I was born up there in Indy and lived about half my life in the area. There's good blues at the Slippery Noodle Tavern on Meridian Street. Right downtown, they've converted the grand old Lyric and Loew's type movie houses into real theaters. Broad Ripple used to have a place called the Patio with loud rock music if you like that. There's plenty of book stores, record shops, Butler University has some very nice grounds and gardens to wander around in and there's Clowes Hall where concerts are done. On the north end near a small town called Fishers there's a place called McCormick's Creek (I think) that has a pioneer type village that I've heard is real nice to visit. There's a good art museum (Herron Museum of Art) with good exhibits, and if you got kids (or even if you don't) there's the Children's Museum which is very cool indeed. There's a zoo, jazz fests in the summer, just check out the Indianapolis Star on the weekends for events. They've got a pretty nice little city going up there now. When I lived there it was getting pretty bad downtown but everything's being renovated and restored and it looks good again. Take a drive down to Brown County and Bean Blossom for bluesgrass (but I hear they've turned it into a touristy type area now and prices are higher than when we used to go there. Try the apple butter. Good stuff.