Kent State University Museum celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with two textile exhibitions opening Friday. “Quilts & Coverlets: Art for the American Home” features 14 figured coverlets and five quilts from the Kent State University Museum collection. The exhibition highlights ...
South Florida band Shy Blossom first bloomed in the Mahoning Valley. Shy Blossom is led by Adriana McDonald, who spent the first 12 years of her life in Cortland, Lordstown and Garrettsville before her family moved south. The band will play its first Ohio date ever on July 5 at Westside ...
Chalk on the Walk colors Warren A downtown Warren tradition continues Saturday with Chalk on the Walk at Courthouse Square. Free chalk will be available to children, and the walkways on the square will be canvas for their chalk art creations. It runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and musical acts Crash the Great and Emotional Labor will perform starting at 10:30 a.m. The event also will include a Youth Art Day exhibition for those ages 12 to 21, free facepainting, costumed characters, a vendors market and a visit from the Warren Fire Department. Leonardi Legacy Concert ...
Bob Barko Jr.’s new artwork, “Images of Youngstown Past — The Central Square Era • 1926-1964” is scheduled to debut for public sale at the Summer Festival of the Arts at Youngstown State University on July 11 and 12. Since 1996, Barko has been creating pieces of Youngstown-themed ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The shark may be broken, but Youngstown Playhouse’s production is in shipshape. “The Shark Is Broken,” a play about the making of the 1975 film “Jaws,” opened Friday before a sell-out crowd at The Playhouse Downtown, which proved to be a perfect venue for the intimate, three-character story. The movie was plagued by delays, cost overruns and other calamities during production, in part because director Steven Spielberg chose to shoot the film on the ocean instead of a studio lot and the mechanical sharks built for the movie seldom worked. In the era of the ...
Youngstown Playhouse is bringing a behind-the-scenes look at one of the biggest summer movie blockbusters of all time to its new performance space downtown. “The Shark Is Broken” is about the making of “Jaws,” focusing on the behind-the-scenes drama involving the film’s stars — ...
