GUEST COMMENTARY: Public art effectively builds host communities

Why are communities throughout our country and around the world developing large-scale outdoor art projects? There are many reasons why.

Adventures in Everyday Living, Shorelines Thursday, April 18, 2013

Reservations are recommended for limited seating at the 2013 Fashion on the Shore show set for Friday, April 26th;check out a lecture on Outsider Art starring avid collectors John Cain and Susann Craig on Saturday and next week Ed Asner returns.---Pat Colander, Associate Publisher and Editor…

Voices of Vision: John Cain

South Shore Arts Executive Director's passion for their arts is evident as he reflects on a year of partnerships, exciting initiatives and an enthusiastic look at 2013.

Onward, upward with the arts

One Region's recent Quality of Life Indicators Report gave the arts and culture sector the report’s only upwardly trending indicator of our region’s quality of life, noting that arts and culture enrich the lives of area residents and visitors.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Unique partnership keeping the music alive

In the past, symphony orchestras were enthusiastically supported simply for perpetuating the symphonic art form. When the Gary Symphony presented its first concert in December 1941, it was because people were interested in playing and hearing classical music.

John Cain's 19th Annual Holiday Reading: "Home for the Hols"

Humor and wit associated with holiday travel is the theme for John Cain's 19th Annual Holiday Reading at Center for Visual and Performing Arts in Munster on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012.

South Shore Arts Executive Director John Cain

South Shore Arts Executive Director John Cain is hosting his 19th Annual Holiday Reading at Center for Visual and Performing Arts on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012.

Holiday Spirit: Sourth Shore Arts and John Cain ready to toast 19th Annual Holiday Reading Luncheon

When John Cain started with what was then called the Northern Indiana Arts Association in October 1993, he was already thinking about some creative holiday possibilities.

John Cain's 19th Annual Home for the Holidays Luncheon

South Shore Arts' John Cain will be doing his 19th Annual Holiday Reading on Tuesday, November 13, at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts. -Pat Colander, Associate Publisher and Editor, Shore Magazine.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Art education improves students' minds, academic performance

Arts education in not just about finger-painting or stick figures on the fridge.

South Shore Arts celebrates carnival art in 'Pony'

John Cain, executive director of South Shore Arts and curator of its "Two Bucks to Pony Up" exhibit, admits to not being much of a carnival regular despite the subject matter of his show.

Tricia Hernandez and John Cain at the 19th Annual Beaux Arts Ball in Munster

Tricia Hernandez and John Cain address a record crowd of guests at the 19th Annual Beaux Arts Ball in Munster at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts on June 1.

OF NOTORIETY: South Shore Arts Beaux Arts Ball attracts record number of guests

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April 2012 Shore magazine's letter from the editor

February/March 2012 Shore magazine's letter from the editor

Last year was a traumatic year in food. Cantaloupe made people sick. Charlie Trotter decided to close his restaurant. Even Mario Batali lost weight. I believe I'm beginning to make a separation in my mind between what tastes good, what is good and what becomes not so good when you have it to…

John Cain's annual reading will be presented at South Shore Arts

John Cain has been spreading the holiday spirit in the area for nearly two decades.

Adventures in Everyday Living: Shorelines, Thursday, October 27

Valparaiso's CTG Chair Jonni Pera announces a casting call for plays by Edward Albee, David Mamet channeling Anton Chekhov, Jim Henry and William Shakespeare this Saturday for the theater's remaining productions this season; the second Pop Up Art on Lake Street in Miller Beach featuring the …

Adventures in Everyday Living: Shorelines, Thursday, September 22

Congrats and see you again soon to Shore Cover Girl and Weather Watcher Ginger Zee, from Grand Rapids and Valparaiso, who leaves Channel 5 in Chicago at the end of the month and begins her new gig in New York on ABC-TV's Good Morning America in October; meanwhile Corya Channing and John Lisb…

Adventures in Everyday Living: Shorelines, Thursday, September 15

Maestro Kirk Muspratt, John Cain, Chancellor William J. and Pamela Lowe, Cindy and Gary Ault, John Cain, Tricia Hernandez, Chris Morrow and other assorted NISO luminaries and SSA board dignitaries get together to kickoff the season in honor of Benefactors Extraordinaire Joe and Sandy Morrow …

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Commemorating a tragic event through art

If you were alive at the time and old enough to do so, you remember with clarity where you were when you heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. I was 9, a fourth-grader at John H. Vohr Elementary School in Gary.