UD Stander Symposium celebrates community and education By Emma Jarman Photo: University of Dayton students perform at the Schuster Center in 2012 during the Stander Symposium; photos courtesy University of Dayton The Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium means many different things to many different people. For some University of Dayton students, it’s a day to showcase [...]
Sew unique, sew chic – Sew Dayton By Jennifer Hanauer Lumpkin Photo: [l to r] Tracy McElfresh and Jesy Anderson at Sew Dayton. Photo credit: Mugshot Studios It’s just lying there. Draped casually, yet somehow dauntingly, over the back of a dining room chair. It’s The Mending Pile, and you’d just as soon chuck the whole [...]
Evans Bakery returns to Old North Dayton By Jordan C. Terrell At the second hour of the day, Jennifer Evans walks down her stairs to begin preparation. First, on the list: Doughnuts. Jennifer starts the mix, puts the doughnuts on the mixer, divides them, lets them rest, rolls them out, presses them and fries them. [...]
Original West Side Wright Factory to be preserved By Leo DeLuca The President of the United States continues to recognize Dayton, Ohio as the “Birthplace of Aviation.” In 2009, Barack Obama signed an act to expand the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Park to include the Wright Company factory – the oldest aircraft manufacturing facility in [...]
Daytonian Cayee’ delivers handmade products with vintage flair By Tim Anderl Nearly all holiday traditions share at least one commonality: fellowship. Just as the Native Americans invited the Pilgrims to feast on their bountiful harvest during the first Thanksgiving and Christians believe that the inn keeper in Bethlehem found room in his stable for Mary, [...]
Drawing the film industry to the Miami Valley By Kevin J. Gray Earlier this year, representatives from film advocacy groups in Dayton, Cincinnati and Cleveland joined forces in Columbus to persuade lawmakers to increase the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, a substantial tax credit for films that shoot and hire within Ohio. The efforts worked [...]
UD grad students empower homeowners with smart data By Kevin J. Gray What if your utility company could tell you about your energy usage in as much detail as you get from your cell phone company? How could this change your life? This was the challenge that University of Dayton graduate students Mithun Mohan Nagabhairava, [...]
Stivers students create art in the public space By Kevin J. Gray The sculpture students at Stivers School for the Arts had a busy summer. Nine students, working with adjunct Sculptural Studies Director and local artist Ryan McCullough, designed, fabricated and placed a new outdoor sculpture made with more than one and a half tons [...]
Darius Stephens’ controversial novel, “just another ‘n’” by Tim Walker “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7 Darius Stephens is more than just a writer. He’s a man on a mission, and he’s doing everything right. The 45-year-old Dayton native has just published his first novel, “just another ‘n,’” [...]
Sushi for all! By Kevin J. Gray When Stephan Harman and brothers Zach and Josh Weprin opened Fusian on Brown Street, they were interested in creating more than just an upscale fast-casual sushi restaurant. They wanted to give back to a community that raised them, and they wanted to do so by establishing a business [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]
Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]
It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]
What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]
Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]
President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]
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