Breaking News

Ticket

Wick Avenue venues host First Fridays Youngstown

First Fridays Youngstown moves to the Wick Avenue Corridor for November. Several venues on or near Wick Avenue will have special programming from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday. The Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County, 305 Wick Ave., will host a talk by author James Willis on “How Weird Is Ohio?” at 6 p.m. His books include “Weird Ohio,” “Ohio Legends and Lore” and “Ohio Historic Haunts.” The McDonough Museum of Art, 525 Wick Ave., will present the interactive video projection “The Articulated Act” by Crystal Beiersdorfer and feature music by Floor Baba. Snacks, ...

Jazz all stars play Columbiana

The Jazz in the Park All Stars will perform Saturday at the Columbiana Arts Theater. The concert will include saxophone player Jeff Green, singer Arielle Green Hall and Billy Beck and Rick Ward of the Ohio Players and Ward-Beck Project. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $15 and are available online at www.atthecat.com.

Packard Band salutes veterans

The W.D. Packard Concert Band will honor those who served in the military with its pre-Veterans Day Concert. Galen S. Karriker will conduct the concert, which will include the songs associated with each branch of the military. Veterans in attendance will be encouraged to stand up when the song for their branch of the military is played. The program will open with Timothy Loest’s “Fanfare for the American Veteran” and will include Samuel Barber’s “Commando March,” Leroy Anderson’s “Forgotten Dreams,” F.W. Meacham’s “American Patrol”, W. Paris Chambers’ ...

Ticket stubs

Barnes & Noble hosts author book-signing event on Saturday A multi-author book signing event runs from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble, 381 Boardman-Poland Road, Boardman. Participants will include Samantha Jo, an award-winning author of dark fantasy and alt-Appalachian fantasy; Kara M. Zone, a romantasy and dark fantasy author; Ciara Hartford, a romantasy and dark fantasy author; and ZL Johnson, a horror author who just released a debut novel. The first 25 purchasers of indie books will receive a swag bag with merchandise from all four authors. Brookfield library ...

TNT presents mystery thriller

“I’ll Be Back Before Midnight” might be an unfamiliar play to many, and director Lisa Bennett wants to keep it that way. “You're not sure who's who,” Bennett said about the characters in the script. “You’re really unsure — ‘Oh, they’re OK.’ ‘No, they’re not.’ I kind of like that edge-of-your-seat type show, where you can’t identify evil until it’s right there.” The answers will come starting Friday, when “I’ll Be Back Before Midnight” opens at Trumbull New Theatre for a three-weekend run. Peter Colley’s play, first produced in 1979, tells ...

‘In the Zone’ is a lively place to be

YOUNGSTOWN — Hopewell Theatre finds nostalgic fun and a lot of ingenuity “In the Zone.” The production “In the Zone with Rod Serling,” which runs for three more performances, turns five episodes of the beloved television series “The Twilight Zone” into an evening of theater. The original series ran from 1959 to 1964, but the show never went away. I discovered it in syndication growing up in the ’70s. Younger generations might have watched “Twilight Zone” marathons on the Sci Fi Channel / SyFy, streamed it on Paramount+ or revisited the original series after the ...