Friday, August 24, 2012
Today’s entertainment picks:
v Party on the Plaza, 6:30 p.m.: Winslow and Geo C and Tha Storm will provide music on the plaza in front of Dooney’s Downtown Grill on Central Square in downtown Youngstown.
v Roxfest, 5 p.m.: Day one of this rock festival at Buffalo Hollow, 51367 Dickson Road, off state Route 170, south of Petersburg. Nine bands will perform tonight. Go to roxfest.com for details.
v Hot August Night, 7 p.m.: Ryan Humbert, the Strange Familiar and Jordan DePaul in concert at Morley Pavilion, Wick Recreation Area, off McCollum Road on Youngstown’s West Side. The $5 admission fee will help for the children’s play area that is under construction at Wick.
v JD Eicher and the Goodnights, 6 p.m.: The final Friday Night Live concert of the season at the Riverwalk Amphitheater in New Castle, Pa.; 724-654-8408.
v Keith Sweat, 8 p.m.: R&B singer comes to The Harv theater at Mountaineer Casino, W.Va. Route 2, Newell, W.Va.; 800-804-0468.
Opera uses grant to buy equipment
YOUNGSTOWN
Opera Western Reserve has received a $1,600 capital improvement grant from the Youngstown Foundation to purchase equipment.
Hand and power tools, ladders and music-stand lights were purchased to improve OWR’s ability to build scenery for future productions.
The equipment also will be available to loan to Youngstown State University, Girard City Schools and other not-for-profit organizations.
The music-stand lights are now available for any Stambaugh Auditorium production.
OWR will use the equipment for its upcoming production of “The Barber of Seville,” which will feature international opera star Lawrence Brownlee.
For information, go to operawesternreserve.org.
Botched attempt to restore painting
MADRID
A small Spanish town is trying to figure out what to do with a 20th-century painting of Christ that has been disfigured by a local artist who took it upon herself to restore it.
Juan Maria Ojeda, an official in Borja town, said 80-year-old Celia Gimenez decided to touch up the fresco of Christ wearing a crown of thorns in the Misericordia church because she thought it needed restoration. He said no one realized how badly disfigured the painting was until she rang town hall to say what she had done.
The fate of the painting has made national news in Spain.
The fresco is of the genre known as “Ecce Homo” style (“Behold the Man”).
But on Thursday some Twitter users were dubbing it “Ecce Mono” (“Behold the Monkey”).