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What’s In That? Ice Cream Nachos

At Gordon’s Milkshake Bar, an order of sweet-potato cheesecake ice cream nachos is as welcome as the return of springtime warm weather. Flour tortillas, fried and tossed in cinnamon and sugar, form a bed of crispy goodness.

Mini Review: Bird & Cleaver

Despite its backdrop of stark white walls with blond wood accents, Bird & Cleaver doesn’t feel minimalist. The casual two-story restaurant in Fort Wayne’s historic Wells Street corridor has a homey quality, with hanging greenery, plenty of

Getting There

Six hundred thousand years ago, around the start of quarantine, we were doing theme dinners for the kids. We wanted to take their minds off the approaching doom—or more specifically, the departed normal. One was a “submarine

Eskenazi Has A History With Epidemics

When Dr. Livingston Dunlap suggested building Indianapolis’s first hospital—what’s now the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital—amid a smallpox outbreak in 1847, the idea was roundly dismissed. The Indianapolis Journal called it “a moment of Democratic folly in

The Sincere Sounds Of Kevin Krauter

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Hoops in 2016 at Nashville’s Exit In venueRoberto Campos I walk into Square Cat Vinyl on a Thursday afternoon in February, where I’ve arranged for an interview with Indy-based musician Kevin Krauter. Krauter is preparing to release

The Boutique Blues

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I don’t remember which of us asked, “What do we do,” or how many times we asked it. I had that conversation—or conversations?—with Amanda, my wife and business partner, all the way back in March when it

Local Fabricator Lends A Hand

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When Jer Lile, owner of de Lisle Guitar Company in Zionsville, got a call from a good friend—an ICU nurse—he first understood the gravity of the coming coronavirus pandemic. “She was scared, even before the numbers started