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Valley native brings CCR’s music to Robins

Any chance Mick Mahan gets to return home to the Mahoning Valley, he takes. The 1971 Mooney High School graduate, a musician who left the area in 1977 for California, will bring his bandmates with him this time. His band, Revisiting Creedence, will play the Robins Theatre on Nov. 19. Mahan ...

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Tyler History Center closed Friday Tyler History Center in downtown Youngstown will be closed on Friday as Mahoning Valley Historical Society staff makes last-minute preparations for Memories of Christmas Past at the Arms Museum, 648 Wick Ave., Youngstown. The 18th edition of Memories features costumes, memorabilia and artifacts from the film “White Christmas” that are on loan from the Rosemary Clooney House Museum, the Bing Crosby House Museum and private collectors. It will be on display through Dec. 31 from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday with extended hours until 7 p.m. ...

Ministry frontman says new album is final album

NEW YORK (AP) — Before there was Nine Inch Nails or Marilyn Manson or Fear Factory or Rammstein, before the term industrial rock was being used by many in mainstream circles to describe music that combines electro-collages of avant-garde mechanical sounds with that of rock 'n' roll and ...

Ippolito talked his way into playing Stallone in ‘I Play Rocky’

Anthony Ippolito saw the opportunity of a lifetime when he learned that Oscar-winning director Peter Farrelly was developing a film about Sylvester Stallone's determination to write and star in the original "Rocky." There was just one problem: Nobody had asked him to audition for "I Play ...

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Bites and Bits explores Oak Hill Cemetery’s history The Mahoning Valley Historical Society’s next Bites and Bits of History program will focus on those buried in Youngstown’s Oak Hill Cemetery. Traci Manning, MVHS curator of education at Mahoning Valley Historical Society, will explore the history of the cemetery, which is the eternal resting place of war veterans from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam, the first Youngstown Police Department’s first line-of-duty death and other first responders. The program starts at noon Nov. 19 at the Tyler History Center, 325 W. Federal ...