One of the 30 greatest living American songwriters will perform Saturday at DeYor Performing Arts Center’s Ford Family Recital Hall. That’s the list the New York Times included Brandy Clark on last month along with her frequent songwriters partners Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne. Her ...
Steel drum player Robert Greenidge, who made several appearances at the Warren Community Amphitheatre with the Jimmy Buffett tribute band Fins to the Left, died this week at age 76. Greenidge first played with Buffett on the 1983 album “One Particular Harbor” and became a member of Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band. Buffett’s music had an “island vibe” before Greenidge, but the sound of his steel drums, more melodic than percussive, accentuated that Caribbean influence. When Buffett died in 2023, only keyboard player Michael Utley had a longer tenure backing the ...
DEAR HELOISE: When I buy a dozen eggs, I transfer them to an egg tray in my refrigerator once I get home. Before I throw away the cardboard carton that they came in, I cut out the “use by” date and put it with the eggs in the refrigerator. I never have to try to remember when I purchased the eggs or how long they’ve been there, just in case I don’t use all of them up quick enough. — Pat, in Ewing, New Jersey DEAR HELOISE: Years ago, after having major back surgery, I had to use a walker for several months. My husband cut a piece of plywood out of a laminated particle board ...
The work of six Northeast Ohio photographers will be featured in Trumbull Art Gallery’s third Photo Invitational exhibition. Two of the photographers are based in Cleveland and Akron and showing at the downtown Warren gallery for the first time; others have participated in multiple TAG ...
Want to make your vegetables taste better and have your friends love you? Char the hell out of some on the grill and then toss them in a bacon vinaigrette, using this recipe from my cookbook “Chasing the Gator: Isaac Toups and the New Cajun Cooking.” These are vegetables so unhealthy ...
The street in front of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland recording studio will be renamed after the legendary guitar player, and local educator and Vindys’ guitarist John Anthony will be a part of the festivities. Anthony, who teaches Austintown Fitch’s rock band and history of rock ’n’ roll classes, created a lesson on the influential guitarist for Teach Rock, a STEAM-based curriculum that uses popular music to instill a passion for learning with students. It was started and championed by musician/actor/entrepreneur Stevie Van Zandt, best known for his work as music director ...
