In the June issue of Fort Wayne magazine, you will meet survivors. What they all have in common is how they emerged stronger from terrible crucibles. They picked up the shattered pieces of their lives and created from them a way to keep going. They endured tragedy, heartache, abuse and brokenness and forged new worlds for themselves in which they could enjoy wiser and more fulfilled lives. Check it out on newsstands today! Read the entire issue online here ..read more

In 2006, Mike Leahy was the front man for the psychobilly band called 7 Shot Screamers. Doing something with your life like being the frontman for a psychobilly band called the 7 Shot Screamers is never not interesting and adventurous. What it isn’t always is lucrative. So Leahy started looking for ways to supplement his income. He thought about dressing up as a clown or as Elvis Presley and hiring himself out for events. “I thought I could perform at nursing homes or store openings,” Leahy said in a phone interview with Fort Wayne Magazine. “Things I could do anonymously.” But something unfor ..read more

Fort Wayne’s glorious natural spaces are some of the best in the Midwest. This is the year to get out there and experience all that the region has to offer. If you’re like me, you have dreamt of escaping to a natural paradise to explore. Towering mountains, backpacks, worn dirt footpaths, and being the first person to be kissed by the morning sunrise—the whole shebang. Despite this dream, there is no need to travel to some far away land to connect with nature. Right under our very noses, northeast Indiana is the home to some beautiful natural wonders.  John Muir, one of the most influenti ..read more

What makes up Fort Wayne? What makes it feel like home? What makes it desirable to visitors? Everything from undisturbed nature preserves to billions worth of economic development projects, extensive wineries and breweries to collegiate hotspots and existing thought leaders to new faces arriving to help drive our city forward. Everything means you too, of course. You play a vital role in making Fort Wayne exactly what it is. Our annual City Guide gives you insight into all those details and offers an expansive directory of Fort Wayne’s finest. Read the issue here ..read more

Leading through the Aftershock: When I signed on to be Chancellor of the Fort Wayne service area with Ivy Tech Community College in August of 2021, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what I would encounter. After all, I had held positions throughout the College for more than 20 years and had served on the campus Chancellor’s Cabinet for more than a decade. I was ready for new challenges, but nothing prepared me for the challenges that lay ahead. Or the joys that would come with them.  The Honeymoon: My first six months as Chancellor felt a lot like a new marriage. There was a honeymoon ..read more

Helen Miller will be 97 years old on March 30, 2022. Happy Birthday Grandma ..read more

Morton L. & Cynthia Christian were married March 25, 1972, at Shiloh Baptist Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They will joyously celebrate their love and commitment of 50 years on Friday, March 25, 2022. Morton is retired with 33 years at BF Goodrich and Cynthia is retired with 26 years at Citilink. Together they’ve raised 7 children and have been blessed with 14 grandchildren. Morton and Cynthia are still the most in-love people you will ever meet! A true and everlasting love that is blessed by God and rooted in Morton’s favorite scripture of Psalms 91 and Cynthia’s favorite scriptures of P ..read more

The New York Times has dubbed 2022 “the year of the wedding.” The August newspaper claims that 2.5 million weddings are scheduled to happen his year in the United States. That’s the most since 1984, a particularly romantic year for reasons that have been lost to the mists of time. You can make the most of this remarkably matrimonial year by reading Fort Wayne Magazine Weddings. Not only is it filled with resources for prospective brides and grooms, but it also features gorgeous photography of actual newlyweds and the ceremonies at which they tied their knots. You can see the entire issue  ..read more

Recent studies have shown that most people give up on their New Year’s Resolutions within 20 seconds of the stroke of midnight on January first. I may have gotten the exact amount of time wrong there. I probably should have looked it up before I typed it.  Too late now.  You’re just going to have to trust me: It really is an absurdly short amount of time.  A lot of people have probably come to feel that it’s a waste of time even to make New Year’s Resolutions. No one, however, has come to feel that it is a waste of time to read a Steve Penhollow column about New Year’s Resolutio ..read more

  In a year where it didn’t seem like there was much to celebrate on a global scale, Fort Wayne came through again with another great addition to our city. Downtown already has amazing places to eat, shop, play, and congregate, and now we have a state-of the art hospital. On November 13, staff and patients of St. Joseph Hospital transferred to the brand new Lutheran Downtown Hospital next door and St. Joseph Hospital closed its doors for good. It was a changing of the guard as St. Joe, as many called it, was the first hospital in Fort Wayne. It was originally founded in 1869, only four ye ..read more