By David Hoppe Saturday was bearish. It rained and rained, waves that were ten feet or more pummeled the shore and wind made the treetops sway as if they were children in dire need of a bathroom break. It was tempting to build a fire, turn on Netflix and curl up. But the Michigan City […]
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By David Hoppe: I’m not sure when we started. On New Year’s Eve, just after the ball drop, the loving kisses and the sips of champagne, my friend John and I pull on our coats and hats, fill a couple tumblers with the most sincere liquor that’s left in the bar and make our way […]
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A local election like this one can be unsettling. Makes you wonder whether you’re in tune with your neighbors.
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As kids, we never needed anyone to tell us how special this place was — we could feel it down to the soles of our feet.
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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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The decided otherness of the Imagists’ defiant Midwestern aesthetic has always been a great honking aspect of their art.
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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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It’s August, time for things to get a little squirrely.
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This year 70 teams, with names like Son of a Pitch, Speedy’s Chickenheads and the Ambassadors of Plastic took part.
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Instead of helping towns like Long Beach explain to property owners what the Supreme Court ruling means regarding their property or, for that matter, even fully informing themselves and their staff members about the state’s history and law, let alone enforcing that law, the DNR has buried its head in the sand.
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