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Things to Do in Fort Wayne and Beyond

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Jon McCoy

Fort Wayne is home to a lot oftalented people. Some make a name for themselves either locally or,occasionally, beyond the city limits. Some remain obscure forever, never reallysharing their talents […]

Roleo and EDS

I’m sitting on the floor in Joey O’s basement on a Sunday afternoon, my back against a half-sized refrigerator full of bottled water, and watching as the Joey O Band […]

Drive Fast / Heartland Outlaws

Here’s the disadvantage of being a band circa 2007: some say it’s all been done, every landmark movement’s been bled dry. But turn that logic on its head and you’ll […]

City Wide Worship / A Worship That Changed A City

OnMay 18, 2007 a city-wide multi-media Christian worship service was held at the Foellinger Ampitheater. The event was arranged and performed by a group appropriately named Citywide Worship. During the […]

Carol Lockridge

WhenCarol Lockridge moved to Fort Wayne in 1999 the Summit City became far richer,stealing a great blues vocalist and natural musician away from Detroit,Michigan. But neither Fort Wayne nor Carol […]

GoodbyeWave / Goodbye, So Long, Farewell, Goodnight

Say you hail from a typical Midwest small town (Warsaw, Indiana, for instance), soak up influences that aren’t necessarily the “norm,” put together a band here and there and run […]

I, Wombat / I, Wombat

Want a break from the avalanche of niche-marketed, multimedia “artists” that seem to have emerged whole cloth from some focus-group factory? Do you miss rock music, the kind of rock […]

homeless j / The Squeeze

Homeless J, for better or worse, can probably impart that advice more wisely than just about anybody in the region: stuck on the short end of two promising major label […]

Lee Miles / 1000 Lions

For every songwriter willing to churn their guitar with some chutzpah there are at least 1,000 others with no idea what it means to have guts. On his first three […]

The Lurking Corpses

While driving to meet the members of The Lurking Corpses for an interview I began to consider asking whatzup for additional compensation. I don’t remember “3 a.m. graveyard interviews with […]