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 ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s big tent philosophy is on full display in the list of potential 2026 inductees. The 16 acts under consideration were announced Wednesday morning — The Black Crowes, Jeff Buckley, Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, Melissa Etheridge, Lauryn Hill, Billy Idol, ...