if you go What: “Hometown Story: Youngstown Steel Kitchens” When: Sunday through April 15
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com There are a COupleSFLBof things an audience needs to know
Last week, JD Eicher & the Goodnights released a video for their song “Easy.” But making it was
We should have seen this coming. First came “Utoya Island,” a film about the 2011 mass murder of
Cat people come in all stripes. There are cat owners, cat lovers, cat ladies ... and cat fanciers.
Marilyn Higgins, executive director of Victorian Players Theater, died Christmas Day at her Boardman home after a bout with cancer. She was 64.
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN 111Officials at the Mahoning Valley’s four
Daniel Moore is a steelworker, union activist, polka musician, rapper, protest singer-songwriter and
Fueled by the Youngstown work ethic, Catholic guilt and the realization that every man could be
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN When the Youngstown Playhouse was faced with
The Youngstown Playhouse’s production of “Scrooge, the Musical” is a show for families — even on the
Ballet Western Reserve’s annual production of “The Nutcracker” is a holiday staple, but that doesn’t
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN A trailer for an upcoming movie made in
The trailer for a soon-to-be-finished film that was shot in Youngstown has unleashed waves of criticism in Norway because of its content.
Holocaust victim will attend premiere of drama at Victorian Players Theater By GUY D’ASTOLFO
Haven’t heard of nerdcore hip-hop? Give 2D6 a roll 2D6 is bringing nerdcore hip-hop to Youngstown,
Before it went silent about a year ago, The Cellar in Struthers was one of the Valley’s best rock
By Jim Flick sports@vindy.com NILES Poland High School’s football team considered turnabout
ruKus festival By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Rukus festival moves to the
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN The Oakland Center for the Arts will begin its
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN With a lineup that includes bands such as Crazy
The entertainment spots in the Metroplex Hotel in Liberty are getting some overdue attention.
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN The Youngstown Play- house will kick off the
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com Zack Yankush is comb- ing the world in search of the most
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN It’s not every actor who lands a lead role in
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com When the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra was asked to perform
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com AUSTINTOWN The more Mike Ostrowski learned about Polish
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN To raise money and awareness for the battle
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com COLUMBIANA Drum Fest will return to Fire- stone Park this
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Earlina Gilford-Weaver is turning the story of
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN The late Dominic Modarelli’s love for his
Ed O’Neill, actor, with his 2011 Screen Actors Guild Award
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com Omarosa Manigault- Stallworth — better known simply as
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com “Tony and Susan” by Austin Wright (Grand Central Publishing,
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Vexfest will be reincarnated for the eighth
The Youngstown-Warren radio market doesn’t see a lot of change as far as ratings go. The same
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com Any discussion of Youngstown’s most popular bands will have
The Butler Institute of American Art has been trying to connect with an adjacent building it owns to
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com PITTSBURGH U2 doesn’t shrink under the massive scale of
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com Youngstown native J LanY has lived a life of music.
No local group has been more effective at reawakening ethnic pride than Polish Youngstown. The
Youngstowners of all stripes are attracted to the urban heart of the region By GUY D’ASTOLFO
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com Talk about animated conversations. A phone chat with Jim
Harrison Common, a newly constructed parklet and public space at Youngstown State University, will be the setting for a jazz festival Saturday evening, part of YSU’s Summer Festival of the Arts.
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com The Sinatra went silent late last year, when both of
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com AUSTINTOWN Theory of a Deadman’s return to the Mahoning
Summer Festival of the Arts By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Harrison Common,
Denise Glinatsis Bayer became a lawyer in 2005, but she has been involved in theater ever since she
By GUY D’ASTOLFO dastolfo@vindy.com Niki Feezle was alive for just 24 years, but she packed a
New owners are injecting new life into two well-known area nightspots: Sammy’s in Austintown and the
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