Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShe fell into cosplay in 2018 and now has no desire to lift herself out of the pool. Steph Slone, a communications specialist for Indiana University by day, is an imagineer, designer, seamstress, and mechanic by night. She uses all those skills to fashion fantasy costumes for …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 48.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA true south central Hoosier — he swam in limestone quarry pools as a kid — Dason Anderson now guides this region’s online magazine as its executive editor. Running a news operation is especially challenging as we enter the second half of the decade. With many news …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSteve Higgs has had two overwhelming passions in his adult life: the environment and journalism. He was a reporter for the Herald-Times as far back as when it was known as the Herald-Telephone. He’s also been treading through and savoring the land in every corner of Indiana, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShe grew up in a comfortable Chicago suburb not really knowing what her ethnic heredity entailed. Then Dena El Saffar delved deep into her Iraqi roots. Along the way she became a classically trained musician, specializing in the stringed instruments. Dena now leads the Salaam Band and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 21.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShe’s fast becoming Bloomington’s empresario of author events. Molly Gleeson and the Writers Guild at Bloomington staged last year’s successful Local Authors Book Fair. This year she and the Guild are bringing the noted novelist, essayist, and journalist, Aminatta Forna, to town. Born in Scotland and of …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShe happened upon a glassblowing exhibit at a Sandusky, Ohio amusement park and was immediately hooked. Abby Gitlitz has been working with glass — she makes it from scratch — her entire adult life. She founded the Bloomington Creative Glass Center and launched the annual Great Glass …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHe experienced one tragedy that nearly cost him his arm and witnessed a second, fatal, tragedy. The incidents forced Bert Gilbert to assess his life. He opted to dive deep into his untapped reservoir of creativity. He was a construction contractor by day (now retired) and an …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 23.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMinka Wiltz will be telling a story this coming Saturday at The Hundredth Hill’s Tale Blazing fireside storytelling event. Sponsored by MDWST Fable, Tale Blazing will feature five creative raconteurs moving around campfires for an evening of woodsy community and Fall frolic. Wiltz, originally from Georgia, has …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShe wondered, Why couldn’t the visual artists of Bloomington, in all their different genres, get together for a community-building exercise? So, Babette Ballinger founded the Bloomington Paint Out. Artists of any level of proficiency, from professionals to wannabes, will gather Saturday at Bryan Park for the fourth …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:00 — 22.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe folks at Stages Bloomington take the old movie line, “Hey kids, let’s put on a show,” seriously. Stages is a local nonprofit that specializes in bringing young people — elementary and high school aged — into the theater. Annalise Cain has been hired as the organization’s …
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