Arts & Culture

Coverage of visual arts, performing arts, cultural events, and artistic entrepreneurs

Mounted Police and their horses

Public sees the human side of police in the Mounted Division

What weighs between 1,200 and 1,500 pounds, is afraid of anything that's new to it, and yet has a great temperament for policing large groups of people? Correspondent Marin Heinritz has the answer.

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Drake Farmstead
Are changes ahead for Drake Farmstead in Oshtemo?
Beyond Basics Salon
Beyond Basics: New salon opens in Benton Harbor
Rebekah Kik, Kalamazoo City Planner
Cyclists say: Give us a lane
Celebration of Spring blooms at Inn at Harbor Shores
Creating an arts hub with the help of their friends

When Kalamazoo's DIT concert supporters and the DIY crafters get together the result is a plan for the Kalamazoo Collective Arts Center. 

Mitch "Poet like Poe" Burns and Marcel "Fable" Price open show
At Put Up or Shut Up the crowd pays attention

When two poets decide that an audience at open mic should give an artist more respect, they came up with a way to make that happen. In Kalamazoo, they call it Put Up or Shut Up. 

Kalamazoo River Valley Trail to grow by 5 more miles
Corner Records leaves the corner; returns as Satellite Records

Goodbye, Corner Records. Hello, Satellite Records. The shop at the corner of the shopping center on West Main Hill is moving closer to it customer base in the Vine Neighborhoods. 

Battle Creek chooses muralist for Friendship Park

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