Lillian King

Features Reporter at The Toledo Blade

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Going strong: Swell’s second issue is ripe for the picking

2 days ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

Less than a year after Swell Magazine’s inaugural issue, Emily Rippe Desmond is already back with the sequel. Swell’s second issue, Ripe, came out in March. The name is inspired by Desmond and her collaborators’ experiences bringing the overall magazine to fruition with its first issue, Contagious — an unexpectedly long process for a pandemic project that took nearly four years to complete.
Nostalgia knocks: High hopes that Party in the Park will propel downtown development

1 week ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

In the 1980s and ‘90s, thousands of Toledoans grew up sharing festival fries with friends and learning against Promenade Park’s riverside railings at concert series’ like Party in the Park and Rally by the River. This year, the old-school event is back in an all-new way with local bands for free concerts from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on Fridays throughout the summer.
Telling TMA's story: Cloister takes center stage in new podcast

1 week ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

When we cheerfully waved goodbye to the January doldrums earlier this year, little did Toledoans know we’d also be saying adieu to the Cloister Gallery. Thursday, Jan. 30, the Toledo Museum of Art announced that the Cloister Gallery would close that Sunday to be reassembled and relocated to elsewhere in the museum, to return for public display in 2027 as part of TMA’s museum-wide reinstallation.
Pop culture princesses storm Maumee Indoor in 3B’s ‘Disenchanted’

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a damsel in distress must be in want of a hero. ...or something like that. But even badly paraphrased Austen gets to the core of 3B Productions’ upcoming musical, Disenchanted. Frustrated by the superficial stereotypes pop culture knows them for, the Disney Princesses are here to set the record straight in a raunchy cabaret-style musical rendition of their fairy tale fearlessness.
More to the story: Building The Blade's poetry page

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

This intermingling between poems and newsprint isn’t new. In fact, newspapers spent longer publishing poetry than not. It’s a topic University of Toledo assistant English professor Ayendy Bonifacio knows well. Last year, Bonifacio published a book on his research, Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the U.S. Press, 1855-1901. The “paratext” refers to the materials surrounding a text.
Voices in verse: Blade project pairs local poets with print paper

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

On a routine flight back from Florida, Jeff Silliman found himself entranced by the runaway lights as the plane taxied out from the airport. A former pilot with the U.S. Air Force, it was far from his first time in the air — but for the first time in 50 years, he wanted to write about it. Silliman was inspired by a previous poem he’d recently rediscovered in his old footlocker.
Books and Broadway are perfect pairing for new Croswell club

3 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

ADRIAN — With a library two doors down, it’s only natural that the Croswell Opera House is starting a book club. This month, 15 theater fans flocked to Farver’s at the Croswell, where they enjoyed light snacks on the house and discussed Nadine Brande’s Romanov, a historical fantasy novel pick inspired by the Croswell’s ongoing production of Anastasia. It was the first in a series of book club meetups.
Buried treasures: Architectural Artifacts rescues one-of-a-kind curios

3 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

“I gotta show you something,” says Bob Cairl. “We got it at our last dig at Pompeii.”“Oh, Bob,” cries his wife, Jane, as Bob charts a course through the meticulously arranged Toledo Architectural Artifacts, a welcome contrast to the cramped antique stores so frequently squeezed into dusty city corners. “When you see it, you’ll think that’s what it is,” he promises before revealing a tile mosaic, bearing — in his defense — a marked similarity to the classic Roman style of antiquity.
Building a legacy: 13abc's Brown continues to thrive more than two decades into local news career

3 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

She has a hard time believing it, but 13abc anchor Kristian Brown has been on air with WTVG since 2002. “I was just 24 years old when I got here and walked into the station here, and still learning, still finding my voice,” Brown said. “The community embraced me as a hometown girl from the very start.”Brown, 47, always knew she wanted to come back home.
'Clue's' madcap mystery is Stranahan must-see

4 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Lillian King

Was it Mrs. Peacock in the study with the candlestick? Not this time. This time, it was the American Theatre Guild in Toledo at the Stranahan Theater. They’re responsible for bringing Clue to this season’s Broadway in Toledo series — but ATGuild’s only crime is making people laugh. Clue – A New Comedy joins animated kids shows (The SpongeBob Musical), the wives of Henry XVIII (SIX), and Bill Murray comedies (Groundhog Day) in unlikely adaptations of popular properties.