CULTURAL STUDIES
Remembering WOXY and the Modern Rock 500
A Memorial Day tradition that chronicled the music of an era.
Remembering WOXY and the Modern Rock 500
A Memorial Day tradition that chronicled the music of an era.
Featured Stories
POLITICS
When Socialists Swept Milwaukee
Democratic socialists attending the 2020 Democratic Convention won't be out of place in a city with a long history of socialist governance.
PERSONAL HISTORY
The End of a World as I Knew It
On childhood summers at a black enclave in Michigan, and the moment everything changed.
POETRY
Still Life, Ohio Valley
"In early morning the tributaries / at Pittsburgh meld, then flow on / for centuries"
POSTCARD
Birdwatching at Indiana Dunes State Park
The Indiana Dunes Birding Festival and the art of paying attention.
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Performing Shakespeare in Prison
At Indiana's Pendleton Correctional Facility, a company of incarcerated men is finalizing its latest show.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Affordable Housing Project
American System-Built Homes in Chicago (and elsewhere).
Scheherazaden: On the Power of Women’s Stories
Stories, recounted and repeated and insisted upon, accumulate.
The Disappearance of the Ruffed Grouse
The bird’s population is declining in states across the region. Forest management practices are mostly to blame.
When Will Cleveland Fix its Lead Problem?
Two groups are sparring over timelines for addressing issues in the city's aging neighborhoods.
Chicago’s First Nations Garden
“While this is a space for Native people to use, to heal our traumas...[it's also] a space so we can outreach to the greater Chicago community."
Just Downriver from Detroit
"During my visits to to the nursing home, Dad and I have sometimes settled into chairs to time-travel through a photo album."
Minneapolis by Segway
"There was always a sense of something missing, a story still jumbled and incomplete..." From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
Opèksipu Catches Sun Before it Flows Beneath the Washington Street Bridge
"home is built upon the scaffolding / of a hundred thousand stories..."
Are Volunteer Fire Departments Still Viable?
Faced with a lack of money and volunteers, some western Pennsylvania departments are turning to consolidation.
The Young Patriots and the Fight for the Working Class in Uptown
In the 1960s, the organization partnered with the Black Panthers and Young Lords, providing a model for multiracial coalition-building in Chicago.
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From the Archives
How Michigan’s Municipal Policies Led To Crises In Detroit and Flint
Michigan has the most decrepit cities in the United States...It’s not just a result of neglect. It’s a result of policy.
Calls for Submissions
Call for Submissions: INseparable
In search of features, essays, and poems that engage with the relationships between rural, urban, and suburban places in Indiana.
Call for Submissions: LGBTQ Anthology
Announcing an anthology of LGBTQ stories from the Midwest and Appalachia, to be published in Fall 2020 by Belt Publishing.
