Indianapolis Monthly

Yellow school buses filled with excited kids are on roads again. But the data surrounding Hoosier schools isn’t quite as cheery, with the intractable teacher shortage persisting. On top of that, a new challenge has taken hold: a dearth of school psychologists.

This past spring, Conner Prairie pulled back the curtain to reveal its new Museum Experience Center, or as it’s called informally, the MEC, following two years of major construction. The complex wows with new immersive exhibits and fresh features.

Fishers White River Park has no grand entrance and no obvious centerpiece. Instead, it hides behind a massive apartment complex. Built largely on land unsuitable for conventional development, the 120-acre site is the fruit of a novel effort to set aside some of the area’s increasingly rare open space for public use—without spending a dime of city money.

Meet CAMi, the new Contemporary Arts Museum of Indianapolis. Sitting pretty in a stunningly repurposed 125-year-old dairy barn, the latest Big Car Collective venture is planned to be unveiled May 1 as of this writing, anchoring a wider cultural arts campus that spans a city block on Indy’s near south side.

Observant drivers might have noticed cameras positioned at intersections and stretches of roads and highways throughout Indiana. These automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, are ostensibly used to catch lawbreakers—and they seem quite good at it. But that’s not what troubles community activists and the ACLU of Indiana. They’re worried about the abuse of ALPR data and a lack of state laws regulating the technology.

Yellow school buses filled with excited kids are on roads again. But the data surrounding Hoosier schools isn’t quite as cheery, with the intractable teacher shortage persisting. On top of that, a new challenge has taken hold: a dearth of school psychologists.

Local librarian, Mahasin Ameen, put Indianapolis on the map recently after winning the I Love My Librarian award.

After decades in the doldrums, Purdue’s nuclear power program is once again hot, buzzy, and approaching critical mass.

Indiana’s school voucher initiative is drawing students faster than the cafeteria lunch line on Taco Tuesday.

ON A DRIPPY October Saturday in 1973, I’m standing, cornet in hand, with 145 fellow members of the Franklin Community High School marching band,...

A sprawling new industrial park draws both economic development and controversy.

Our Indiana expert sheds new light on bioluminescent insect and plant species.

The mantra “You Only Live Once” (or YOLO) is a philosophy centered on seizing every opportunity. Former Fox 59 Indy Now host and Straight No Chaser alum Ryan Ahlwardt embodies that idea by stepping away from the camera and back into a place he knows very well—behind the microphone as a singer-songwriter. He hosts a record release party for his new album, Crying in the Canyon, on Friday, October 30, at the Tarkington Theater at Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

Our Indiana expert digs up the dirt on manmade lakes.

Our editor-in-chief's informal supper club makes the rounds at some of this year's 25 best restaurants.