Toledo City Paper

The theatrical highway

The Wolfe Center connects the arts at BGSU

It’s hard not to be awestruck when walking through Bowling Green State University’s shiny new, almost futuristic, gem — The Wolfe Center. The center for the performing arts, which opened when students came back from winter break in January, is a theater kid’s dream — two theaters, one with a Broadway-size stage; a large prop design workshop, (where students were buzzing around, building and collaborating, during our tour); and an enormous backstage area...

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Best of Toledo 2011

It's time. We asked, you voted. Our tireless ballot counters have worked, well, tirelessly. And the results are in. Here are your choices for the best in everything our city has to offer. (And a few of the worst!) Read, discuss, argue, celebrate — and have fun!

LOCAL COLOR

Toledoan in need of a reality show
Mike Bell
Our man, Mayor Mike Bell, is a mega-personality whose mere presence causes a stir wherever he roams. Whether he is towering over our new friends in China, cruising on his Harley or soak...

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Against all odds

Counting on house money in T-Town

You wouldn’t know it in the midst of rosy reports, smiles and self-congratulations, but Toledo’s public budgets are still in the stink pit.

Oh, the joy in Frogville, the chummy back slapping, as Toledo City Council passed the budget two full months ahead of deadline! The vote was unanimous, a rarity in what is usually the most contentious decision the Council makes.

This comes as the budget of Toledo Public Schools remains balanced through the upheaval of firing th...

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