First-ever Ohio Anti-Music Fest at Canal By Gary Spencer Photo: Ohio’s Hemdale will perform at the Ohio Anti-Music Fest on Oct. 17 at Canal Public House; photo: Pedro Sales Although Dayton has always had an underground scene for extreme forms of music, it has rarely been featured on a grand scale on a public stage—historically, […]
Esoteric name, excellent eats By Paula Johnson Photo: Toast and Chicken with French fries at SG@75 in Springboro What’s in a name? SG@75 Gastropub is also the home of Soooo Good Catering, hence the SG in their name. The 75 refers to the street address, 75 N. Main St. It’s a tiny place sharing space […]
Fates Warning comes to Oddbody’s By Allyson B. Crawford Photo: Fates Warning will perform on Oct. 21 at Oddbody’s; photo: Axel Jusseit “We are certainly going to play a few things we haven’t done in a very long time! Hopefully there will be a few surprises for some,” Fates Warning vocalist Ray Alder excitedly tells […]
Masquerage 2015 goes Vegas for AIDS research By Gary Spencer Photo: Masquerage 2015 takes place Oct. 17 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds; photo: Scott Robbins Public Enemy once rapped that the people should party for their right to fight. The organizers of the annual Masquerage event seem to be embrace this spirit as well, as […]
Visions Of Conflict: A Cultural Context at Wright State University By Erin Callahan Photo: An Afghan boy is seen with a Minnie Mouse face mask in a local cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan on Oct. 10, 2006. Despite the devastation, Afghans strive for a sense of normalcy; photo: Ziyah Gafic Conflict is constant. From the Hundred […]
Student film festival showcases polished gems By T.T. Stern-Enzi Photo: Nathan Robert Pecchia and Kate Mueller at the Drake Motel in Springfield, Ohio—a still from the film “Noia” Each year Wright State University’s Motion Picture program, an award-winning department and a crown jewel in Midwest film industry, shines a spotlight on a set of new […]
Wright State’s Zombies and Gender in Pop Culture By Jim Hannah Photo: Wright State University instructor Andrea Harris leads a class on Zombies and Gender in Pop Culture As images of a zombie apocalypse in The Walking Dead unspool on the screen, the students in Andrea Harris’ Wright State University class are furiously taking notes. […]
Jeremy Porter and the Tucos back at Bob’s By Mike Ritchie Photo: Jeremy Porter and the Tucos will perform on Oct. 15 at Blind Bob’s; photo: Doug Coombe They’re as northern American blues as you can get before Canada. Whisky-smooth, with the white hot licks of Ted Nugent, the veteran inspiration of Cheap Trick and […]
The real fall beers you should be seeking out By Hayley Fudge Photo: Local hop harvester Mankato Farms in New Carlisle supplied hops to many local breweries for their their fresh hop offerings this year; photo: Jim Schemel/Provided by Mankato Farms Although dozens of pumpkin and spiced brews began hitting shelves as early as July, […]
Project to create a pollinator prairie takes flight By Kristen Wicker Photo: Land near Germantown MetroPark will be transformed into a native Ohio prairie, similar to the one found at Huffman Prairie State Natural Landmark, with a focus on monarch habitat The creation of a special natural area just for birds, bees and butterflies—particularly monarchs—is […]
Steal anything At a local auto-parts store, a car radio was shoplifted. The thief suspiciously perused through the aisles and […]
By Michelle Strauss Pissed off Just a few weeks ago, someone broke into a local residence. The trespasser-turned-burglar began his raid, […]
A game of telephone Last week, on a particularly scorching hot afternoon, a man was driving his ex-girlfriend home. The […]
By Michelle Strauss Music man In a local apartment complex, alarms went off and alerted the police that a robbery […]
What a mouthful Believe it or not, in a local residence, a boyfriend kept his girlfriend’s dentures hostage. Earlier […]
