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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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From sculptures of corn to statues of deer to murals cascading down the sides of buildings - public art is everywhere in Central Ohio. But of the 14 largest cities in the country, Columbus is the only one without a public art plan. That could be changing soon. -
Logan is hosting the Hocking Hills Bigfoot Festival this weekend. The Sasquatch celebration will get Ohioans outdoors in search of local lore. -
The ceremony, scheduled for Sept. 18, has been cancelled due to the writers and actors' strikes. This year's nominees include Succession and Ted Lasso. -
Combined, the two films brought in the biggest revenue since the start of the pandemic, besting out the usual superhero franchises Hollywood has come to depend on. -
Join host Christopher Purdy and his guests as they discuss recent, and not-so-recent, books and offer their recommendations for your next book club selection or beach read. -
The summer blockbuster season is upon us with the highly anticipated release of Barbie and Oppenheimer. We’ll discuss summer movies and the current state of the film industry.
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Classical 101The Delaware-based father-daughter duo of Jeremy and Ella Rosario are the authors of The ABCs of Encouragement for Girls, empowering words and colorful illustrations intended to help girls develop confidence and resilience. An exhibition of the book's original artwork is on display at the McConnell Arts Center of Worthington. -
From sculptures of corn to statues of deer to murals cascading down the sides of buildings - public art is everywhere in Central Ohio. But of the 14 largest cities in the country, Columbus is the only one without a public art plan. That could be changing soon.
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Classical 101A new recording of Mexican piano concertos and solo piano works, Conciertos Románticos, exemplifies the rich blend of late-romantic European classical and traditional Mexican musical idioms from before the Mexican Revolution. -
Drive across Ohio and you’ll likely see Scott Hagan’s artwork. Known as the barn artist, he’s the man behind Ohio’s iconic bicentennial barns. These days, he’s embarking on a new barn art project to recognize the nation’s semiquincentennial.
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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…
