Pet of the Month: Logan
This sweet, active one-year-old domestic shorthair is ready to be your forever best friend. Logan is a friendly little kitty who loves to play with the shelter’s volunteers, and enjoys watching birds through the window. When you can’t find him, just look up. He...
No Asylum Here
By Denise DePaolo
Photos by Liz Painter
Fittingly, Guy Burdick’s life took a sharp left turn on a Halloween night about eight years ago. The lifelong lover of spookiness was handing out candy to trick-or-treaters, with the Discovery Channel on in the background. When a show...
The Spirits Of The Forest Are Calling This Fall
By Natalie Keller
As the leaves change color and fall to the ground, state parks near Sioux Falls are offering Halloween and fall-themed hikes before Jack Frost comes to town.
Naturalist Cortney Reedy has been working at Good Earth State Park for two years. Located southeast...
History and Hauntings Abound on Hotel Tour
By Kinsey Gustafson
Savoy Schuler and Bryce Brinker are the founders and guides of the ghost tour in arguably the most haunted hotel in the Midwest. That would be the historic Hotel Alex Johnson in downtown Rapid City. They say ghosts wanting to play, shadow...
At Home with Nick Patton
Modern, stylish, and thoroughly functional. Those descriptors fit Nick Patton’s Rapid City loft-style apartment to a tee. Located right next door to the historic Hotel Alex Johnson, the space embodies the convenience of downtown living, and the luxury coveted by HGTV devotees.
Nick, a...
Quiet Kids Get Loud: Why The Kickback’s “Sorry All Over The Place” Needs To Meet Your Ears
By Austin Kaus
Photo by Jim McFarlane
Billy Yost can be a nice guy.
In conversation, he’s self-depricating. He jokes about poverty and Muppet obsessions but, underneath the Alpha Flight t-shirt, there is fury. Pop-loving, rock and roll fury. He is a State Fair knife that might...
By Its Cover: Trends in Wine Labeling
By Kara Sweet
We have all heard the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” We are inundated with clichés and fables reminding us to look under the surface to what lies beneath. We know that “all that glitters is not gold” because we...
Pet(s) of the Month: Charlie and Macy
These 11-year-old German Shepherd mixes have been best friends since birth, and must find a forever home together. They are a friendly pair that likes other dogs and everyone they meet. Charlie and Macy are housetrained. Their adoption fee is $42.50, which does not...
The Real Deal: Maren Jensen
By Jordan Smith
Photos submitted
Maren Jensen started her blog, Midwest in Style, in February to bring a little style to the prairie. After leaving her job as a reporter, she found that she missed writing and felt she could fill a gap in the blogosphere.
How...
Defining Design
By Leah Vanden Bosch
The exposed, skeleton structure, original brick walls, and clean interior lines of the Sioux Falls Design Center have you unconsciously thinking about design before the topic is even brought up. Located in the historic Boyce Greeley Building in Downtown Sioux Falls,...