Fort Wayne Magazine

05/08/2025

For this year’s Savor issue, we decided to focus on the region’s Best Burgers. This may be the hottest epicurean topic among area gastronauts. No culinary subject seems to have been written about as much or been the focal point of as many surveys, contests and videos. Here is our humble entry in the beefy sweepstakes. Savor also contains our comprehensive restaurant guide. On newsstands now with the August issue! BOGO On the cover: The Pickler burger Photography by:

30/07/2025

Our Ball State University intern, Kennedy Court, took a trip to Warsaw to interview Atelier Gallery owner, Sea Grandon, about her latest exhibit, “Secretos y Stone.” Here is what Kennedy found out.

“It was just crazy enough to work,” said Sea Grandon, owner and curator of Atelier, on her plan to open an art gallery in downtown Warsaw, Indiana…

30/07/2025

🎨 Our Viewpoint artist for August is Doug Runyan, who is one of Indiana’s most prominent landscape painters. His journey toward earning that designation is an interesting one. You can read about it in the Delve Deeper section at FortWayne.com. Click below.

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When the new Steuben County Judicial Center opened for business in early July, its walls bore five works by renowned Indiana landscape artist Doug Runyan. Eight artists…

29/07/2025

Men’s mental health issues have been called a silent epidemic because they are considered a taboo topic. Adherence to masculine ideas means that men generally don’t seek help, even when they perceive that they need it. They were taught as boys that emotions are not things to explore, but to endure and — if possible — to suppress. This devotion to outmoded ways of thinking is deadly, quite literally. Men account for 75-80% of deaths by su***de in the United States. In the August issue, area men reveal their mental health journeys and how they came to understand and set aside the things that were holding them back. The full digital issue is available now. Go to fortwayne.com and click the link in the August description.

24/07/2025

Our Ball State University intern, Kennedy Court, has written both a preview and a review of the Three Rivers Music Theatre production of “Hadestown.” The show is sold out so if you don’t have tickets for this weekend’s shows, read this to see what you will be missing.

“Hadestown: Teen Edition” is showing at the Three Rivers Music Theatre (TRMT) on Friday and Saturday. The entire run of the show is sold out. Andy Planck, the…

14/07/2025

Our Indiana University intern, Taylor Stine, has the skinny on a returning festival that wasn’t supposed to return at all, at least not anytime soon: The Mac & Cheese Festival. 🧀 It was so successful last year that its organizers did an about-face. Learn all about it here…

Cue “Return of the Mac[k]” by Mark Morrison. The inaugural appearance of the Mac & Cheese Festival in Fort Wayne proved to be a smashing hit last…

11/07/2025

We think we know the path to happiness, but too often we equate happy with what’s expected. Life doesn’t work that way. The reality is that happiness comes in many different packages and that love blossoms in ways we could never imagine. Read the July issue and encounter the overflow of love and lessons learned through small discoveries, incremental progress and the fortitude that can carry someone from moment to moment and day to day. On newsstands now! Photography by

09/07/2025

Our Indiana University intern, Taylor Stine, has all the details on the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre production of “Escape from Margaritaville,” a jukebox music based on the songs, lifestyle, ethos and mythos of the late Jimmy Buffett. 🍹🧉🏖

Relax, unwind and let yourself drift away into the Caribbean night with the Civic Theatre’s production of “Escape to Margaritaville.” The production will happen…

08/07/2025

Our Ball State University intern, Kennedy Court, has put together a comprehensive guide to all the summer events that rushed into the vacuum that was created by the discontinuation of the Three Rivers Festival. Read it now before you get left behind.

Summertime in the Summit City might look a little different this year but the same good times are poised to create great memories. After 55 years, Three …

19/06/2025

An art exhibit featuring purses? 👜 Yes, it is true. Author and fashion historian Ilene Hochberg Wood has one of the largest independently owned collections of purses in the world and she currently has some of her favorites on display at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. If you are intrigued by the study of “purseology” (a term that Hochberg Wood coined), you will want to read this review of the exhibit written by Fort Wayne magazine summer intern, Kennedy Court, who is currently matriculating at Ball State University.

A purse is a powerful thing- it holds all your stuff. Ilene Hochberg Wood is under review by Guinness World Records for a world record for the…

18/06/2025

Ever hear of forest bathing? 🌳🌲🌳 No, it’s not showering under a waterfall, although that can be a memorable experience. Forest bathing, also known as Shinrin-yoku, refers to relatively recent notions about interacting with nature and the benefits that can accompany such interactions. There is a forest bathing event at Eagle Marsh on Friday, and Taylor Stine, our summer intern from Indiana University , has a preview of it:

De-stress, ground yourself, get lost in your senses and immerse yourself in the beauty of nature through the practice of forest…