Today’s entertainment picks:

Today’s entertainment picks:

v “Next to Normal,” 7:30 p.m.: Spotlight Players presents the 2009 Tony Award-winning musical at the Masonic Temple, 788 E. State St., Salem; spotplayers@ rocketmail.com.

v “Riff Raff,” 7:30 p.m.: Gritty crime drama at Youngstown State University’s Spotlight Arena Theater, inside Bliss Hall, on Wick Avenue; 330-941-3105.

v “Wild Land,” 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Subtitled “Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Landscape Painting,” this traveling art exhibition is at the Weller Gallery of the Davis Education Center, Fellows Riverside Gardens, 123 McKinley Ave., Youngs-town; 330-746-7116.

v Tres Lads, 9:30 p.m.: Don’t call them acoustic rock; they’re more like rock played with acoustic guitars. Rachel’s Rhythm House, 118 W. Marshall Road, McDonald; 330-530-2950.

v Phantoms hockey, 7:15 p.m.: It’s thunder stick giveaway night as the Phantoms take on Dubuque at Covelli Centre; 330-746-5600.

Wind quintet at Kent-Trumbull

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The Black Squirrel Winds, a new Kent State University quintet, will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 202 (formerly Lecture Hall A) of the Classroom/Administration Building of Kent State University Trumbull Campus.

The Black Squirrel Winds is comprised of Kent State faculty members of the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music.

The quintet will discuss each piece and take audience questions.

For more information, contact Eve McPherson at 330-675-8991.