Fort Wayne Magazine

03/10/2025

JUST PICTURE IT: There is some big news in our October Arts issue and the big news is that the fully renovated Arts United Center will open soon. We have all the details about that including columns from Zach Benedict, president of MKM Architecture + Design and the lead local architect on the modernization project, and Miriam Morgan, VP of operations and COO of Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne. But this issue, guest edited by local arts legend Julia Meek, has a lot more going for it than that. We got area artists and arts administrators to weigh in on what it is like to be creative and to “be a creative” here. If you want to understand, perhaps for the first time, the rich bounty awaiting you in Fort Wayne’s visual-and-performing arts world, read on. Thanks to Jared Christiansen’s photos, this issue may be a work of art all by itself. Cover photography by

06/09/2025

Be A Tourist in Your Own Hometown, happening Sunday, is your chance to go on a Fort Wayne tourism spree while spending as little money as you care to. We talked to Kristen Guthrie, vice president of marketing and communications for Visit Fort Wayne, about the event. Photography by Jared Christiansen

Be A Tourist in Your Own Hometown, happening Sunday, is your chance to go on a Fort Wayne tourism spree while spending as little money as you care to.

06/09/2025

Our annual Best Of issue is like a scrapbook of the managing editor’s favorite things (minus the stickers and dried leaves). Our hope is that his favorite things will become your favorite things and that you will be moved to make your own scrapbooks (with as many stickers and dried leaves as your heart desires). The people, places and pastimes highlighted within are not just generally and specifically situated inside Fort Wayne and Allen County. They are generally and specifically situated in many of the 11 counties that surround Fort Wayne and Allen County like a group hug. This issue also features a guide to northeast Indiana day trips and a book column from publisher John Christensen. Cover photography by On the cover:

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…