Rodeo returns to Lisbon Hoppel’s Championship Rodeo celebrates its 40th anniversary this weekend with events at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Hoppel’s Arena, state Route 518, Lisbon. Friday’s rodeo will include a veterans night tribute and a fireworks finale. Saturday’s activities ...

Cirque Italia brings its big tent to the Southern Park Mall parking lot for six performances this weekend. The production tells the story of a 1950s-obsessed adolescent who falls asleep and dreams of living in this bygone era, and it incorporates such circus acts as jugglers, low-wire ...

Registration is open for workshops, retreats and other activities planned during East Liverpool Art Week from July 28 to Aug. 3. Workshops include copper tray painting at 1 p.m. July 29, still life oil painting at 1 p.m. July 30 and drawing birds with colored pencils at 1 p.m. July 31. All ...

Lit Youngstown moves its First Wednesday Reader Series to the second Wednesday for July. This month’s featured readers are Dianne Borsenik and Steven Concert. Borsenik, a Cleveland-based poet, was named poet laureate at Speak of the Devil cocktail bar in Lorain, and her 2023 collection ...

Say what you will about the Idris Elba-John Cena vehicle “Heads of State,” but it’s surely the first buddy comedy about the fraying bonds of NATO. The potential collapse of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plays a surprisingly pivotal role in this fitfully diverting, ...

This month’s First Fridays Youngstown event will double as the city’s Fourth of July celebration. Festivities will start at 5 p.m. Friday at Wean Park with the induction ceremony for the Youngstown Walk of Fame. This year’s inductees are the city’s past boxing champions — Ray ...