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The Fort Wayne Blogosphere

A flurry of local web logs are rife with opinion, analysis, and argument

Last March, the impending sale of newspaper publishing giant Knight-Ridder to the McClatchy Company left 12 of the company’s newspapers out in the cold in search of a new publisher. One of those being resold by the McClatchy Company was Fort Wayne’s The News-Sentinel. Read More...


Around Town

Avett Brothers: Raucous Boys from North Carolina

Few bands have taken the credo ‘less is more’ to heart moreso than the Avett Brothers. Consisting of Scott and Seth Avett, on banjo and guitar respectively, and Bob Crawford, on upright bass, the Avett (pronounced AYE-vett) Brothers create songs more rockin and foot stompin than bands twice their numbers. Read More...

Mee Kyung Shim

It must have been after 8pm. And there was Mee Kyung Shim—two hours into the opening reception for her latest exhibition—swapping the placement of a pair of panels in her mixed media installation, Garden Story, while talking with a gallery guest. I approached Shim: “Still figuring it out?” “Of course,” she replied. “You know, it can always be better.” This scene tells you much of what you need to know about Shim. She is one of this city’s hardest-working professionals (artists, or otherwise), she genuinely engages in open dialogue with her audience, and she embraces the realities of transition and fluidity over the contrivance of precise definition. Read More...

The rally on the other side of Clinton Street

For over three years, on the first Saturday of every month, demonstrators gather on the Allen County Courthouse Green in downtown Fort Wayne to protest the war in Iraq. Read More...

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