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Ask guitarist Marcus King about where he got his love of music and you will hear a story that sounds like it came out of an anthology of Southern literature. […]

By Steve Penhollow The Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival, in its eighth year, happens all day Saturday, March 18, at the Civic Theatre. The festival was established to encourage playwrights with […]

When Thomas Lauderdale’s parents got divorced in the early 80s, he and his mother moved from Kosciusko County to Fort Wayne. Lauderdale said his mom took him to see classic […]

As band names go, Oferle is a great one. It evokes the word “offer” but with an enigmatic twist suggesting, perhaps, an offer with unspecified strings attached. As it turns […]

If you want to celebrate some achievement in your life or curse some setback in Irish wake fashion, your best bet would be to get a bunch of friends together […]

Shelly Dixon’s musical idols are Melissa Etheridge, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Nicks, among many others.  “Definitely, I am covetous and envious of everyone who got to see Stevie Nicks in […]

In his teens, Mark R. Hunter dreamed of becoming a full-time firefighter and a bestselling author. “By the time I was a sophomore in high school, I had a plan: […]

None of the five members of the Be Colony is older than 24, and yet they are all talented and creatively confident beyond their years. For confirmation of this assertion, […]

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 […]