Art & Culture

Art & Culture

Community Theaters in the Midwest Are Innovating for a New Era

Alyssa Jacoby -
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,...
Art & Culture

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

Nicole Millan Ortiz -
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...
Stories

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

Calvin Cheong -
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...
Art & Culture

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

Esther Lim -
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...
Art & Culture

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

Jason Mecchi -
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...
Art & Culture

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

Ester Luna -
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...
Art & Culture

The Great Midwest Trivia Contest, Circa 1966

Angie Ling -
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?”...
Art & Culture

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

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

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

Zoe Neely -
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...
Art & Culture

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

Michelle Franklin -
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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