Julia Meek
Arts & Culture Reporter, Producer/Host for Folktales & Meet the MusicA Fort Wayne native, Julia is a radio host, graphic artist, and community volunteer, who has contributed to NIPR both on- and off-air for forty years. Besides being WBOI's arts & culture reporter, she currently co-produces and hosts Folktales and Meet the Music.
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Fort Wayne’s newest downtown lunch spot, the Sparrow Café, is a welcoming, “pay-what- you-can-afford" concept eatery housed in the Trinity English Lutheran Church on West Washington Blvd. -
The iconic Henry’s Restaurant—the heart and soul of the downtown dining scene since 1959—now continues that tradition under the new ownership of Kelly Steele and her son Max. -
East meets west this year on Fort Wayne’s Fright Night as brave souls gather at Promenade Park and take to the streets for Night of the Yokai with A Sunset Spirit Parade. -
Art This Way is celebrating a decade of transforming downtown through vibrant public art with a two-day mega-fest along Broadway between Jefferson Boulevard and Swinney Avenue this Friday and Saturday. -
If you’re looking for a special bit of live-music heaven, Pearl Arts’ second-annual PianoFest Sunday afternoon is a joyful celebration of the instrument and the four talented musicians coming together to perform it. -
Everything seems to be coming up bluegrass, including the Northern Indiana Bluegrass Associations 50th Anniversary celebration at the Tri-State Labor Day Bluegrass Festival in Kendallville. -
The city’s Public Art Commission and Art This Way are making sure that things are flowing smoothly down at the 77 Steps Alleyway with a new and exciting overhead kinetic light sculpture, titled Flow, inspired by Fort Wayne’s rivers. -
If you miss those weekly card-playing nights around the dining room table in this fast-paced world we live in, get ready! LaGrange County developer Brett Hahn has launched Euchre Mate, the first free online Euchre game ever built in Indiana. -
If you take a look and a listen around you, the music scene is exploding—in fact, Visit Fort Wayne’s Jess Campbell says we’re ready to make some national noise as our official music economy strategy takes shape. -
Continuing to follow his passion for historical research, Fort Wayne city councilman Geoff Paddock has a new book out, chronicling the accomplishments of 15 dedicated Hoosier leaders, all women, titled Indiana Political Trailblazers.
