When Encore photographer Brian K.
Chris Praedel was born and raised in Kalamazoo and became one of the newest Kalamazoo city commissioners in November.
If you want to know how Jessica Mallow became executive director of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra at the tender age of 30, you have to
When Rebekah Kik looks at the streets, land and buildings of Kalamazoo, she does it with an artist’s eye. She can’t help it.
Ryan Wieber wanted to be a truck driver like his dad, but his mom had other ideas.
For half a century, the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo has worked diligently to support artists and promote art in the Kalamazoo commu
Shaun Robinson, executive chef at Chartwells, the food provider and catering company for Kalamazoo Public Schools, didn’t always know he
At 27, Anika Johnson is the owner of two businesses: the Kalamazoo franchise of Soccer Shots, an organization that teaches kids 2 to 8 ye
Two decades ago, when James Devers was attending Western Michigan University, his goal was to work in the juvenile justice system.
It’s not only farmers in Southwest Michigan who have had their eyes on the sky this summer.
Samantha Irby is a funny person, but she’ll tell you she’
The work is done in small increments, like each step a cl
Under cover of darkness on a Sunday evening, when police
WMU theater professor Lofton Durham conceived of and oversees the Mostly Medieval Theatre Festival.
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