Category: Arts & Culture

  • Hate is brief, love is immense

    Hate is brief, love is immense

    Dear Deb by Deb Padgett padgettstudios.com … life is the gold and sweetness of wheat, /hate is brief, and love immense.  — Gabriella Mistral In…

  • November starts out HUGE

    November starts out HUGE

    BIRDS IN PARTICULARHALLE O’[email protected] The days are growing shorter while the sun is hiding out, not my favorite weather combo. I have always dreamed of…

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  • Council Perspectives: Building Our Budget

    By Rebecca Noecker, City Councilmember, Ward 2 Every day, I receive dozens of constituent emails and phone calls on topics ranging from potholes to policing.…

  • Audacity Revisited

    Audacity Revisited

    by Deborah PadgettGeorge Floyd’s killing, Elijah Cummings’ and John Lewis’s deaths have left me humbled, helpless and grief stricken. I cannot be silent because silence…

  • Bea’s Books: One Crazy Summer

    Bea’s Books: One Crazy Summer

    BEA’S BOOKSOne Crazy Summer (5 out of 5 stars) One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is about three sisters: Delphine, Vonetta and Fern. It takes…

  • WHOLE WIDE WORLD West 7th Public Library

    WHOLE WIDE WORLD West 7th Public Library

    by cate sering, library manager As we transition out of summer, we know that the needs of our community are more important than ever.  Whether you…

  • West End Artist Profile: Kelly Ludeking

    West End Artist Profile: Kelly Ludeking

    I grew up in the Midwest on a traditional farm—dairy, beef, pigs and all the crops to feed them and us—where I absorbed a great…

  • Schmidt Artists realizing many dreams

    Schmidt Artists realizing many dreams

    Having Schmidt Artist Lofts in the neighborhood is just beginning to have the kind of impact many predicted when it was opened. Years of moving…