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Food for Thought

Table Talk • This year’s Spirit & Place Festival (p. 13) will tackle how to talk about tough subjects at the Thanksgiving table. We asked staff members which topics are verboten at theirs:

Contributors

BUZZWORTHY • Tony Rehagen’s September story about musician Stuart Hyatt generated some praise worth recording.

Food for Thought • Spirit & Place Festival organizers offer tips on how to talk turkey at the Thanksgiving table without ruffling (too many) feathers.

Making Candles • A manner-festo for the best fall-idays outing.

BUILDING A REPUTATION • Avriel Shull homes, home-brewed spirits, and paperboys. Ask the Hoosierist.

Z is for Zerna • How a small-town Indiana schoolteacher taught millions to read.

Red Herring • Local comedian Brent Terhune makes political satire great again with a character who has gone viral.

Three Funniest Follows • Terhune’s favorite comedians to track on Twitter.

Going Brogue

BUCKLE UP • From classic camel wool to foxy faux leather, we’re into the trenches.

Skin In The Game • A new leather-goods shop plays up its “sophisticated grit.”

Ginger Pearson, Creative Consultant

First Class • An Indy seamstress thinks globally, sews locally to create bags from cork and exotic fabrics.

Southport • Just off busy Madison Avenue, you’ll find a cluster of best-in-class independent businesses.

Mission Impossible • This Spanish-style villa could lure you away from the city to basketball country.

My Fan Zone • Colts game-day excitement doesn’t end when Mike Bostic goes home. The super fan, nicknamed “Clony Dungy” for his resemblance to the team’s former coach, turned his basement into a shrine to horseshoe hype.

Sweet Success

SHABBY CHIC

Buzz Cut

Totally Baked • Rebecca Raffle has a high concept: She’s developed two of the country’s rare CBD bakeries.

MORNING GLORIES • Whether you’re working from home or commuting to the office (you remember commuting to the office, don’t you?) jump-start your day with one of these a.m. handhelds.

Icing on the Cake • Downtown’s Gallery Pastry Bar is the beautiful escape we all need right now.

Phoney Coney • Vegans can sink their teeth into this dolled-up, plant-based version of a boardwalk classic at the east side’s whimsical street-food walk-up, Heartbreaker.

Q+A LaVall Jordan Basketball Coach • With the Butler University men’s basketball season in limbo, Coach Jordan has been as vocal about racial justice as he has been about defense.

Virtually Perfect • At what were once long, dull Quaker meetings, Zoom lives up to its name.

Joe’s Crossroads • Until this past spring, Mayor Joe Hogsett seemed primed for a potential run for governor or senator. But the twin challenges of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement have hobbled him as he plans his political future.

900+ TOP DOCTORS • If 2020 has reminded us of anything, it’s how important great physicians are. The pandemic has changed a lot, but it hasn’t altered our commitment to finding the best doctors in the city. Here they are, listed alphabetically by specialty. This year, we also asked a few of them about their own experiences with COVID-19 (starting on p. 61) and about the growing danger of deferred care (p. 66). Until next...