Dave Martin, Author at Bloom Magazine

Road Trips

Here are some great ideas for local road trips in a full downloadable version of our advertising section! Download the guide here!

March 30, 2012

A few words from the editor It’s been hard for me, a “paper” guy, to get excited about websites. I’ve had a love affair…

February 29, 2012

BY PAMELA KEECH Last winter John and Peggy Woodcock—she an artist, he a retired professor of writing and literature—booked a tour to Egypt. “I…

February 28, 2012

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR You’ve got to love a restaurant whose motto is “eat and get out.” The original Village Deli was tiny but cozy…

February 26, 2012

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It was 1976, Bloomington, Indiana. The food scene was just heating up, and 26-year old Michael Cassady was in the thick…

February 26, 2012

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It’s the only live-action food show in town. Stand on the corner of Kirkwood and Walnut and try not to drool…

February 26, 2012

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Story, Indiana, isn’t on the way to much of any place. If you aren’t deliberately going there, you are unlikely to…

February 24, 2012

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR You’ve got to love a restaurant whose signature dish sounds like a warm hug from an Irish grandma. Talk about comfort…

February 24, 2012

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It might have been made for romance. Secluded, cozy, intimate, the Scholars Inn Gourmet Café and Wine Bar sits on a…

February 24, 2012