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The Ways Cities Develop is also Important

Plywood City in the Village of West Lafayette

The Ways Cities Develop is also Important

By Zachary on December 27, 2014

In Brian Howey’s Increasingly urban Indiana article, he ends with an obtuse zinger: A politician can’t be as blunt as I will be here: If…

TEDxLafayette – Everything We Do and Don’t Do is Political

TEDxLafayette – Everything We Do and Don’t Do is Political

By Zachary on December 1, 2014

Thank you to everyone involved with the inaugural TEDxLafayette event. Another fine chapter for the annuals of Tippecanoe history. “Don’t limit your political life to…

#smallspaces Downtown #greaterlala Art Project Critics Strike Again

This painting by Sagan Newham on the side of Haywood Printing, Fifth and Ferry streets, brought some complaints about the “small spaces: Lafayette” public art project. According to the project curator, the piece will stay up until Halloween and then be replaced. (Photo: Dave Bangert/Journal & Courier)

#smallspaces Downtown #greaterlala Art Project Critics Strike Again

By Zachary on September 24, 2014

I awoke this morning to read Dave Bangert’s wonderful piece (Bangert: Critical mass for graffiti project?) on the latest round of criticism and censorship for…