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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Located in the east end of the historic Perfection Bakery Building on Main Street, Pearl Arts is opening its doors as a one-of-a-kind community hub for the arts, music education and entrepreneurship. -
Local musicians and educators Sean Hoffman and Ellen Coplin, known on the performance circuit as Bobcat Opossum, are on a full-time crusade to preserve and promote bluegrass traditions across the heartland, sharing the core communal elements of the music they love. -
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The Community Harvest Food Bank is working overtime to serve the area’s ever-growing population in need of food assistance. -
Local cartoonist Steve Smeltzer has just published a retrospective collection of his work for Fort Wayne Magazine, called Fort Wayne in a Nutshell. -
Miss Virginia’s Food Pantry, a non-profit organization serving the city’s southeast side, continues to provide food to the poor and needy in the spirit of its foundress, Virginia Schrantz from her original residence on South Hanna Street. -
The Human Agricultural Co-Operative continues to make strides in wiping out food deserts in our community. Fort Wayne residents Ty Simmons and Chief Condra Ridley officially founded the not-for-profit cooperative in 2017 to solve food insecurity in northeast Indiana, an offshoot of Ty’s work with young gardeners, initiated in 2015. Simmons has been awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement medal for his work. -
Julia Meek discusses the generational staying power as memories are still being made with father-son authors David and Evan Humphreys, and how Beatlemania continues to deeply impact the Hoosier state. -
Two months after a complete renovation and reopening under new ownership, a fire at the iconic Powers Hamburgers building on Harrison Street in downtown Fort Wayne forced its closure. Less than a week later, the business was up and running in a borrowed food truck on the property and now boasts a second location as well, at the Union Street Market inside the Electric Works. -
Retired trial attorney and author, Mark Paul Smith has just published his fifth novel, yet another fast-paced, action adventure set in Fort Wayne, called The Highway Diner.
