Today’s entertainment picks:

January 15, 2016 at 12:00a.m.

v Phantoms hockey, 7:05 p.m.: The Youngstown skaters take on the Des Moines Buccaneers at Covelli Centre. Call 330-747-7825 for tickets.

v “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” 8 p.m.: Come to think of it, same goes for me. Warm-hearted comedy revue ($12, $10 for seniors and students) at Trumbull New Theatre, 5883 Youngstown-Warren Road, Niles; 330-652-1103.

v “South Pacific,” 7 p.m.: Stage Left Youth Players are putting on this timeless musical ($12, $10 for students and seniors) at Trinity Theater, 234 E. Lincoln Way, Lisbon; 330-831-7249.

v Greg Hahn, 8 and 10 p.m.: Wild and crazy comedian ($20, dinner packages available) at the Comedy Cellar at Mojo’s Pub and Grill, 6292 Mahoning Ave., Austintown; 330-793-6656.

v Winterfest, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m.: Grab some traditional Italian food and festival favorites at this annual fair at Our Lady of Mount Carmel church basement, 381 Robbins Ave., Niles; 330-652-5825.

“Hell’s Kitchen” (9 p.m., Fox): Season 15 debuts with chef Gordon Ramsay welcoming contestants to verbally abuse.

TV listings, B6

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Exhibit compares art of fathers, sons

NEW CASTLE, PA.

“Like Father, Like Son,” an art exhibition showcasing and comparing the work of two renowned Lawrence County artists and their sons, opens today at the Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, 124 E. Leasure Ave., and runs through March 12.

The exhibit explores the relationship between Thomas and Jay McNickle in the Main Galleries, and Nelson and Eric Oestreich in the Blair Sculpture Walkway. A free public reception will take place next Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. Go to hoytartcenter.org for information.

Thomas G. McNickle is known for his watercolors that depict woods, streams, fields and hillsides. Yet the art in this exhibit represents another side of McNickle that locals have rarely seen – abstract work that he has developed quietly throughout his entire career. While still rooted in nature, these paintings embrace the colors and gestures of the remembered experience.

Jay McNickle’s work is likewise abstract, but the visual vocabulary of his generation is entirely different. Jay’s inspiration is not organic but industrial, reflecting his work and life experience. His materials also rebel against the traditional mediums of his father to include automotive paints, grease pen, gasoline, house paint and whatever other industrial products evoke his own remembered experience.

Former Westminster College art professor Nelson Oestreich was known for his Amish block prints and folk carvings. Much of what is in the exhibit reflects his preoccupation with wood as a surface, material or tool of the American experience; wood blocks, wood prints, wood carvings and scraps of painted wood.

He was constantly building, modifying or reclaiming objects and materials in the design and redesign of their house. This recycling forms the approach to sculpture of Eric’s works in the exhibit.