Heavy metal concert

Heavy metal concert

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — A heavy metal concert for all ages will be Saturday at Shenango Fire Hall, 242 E. Washington St. Doors open at 5 p.m. with the show at 6 p.m. The cost is $5. The bands will include When All Else Fails, All Men Equal, Black Casket, Smashed 151 and rapper Sickle Voorhees. All proceeds benefit the Next Step Center, a social rehabilitation program for people with mental illness.

New PBS series will look
at Sheppard investigation

KENT — PBS 45/49 will present “The Day Marilyn Died,” the premiere episode of a new eight-part series, “Doris O’Donnell’s Cleveland.” It will air exclusively on PBS 45/49 at 10 p.m. next Thursday, and will repeat at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 29 and 12:30 a.m. Dec. 30.

The production focuses on events leading up to the story that Cleveland physician Sam Sheppard told investigators about the early morning hours of Independence Day 1954, when his wife was found murdered in their Bay Village home. Advances in blood spatter evidence and close re-examination of what was found the day of Marilyn Sheppard’s murder — and what was not found — strongly suggest what police, prosecutors, newspapers and the public suspected from the beginning: They got the right man. The program includes interviews with O’Donnell and with writers Dick Feagler and Brent Larkin, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason and retired Bay Village policeman Fred Drenkhan, the first officer to arrive at the murder scene.

The “Doris O’Donnell’s Cleveland” series is based largely on O’Donnell’s memoir, “Front Page Girl” (The Kent State University Press, 2006). O’Donnell was a newspaper reporter for The Cleveland News and The Plain Dealer for decades, beginning in 1937. The next three programs will air monthly beginning in March on PBS 45/49 and also will be available for download at storytellersmediagroup.com.

Ozzy-Zombie canceled

CLEVELAND — The Ozzy Osbourne-Rob Zombie concert scheduled for Wolstein Center tonight has been canceled, but Zombie will perform tonight at House of Blues. Tickets for the original show will not be honored. New tickets must be purchased to gain entrance into the House of Blues Rob Zombie concert. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. Refunds for the original concert can be obtained at the point of purchase.

Stage Left at libraries

The Stage Left Junior/Senior High Youth Players will present two programs from its upcoming show “Seussical, the Musical,” which runs for two weekends in January.

On Dec. 31, the troupe will perform musical numbers for First Night Salem at the Masonic Temple at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.

On Jan. 5, it will visit local libraries to entertain children who are in preschool through eighth grade. The schedule is as follows: 11 a.m., Columbiana Library; noon, Lepper Library; 1 p.m., Leetonia Library; and 2 p.m., Salem Library.