As an Illinois teenager, Kevin Campbell played in a band with a mentor who kept trying to expand his musical horizons. One day, this mentor…

I don’t want to brag or anything, but I recently used my first smart toilet. Smart toilet sounds like a gag gift sold at the mall, something that…

JOY TO BEHOLD: For years, Sarah Manco was in what she calls “full mom mode,” with little room for her own creative ambitions. But after her children…

A few years ago, I was interviewing a shopkeeper in a small city some distance from Fort Wayne when he opened a door at the back of…

It seems unfair to single out any of the equally great steak places in Fort Wayne. Which is why I do all my “steak singling out” in Roanoke…

I don’t know artist and musician Amber Hehl very well, but she recently shared a story that struck me as quintessentially Amber Hehl. Some kids were trying…

There is angst and heartache on the menu at The Stand. Not because of all the different hot dogs that are on it, but because you have to…

PHOTO OP: Chad Ryan has worked as a professional sports photographer for almost 40 years. In that span, he weathered both the switch from film to digital…

Because the Hot Brandy Apple Pie dessert at the Black Dog Pub arrives at your table in a hot skillet, one can only assume that it was…

People who are humorous can seem light to us (as in, both luminous and airy). But many people employ lightness as a way of carrying heavy things…

There are two major pop cultural questions that may be answered in Fort Wayne this week. The first: Is yacht rock a legitimate musical genre? The second…

People tend to have one of two reactions to people who claim to be psychics or psychic mediums: Skepticism (verging on hostility) or delight (verging on adoration)…

I am not an expert on cigars, so I can only imagine what the Smoke Out Block Party outside Rudy’s Cigar Shop on Brackenridge Street is…

My cat died yesterday. If you are not a cat person or a pet person, I suppose it can be hard to appreciate how such a creature…

As promised in Saturday’s Scene, here are in-depth interviews with two fine folks who will present distinctive and delightfully unconventional events in Fort…

On “The Carol Burnett Show,” Vicki Lawrence tended to play characters older than Burnett even though she is 16 years younger. This was a function of Burnett’s prominence…

One fun thing to do, if you ever get the chance, is to reminisce about TV Christmas specials with Jane Lynch. I am not referring here…

THERE IS A SEASON: From the “you’re never too old to realize your dreams” files comes one of the more inspiring recent examples I can recall…

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, President Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, had a pillow in her upstairs sitting room with the following statement…

PICTURE THIS: Jared Christiansen’s interest in photography may have started when he borrowed his wife’s camera “and didn’t give it back,” he said…