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Country concert gets local flavor

Boardman’s Sarah Turner will sing on the biggest stage of her career — so far — this Friday when she


Radio soap opera premieres on WSOM

A new radio soap opera by Youngstown native Andria Lorelle debuted this week on local talk station


Artists paint themselves into the downtown picture

It was a few years ago when artist Jim Pernotto first came up with the idea of opening a center for


‘Skyball League’ has ups and downs in first season

“Skyball League,” the show based on a sport created by Brian Kessler of Boardman, is about to wrap


Haunted hall is the perfect place for a Zombie Prom

Calvin Center in Youngstown is haunted. Real haunted. It’s so haunted that Resident Undead, a


The Cellar rock club to reopen

Before it went silent about a year ago, The Cellar in Struthers was one of the Valley’s best rock


Actor and rapper from city both step up to bigger stages

Daniel Rios has that gangster look that filmmakers love, and it has earned him some face time as an


Idora film shows a city success

A short film about the slow but steady transformation of Youngstown’s Idora neighborhood will get


Acting on Impulse: Hotel reboots club, comedy stage

The entertainment spots in the Metroplex Hotel in Liberty are getting some overdue attention.


Symphony fills Trans-Siberian void

It looks like Trans-Siberian Orchestra won’t be coming to Youngstown this year. Covelli Centre —


Cartoon museum gets a boost from Batman

Fake snow clung to the sidewalks and gutters in downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday. It was left over


First Vexfest, now Roxfest

BoomBox is the type of band that is best appreciated in a festival setting. And it was an inspired


JAMZ turns on radio listeners

The Youngstown-Warren radio market doesn’t see a lot of change as far as ratings go. The same


Proposed bridge will connect museum’s two buildings

The Butler Institute of American Art has been trying to connect with an adjacent building it owns to

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A polka for Polish Youngstown

No local group has been more effective at reawakening ethnic pride than Polish Youngstown. The