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Lafayette Eats: Where to Eat in the GLA

Nobody can argue that the Greater Lafayette area doesn’t have a lot of restaurants. Local mythology is that we have the greatest restaurant per capita ratio in the United States. Believe it? Depends. But that does mean that we spend a lot of Friday and Saturday nights saying, “Where do you want to eat?” “I…

Can a Music Video Make Your City Desirable?

Fort Wayne, Indiana, has been on the bad end of some press lately, from being named the fattest and dumbest city in the nation, to the most riddled with cholesterol. Ouch. This, along with the ever-present issue of brain drain, inspired a promotional campaign that pulled together the city’s hip-hop scene to make a video…

Take Me To Your Liter

Attached is the latest play on the soda vs. pop maps that clutter up your Facebook wall. The point of the exercise is less about how we name our food and more about how to use technology to map geographic variations, in this case tracking a language variation related to a common household purchase on…

Sticking Around Lafayette

In 2010, novelist Patricia Henley wrote a thoughtful piece for the Smithsonian magazine on how she came to the Lafayette area, her decision to make this her home, and the persistent conversation among other Indiana writers who are “always trying to decide whether to go or stay.” I happened across this essay again the other…

TL Profiles: Ed Finkler on the GLA Open Source and Development Community

TL: For nine years, Ed Finkler served as web lead and security researcher at The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. He participated in open source web app development in his free time for years, including developing Spaz, a long-running, award-winning micro-blogging client. Today Ed is a…

Thanks Again, Forbes!

Forbes magazine has once again recognized the Lafayette area as a community of choice, this time as #15 in a list of the best small cities for business and careers, measuring job growth, education ranks, and cost of doing business metrics. We come in right between Johnson City, TN, and Sioux City, IA. Earlier this…

Lafayette Area Ranked 2nd Smartest In the Nation

Richard Florida reports that Lafayette, Indiana, ranks as one of America’s top brainiest cities. It’s true, we’re wicked smart. This study used gaming software called Lumosity (think the computer games that you use to procrastinate when you should be compiling your TPS reports) to measure not only how we perform on tests, but how we…

Seeking Local Victims

Are you an entrepreneur with a fresh message, product, or idea? Are you promoting a new or recurring event, festival, or show? Do you know someone from the Greater Lafayette area who is doing something cool or special in our community, someone who deserves a bigger platform? We want to feature you on Think Lafayette….