Fare Thee Well, B-Side

In 2024, we bid farewell to The B-Side at One Lucky Guitar.  For around 15 years, part of One Lucky Guitar’s workspace at 1301 Lafayette included a large room that embodied the very definition of “multi-purpose.”  While this space’s main use was for large meetings, presentations and workshops, along with occasional photo- and video-shoots, its adaptive nature (and impossible-to-replicate vibe)—combined with some spirited programming—made it one of the most unique performance spaces in the region.  Over a ten-year window during our tenancy, we were able to host 100+ concerts, readings, [...] Read More

Seek: An Essay

In October 2020, OLG principal Matt Kelley was asked to contribute to FORTHCOMING: Considering the Future State of Our City—a book project that invited 20 Fort Wayne voices to write 2,000-word essays outlining 20 ideas that could shape our community’s story over the next 20 years. Each essay has a single-word title. Matt’s is called SEEK and asks what life would be like, post-pandemic, if every citizen in our community was 10% more curious, and 10% less set in our ways? MK offers some science, some storytelling, and a few recommendations on how [...] Read More