Great Lakes - Eastern USA - page 1066

Indianapolis Star ( www.indystar.com ) The city's daily newspaper.

Nuvo ( www.nuvo.net ) Free, weekly alternative paper with the arts and music low-down.

Getting There & Around
The fancy Indianapolis International Airport (IND; www.indianapolisairport.com ; 7800 Col H
Weir Cook Memorial Dr) is 16 miles southwest of town. The Washington bus (8) runs
between the airport and downtown ($1.75, 50 minutes); the Go Green Airport van does it
quicker ($10, 20 minutes). A cab to downtown costs about $35.
Greyhound ( 317-267-3076; www.greyhound.com ) shares Union Station (350 S Illinois
St) with Amtrak. Buses go frequently to Cincinnati (two hours) and Chicago (3½ hours).
Megabus ( www.megabus.com/us ) stops at 200 E Washington St, and is often cheaper.
Amtrak travels these routes but takes almost twice as long and (nonsensically) costs
more.
IndyGo ( www.indygo.net ; fare $1.75) runs the local buses. Bus 17 goes to Broad Ripple.
Service is minimal during weekends.
For a taxi, call Yellow Cab ( 317-487-7777) .

WORTH A TRIP
GRAY BROTHERS CAFETERIA

Cafeterias are an Indiana tradition, but most have disappeared - except for Gray
Brothers ( www.graybrotherscatering.com ; 555 S Indiana St; mains $4-8; 11am-8:30pm Mon-Sat,
from 10am Sun) . Enter the time-warped dining room, grab a blue tray and behold a
corridor of food that seems to stretch the length of a football field. Stack on plates
of pan-fried chicken, meatloaf, mac 'n' cheese and sugar cream pie, then fork in
with abandon. It's located in Mooresville, about 18 miles south of downtown Indi-
anapolis en route to Bloomington.

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Bloomington & Central Indiana
Bluegrass music, architectural hot spots, Tibetan temples and James Dean all furrow into
the farmland around here.