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Whether you call it a hackerspace or a makerspace it's a space that fosters creativity. A new group has formed to turn a warehouse in the Edison Neighborhood into a place to learn new skills and teach those you know to others.
Western Michigan University's occupational therapy program has been going for 90 years. Known for its quality research, education and service, a gift of $2 million gives it one more mark of distinction.
Enjoying and learning from our own and other cultures through music is what the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music is all about. Jane Parikh talks to Executive Director Elizabeth Start about the way the festival brings the world to Kalamazoo.
What would it take to make Southwest Michigan a place that young tech entrepreneurs would want to locate? Some local officials and friends tell Second Wave's Kathy Jennings they are working on creating the right environment to lure the entrepreneurs home.
If people fly out of a regional airport it keeps their money close to home. But it has to make sense financially for airline passengers to choose local over flying out of Detroit or Chicago. Dan Weirsma of the Regional Air Alliance talks with Second Wave's Kathy Jennings about what that group is doing to make the choice easier.
As Halloween approaches, Art and Body Studios is about to enter its busiest time of year. Anna Wilinski and Santiago Massano talk to Jane Parikh about the face and body painting business they are growing in Kalamazoo.
Solar power is something Mike Linsea has believed in for 30 years. He decided to make it his business three years ago. Kathy Jennings catches up with the owner of Solar Winds Power Systems at one of the largest the solar arrays his company has installed in Kalamazoo.
WMU officials are not ready to call it a plan, but movement is afoot for the redevelopment of East Campus. It's a big, expensive idea and to see it happen will continue to tap the university's creativity. WMU's Robert Miller talks about how it got this far and what are the possibilities.
It's not uncommon for traveling musicians to grab a place to sleep on somebody's floor. Tony Roth and his wife Joyce Walker have created a welcoming space in the Stuart neighborhood where a group of musicians can rest, relax and even stretch out on a bed with real sheets and pillows. Jane C. Parikh talks to the couple about why they open their home to people they've never met.
Everyone has seen squirrels, the occasional urban raccoon and more recently the neighborhood deer. A privileged few have seen the fox, coyote and weasel. Matthew Clysdale makes it his business to find the animals others miss and capture them on film.
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