It takes more than practicing long and hard to make a career in music. These days it also takes business savvy. The Gilmore Festival Fellow program is helping young artists learn skills they need to make it work.
People and organizations are working to help residents outside of city limits get from here to there. Today's urban planning aims to make it possible for all -- pedestrian, bicyclist, bus passenger, and motorist -- to use streets in a safe, accessible, and practical manner.
After a year's hiatus due to COVID-19 precautions, Bell's Eccentric Day is back, Dec. 3. It's one of a number of bars with live shows that are bringing folks out of their isolation. Mark Wedel recently visited the venue to see what a show with COVID safety precautions in place looks like.
It's been a long time since the Kalamazoo Friends of Poetry presented poems on local buses. Now the poems are back. They are some of the winners of the Poems That Ate Our Ears Contest.
Local food banks that serve both rural and urban constituencies are being hit hard by fluctuations caused by the pandemic. In 2020, donation sources closed, food drives stopped. In 2021, food prices rose, deliveries slowed, food was being diverted to commercial use as restaurants and other businesses opened. Nonprofits' needs continue to be great.
If you've been seeing writer and illustrator David Small's name popping up around Kalamazoo lately the events and recognition come as Western Michigan University Archives has acquired an archive of his works and that of his wife Sarah Stuart.
How is the protection of Kalamazoo's wilder spaces going? We brought together some of those who are doing the work to find out.
Jerry Dixon, a 1979 Kalamazoo Central grad who went on to become a Broadway actor, then director, returns to his hometown to turn "Songs for a New World" at Farmers Alley Theatre into a healing, cathartic experience for people trying to create a new new-normal for themselves.
Affordable housing is being built, but the progress is slow. Two agency executive directors talk about possibilities for getting work done as Second Wave explores common concerns and solutions to those issues in rural and urban Kalamazoo county.
What youth do when they are out of school can determine their success later on. Organizations that work with KYD Network find youth feel ownership of the projects they're participating in and are therefore more engaged.
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