As a Composition instructor, I always encouraged my students to avoid the word “Good.” Like “great,” “nice,” and “stuff,” I believed that “good,” just wasn’t descriptive enough. It was too vague. It didn’t carry enough...

I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who supported the Kids’ Art Power for Pets fundraiser at Blackbird Café last week. As you may know, this event was organized by my 7-year-old daughter Rosa to benefit Lakeshore PAWS, an animal rescue...

Rosa Cohn, a second-grade student at Thomas Jefferson Elementary, decided she wanted to do something to help animals. Her idea: raise money for Lakeshore PAWS by soliciting original artworks by children, displaying them in Blackbird Café, selling...

Experience the unique excitement of the “hooligan’s game played by gentlemen” when the NWI Exiles Rugby Football Club takes on the Northwest Woodsmen team this Saturday, May 5, 2012. Game time is 1 p.m., at the Hobart Rugby Pitch.

Valparaiso Community Festivals and Events has selected Valparaiso artist Melissa Washburn’s design as the 1st Place Winner of their 2012 Popcorn Festival Poster Contest. Washburn’s design will be featured on the official posters, T-shirts and...

The crowd at County Line Orchard’s annual Beatles at the Barn fundraiser might have been pleased to help raise more than $10,000 for the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana, but most of them were there for the music. XRock 103.9 DJ Tom Lounges MC’ed...

Gowns fluttering, holding their caps against the wind, members of Purdue University North Central’s 2012 graduating class joined Chancellor James B. Dworkin in front of the iconic “Running Arch” sculpture for their annual class photograph. ...

Patrons packed into T. J. Maloney’s Saturday night for its St. Patrick’s Day Celebration, demonstrating that to enjoy St. Patrick’s Day one doesn’t need to be Irish, only to be ready for craic. Craic, explains Martin Hughes, Dining...

When Mary Koselke and her husband Dan Cook opened Blackbird Café in February 2009, they knew they were taking a tremendous risk. They questioned the wisdom of venturing into the restaurant business during shaky economic times, but when the...