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.....

"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 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,.....

The stage backdrop is a demolished New York skyscraper. Rock the Ruins at Holliday Park, 6363 Spring Mill Road in Indianapolis, is a summer concert series played on the lawn behind The Ruins - Karl Bitter's Races of Man limestone statues, salvaged when Manhattan's St. Paul Building came down in the 1950s and won by Indianapolis in a national competition. Local artist Elmer Taflinger spent two decades assembling the sculptures, columns and fountains into the folly that now anchors the 94-acre pa.....

A modernist master built a Greek theatre for a seminary; a university inherited it. Shelton Auditorium at 1000 West 42nd Street opened in 1966 as the centrepiece of the Christian Theological Seminary campus, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes - the architect of the Dallas Museum of Art and Walker Art Center - in the crisp mid-century style critics called pre-Gothic. The hall honours Orman Shelton, the seminary's first president, and its steeply raked, nearly 400-seat bowl wraps the stage in the.....

The beef stew recipe is from the early seventies and the jam bands never stop - Indy's north side has been fed and entertained on this corner since 1957. The Mousetrap at 5565 North Keystone Avenue in Indianapolis is one of the city's oldest watering holes, built at the southeast corner of 56th and Keystone and run through incarnations from cajun restaurant to pool hall while remaining, at heart, a neighborhood pub. The bar's modern identity is musical: concentrating on jam bands, the Trap has .....

A retail space inside a parking garage became one of the country's benchmark collegiate gaming venues. The Butler Esports Park at 4702 Sunset Avenue, Suite 900, on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis opened in fall 2022 - a 7,320-square-foot facility designed by stadium architects Populous as an adaptive reuse of the Sunset Avenue garage's ground floor. The hardware room reads like a broadcast studio crossed with an arcade: more than fifty high-performance gaming PCs, console and virtu.....

Mary Pickford suggested the name, Carole Lombard attended the opening, and the marquee has anchored Broad Ripple ever since. The Vogue at 6259 North College Avenue in Indianapolis opened on June 18, 1938 as an 800-seat Art Moderne movie house built by showman Carl Niesse, screening College Swing with Bob Hope for a quarter a ticket. The theater was among the first anywhere with air conditioning and advertised the largest free parking lot of any motion picture house - 400 cars - running as one o.....

The neon ghost of Crackers Comedy Club still marks the facade, but behind it Broad Ripple's longest-running comedy address has been reborn as a vinyl listening room and concert hall. Turntable opened in October 2024 at 6281 North College Avenue in Indianapolis, directly beside the Vogue Theatre. The operator is Forty5, the Indianapolis boutique production company that runs the Vogue, and the concept splits the space in two: a front bar modeled on a classic listening room, with restored audio eq.....