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Welcome to Our New Website

Welcome to Our New Website

If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the last few years, it’s that a shiny, new website doesn’t stay shiny for long. It’s just a fact of life in the Internet Age. You create a website for the way people use websites today, and try to anticipate how they’ll use them tomorrow. Then, the day after tomorrow, something no one expected comes along and changes everything. Continue reading

Tonic Turns Ten

Tonic Turns Ten

Who’d’a thunk it? Ten years ago, we were a bunch of starry-eyed dreamers who thought we could put on a nice little show and raise a little money for the most important cause we knew. How wrong we were. Turns out we can put on a great big show and–with your help–raise a bunch of money for the best cause we know. And this year, with Tonic Gallery, a kids’ music event, and music on three-count-’em-three Tonic Ball stages, Tonic is going to be bigger and more fun than ever. It all happens Friday, November 18 in beautiful Fountain Square. … Continue reading

Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions

If you’re a creative writer, the Internet Age has been a mixed blessing. The opportunities to get your work in front of an audience have proliferated. You don’t need to win anyone’s approval to have a public forum; just start a blog and publish yourself. It’s great–unless you want to get paid for what you write. The opportunities to make money with creative writing have shrunk just as quickly as the outlets for it have grown. It’s the law of supply and demand, I suppose: so many words on the Internet mean not many of them are worth very much. … Continue reading

The ruins of Ancient Rome from Palatine Hill. That's the Arch of Constantine down right, and the Colosseum back in the distance.