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Closing reception set for ‘No Guarantees’ A closing reception for the “No Guarantees” exhibition is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Trumbull Art Gallery, 158 N. Park Ave., Warren. Curated by Robyn Maas, the show features the work of 19 women artists, and the title refers to solitary work that all artists put in with “no guarantees” that their creations will be seen outside of their workspace. Admission is free. For more information, go to www.trumbullartgallery.com or call 330-395-4876. Firewood expo comes to Trumbull fairgrounds The International Firewood ...

McDonough displays varied work for summer exhibitions

A busy summer is planned at the McDonough Museum of Art with five exhibitions opening Friday. Some feature Youngstown State University alumni. One is a juried show featuring local artists, and one draws from the collections of other arts institutions and history museums. All five shows run ...

Poet Philip Brady and essayist Jacqueline Marino will be featured at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event. Brady is the author of five collections of poetry, and he has received numerous awards, including the Ohioana Poetry Award, an Ohio Governor’s Award and six Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, a Best of Ohio Writers Prize, a Newhouse Award and a Thayer Fellowship in the Arts from the state of New York. He is professor emeritus at Youngstown State University and co-founder and executive director of Etruscan Press. Marino has been ...

TCHS Family Day turns 5

Family Day and the Summer Reading Challenge Kick Off Party take place Saturday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library. This is the fifth year for Family Day, started by the Trumbull County Historical Society. Ryan MacLennan, TCHS director of operations and outreach, said, “When we first started, we only had like six different partner organizations that wanted to participate, and now we're up to over 25 partner organizations.” One of the big factors in that growth was partnering with the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, which will kick off its summer reading ...

Porthouse Theatre’s 57th season starts in June

Three musicals are planned at Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s outdoor summer theater, for its 57th season. “Grease” opens the season on June 12 and runs through June 27. The Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey musical takes audiences back to the late 1950s at Rydell High School, led by the duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys’ and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers. It includes the songs “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightnin’,” “It’s Raining on Prom Night” and “Alone at the Drive-In Movie.” More than 50 ...

Horse fall leads to McBryde’s ‘Wild’ ride

NEW YORK — A few years ago, Ashley McBryde fell off the horse. “That’s not a figure of speech, sadly,” the country star told The Associated Press. “I was really, really badly hurt, and it was a bad enough injury that there was a chance that I wouldn’t have been able to perform ...