The game has changed but it’s still coaching kids and it’s still football The game is not going to lose him. David Bush is pretty clear about that. “I love the game of football,” he says. And so, autumn is a busy time for him, and has been for more than a quarter century. He […]
An update on arts and entertainment options across the region The 2017 South Shore Summer Music Festival will feature free concerts by the Northwest Indiana Symphony in Lake and Porter counties during July and August. Everyone is welcome to come early; bring lawn chairs and blankets, relax and enjoy the music. Concerts kick off in
An update on arts and entertainment options across the region The eighth year of the Community Foundation Performing Arts Series kicks off July 22 at the Chris Wilson Pavilion at Potawatomi Park in South Bend, with the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival Touring Company performing “Twelfth Night.” The New West Guitar Group gives a concert July
New conferences for Purdue NW and Valparaiso University Thirty-four miles of toll road still separate the two, multiple lanes of pavement that run east and west and, these days, represent far more than just a thread of red on some service plaza map of Indiana. Those 34 miles are only geographic now, because Purdue Calumet
NWI Paddling Association combines community and conservation She’s the first to admit that the ancestral spirit of the French voyageur likely doesn’t breathe within her. Nor does that of the Olympic kayaker. Instead, Debby Stoit says she’s still a novice at this business of paddling canoes and kayaks along the waterways of Northwest Indiana, and
An update on arts and entertainment options across the region Summer entertainment abounds throughout Northwest Indiana. Here is just a sample. “The Drowsy Chaperone” is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another. With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and
An update on arts and entertainment options across the region Summer entertainment abounds throughout Northwest Indiana. Here is just a sample. A new entertainment promotion is coming to South Bend from May 29-June 4. Titled “Best Week Ever,” the project’s plan is to blitz South Bend with a variety of non-stop activities for the full
An update on arts and entertainment options in Northwest Indiana Theatre at the Center invites you to relive the legendary career of Frank Sinatra as four actors share more than 50 of his beloved hits in “My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra.” When asked the key to his success, Sinatra replied, “Sing good songs.”
An update on arts and entertainment options in greater South Bend The competition for the position of the next conductor and artistic director for the South Bend Symphony Orchestra is heating up. Beloved maestro Tsung Yeh has stepped down after a 28-year term in the position, and now five finalists each take a turn leading the
Notre Dame’s ice arena aims to inspire young athletes The eye of the beholder begins to gleam, as the beholder steps into this clean, well-lit place. Jeff Jackson has seen it. Mike McNeill, too. “I don’t ask them directly what their thoughts are about the facility, but when they walk through there, their eyes are
