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After 18 years, a burned-out Dwayne Ibsen gave up his post as an Omaha high school drama teacher and took his costumes with him. He had paid for materials used in nearly every period outfit, often sending cloth and drawings home with actors, expecting them to find a seamstress and bring back finished pieces. When his teaching career ended, Ibsen had costumes everywhere. It was the most natural thing in the world to rent them out from a...

I was speaking to someone I've know since I became a professional photographer in the New York area who operates a small business that repairs photographic strobe equipment. Times are tough, he said, because these days it's cheaper and easier to toss what's broken and buy something new ­– and many of the old-time camera repair shops have permanently close their doors. These were places I learned about technologies that were advancing our...

In Somerville, MA
Louise Sacco and Michael Frank find a calling in presenting art that otherwise might be overlooked.

Steamboat Springs, a western Colorado town known for its Olympic skiers and summer bikers, also has an arts theater with a rich past that was built nearly 90 years ago, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Chief Theater, which dates back to 1927, was recently bought from a multiplex movie chain by a group of local residents hoping to revive the spirit of the theater in its heyday. Now a non-profit community...