Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • Several talented area natives will perform this month at Warren G. Harding High School for “INSPIRE: An Immersive Arts Experience.” The event, present by Second Baptist Church of Warren, honors the legacy of Clifford and Lillie ...
Klea Blackhurst opens the 2019-20 Trumbull Town Hall lecture series with her tribute to entertainer Ethel Merman. She will perform at Packard Music Hall on the same stage Merman appeared on with Kenley Players in “Call me Madam” in 1968. Blackhurst has been doing her Merman tribute, ...
What if the couple in Jason Robert Brown’s musical “The Last Five Years” were serial killers instead of a writer and an actress. That was part of the inspiration for “Serial Monogamy,” the latest musical by Robert Dennick Joki and Josh Taylor, which Rust Belt Theater Company will ...
Garry Peterson, drummer for the The Guess Who, had a memorable stay in Warren. He doesn’t remember the name of the motel, but he remembers what happened there. “We were playing there one time in 1991 or somewhere outside of there,” he said. “My girlfriend at the time drove up from ...
For a band on a roll, what better place to have a EP release party than at a skating rink? The Super Babes, featuring Bridget Reckless on guitar and vocals and Ann Rock on drums and vocals, will celebrate its six-song debut, “We Are The Super Babes,” with a show Saturday at Youngstown ...
WARREN — With a theme of “Fairytale & Fantasy,” Occupied Warren 2.0 doesn’t have a chained live model to dramatize the dangers of sex trafficking or rows of pill bottles illustrating the scourge of opioid addiction. This year’s art project has two spaces devoted to Alice in ...
• ON SALE THIS WEEK • Trans-Siberian Orchestra returns to the Covelli Centre for two performances at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15. Tickets range from $49.50 to $79.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through the arena’s Southwoods Health box office and Ticketmaster. That won’t be the ...
NILES — Tickets will be available starting Monday for the 21st Trick or Treat at Eastwood Field in Niles. The annual event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 23 and is billed as a safe way to celebrate Halloween for children ages 12 and younger. New this year is a a “Fast Pass” for $10 ...
LIBERTY — Local historian and genealogist Tim Seman will be the next speaker in the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society’s lecture series. Seman will discuss the founding and development of the Youngstown and Mahoning County Library System. The library system was founded in 1880 ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Ten years of prints created by Youngstown State University students are on display in Bliss Hall’s Judith Rae Solomon Gallery. Associate Professor Joseph D’Uva started the YSU Student Print Collection in August 2009. The goal was to compile a collection of student ...