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Howell earns spot on Frieda’s wall

Howard Howell has played at Frieda’s, Youngstown’s legendary jazz club, about a zillion times,

This is our Summer Fun issue, an exhaustive list of fairs, festivals, concerts in the park and other

If you are reading this, there is a good chance that you can relate to “Rust Belt Boy,” a memoir in

The Youngstown Playhouse built up a good bit of momentum over the past two years under operations

Two poets from the Mahoning Valley will return this weekend to share their work about their

In his five-decade career, Warren native Austin Pendleton has made a name for himself as a character

Remember all that fuss about Hotel California/California Palms Hotel? All those questions, such

Stage Left Players of Lisbon has made a change in its schedule, dropping “Dead Pets” and replacing

Ten years ago, Youngstown rarely was a stop for top-name bands. Now, it’s routine. Beginning one

For Skip Bednarczyk, it’s a time of celebration and disappointment. The owner and operator of Star

We’ve hit the midseason lull in the community theater season, and it got me wondering if the second

Youngstown has more than its fair share of pipe organs, and they will be put to the test when a

Fred D’Amico of the fledgling Youngstown Film Commission and city councilman Mike Ray attended a

Jonathan Eldell messaged me the other day. The Warren native and actor was home for the holidays and