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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Heather Smith is a farmer in South Bend. Today, she tells the story of Golden Hour Flower Farm, her 16-bed micro urban farm in the Monroe Park neighborhood.
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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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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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Since moving closer to South Bend, long walks are becoming a part of Ryan Blaske’s routine. Today he shares photographs and reflections from one such walk.
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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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On this forty-fourth episode, we record remotely for the first time and are joined by Jason Miller, the founding pastor of South Bend City Church, for a long conversation about the state of belonging amid the pandemic.
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Yesterday I was live on Instagram with Jason Miller to talk about South Bend, creativity, and my new daily podcast.
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Jacob and Dustin are joined by Maria Gibbs to reflect on a Saturday in Greenville, South Carolina that sparked a wide-ranging conversation about the future of South Bend.
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Jacob and Dustin are joined by Maria Gibbs, John Garry, and Cynthia Gibbs to reflect on the road to South Carolina and a day in Columbia filled with barbecue, canvassing, and Mayor Pete’s final town hall in the state.
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De Nolf’s Barbershop opened in September of 2019 in a formerly vacant storefront on the corner of Michigan and Monroe Streets. Its proprietor, Ethan De Nolf, embodies the story of coming home to live in South Bend on purpose.
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After seven months of filming, Ryan Blaske and Zach Schrank have released Big Enough, Small Enough: South Bend in Transition, a full-length documentary on the city of South Bend. From the opening scene above the Keller Park neighborhood to the close above downtown, it feels like home.
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