The city of Indianapolis and private-sector players are lining up behind an effort to rebrand the Central Canal Towpath as an art-themed destination dubbed Art 2 Art by adding artwork and improving the trail.

City leaders once envisioned the Canal Walk as a bustling pathway lined with restaurants and shops, but residential and office buildings have sprouted instead on most of the parcels along the meandering 1-1/2-mile stretch--making it more of a local amenity than a visitor attraction.

Discounts are seen as a way to make the annual fair a better promotional tool for the Indianapolis Art Center.

The honorees include business leaders, former U.S. presidents, famous novelists, a Shawnee chief and a feminist pioneer.

The End of the Line Public House will replace the Shelbi Street Cafe.

Controversy has swirled around a piece of art commissioned for the Cultural Trail’s $2 million public art program. What ultimately happens to Fred Wilson’s “E Pluribus Unum” sculpture of a freed slave could alienate local African-Americans who oppose it or draw the scorn of national art critics.

The latest piece of art to be installed along downtown Indianapolis’ Cultural Trail will cost almost as much as the first eight displays combined.

A new not-for-profit organization will try to raise more than $700,000 a year for the trail’s ongoing maintenance, and it will market the trail as a tourism and economic-development engine.

Too few of the city's revitalization projects are connected by attractive sidewalks, streets, gardens and plazas.

Thirteen years after Mayor Jim Brainard first described his vision for a new downtown along Range Line Road, Carmel City Center is starting to look like a city.

The bar, which isn't yet named, will be Baker & Daniels lawyer Trevor Belden's first bar.

Greg Lucas will be the second fine art gallery owner in Indianapolis to close shop this year. Lucas announced Tuesday that he will close his gallery at 884 Massachusetts Ave. by year's end.

If you’re in Broad Ripple and hungry for pizza, you’ve got lots of options. But what do you do if it’s the middle of the night on a Thursday and you and your entourage have the munchies? Well, for that very specific demographic group of pizza eaters, there’s now ’Za, which is open until 4 a.m. Wednesday to Saturday.

Search the Web for Naisa and you may come up with the North American International Auto Show or the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Neither has anything to do with the new Naisa Pan-Asian Cafe (1025 Virginia Ave., 602-3708), where the name comes from simply reversing the letters in the word Asian.

A local architecture firm hopes to challenge hip Mass Ave with an arts-themed development in Fletcher Place. The $9 million project would include apartments, retail and office space.

This week, art in the wind and an original musical.

IndyHub, the city's young professionals network, will launch a new Web site, circlingthecity.com, to pique the interest of out-of-towners who are being recruited by local companies.

Indy Fringe executive director Pauline Moffat and Gary Reiter, a board member of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival Inc., want to build an affordable live-work complex near Massachusetts Avenue.

Cities must woo people while they’re young—in their 20s or early 30s—because after that age, people tend to hunker down. The Indianapolis area apparently appeals to at least two key groups of young people—particularly those already married, according to a new study by researchers at IUPUI.