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It’s not unusual for a band to change its name. It happens a lot for a variety of reasons. A name change is often part of the normal series transitions […]

Weird stuff happens in writer Deborah E. Kennedy’s fictional world. In the case of her compelling debut novel, Tornado Weather, that weird stuff includes the beer-fueled antics of a two-man […]

It’s turning out to be a good summer for Stann Champion. On July 1, the Chicago-based musician took home a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th Chicago Music Awards. What […]

Watching The Accidentals perform is like hitching a ride on a rocket. Savannah Buist and Katie Larson, along with their drummer Michael Dause, have enough energy to make Elon Musk […]

The artist Rick Wilson lives and works in Edinburgh, Indiana, a small town whose central location between Indianapolis and Columbus was ideal for Wilson’s most recent series of works. From […]

Regardless of what anyone says, summer isn’t over until after Labor Day weekend. The kids may be long back in school and store aisles may be crammed with ghosts and […]

For 37 years, Rick “Doc” West has skillfully welcomed and introduced hundreds of rock bands to dozens of venues around Fort Wayne. As the voice – the voice – of […]

Oil painter John Michael Carter spends a lot of time traveling the world looking for scenes that excite him. It might be street life in Paris, a sunrise over a […]

Ben Folds has the appearance of someone you might find spilling off your couch the morning after a rough night. Mussed hair, beard stumbling across his boyish face, hazy, bemused […]