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Allie Vugrincic/WOSUOlentangy Liberty High school freshman Benjamin Kurian's documentary looks at how artificial intelligence can make roads safer for drivers. The film debuts on C-Span on Saturday. -
David "Silent" Morris/Shakedown CircusShakedown Circus: Revamp features a cast of mostly non-professional performers off all shapes and sizes. Audience members will see some skin.
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Classical 101A new recording of two of Mozart’s most popular piano concertos is a reminder of the remarkable dynamism of Mozart’s gift for improvisation. It's the culmination of a 30-year project to record Mozart’s complete works in historically informed performances that showcase pianist, Mozart scholar and Harvard University professor emeritus Robert Levin’s improvised cadenzas. -
The documentary "Free Beer Tomorrow" will come out in 2025, telling the story of Jack's/Summit Station, a Columbus lesbian bar that opened in the 1970s and was in business until 2008. -
Beverly Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock festival in August 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW Microbus and pitched a pup tent. -
For the second year, the Woodstock Oral History Initiative will be gathering stories at ComFest. The accounts will become part of the Museum at Bethel Woods' collection. -
The Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts will visit Ohio this week in an effort to better understand how to serve the state’s rural communities. -
Come mid-July, CAPA is rolling out “all-in” pricing that show the total, including fees, up front. CAPA CEO Chad Whittington said the effort is about transparency. -
Wayne Lawson led the Ohio Arts Council from 1978 to 2006. During that time, he built the state agency to have a major presence nationally and internationally. -
To commemorate Juneteenth, the King Arts Complex on the Near East Side held a festival that celebrated Black artists and culture. -
In 1833, John Randolph freed nearly 400 people from slavery in his will. He promised the emancipated slaves land in Mercer County, Ohio, but white settlers in the area chased them away. -
Darius Golds and Magnus Juliano got engaged in 2019 at the 50th anniversary of New York City's Stonewall Uprisings.
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Clevelander Dave Lucas was named the second Ohio Poet Laureate suceeding Dr. Amit Majmudar for a two year term. Best known for his monthly Brews + Proseseries at Market Garden Brewery, Lucas wants folks in the Buckeye state to change their reactions to reading poems. "I grew up as I think a lot of people did, certainly many of my students feel this way, that poetry was what we encountered in the books that we had to read in school and that made us often feel stupid or inadequate," Lucas said. -
How does someone become Ohio’s poet laureate? “One is anointed by the gods,” quips Ohio’s newest poet laureate, Dave Lucas. At the beginning of the year... -
John Vourlis had no idea what was happening in his own backyard. The Wickliffe native moved back home in 2010 from California, where he had been working in the film industry. A friend invited Vourlis to come to the Wickliffe Italian-American Club to check out the Cleveland Challenge Cup of Bocce. Vourlis was surprised to find that the tournament, now in its 35thyear, featured nearly one 100 men’s teams and about 20 women’s from across North America that came to compete for over $17,000 in cash prizes. -
The Funk Music Hall of Fame and Exhibition Center honors genre greats like the Ohio Players, Isaac Hayes, James Brown and more. -
When Cleveland was chosen as the home for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, but not as the host city for the induction ceremony, many Northeast Ohioans were unhappy. But, the times they are a changin.’ More recently, the city has hosted the event every three years, and starting this April the inductions will be alternating between Cleveland and New York. Rock Hall CEO Greg Harris said the induction ceremony is a complicated affair with a lot of moving parts. Does that mean hosting it more frequently would put more pressure on his staff? -
Playwright Jocelyn Bioh is using a familiar premise to show us a different side of Africa. -
You may not agree that a given film belongs on this list, or we might have left your favorite off. But movies are meant to inspire discussion and debate; why shouldn't year-end lists do the same? -
From a field of 19 strong contenders, the Cleveland-based institution has named its newest entrants. -
The Columbus Symphony Orchestra in Ohio has received an $8 million donation, the largest in the group's history.The Columbus Dispatch reports the… -
A Cleveland recording engineer who wants to show support for human rights is putting together a retro fundraiser for the ACLU of Ohio.Clint Holley, who…
