Wicked Takes the Schuster Center by Storm By Brian Sharp Dayton gets the pleasure once again of experiencing Wicked – the untold story of the witches of Oz. The Schuster Center will host this amazing piece of musical theatre for the next four weeks. The popularity of this musical is nearly cult-like. There are people […]
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Wishing Upon A Star
New Vega Chase Rock and Roll Dreams By Tim Anderl Taking their moniker from the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, Dayton- and Cincinnati-based quartet, New Vega, is a bold, contemporary modern rock band that is quickly becoming one of the most promising acts in Southern Ohio. In 2009, the band released a self-titled, three-track […]
Lions & Lambs
Minneapolis Outfit Communist Daughter Visits South Park Tavern By Kyle Melton Second chances rarely come along. For Communist Daughter frontman, John Solomon, his self-destructive lifestyle in his previous band, Friends Like These, nearly cost him everything. With the inspiration from a young singer named Molly Moore [now his fiancee], Solomon got clean, retreated from city […]
Sounds Of My Voice
Is This What the Arrival of a New Voice and Presence Sounds Like? Rating: R Grade: B+ By T.T. Stern-Enzi I have a question for Greta Gerwig, the odd naturalistic beauty who has bounded out of the Mumblecore underworld into the bright and glaring lights of mainstream attention. Hey, Greta – and I want to […]
Raising the Bar
A Case of a Liquor License Lost By AJ Wagner A few weeks back the Dayton City Paper had a debate about liquor licenses and the City of Dayton’s request to the Ohio Liquor Control Commission not to renew the licenses of five different bars. This week, Ohio’s Tenth District Court of Appeals in Columbus […]
A Quest to Explore Italy’s Regional Winemaking Worlds
20 Mondi By Mike Rosenberg “Italy is not spaghetti and Chianti wine.” -20 Mondi introduction I imagine Michael Loos sitting at a table in a trattoria in Milan, Italy, musing on his fledgling project, 20 Mondi. “Over the years of living in Italy, discovering the immense varieties of Italian wines, I yearned to share the […]
Why Wilbur Mattered
The Indispensables Two Wrights made the airplane. But they were driven by Wil. Remembering the death of Wilbur Wright, 100 years ago this week. Story and art by Mark Martel At rare intervals a few truly indispensable individuals take us where no one had gone before. A century back in Dayton it was Kettering, Patterson, […]
Sometimes The Summer Pledge Pledges To Play All The Time
May 22nd at South Park Tavern By W.C. Ruffnel As I was stumbling drunkenly through an alley the other morning shirtless and covered in dog hair, I had a self realization: The Summer Pledge is a kick-ass band. At a time when every shitty kid with a guitar, a delay pedal and a dream is […]
Maladies D’esprit
Dementia Precox Back Together to Continue the Musical Legacy of Gyn Cameron By Gary Spencer There are many Dayton artists whose musical contributions and legacies are well known and acknowledged all over the world such as Zapp’s Roger Troutman and Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard. But for every one of those well known and respected […]
From The Past To The Present
Heritage Festival is Sure to be Full of Fireworks By Megan Garrison Dayton has a few historical facts that make us truly unique – from the long history of the Marianist monks at the University of Dayton to the Wright brothers’ invention of the first flight. These stories become more than a simple tale to […]
