Happy New Year and Happy 1st Birthday to Star City Blog!

Welcome to 2010, Lincoln! With the new year brings Star City Blog’s 1st birthday and we’d like to thank all of you for your support! It’s been an interesting year--one full of creativity, learning and deciphering new directions for the website.

As always, our devotion is first and foremost to the arts, businesses and people that make Lincoln so unique. During this first year, we’ve been fortunate enough to meet many of you and we hope that the coming year will bring many more friendships and exposure to Lincoln’s fantastic arts and entertainment and the people behind them.

This coming year will bring a great deal of new and exciting events, including our King Sunny Adé benefit concert for KZUM April 18th at the Bourbon Theatre and a creative writing contest (details will be announced at a later date). We hope you will all join us in partaking of these events and many more to come.

To close, feel free to take a look back with us at some of Star City Blog’s memorable articles of this past year.

1)  Interview with Sharon Kennedy, Interim Curator, Sheldon Museum of Art, by John Cutler

2)  New Music Showcase 'Songwriter Power Ranger' Fights to Keep Lincoln's Music Scene Progressive, by Sarah F. Sullivan
 
3)  Video Op Ed: License Plate Gate, by Aaron Franco

4)  Academy of Rock a Healthy Endeavor for Kids, Families and the Lincoln Music Community, by Joshua R. Hoyer

5)  Jazz in June Series, by Tom Ineck

Jazz in June Returns to Lincoln June 2nd

Jazz in June Features ZARO on June 9th

Jazz in June Features the Kendra Shank Quartet on June 16th

Jazz in June Features Project Omaha on June 23rd

Jazz in June Features John Riley Trio on June 30th

6)  Ethnic Grocery Stores Series, by Alexis Abel

Ethnic Grocery Stores Abound in Lincoln

Lincoln’s Ethnic Grocery Stores, Part 2

7)  Arbor Day Farm Offers Year-Round Adventure and Fun for All, by Sarah F. Sullivan

8)  UNL Professors Take a Stand Against Ross Budget Cuts: Shouldn't Lincolnites Do the Same?, by Francis Davis

9)  Review: thé Cup, by Cory Kibler and Alexis Abel

10)  Lincoln Recording Studio Series, by Joshua R. Hoyer

Lincoln Recording Studios Part I

Lincoln Recording Studios Part II

Lincoln Recording Studios Part III

Lincoln Recording Studios Part IV

11)  Featured Business: Porridge Papers, by Hanna Day-Woodruff

12)  Featured Business: Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop, by Dana Ludvik

13) Lincoln Artist Profile: Nolan Tredway, by Ladd Wendelin