Inner States

<p>This iteration of How to Preserve an Orange, a participatory performance by artist and poet clay scofield, played on February 25, 2025 at Redbud Books in Bloomington, IN. This is the uncut performance itself. It's a...

<p>There’s been a lot of talk in the past few months about a range of important issues: the rule of law, checks and balances, free speech on campuses, whether people’s jobs will continue to exist.</p><p>You know what I...

<p>Local newspapers are disappearing left and right. Even when they still exist, they’re increasingly owned by private equity firms or subject to corporate consolidation, making them local in name only. This is a...

<p>Nathan Dillon is the director of Everybody Rocks. It’s a music education company, and these days, it’s focused on bringing live music to old folks. Another way to describe Nathan’s work is that he drives around and...

<p>The other day I went to check in on my 10-year-old during her screentime. She was playing Goat Simulator on her Switch. She was also watching Gravity Falls on her iPad. Other times she just watches people play video...

<p>My mission here at WFIU is to cover local arts and culture in Southern Indiana. The thing is, when you’re worried about the health of democracy in your country, local arts coverage can feel like too little too late...

<p>Stephanie Solomon and I became friends in our early twenties. We talked about everything. Gender was one of those things. The assumptions people carried with them about how men and women should be in the world, or...

<p>My 9-year-old admitted in early December that they already have a list of the most stressful things about the holiday season. Number one? Buying presents. There are things about your kids you can’t take credit for...

<p>When you hear the term “American Heartland,” you probably think of fields of wheat, barns, quilts, and farmers—probably of northern European descent. There might be a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps even the sense that...

As the final chapter of our missing cat saga opens, it’s getting to be winter, and Kayte still hasn’t found Rita. The odds of Rita surviving are getting slim.

<p>If political news is too much right now, we’ve got a solution. It’s a story we aired a while back: The Third Time Rita Left. You can find the first two chapters here and here. The story takes place in the fall of...

<p>If political news is too much right now, we’ve got a solution. It’s a story we aired a while back: The Third Time Rita Left. The story takes place in the fall of 2016. Another election season. In Chapter 2: Finding...

<p>I’m writing this on election. By the time you’re reading this, you might know who the next president will be. You might be disappointed. You might be relieved.</p><p>Either way, now might be a good time to turn your...

<p>Election day is around the corner. We’re going to be choosing candidates for offices from the president to the county coroner. And a lot of those offices are going to be sitting uncontested on the ballots. Only one...

<p>I don’t know how to be cool. Which is fine. I’m cool with it, at this point. I feel like coolness is largely the arena of youth. In my case, I wasn’t cool then, either. Once, when I was 15, I was hanging out with...