They have songs about doing the limbo and chicken chimichangas. They’ve got a mobile app. They’ve got a series of TV spots that are poised for airing nationwide. But most […]

Look at a painting by Cathy Blyth and you’ll see fields of thick acrylic color stretching across the picture plane overlapped by slashes, smears and scrapes. followed by more color. […]

As much fun as being in a band with your friends is, sometimes you have to make that tough choice to walk away. Whether it’s career, family, lack of time […]

A common theme among performers, even the most expressive ones, is a secret innate shyness. Such is the case for Jana Henly. “My shyness as a kid probably had something […]

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 […]