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,...
Quiet Kids Get Loud: Why The Kickback’s “Sorry All Over The Place” Needs To...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
At Home With Betty Beer
By Denise DePaolo
Photos by Liz Long
On a peaceful, lilac-dotted property, just south of Brookings, is the 4,800 square-foot ranch-style home of Better Beer. Betty, a retired attorney-turned-painter,...
The Creative Capital of the North
By Denise DePaolo
Photos submitted
Stunning strides in creativity exist in seemingly unlikely places. For example, a small city in South Dakota surrounded by farmland and gravel roads and...
Jerry Lohr Brings South Dakota Value to California Wine Making
By Kara Sweet
As a farm kid growing up outside Clark—population less than 1,300 when born in 1935—Jerry Lohr learned about value. At his German-born father’s knee and on...
2013 Blizzard Gives Rapid City Garden New Life
By Denise DePaolo
When the snow began falling October 5, 2013, no one knew the damage it would cause to western South Dakota. Ranchers sustained devastating losses, and...
Pet of the Month: Yahtzee
This four-year-old kitty arrived at the Sioux Falls Area Humane Society as a stray and was never claimed. He’s a shy boy who has all of his...
