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The Warm Room
Where creativity, community, and scrappy entrepreneurship meet — stories that connect people to what matters.
Chief Convener of Unlikely Connections
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Warm Room: the architecture of belonging is showing up in unexpected places — wellness shops doubling as sound bath sanctuaries, intergenerational centers in Wisconsin, Arctic filmmakers …
Today on The Warm Room: Cleveland cuts a tax that's been quietly squeezing small music rooms, a Pittsburgh foundation rewrites the rules of arts giving, and a steady current of working artists and fac…
Today on The Warm Room: institutions choosing what they won't allow, and what they'll build instead. Cleveland says no to data centers at The Midline, Stockholm democratizes its first public sauna, an…
Today on The Warm Room: the old independent film financing system is buckling at Cannes while a 143-year-old newspaper hands itself to its community, and a quieter thread runs underneath about the vol…
Today on The Warm Room: state arts agencies are shifting underneath working artists — Pennsylvania consolidates, San Francisco lays off, Milwaukee's small orgs pool resources to survive. Plus a Clevel…
Today on The Warm Room: Cleveland's Midline keeps developing, an artist turns her grandmother's Buckeye house into a youth arts-business school, and the AI-for-small-business pitch starts producing ac…
Today on The Warm Room: Cleveland bets 350 acres on an East Side manufacturing comeback, the AI tools aimed at small businesses start to actually meet them where they work, and a Denver wellness found…
Today on The Warm Room: Cleveland's arts ecosystem rests on a cigarette tax that's quietly running out of cigarettes, the creator economy starts auditing its own metrics, and a Boston cultural center …
Today on The Warm Room: who gets to hold the pen. Independent filmmakers picking up studio-grade tools, the first hard census of Chicago's arts workforce, a Vermont clinic redesigning primary care aro…
Today on The Warm Room: physical spaces are doing a lot of the talking — a music school breaks ground in University Circle, a Detroiter plants a peace garden, an Earthship rises out of a bushfire scar…