How Orange T-shirts Helped Revive Gaming in French Lick

Laurie D. Borman and Carol Johnson

Beginning in the 1990s, a group of Orange County citizens traveled multiple times to the Indiana Statehouse to encourage lawmakers to grant a gaming license to the town of French Lick. Limestone Post and the Southern Indiana Business Report look back at those early days and how gaming today has affected the town and its citizens. Read the article by Laurie D. Borman and Carol Johnson.

October 25, 2024

Adam Nahas in Burl and Ingot Tool Library showing a piece of armor that he made. The Tool Library is part of Artisan Alley, the collective art space, studio, workshop, computer lab, gallery, and other projects that began in Nahas’s basement more than a decade ago. | Limestone Post

Big Mike’s B-town: Adam Nahas, Artist’s Artist

Michael G. Glab

The concept of Artisan Alley — the collective art space, studio, workshop, computer lab, gallery, and other projects — began in Adam Nahas’s basement more than a decade ago. But the path from home workshop to one of Bloomington’s largest art collectives was not a straight line. Writer Michael G. Glab maps out Nahas’s journey. Click here for the story.

August 6, 2019

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New spaces — Delinquent Gallery & Tattoo KAIJU and Artisan Alley’s Twisted — offer “lowbrow” and boundary-pushing art in Bloomington, says writer Samuel Welsch Sveen. Comics, video-game-themed artwork, cult movies, and tattoos can be found at one; artist studios, a healing shaman, and a retail store for edgier artwork at the other. Pictured here are Delinquent Gallery & Tattoo KAIJU's owners, tattoo artist Chris McVillain, left, and curator Brian Aldridge, right, with art for their inaugural show, "Kai-July." | Photo by Samuel Welsch Sveen

Delinquent and Twisted — New Homes to ‘Lowbrow’ and Edgier Art Scene

Samuel Welsch Sveen

New spaces — Delinquent Gallery & Tattoo KAIJU and Artisan Alley’s Twisted — offer “lowbrow” and boundary-pushing art in Bloomington, says writer Samuel Welsch Sveen. Comics, video-game-themed artwork, cult movies, and tattoos can be found at one; artist studios, a healing shaman, and a retail store for edgier artwork at the other. Click here to read the full story.

July 31, 2018

West Coast "Super Smash Bros." competitors, Joey “Lucky” Aldama and Binyan “Darkatma” Lin, at Smash at IUB's Full Bloom 2 tournament. | Photo courtesy of Smash at IUB

IU’s ‘Smash’ Tourney Largest in Indiana History

Dason Anderson

The popularity of video games has grown into full form, for both players and spectators. The Smash at IUB event on March 25, for instance, will draw nationally ranked players in one of the Midwest’s largest-attended Super Smash Bros. tournaments. Writer Dason Anderson looks into the smashing success of this and other eSports. Click here to read the full story.

March 21, 2017

11 Tips to Be the Best Pokémon Go Player … Like No One Ever Was [video]

TJ Jaeger

Have you been wandering the streets of Bloomington looking for Pokémon, walking one more block to see if Pikachu is right around the next corner? Videographer and Pokémon Go fan, TJ Jaeger, put together a handy video showing the safest, most efficient way to be the very best — like no one ever was. Click here to watch the video.

July 28, 2016

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Orks stand their ground in "Warhammer 40,000" in the downstairs gaming rooms of The Game Preserve. There are a variety of opportunities for tabletop gaming in Bloomington. | Photo by Lynae Sowinski

Tabletop Gamers Discover Abundance of Adventures in B-town

Dason Anderson

Writer Dason Anderson says tabletop gaming is more than healthy escapism. It’s an avenue “for the creative spirit, the puzzle-solving mind, and the adventuresome soul.” And the games are not just fantasy. Fans of classic literature, architecture, and sci-fi can find games — and venues around B-town — that suit their interest. Click here to read the full story.