Matt Hendrickson

In New York City, they’re known as bodegas, the corner stores where you can buy a bagel and a cup of coffee or Kleenex and cigarettes, probably dodging a house cat or two as they scurry through aisles and plop down on the candy bars. In Japan, they’re known as kissa bars, a riff on the 1950s teahouses where jazz fans would gather and listen to their favorite—and often extremely rare—records.

In Florence, Alabama, however, it’s known as All the Best, a coffee shop–snack bar–record store combo th

In January 2019, Jason Isbell got a call from Christie Carter, the owner of Carter Vintage Guitars, Nashville’s premier way station for collectible instruments. The shop had just gotten some new arrivals, and Carter wondered if Isbell might want to take a look. He went in the next day. He first played a 1973 Fender Stratocaster that Ed King—one-third of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s three-pronged guitar attack—used to write the lick on “Sweet Home Alabama.” Then he picked up a 1959 Gibson Les Paul that King

What’s hotter than the scorching horseradish-loaded cocktail sauce at St. Elmo’s, Indianapolis’s revered steakhouse? Indiana’s economy. The Hoosier State is experiencing unprecedented growth, transforming it into a thriving hub of innovation and industry. In 2022, more than 200 companies committed to relocating to the state or expanding their current facilities there, pumping $22.2 billion into the state’s economy—a 250% increase over the year prior. Four years ago, Indiana had zero EV battery o

In the IAC, human drivers are replaced by sensors, supercomputers, and other autonomous hardware programmed by research teams from some of the world’s top engineering schools, such as MIT, Berkeley, and Indiana’s own Purdue University. The competition pits teams in head-to-head races to see which car can safely pass at the highest top speed. In January 2023, nine different teams competed in the Autonomous Challenge at CES at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The checkered flag went to PoliMOVE, a jo

Abbey Road’s Studio 2 was an unruly cacophony on a weekend in late August. The British post-punk band Idles were livestreaming a show — their first performance in 2020 — and discovering they were out of practice. But the group’s outspoken frontman, Joe Talbot, was in prime form. “This is dedicated to all the key workers that kept our country afloat, thank you very much, N.H.S.,” he said, referring to Britain’s National Health Service, before the band tore into “Divide and Conquer”: “Long live th