Art & Culture

Community Theaters in the Midwest Are Innovating for a New Era

Kyle Omlor is just a regular guy who loves all things theater.  After discovering his passion for theater through his son’s involvement in high school,...

Paradise Found? The Intriguing Saga of Cincinnati’s Mercantile Library

Does a tree really fall if no one’s there to hear it? Is a book really read if no one’s there to discuss it? In...

From War to Wurst: German American Culture in St. Louis

It’s a sunny day. The sky is a pale, cloudless blue. The warmth of a newborn autumn hangs in the air. The sounds of...

The Modernist Marvels of Columbus, Indiana: Building Community Through Architecture and Design

From Eshaan Mehta’s childhood affinity for Lego to the vast real estate he built on Minecraft, his pull towards the architecture field has always...

A Tiger in Ohio: How Bill Watterson’s Hometown Inspired “Calvin and Hobbes”

In 1995, the final edition of Bill Watterson’s iconic comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” ended with the title characters (a precocious, rascally child and...

You May Not Know It, But Shakespeare Is Thriving in the Heartland

Jennifer Pennington didn’t get good grades in high school, nor did she excel at sports.  Instead, she got into acting, much to the chagrin of...

The Great Midwest Trivia Contest, Circa 1966

If you’ve ever played a game of trivia, you might be familiar with questions like “Who was the fifteenth president of the United States?”...

Trouble in Paradise? How “Ozark” Shaped Tourism in the Real-life Ozarks

“This place right here has more shoreline than the whole coast of California,” Marty Byrde, the series protagonist of “Ozark”, says in its 2017...

Cleveland’s History in the Film Industry Gives Promise for its Future

Cleveland’s place in the film industry dates back to the 19th century. Just two years after the Lumière brothers screened their short films in...

A National Tribute to Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in Humboldt Park, Chicago

Perched on the grassy lawns of Chicago's Humboldt Park, the National Museum of Puerto Rican Art (NMPRAC), is a centerpiece of the city's Puerto Rican community, Paseo Boricua. Under the building's arresting red-tiled roof hangs an array of work by artists from the Puerto Rican diaspora.

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