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Penguin City hosts ‘SLAVidays’

Simply Slavic will get into the holiday spirit with “Home for the SLAVidays” on Friday at Penguin City Brewing Company. The evening will be filled with Slavic holiday traditions with music by the Chardon Polka Band, a visit from Cleveland Krampus and photos with St. Nicholas, a kolachi contest featuring local bakers, an enchanted Slavic Christmas Forest, Oplatek (Christmas wafer) sharing and a Christmas market. Slavic foods will be available from Babcia’s Lunchbox, Steel City Chimneys and The Pierogi Lady. Krupnik martinis will be sold with proceeds benefiting the Simply ...

Songwriters Hall of Fame posthumously inducts the Queen of Disco, Donna Summer

NEW YORK (AP) — There are giants, and then there is Donna Summer. The Queen of Disco and then some, known for such timeless tunes as “Love to Love You Baby,” “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “Dim All the Lights,” “On the Radio” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall said. Summer, who died in 2012 at age 63, was welcomed into the Songwriters Hall on Monday at a ceremony at The Butterfly Room at Cecconi’s in Los Angeles. It was led by Academy Award-winning songwriter Paul Williams. Summer’s ...

McDonough will host live artist demonstration

A live artist demonstration with Julia Betts is scheduled 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at McDonough Museum of Art, 525 Wick Ave., Youngstown. Betts is an artist-in-residence at Akron Soul Train and is known for her innovative pour-process technique that transforms paint into sculptural form. During the interactive demonstration, attendees will gain insight into her creative process and can ask questions and view a pop-up installation created exclusively for the one-night event. Betts’ work has been exhibited nationally in solo shows at Unsmoke Systems in Pittsburgh and DDDD Pictures in ...

Keith Sweat brings new jack swing to Powers

R&B singer Keith Sweat will perform Feb. 6 at Powers Auditorium. Sweat has sold more than 25 million records worldwide and helped shape and define the new jack swing sound. His first six albums from 1987’s “Make It Last Forever” to 1998’s “Still in the Game” all sold at least a million copies, and the first five hit No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B albums chart. His chart-topping R&B singles include “I Want Her,” “Make You Sweat,” “I’ll Give All My Love to You,” “Keep It Comin’,” “Twisted” and “Nobody.” Sweat is an inductee into the Georgia Music ...

Christmas comedy opens at Kent-Trumbull

‘Tis the season for the feast of the seven fishes. Kent State University at Trumbull Theatre’s feast will be dominated by one see-food — the comedy of “A Tuna Christmas.” It will be staged for three performances this weekend in Champion. Harmon Andrews, a familiar face at ...

Comicon celebrates pop culture

Mahoning Valley Comicon will be back with some familiar guests and a new location for its 2025 edition. This year’s pop culture convention, which has had several homes since it started at the long-gone Eastwood Expo Center, moves to the Metroplex Expo Center in Liberty. “We were doing it at the Holiday Inn (in Boardman), and it just outgrew there,” said local filmmaker Travis Bowen, who started the event and is co-hosting this year’s edition with Carlos Rivera and Joe Mohn. “We tried it at the Calvin Arts Center, but there just wasn’t enough parking. What I like about the ...