Letter From Michiana: Partying with the Long Beach Community Alliance
The weather was nasty, but people showed up to raise the funds necessary to keep fighting, if that’s what it takes.
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Letter From Michiana: The failure of IDEM and the EPA
Why is it no one seems to care about the poisons being routinely dumped into Lake Michigan?
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Letter From Michiana: Building community through Wild Rose Moon
George is a longtime folksinger and storyteller and so it makes sense he decided to create a venue where those art forms might find a port of call.
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Letter From Michiana: Climate emergency
The problem isn’t how many miles we get to the gallon, or whether recycling really works. The problem has always been about freedom.
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Letter From Michiana: Local healer
I’m sure there are healers — people with a certain gift, an ability to not simply hold what ails you at bay, but make it better — everywhere. It’s just that I’ve never met one until we moved to Michiana.
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Letter From Michiana: Another spill
After having their drinking water threatened yet again, they must have their doubts. Do they have more in common with Yellowstone, or Flint?
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Letter From Michiana: Summer’s gone!
As if embarrassed by its lackadaisical performance, Summer managed a high note on its final day.
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Letter From Michiana: Chicago Imagists, still honking
The decided otherness of the Imagists’ defiant Midwestern aesthetic has always been a great honking aspect of their art.
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Letter From Michiana: Indiana’s Environmental Management = Fish Kill
A blast furnace closed water loop at steelmaker ArcelorMittal failed, spilling dangerous levels of cyanide and ammonium-nitrate into the Little Calumet River, which then made its way toward Lake Michigan.
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Letter From Michiana: The Michigan City Chamber Music Festival
In this setting, among these performers, you are reminded of how art, at its most essential, reveals human nature, that part of us as original and indispensable as an oak tree, a cloud or a fresh water sea.
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