The family behind this dynamic design brand in Audubon, Iowa.
Read MoreA delicious recipe from this up-and-coming culinary talent.
Read MoreChef James Bloomfield delivers inventive, creative fusions with fresh, local produce.
Read MoreAmericana musician Drew Holcomb traverses the state of Tennessee, driving from his hometown of Memphis back to Nashville, where he lives with his wife Ellie Bannister and their two young children.
Read More“All of a sudden it was like, bam: motherhood and entrepreneurship. They ran into each other straight from the get-go. It’s always been a juggling act, but I love that [my daughter's] grown up literally surrounded by all this.”
Read MoreA poem inspired by a work from a Midwestern artist.
Read MoreFifty percent of our marriages endedin stalemate, the rest in restaurants.
Read MoreHannah Lodwick and Cambria Potter of Fifty Fifty in Kansas City.
Read MoreHaving grown up on a farm, Dave Stine knows a thing or two about working sunup to sundown. Now, he spends his days harvesting wood from the surrounding forest in the tiny town of Dow, Illinois and crafting custom wood furniture that is nothing short of stunning.
Read MoreBob Bernstein of Nashville’s Bongo Productions remembers a customer coming to one of his restaurant/coffee shop hybrids and saying, “This place is great—you should franchise it.” Bernstein immediately responded, “It’s just too weird to franchise.”
Read MoreA photo essay by Attilio D'Agostino.
Read More"In an instant, in the space of a conversation with a doctor, you go from moving through your life in a relatively normal way to being right at the edge of life. It’s so jarring. It’s as if you found yourself on the moon, in an instant. "
Read MoreA storied firm isn’t built overnight, and is often helped by an unlikely turn of events or two. Such is the case with this architect. In the time since Zeitlin took on his very first project, he has built a firm with 15 architects and a space in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood of Nashville, which doubles as an art gallery.
Read MoreThe story of Kansas City-based ceramic artist Emily Reinhardt begins like this: she graduated from Kansas State University with a BFA in ceramics, stayed in the college town of Manhattan, Kansas for two years, and then moved to Wichita for six months before heading to Omaha for a relationship. “We have since gone our separate ways,” she says, openly and without melancholy.
Read MoreCheck out exclusive extras from our photo shoot and story featuring Allison Gettings of Red Wing Shoes, written by Dan Michel. Part One details the landscape, and Part Two shows extras from our tour of the shoe factory. All photography by Attilio D'Agostino.
Read More"Who ever made music of a mild day?"
Read MoreStine’s woodworking shop is a short walk from the family farmhouse, one of many dotting the cornfields and gentle knolls of Dow. The scene is so beautiful that it subverts the potential for cliché.
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