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Cities like Chicago and Philadelphia cancelled their Cinco de Mayo parades this year, citing fears of deportation. Painesville decided to go ahead with its fiesta.
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A charity event for members of the Haitian community will take place at the John Legend Theater in Springfield on Saturday evening.
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Charlie Moses, chairman of the Capitol Square Foundation, says it’s the first time in 66 years that an artist has been commissioned to do a painting for the Statehouse.
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The collection is one of the world’s largest, rivaled in North America only by the MZTV Museum of Toronto. About 180 television sets are on exhibit, arranged in chronological order, with another 50 in storage.
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Bob the Drag Queen knows the world of drag is getting politicized. But as he prepares his next moves on stage and screen, he makes no apologies for expressing his signature flair.
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Taylor Swift’s visit to Cincinnati has resurfaced a long-contested debate over which Ohio city gets the biggest name artists. A look at recent touring data shows one Ohio city pulls ahead.
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Of Ohio’s 1,800 historical markers, just three identify spaces important to the state’s LGBTQ community. The Ohio History Connection is working to change that.
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Milligan won in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for her role in the production Kimberly Akimbo.
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Classical 101The banks of the Scioto River will be the venue for a performance of a water-inspired modern dance masterwork when the Columbus Modern Dance Company performs a unique restaging of modern dance pioneer Doris Humphrey’s Water Study.
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Event coordinators said they made history as choirs from the Ohio Reformatory for Women and Pickaway and Madison correctional institutes sang together in one room.
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Classical 101As a music educator and the founder of the Columbus Cultural Orchestra, Stephen Spottswood strives to erase the divide between European classical works and the repertoire of hip-hop, soul and R&B tunes – all of which have equal footing on his orchestra’s concerts.Spotswood will lead the orchestra in Bach to Biggie – A Juneteenth Concert on Friday, June 16 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Ross Community Studio at WOSU Public Media Headquarters.
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The popular PBS show will air three episodes from Akron next year, its sixth visit to Ohio but the first to the Rubber City and Stan Hywet.
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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…