’s most checked-out books? And more of your queries answered.

“In most companies, there are guys who make a little and others who make a lot, but at least they don’t have to shower together.”

Q: I was stunned when John Mellencamp divorced supermodel Elaine Irwin a couple of years ago. What ever happened to her?

Q: Is there any place in this town to get an old manual typewriter fixed? My grandfather’s 40-year-old model broke, and he refuses to use anything else.
Allison W., Indianapolis