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The Columbus Gay Men's Chorus is performing its annual holiday show on Saturday and Sunday at the Riffe Center Davidson Theatre.
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In a small town in northern Ohio, a group of Mexican folk dancers will process through the streets on Saturday. They’re celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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For the past 20 years, local artists in Dayton have been painting, drawing and sculpting the city’s skyscrapers — not towering buildings, but high-achieving Black community members.
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Classical 101Photographer Eleanor Jane’s Superstar Guitars is the ultimate guitar aficionado’s coffee table book, packed with hundreds of intimately detailed photos of some of the guitars that helped make music what it is today.
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Classical 101It’s never too late – or too early – to learn how to pay the guitar. In celebration of National Guitar Day (Feb. 11), here’s a list of children’s picture books about some guitarists and guitar makers who have helped shape the course of history.
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The Columbus native helped the city to define itself and continues to influence artists worldwide posthumously.
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Classical 101The emotional grit and cutting-edge choreography, music and video art of Columbus Dance Theatre's Experiment 2: An Immersive Art Experience returns to the stage Feb. 7 and 8.
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The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio received a $10,000 "Challenge America" award from the National Endowment for the Arts to help support their upcoming production of "Fat Ham."
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The Ohio History Connection has one of the largest collections of Native American human remains. The nonprofit is working with tribal leaders to comply with the federal law NAGPRA and repatriate them.
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Greater Columbus Arts Council President and CEO Tom Katzenmeyer is retiring this year after 12 years with the organization.
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Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Ohio Northern University in 1968. One woman remembers the impact the prominent civil rights leader’s words had at the rural northwest Ohio school.
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Classical 101Children love stories about enchanted lands full of magical beings. Nothing transports us to enchanted lands quite as powerfully as music does. Here’s a list of 10 recent children’s picture books that feature diverse characters – some real, some invented – whose lives were forever changed by music’s power to bring us together, give us courage and inspire us to be our best selves.
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This year brought the toughest competition yet for the Tiny Desk Contest – and for WOSU to choose our local favorite. That's both a consequence of both…
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In the last several years, many more transgender and non-binary artists have emerged onto the American cultural scene. Recently Earlham College, 50...
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The Walt Disney Co., NBCUniversal and Netflix are concerned that the rights of people working on productions in the Southern state could be restricted. The move threatens a booming industry.
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One of the stages at Bunbury is moving. The CVG stage is normally set up at the bottom of the Serpentine Wall, but with the Ohio River expected to rise...
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After receiving over 6,000 entries this year, we've picked a winner of the 2019 Tiny Desk Contest. Meet the gifted songwriter who captivated our panel of judges.
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There’s a fight brewing over a small tax credit cut in the Ohio House version of the two-year state budget.Speaker Larry Householder (R-Glenford) led the…
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Doris Day, the biggest Hollywood star produced by Cincinnati, died Monday at her California home at age 97. Born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, she overcame...
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Each year, we receive entries from all 50 states, thanks in part to encouragement from NPR Member stations across the country. So we asked some stations to tell us about the entries they love.
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The Ohio House's version of the proposed state budget has put the $40 million-per-year film tax credit on the chopping block. With both progressive and…
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We asked, and Central Ohio responded: Almost 50 bands submitted songs to NPR's 2019 Tiny Desk Contest!Will any win their very own Tiny Desk Concert at NPR…