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With Tano Jones, birthday bash will be a Revelry

Tano Jones Revelry’s “What About Me” was one of the 40 most played songs on The Summit radio station in 2025, and the band will be playing it and other tracks from its album “Spinning North” as part of Brad’s Savage Birthday Bash on Friday at Westside Bowl. “That was really ...

Comedy is the ‘Gift’ that keeps giving for Larry the Cable Guy

Daniel Lawrence Whitney, better known as Larry the Cable Guy to comedy fans and Mater to children, said there were good reasons to release his latest comedy special, “It’s a Gift,” on Prime Video. “A lot of blue collar people are on Amazon because people in small towns, in the rural ...

Gray Areas: Springsteen not hiding motive behind new tour

My dad was an ad man, something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately as I’m watching “Mad Men” for the first time. I appreciate the finesse and creativity of a great sales pitch, but I’m a big believer in truth in advertising. No one can say Bruce Springsteen isn’t telling audiences exactly what they’re going to get on the tour he announced this week. It’s called the “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour after one of Springsteen’s most anthemic, aspirational songs, but the poster also says “No Kings,” a popular rallying cry against the current ...

Butler showcases its African-American art

Larry Jones has been going to the Butler Institute of American Art since he was 7 years old. One of the perks of being interim director for the Austintown native is having access to the works in storage in the basement as well as the masterworks in its galleries. “There's 23,000 pieces ...

Search underway for new Butler director

The search committee charged with selecting Louis A. Zona’s successor as executive director of the Butler Institute of American Art will start interviewing candidates in March. Interim director Larry W. Jones said a search firm was hired about five weeks ago, and they started accepting applications about two weeks after that. “Our search firm does the preliminary conversations, and then the search committee — there’s five people on the search committee — we’re narrowing it down to the three to five people that we want to meet,” Jones said. “We’ve been getting some ...

Mahoning Valley arts and entertainment

Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “My Abandoned Heart: Photography by Diane Beatty,” “Portals to the Soul: Photography by Dina Liguore” and “Felicific Calculus: Photography by Eric Kunsman,” all through March 12 with meet-the-artists event ...