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Reel to Real: Maumee Film Festival Returns Sept 25-27
70 entries plus a 48 hour film challeng For three days this September, the Maumee Indoor Theater will become a gathering place for the Maumee Film Festival, as filmmakers, movie lovers and creative professionals return for the Festival’s eighth season. Scheduled Sept. 25–27, the…

City Pages: A Romance Legacy Comes to Toledo
Nikki Payne to join Beverly Jenkins for a special library conversation For more than three decades, Beverly Jenkins has written love stories that do more than bring two people together. Her books have also helped readers explore Black history, culture and American life through…

Curtain Call: Michael Murray New Executive Director of Toledo’s Historic Valentine Theatre
Toledo native steps into leadership with a vision to expand the Valentine’s reach Michael Murray, 32, is the new executive director of Toledo’s historic Valentine Theatre. When he learned of the resignation of the former director, Murray then in a leadership role overseeing…
Listen Hear: Rocking The Promenade
419 MusicFest brings great tunes to downtown Toledo for charity One of the best parts of the summer is the outdoor events that pop up all over the city of Toledo. Food, art and music festivals dot the city all throughout the season, and a music festival hosted at Promenade Park…
Art To Heart: “Origin Point”: Hannah Bowlus’ Geometric Glass Art at the Toledo Museum of Art
The art of geometry, transformed Like everything else, art has to begin somewhere. For mixed media artist Hannah Bowlus, the inspiration was a pair of simple geometric forms. As she says, “The relationship between the cube and the sphere is the creative origin point” for her…
Chowline: What up, Dough?
Dough & Co. PizzAria rolls out in Downtown Every morning, Tyler Scherting wakes up before 4am and enters a floury world to create the most perfect pizza dough. As one of the owners of downtown’s newly opened restaurant, Dough & Co. PizzAria, Scherting takes dough to a rare,…