You know that we here at seveneightfive magazine like to keep you informed about many things. One topic that seems to be of great interest the majority of the time is good food and beer. It is almost the hour for those two things to make a grand intersection with an added bonus: LIVE POLKA [...]

The Downtown Topeka Farmers Market and Heartland Visioning are proud to announce the beginning of the Music at the Market season. The season opens with the Blue Devils on May 1. Performers will appear between 9 and 11 a.m. near the south entrance of the Judicial Building at Huntoon and Harrison streets, downtown, on Saturdays. Heartland [...]

“movie mania” is a film blog by Nick Leach to be updated each Friday with new flicks for weekend movie-goers. Trust this guy’s opinion. He sees A LOT of movies. Robin Hood – Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max von Sydow and Mark Strong Ridley Scott is telling yet another tale of Robin Hood.  This time [...]

The Topeka Public Library is a gem in our community that brings quality programs to Topekans every day.  One of our favorite events is the addition of the Monday Farmer’s Market.  A perfect alternative for people who work on Saturday, the market is smaller than the Saturday Farmer’s Market, but has the same high-quality products [...]

This is the eighth post of a blog by Matt Porubsky called “satisfactual,” which will be updated weekly, discussing odds and ends about Topeka history and culture, with a little opinion thrown in for good measure. It was my first time at Uncle Bo’s last night. My wife Leah and the general manager of Uncle [...]

1) Tailgators 2) McBs 3) Sharkeys #1 4) (Tie) College Hill #2 4) (Tie) Oscars 6) Sharkeys #2 7) Boobie Trap 8) College Hill #1 9) Dutch Goose 10) Spankys 11) Sidelines 12) Lucky Dogs 13) (Tie) The Jet 13) (Tie) Pigskins 16) (NS) Quintons 16) (NS) Henry T’s

1) College Hill #2 2) Tailgators 3) Dutch Goose 3) Dutch Goose 5) Sharkeys #2 6) Boobie Trap 7) Oscars 8) Sharkeys #1 9) Pigskins 10) Lucky Dogs 11) Sidelines 12) College Hill #1 13) McBs 14) The Jet 16) (NS) Quintons 16) (NS) Henry T’s

Heartland Visioning and Downtown Topeka, Inc. went before the Topeka City Council last Tuesday, May 11, to ask for funding for a plan to be developed to redo Kansas Avenue, creating a “serpentine” style street with more areas for public gathering and entertainment and a resulting environment more conducive to hanging out in our downtown. [...]

This is the seventh post of a blog by Matt Porubsky called “satisfactual,” which will be updated weekly, discussing odds and ends about Topeka history and culture, with a little opinion thrown in for good measure. After having an iPhone for a week and a half, my wife Leah turned to me and said, “Um…how [...]

The 2010 Aaron Douglas Art Fair Committee has announced this year’s featured artist, Shanon Fouquet. Inheriting her father’s artistic ability and her mother’s eye for design, Shanon’s desire to create was not only inevitable, but also strongly encouraged from a very young age. After establishing herself as a promising creative student in high school, Shanon [...]