Indianapolis's loudest brewery lives in an old warehouse on the Midtown fringe. Black Circle opened in 2016 in the Double 8 warehouse - now branded Refinery 46 - at 2201 East 46th Street on the SoBro edge, equal parts microbrewery, craft beer bar and live music venue, sharing the building with local businesses and a co-op workspace on the lower level. The name is a vinyl reference and the booking backs it up: the room has become the city's reliable home for metal, punk, hardcore and the heavier .....

The stadium that once hosted Red Grange now seats a cozy 5,647 - and Butler likes it that way. The Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl opened in 1928 as the Butler Bowl, a horseshoe designed by Indianapolis architect Fermor S. Cannon and built into a ravine on the north side of Butler University's new Fairview campus at 4600 Sunset Avenue, alongside the same year's Jordan Hall and the fieldhouse that would become hallowed Hinkle. The Bulldogs christened it with a 55-0 rout of Franklin College on 12 Octo.....

The stadium built for a sports festival ended up hosting the Pan Am Games, Olympic trials and a soccer revival. IU Michael A. Carroll Track and Soccer Stadium at 1001 West New York Street opened in 1982 on the IUPUI (now IU Indianapolis) campus, built for 7 million dollars alongside the famous Natatorium for the National Sports Festival - the project that launched Indianapolis's deliberate self-reinvention as the amateur sports capital of America. Named for Michael A. Carroll, the civic leader a.....

"Culture Comes to Indianapolis," announced the New York Times Magazine when this hall opened, and the city has never quite stopped quoting the headline. Clowes Memorial Hall at 4602 Sunset Avenue on the Butler University campus opened on 18 October 1963, a 3.6-million-dollar memorial to Dr. George H. A. Clowes, the Eli Lilly research director who steered insulin into mass production, funded largely by his widow Edith Clowes through the Clowes Foundation with support from Lilly Endowment and the .....

The Egyptian Room was dressed in hieroglyphics before King Tut's tomb made them fashionable. When Helen Eaton Jacoby worked with architects Rubush and Hunter on a grand ballroom addition to Indianapolis's Murat Shrine, she chose motifs copied from ancient palaces and tombs near Thebes - and while the room was under construction in November 1922, Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun's tomb and made her design the height of style. The room opened on 15 December 1922, one of the earliest Egyptian Reviv.....

Tucked into the green expanse of White River State Park in downtown Indianapolis, the Everwise Amphitheater is the city's premier outdoor concert venue, set against a backdrop of lawns, waterways and the skyline beyond. Opened in the late 1990s and refreshed under a series of naming partners over the years, the amphitheatre has become a summer fixture, drawing audiences to its riverside setting for an open-air season of touring concerts. The venue combines a covered pavilion of fixed seats with.....

In the state that treats basketball as birthright, the NBA's most deliberately nostalgic arena was designed to look like a giant Indiana high-school gym. Gainbridge Fieldhouse, at 125 South Pennsylvania Street in downtown Indianapolis, opened on 6 November 1999 as Conseco Fieldhouse - a 183-million-dollar brick-and-glass throwback by architects Ellerbe Becket that rejected the sleek arena template on purpose. It is home to the NBA's Indiana Pacers and the WNBA's Indiana Fever, whose Caitlin Cla.....

A Saturday Night Live alum cut the ribbon: Jay Pharoah's five-show weekend opened this room on 8 March 2019, instantly giving Indianapolis the national-circuit comedy club it had lacked downtown. Helium Comedy Club, at 10 West Georgia Street inside Circle Centre at the corner of Meridian and Georgia, is the Indiana outpost of one of America's premier independent comedy chains. The build-out took 9,000 square feet of former mall space and turned it into a purpose-designed 275-seat showroom - tie.....

The climactic game of Hoosiers was filmed here - on the same floor where the real Milan Miracle happened in 1954. Hinkle Fieldhouse, at 510 West 49th Street on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis, is Indiana's Basketball Cathedral: the nation's oldest major college basketball arena, opened in March 1928 and still the home of Butler Bulldogs basketball and volleyball. Built as Butler Fieldhouse by a consortium of 41 Indianapolis businessmen and designed by Fermor Spencer Cannon, its 15,.....

Every August the biggest names in country, rock and hip-hop play a stage set against a one-mile dirt oval called the Track of Champions. The Hoosier Lottery Grandstand, on the Indiana State Fairgrounds at 1202 East 38th Street in Indianapolis, is the fair's big-event venue: a covered grandstand seating 13,921, rising to roughly 15,500 with track-level seating. The grandstand's bones are fair-history deep: the fairgrounds moved to 38th Street in 1892, and the grandstand-and-track complex has hos.....