Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • It’s Valentine’s Day weekend. Love is in the air, maybe nowhere more than Penguin City Brewing Company, which has a group wedding on tap for Friday. ‘Til Death Do Us Part will provide couples with an officiant (Hannah Ferguson, ...

Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “My Abandoned Heart: Photography by Diane Beatty,” “Portals to the Soul: Photography by Dina Liguore” and “Felicific Calculus: Photography by Eric Kunsman,” all through March 12 with meet-the-artists event ...

Staff report Auditions are scheduled in March for Youngstown Playhouse’s main stage production of “Urinetown: the Musical.” Director Nate Beagle is seeking strong comedic actors, singers and dancers ages 18 and older. Experience in improvisation, stand-up comedy, drag performance, ...

LOS ANGELES — In his seminal 1981 book “Simulacra and Simulation,” cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard argued that Disneyland is emblematic of reality’s collapse into perpetual imitation. “Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas ...

Youngstown State University will mix some jazz with some “Jazz” to celebrate Ohio-born author Toni Morrison. A community reading of Morrison’s 1992 novel “Jazz” is planned on campus on Wednesday, which would have been her 95th birthday. The reading will run 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 2 ...

The artwork of students who are part of Inspiring Minds’ Youngstown Scholars program is on display at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County’s Michael Kusalaba Library. For the past 10 years, Inspiring Minds Youngstown has been providing after-school and summer enrichment ...