This edition of Play List is a big lunch.

Reporter Mesgana Waiss has been covering Mirror Indy’s arts and culture beat for over a year now. In that time she has written about budget cuts to arts organizations, did a look back at 10 years of the Chreece hip-hop festival and launched weekly reels with ideas for things to do.

Last week, Mesgana won the Excellence in QPOC Coverage Award from the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists for the story, “The hottest party in Indy that you’ve never heard of.” 

Today we’re celebrating and revisiting some of her best work.

We also have a new “Ari Makes a Friend” and some things to do for Fourth of July.

Let’s get to it.

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