Simply Slavic will expand to a three-day event for 2026. The 15th edition of the festival celebrating Slavic culture and heritage is scheduled June 26 to 28 at the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre. According to Simply Slavic board President John Slanina, “For 15 years, Simply Slavic ...

SMARTS hosts First Fridays Youngstown First Fridays Youngstown moves to SMARTS, 25 E. Boardman St., for its March edition. SMARTS will have hands-on arts activities for children of all ages in visual art, music, dance, theater and creative writing with a focus on family-oriented creations. ...

Staff report Charley Crockett will bring his Age of the Ram tour to the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre on Sept. 19. Crockett is a two-time Grammy nominee, and he won emerging artist of the year at the 2021 Americana Music Awards. The prolific Texas-born singer-songwriter has released ...

The Associated Press Sean Penn won best supporting male actor for his performance in “One Battle After Another” and Catherine O’Hara won a posthumous award at the 32nd Actor Awards. In the ceremony, streaming live Sunday night on Netflix from the Shine Auditorium on Los Angeles, ...

HOWLAND — When John Anderson planned the 2021 expansion of Medici Museum of Art, one of the exhibitions he imagined for the massive gallery with its 35-foot-high ceiling was the large-scale Op art paintings of Julian Stanczak. Anderson, one of the founders of Medici, didn’t live to see ...

Marcus Mast said professional bull riders know it’s not a question of if they’ll get injured on the job. It’s only a matter of how severe the injury will be. A broken jaw sounds pretty severe to most people. Mast only missed one week when he broke his last year. He wasn’t so lucky ...