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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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Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's hit, with help from the remix including Justin Bieber, has generated more than 4.6 billion plays on digital services in just over six months. -
Romero was known for graphic horror films like Night of the Living Dead, which showed corpses rising up to feast on the living. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1988. -
After a one-year absence, Cleveland is again rolling out the red carpet for the Alternative Press Music Awards . The fourth annual ceremony is the brain... -
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its doors in 1995 along the Cleveland lakeshore. While the Rock Hall's I.M. Pei building is iconic and recognized around the world it's been a challenging exhibition space, according to president and C.E.O Greg Harris. "Architecturally I think the I.M. Pei building is one of the finest buildings in our country. It's a real statement, it's a strong building. But to function as a museum, it's a giant, glass tent sitting on the edge of a big lake," Harris admits. -
Sony says it's meeting new demand from young people who buy records they've heard on streaming services. The company stopped pressing vinyl in 1989. -
Recently, the New York Times published an essay defending cultural appropriation as necessary engagement. But that's a simplistic, misguided way of looking at appropriation, which causes real harm. -
This weekend the musical spotlight is on jazz as the 38th annual Tri-C JazzFest gets underway in Playhouse Square. But what is the state of jazz in Northeast Ohio during the other 51 weeks of the year? “The state of jazz in Cleveland isn’t much different than the state of jazz nationally. I think jazz is hurting. There has definitely been a decline in jazz interest and appreciation, probably over the last thirty years,” said longtime jazz broadcaster Jim Szabo. -
Northeast Ohio native Michael Comet liked to doodle during school and now his doodling takes place at Pixar Animation Studios where he's worked on hit animated films like Up, Brave and The Good Dinosaur. Pixar's latest production, Cars 3, is on screens now across the country. As a characters supervisor, Comet's department takes what comes out of Pixar's art department and recreates the art in the computer digitally.
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Playwright Greg Vovos knows the title, “How to Be a Respectable Junkie,” leaves some people wondering what kind of play he created. He is hoping that intrigue brings people to Dobama Theatre for the one-man show, which offers a window into what life is like for a man addicted to heroin. The main character, Brian, is considering suicide and decides to make a how-to video before taking his own life. The instructional video is intended to show drug users how to improve their behavior as addicts. -
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet says she plans to use her new role to meet people who don't read poetry ... yet, anyway. She believes poetry can be a resource for people in fraught or isolating times.
