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Bob Nickerson recalls his father telling him stories about the 1918 influenza pandemic and its effects on daily life in Fort Wayne. “He was eight years old at the time,” […]

The phrase “magic bus” refers either to the 1968 song by the rock group The Who (it’s about a guy who haggles to buy a city bus so he can […]

RiverDrums began four years ago on the Wells Street Bridge. This showcase of dance, rhythm, music, poetry, and Fort Wayne’s Native American heritage has happened annually in various locales ever […]

When people pull up stakes and leave a town, one of the things that they miss about their former stomping ground is one or more of its restaurants. In other […]

Members of the so-called Silent Generation used to tell stories about the impact of seeing Elvis Presley perform on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956. Kids felt that they’d seen […]

When the Goodrich Quality Theatre chain declared bankruptcy in February, it wasn’t just Huntington residents who were upset. Goodrich’s Huntington Twin Drive-In drew patrons from miles around. This bankruptcy happened […]

Mike “Happy” Schneider’s nickname came from not seeming all that happy. “It’s a ‘jumbo shrimp’ sort of thing,” the guitarist for the band Hairball said in a phone interview with […]

The summer of 2020 has been challenging for everybody, but especially for people who sing for a living. If you have COVID-19, singing seems to be a great way to […]

The Andy Music Fest grew out of annual camping trips that the members of the band Sum Morz used to take together. They were musical camping trips, to be specific […]