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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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In her new book, A Guide to Midwestern Conversation, comedy writer and Midwesterner Taylor Kay Phillips breaks down common and quirky Midwestern expressions, from “Hey stranger!” to “Jeez Louise.” -
The history of hip-hop music and creating the unique beats are part of a new course at the Ohio State School of Music. The program is one of the first in the country. -
Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are the 25th site in the United States — and the first in Ohio — added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. -
A UNESCO committee will decide whether to recognize eight Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks with the highest designation in the world for cultural and natural heritage. -
With a Guinness World Record-winning collection of troll dolls, the Troll Hole Museum has become a destination in the northeast town of Alliance. -
Classical 101As the VIVO Music Festival’s ninth season unfolds through this Saturday, Sept. 9, friendship and the joy of sharing music with the Columbus community remain the most important things for the festival’s musicians. -
Classical 101Works by seven contemporary feminist artists are on display at Ohio State University's Thompson Library Gallery in an exhibition that tells the story of art and feminism at OSU in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. -
A $4 thrift store purchase that turned out to be a rare painting by American artist N.C. Wyeth sold Tuesday for nearly $200K. -
The headless bronze statue is valued at $20 million and is alleged to have been looted from Turkey in the 1960s before being sold to the museum. -
Rural welder David Griesmeyer created the Ohio Arts Corridor, a quirky public art trail, to bring people into Appalachia in hopes they’ll stay awhile.
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Among other findings, more than 90 percent of Grammy nominees in the past six years have been men. -
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…
