For those who didn’t grow up in Northeast Indiana – and perhaps even for those who did – it’s easy to miss some of the local legends, the stories that […]

Ryan Kerr makes music that seems to constantly evolve as it’s being played. It moves and slinks effortlessly like the best kind of narrative.  Kerr definitely falls into the singer/songwriter […]

When Gregg Bender, longtime Journal Gazette illustrator and frontman of his eponymous band, was a teenager growing up in Berne, he and his friend John Ludy performed original music in […]

Area attorney, musician, art gallery owner and author Mark Paul Smith said he wrote the first draft of his latest book, Honey and Leonard, in the mid-90s while he was […]

I’ll never forget the first time I experienced pho, a traditional Vietnamese soup consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs, spices and meat. I walked into a local Vietnamese restaurant and […]

When Guy Zimmerman was around five years old, a cousin who was three times his age rode into town on a freight train with his bundle and his guitar. It […]

After a background in a ballet, tap and gymnastics, Liz Monnier planned to study ballet in college and make that her career. But as she began the audition process, she […]

Born in Washington State during World War II, Dorothy Kittaka’s early life was spent at an internment camp along with other Japanese-Americans confined in the wake of the Pearl Harbor […]