October 12, 2012
Mason King
Receipts at the locavore's haven in Fountain Square have surged
since February, when two new partners took over day-to-day management, redefined the space, expanded the menu and turned its
hours of operation upside down.
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August 4, 2012
Lou HarryFirst in a month-long series of colorful restaurants. This week: Bluebeard.
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June 9, 2012
Lou HarrySecond in a month-long series of new-in-the-neighborhood restaurants. This week: B's Po-Boy in Fountain Square.
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December 17, 2011
Lou HarryLast in a series of visits to eateries that have recently moved into the digs of former eateries. This week: End of the Line
Public House.
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December 3, 2011
IBJ StaffResources diverted from Murphy Art Center space will go toward Lafayette Square-area center, downtown initiatives.
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November 26, 2011
IBJ StaffThe End of the Line Public House will replace the Shelbi Street Cafe.
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November 12, 2011
Lou HarrySecond in a month-long series of reviews of new ethnic eateries. This week: Fountain Square Peruvian.
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November 11, 2011
Francesca JaroszRepublican Jeff Miller's wife died three months before the Nov. 8 election, but he kept campaigning for City-County Council—and
won in a district that leans Democratic against an incumbent.
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October 1, 2011
First in a month-long series of “en route” restaurants.
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August 27, 2011
Lou HarryFourth in a month-long series of reviews of new arts district eateries. This week: Revolucion.
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May 27, 2011
Mason King
After 25 years at La Margarita, stabilizing sales and surviving family
tragedy, owner Lori Rangel-Grubbs is branching out to Fountain Square.
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May 17, 2011
Tom HartonThe new owner of a 110-year-old building in the heart of Fountain Square is planning a renovation and expansion that will
turn it into a restaurant, bar and 450-seat music hall called Pioneer.
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March 19, 2011
Marc D. AllanThe sign behind the counter at the we-never-close greasy spoon sums up its distinct personality: “Cows may come and
cows may go, but the bull in this place goes on forever.”
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March 4, 2011
Francesca JaroszA proposal by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful to bulldoze four century-old homes near Fountain Square has sparked a battle between
the neighborhood beautification group and some of its typical allies: historic preservationists.
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December 7, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, which faltered in the summer of 2009, is on stable footing at its year-old location
in Fountain Square—so much so that it won't move closer to downtown, as it had planned.
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December 4, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinA Fountain Square group led by neighborhood business owners hopes to create an “economic improvement district”
for the up-and-coming neighborhood, where additional tax revenue could be used for everything from litter cleanup and marketing
to capital improvements.
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November 20, 2010
Lou HarryThoughts on the Noise! cabaret, Bands of America's Grand National Championships, and Blue Man Group.
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September 18, 2010
Andrea Muirragui DavisIt's easy to miss this new Fountain Square eatery, but it's worth finding.
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October 30, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinArchitect and developer Craig Von Deylen hopes to close by next week on the purchase of the Murphy Arts Center in Fountain
Square and is in the process of signing new tenants, including the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art.
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August 27, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Humane Society of Indianapolis is shopping for donors to support construction of a $3 million spay/neuter clinic in the
Fountain Square area.
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July 6, 2009
Lou HarrySearch 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.
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June 15, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinJeremy Efroymson recently agreed to return to the financially flailing Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art as its executive
director and work for free. Efroymson, one of the museum's early leaders, has a strategy for seeing IMOCA through a financial
rough spot, but what remains unclear is how the museum will wean itself off his support.
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November 17, 2008
Marc D.Tonic Ball an annual fundraiser for Second Helpings takes place the Friday before Thanksgiving, featuring 30
local bands
each playing 10-minute themed sets and local artists selling their work.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.