By Austin Montgomery, Beloit Daily News – March 7, 2022 BELOIT—2022 will be the year of a full resurgence of Downtown Beloit Association events if you ask DBA Executive Director Shauna El-Amin as small businesses prepare for another bounce back year heading into the spring schedule. The DBA spent 2020 and 2021 helping Read more…
By Austin Montgomery, Beloit Daily News – March 6, 2022 BELOIT—The credits rolled on the 2022 Beloit International Film Festival, marking a successful year that saw the fest return in full-force after a pandemic-stricken 2021 event. Filmmakers, producers and special guests gathered at Velvet Buffalo in downtown Beloit on Saturday for the annual Read more…
By Austin Montgomery, Beloit Daily News – March 3, 2022 BELOIT—The Beloit International Film Festival wraps up this weekend and organizers say this year’s festival has been a return to form for the popular event as crowds once again came out to support independent filmmakers. BIFF Executive Director Greg Gerard told the Beloit Read more…
By Lynda Wallis, Beloit Daily News – March 3, 2022 BELOIT—Liquid Chef magician Levi Andersen serves up transformative experiences in a glass. “The name 5Bar began as a typo,” Andersen explains while petting Lady Corgi, his adorable 14-month-old bar pup. “I had been joking with a friend about buying a dive bar. The Read more…
By Neil Johnson, Adams Publishing Group – February 27, 2022 BELOIT—As a pileup of a dozen last-minute moviegoers tried to wedge past the will call booth at an already sold-out show at the weekend kickoff of the Beloit International Film Festival, two festival volunteers tried to man the fort in the lobby of Irontek Read more…
By Clint Wolf, Beloit Daily News – February 21, 2022 BELOIT—Films will be showing at seven downtown Beloit venues, offering a wide selection of drama, documentaries, horror and other genres during the 17th Annual Beloit International Film Festival. The film festival, commonly called BIFF, will run from Feb. 25 through March 6. Read more…
By Clint Wolf, Beloit Daily News – February 14, 2022 BELOIT—Corporate Contractors Inc. (CCI), of Beloit has been honored with the Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin Project of the Year Award for the ABC Supply Stadium project in downtown Beloit. Ranked highest by a panel of 22 judges, the Project of the Year Read more…
By Maggie Polsean, WREX – February 11, 2022 BELOIT (WREX) — Right over the Stateline in the heart of downtown Beloit, Truk’t has been serving up gourmet tacos and tequila since 2018. “It’s a chance to explore food and to do some cool new things for people,” says executive chef Bryan Evers. He says Read more…
By Hillary Gavan, Beloit Daily News – February 10, 2022 BELOIT—Annētta Michelle McBain is not only bringing beauty to her clients, but is beautifying Beloit’s downtown as her new businesses continue to expand and draw in clientele from around the country. McBain, a wife and mother of three from Rockford, was in the Read more…
By Hillary Gavan, Beloit Daily News – February 10, 2022 BELOIT—The Downtown Beloit Association (DBA) honored the businesses making Beloit a better place to live, work and play in at its virtual awards ceremony held Thursday afternoon. This year’s theme was “Partnerships are Better Together” showing how downtown businesses and the DBA work Read more…
