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Rolling Boxcar International explores serious themes on new release

Rolling Boxcar International is a band, but just as importantly, it’s a group of friends, Richard Blair said. “We all say that if our band were to cease to exist, we would stay friends,” Blair said. “That's paramount to all of it.” The band — Blair, Angelo LaMarca, Tony Nigro ...

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Upton program looks at northern Trumbull’s early settlers Author Darcy Krolikowski will speak at the Harriet Taylor Upton House, 380 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren, at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Krolikowski, author of “Connecticut to Mesopotamia, Ohio,” will talk about the early settlement of northern Trumbull County. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. Refreshments will be served starting at 9:30 a.m. For more information, go to uptonhouse.org or call 330-395-1840. ‘Unearth’ gets Sips & Scripts exposure “Unearth” will be the next offering in Kent State University at ...

ACTS presents Poe for Halloween

“The Edgar Allan Poe Afterlife Radio Show” opens Friday at ACTS Performing Arts Center. The play by Patrick Greene and Jason Pizzarello tells four classic Poe tales — “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” presented from an otherworldly radio studio, complete with commercial breaks between the stories. In her director notes, Maria Petrella-Ackley writes, “Poe was more than an author of darkness; he was an architect of our fascination with the forbidden and the fearful.” The cast features Thomas ...

Sour, spicy and divisive are reshaping the Halloween candy bowl

Orders for Circus Peanuts rose 350% last Halloween, leading the old-school candies highlighted in DoorDash’s annual order data. It is the loudest of several Halloween candy trends pointing the same way, toward flavors with more edge and wrappers with more history. Reese’s still holds the top spot, but the candy filling in behind it looks different than it did a few years ago. Sour candy took two spots in the national top 10. A spicy rolled tortilla chip overtook pretzels and Goldfish as the most-ordered non-candy treat. And a cluster of candies more often found in a grandparent’s ...

A kimchi seafood pot that keeps guests coming back

Like my recipes for Kimchi Bolognese and Kimchi Mac and Beef, this dish from my cookbook “Hand Taste: Cook Like a Korean Grandmother” is part of my Korean Italian American repertoire. And out of them all, this Kimchi Seafood Pot is my mom’s favorite. I made it for her once just for ...

Lotteries for Oct. 28

Tuesday Ohio DAY Pick 3: 8-6-6 Pick 4: 4-7-3-2 Pick 5: 9-3-2-3-6 NIGHT Pick 3: 6-4-6 Pick 4: 1-4-5-3 Pick 5:8-4-5-7-7 Rolling Cash 5: 6-9-13-21-23 Monday’s Powerball: 18-26-49-50-54 Power Ball: 1 Power Play: 3 Pennsylvania DAY Pick 2: 1-3 Wild: 2 Pick 3: 8-3-5 Wild: 2 Pick 4: 6-4-7-7 Wild: 2 Pick 5: 5-0-9-7-9 Wild: 2 Treasure Hunt: 10-20-21-22-30 NIGHT Pick 2: 6-0 Wild: 6 Pick 3: 5-6-8 Wild: 6 Pick 4: 1-7-1-4 Wild: 6 Pick 5: 9-3-8-5-2 Wild: 6 Cash 5: 2-13-27-36-42 Match 6: 14-19-21-30-46-48 NOTE: The Tribune Chronicle and ...