This week we welcome Kathy Burnette to South Bend on Purpose. Kathy is the owner of The Brain Lair, a bookstore in South Bend focused on developing empathy and building community with inclusive books.
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Abigail Gillan opened The Ragamuffin Bakery in April of this year—an uncertain time, to say the least—and proceeded to sell out day after day. I visited on the shop’s one-month anniversary, and this is what I saw.
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Chuck Fry, Ryan Blaske, and I are teaming up to tell stories about South Bend and we’re exploring a new membership model to do it.
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Indiana Avenue was once the commercial heart of South Bend’s old Hungarian neighborhood. Today, it is a one-sided string of storefronts looking out over a vast field, at once echoing our city’s complicated past and pointing to a new, hopeful, fragile future.
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One year since the murder of Eric Logan and just weeks since the murder of George Floyd, our city is in the streets calling for justice. This week, we listen to these calls at the largest protest of the month in downtown South Bend.
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We could go up on the tracks? is one of my favorite texts to send. This is a short film of what happens next.
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A list of stories curated by Belt Magazine editor Ryan Schnurr on the long history of racism and police violence in the Midwest—and what to do about it.
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Today, local painter Alex Ann Allen announced a raffle for her new piece titled George Floyd, with 100% of the proceeds going to Black Lives Matter South Bend.
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This week we welcome our friend Chuck Fry to the podcast to discuss his road to South Bend, how he learned to tell stories with film, why he got out of bed to start creating things during quarantine, and the internal battles that come with being a full-time artist.
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Today, fourteen regional musicians worked with South Bend Venues Parks and Arts to release a new music video featuring an arrangement of the late Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” with an original verse from Heyzeus, and production from Chuck Fry, Ryan Blaske, Eli Kahn, and Buddy Pearson.
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