Articles
Jeff Gainey / The Way I Like It!
Much in the same way NASCAR racing has found its niche as a shrewdly marketed, eager-to-please populist sport, country music has surged in recent years as Everyman’s entertainment. Northern Indiana’s […]
David Seculoff
This is a story about David Seculoff, who, disguised as a mild-mannered, part-time doorman during the day, becomes a mild-mannered clarinetist and abstract painter off the clock. And, shhhh … […]
Definitely Gary / The New Deal
After two years the whimsical power trio known as Definitely Gary finally follow up their smash-hit debut album (No. 2 in two out of every five Alpine villages) with The […]
Beth Albright
Chatting with Beth Albright at her dining table on Fort Wayne’s south side, it is hard to keep focused on the artist, attractive and vibrant though she may be. One’s […]
Tim Johnson
Style trumps pretty much everything except aesthetics according to artist Tim Johnson. It’s an adage clearly manifested in the 33 pieces that comprise his current show at Fort Wayne’s Kachmann […]
Hou$e of H.E.M.P. / The American Weigh
Upon checking out the cover art collage of the newest H.o.H. release, which juxtaposes such positive role models as (deep breath) Manson, Nixon, McVeigh, Swaggart, Noriega, scandalized priests, Rumsfeld, Bin […]
Elemental
Less than a year ago, the band that would become Elemental was still a work in progress. Not the music, the band itself. The crew had just picked up bassist […]
Julia Meek
Julia Meek, the widely respected Fort Wayne visual artist and radio personality, has become so associated with all things folk, eco-sound, pantheistic, natural, no artificial ingredients added, cooperative-building and mutual-aid […]
All Nite Skate
The joke begins as an off color comment made by All Nite Skate guitarist Bob Haddad: “Two Arabs walk into a band.” At first glance, this doesn’t make a whole […]
Christopher Ganz
Down a flight of wooden stairs, in the basement, hangs a curtain of Visqueen that hides the artist’s workspace. A sheet of drywall mounted to the wall serves as the […]