THE BEER BEAT: Your brain on coursework, or expanding the mind one pint at...

Just a few weeks ago, I happily contributed a segment to the IU Bicentennial Oral History Project. I am the student worker of Dr. Elizabeth...

PINTS & UNION PORTFOLIO: Beer Tuesday Talk & Taste, and Tabletop Tuesday; beer and...

To be perfectly honest, I've yet to make the acquaintance of The Settlers of Catan, yet I'm undeterred. If I were asked to select...

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Josh Hambright steps away from Central State Brewing. A job...

Last week Josh Hambright, co-founder of Central State Brewing in Indianapolis, used his personal Facebook portal to announce his forthcoming transition from brewing to...

Eateries coming together as family topped the January Top Ten list of most-read posts...

Local eateries rallying around furloughed government employees captured the attention of blog readers. Thanks for reading NA Confidential, where we enjoy reconnoitering the neglected periphery for uniquely...

Top Ten posts at NA Confidential for March, 2015.

The March Top Ten is determined by numbers of unique hits, as reported by Blogger. Because it was an unusually productive month for me, and...

Drinking Progressively tonight at 6, at Bank Street Brewhouse.

Permit me to stress that if you have a local issue you'd like to discuss, come on down and join in the conversation.  Drinking Progressively...

Super Sunday craft beer carry-outs and advanced beer education.

A negligent AP reporter missed a super point about Sunday sales in Indiana in his piece on the Super Bowl. Indiana's small breweries and...

Coffee and doughnuts and downtown business tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow morning I'm hosting a meeting of the current incarnation of the downtown business association. Please join us for our next meeting on Tuesday, June...

Tribune: “Scribner Place should not be a scare tactic”

Today’s Tribune editorial on the political games being played by Scribner Place’s city council opponents is the newspaper’s clearest and most scathingly accurate statement...

Council’s “Gang of Four” massing on the border of civility; attack against the 21st...

In yesterday’s Courier-Journal, Ben Zion Hershberg chronicled the City Council’s various trial balloons for a Sanitation Department intervention and bailout, but the proposals were...

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2006: The NA Confidential – Volunteer Hoosier merger.

Diana and I first met Randy Smith on the grounds of the Moser Tannery in 2004 (wife Ann was with him; I knew her...

The Highwayman at city council, 2009: “Romeo, Romeo,——-?”

Lloyd "The Highwayman" Wimp, who sadly left us on November 12, 2010, was an old acquaintance of my 1990s-era pub madness who became a...

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Having grown up under the tutelage of a father who went out of his way to avoid urban areas, and this being America, my...