Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

People who open businesses in downtown Cheyenne are cockeyed optimists, to steal a line from Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific." ...

WyoFile periodically runs art reviews in its Studio Wyoming Review section. I, periodically, write one of those reviews. My latest appeared...

Coal has been on my mind lately. Not in my mind, but I wouldn't be surprised if our Republican geniuses in Congress plan to replace our ...

I won't be attending the Governor's Arts Awards Gala tonight in Cheyenne. Not because I don't think it's important -- it is....

I start each weekday watching the network news. Not sure why. Goes good with oatmeal, I guess. I usually watch until Trump's smarmy fa...

Musician Ethan Hopkins and writer Mike Shay I will be on stage with musician Ethan Hopkins on Eclipse Day, Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m., at Metro ...

No surprise to find an exhibit about beer in the craft-brewing Nirvana of Fort Collins, Colo. What is surprising is to find an art museum ...

Studio Wyoming Review debuted this week on WyoFile, Wyoming's online news source that covers  "people, places and policy." And...

Greetings from somewhere to the south and east of Trump's America. Florida went for Trump. One of the Nov. 8's first disappointmen...

This 1939 auto window decal for Lincoln Court conjures the city's rodeo and Marlboro Man traditions. Cheyenne native Alan O...

You'd think that the sprawling parking lot at the Little America Conference Center would be spacious enough for all of the comic book ge...

Alert readers inform me that there is another new mural in downtown's Art Alley. It's by Laramie artist and UW grad Dan Toro and s...

Here's Jordan Dean's mural on the alley wall between the Plains Hotel and the Majestic Building in downtown Cheyenne. I've bee...

Cheyenne's West Edge Project will hold a combination planning workshop and music fest on Friday, Sept. 18, at the Asher Building at ...

Great to see that Amy Surdam has been named the new executive director of the Cheyenne Downtown Development Authority/Main Street . The orga...

Chris poses with my new car as train rumbles by the Loveland Feed & Grain Building, which is being transformed into the Art @ The Feed...

I've always been pleased when people who live in the far-flung regions on Wyoming refer to Cheyenne as North Denver. They mean it as a s...

This is for all of you forward-thinking folks who believe in odd concepts. That downtown Cheyenne can be a vital place. That Cheyenne can on...

One of the highlights of Gov. Matt Mead’s State of the State speech on Jan. 13 was his proposed initiative called Wyoming Grown. It was pro...

One of the best things to happen to Wyoming communities in 2014 is a resurgence of downtown redevelopment. Wyoming Main Street gets some cre...