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Dayton Beer Week Beer Pride Parade

Dayton Beer Week Beer Pride Parade With Dayton AleFest returning for its 13th annual incarnation this year, festival organizer Joe Waizmann and various local taverns, restaurants and distributors are teaming up to take the event to a new level with the first Dayton Beer Week. OnSunday, August 22 at 4:30 p.m., Dayton Beer Week will [...]

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August Rush

A Night Of Neo-Soul At Schuster Center By Lara Donnelly If summer is starting to feel old and stale as August wears on, try a blast of hip performance art and lyric poetry with “August Rush,” the latest installment of “The Signature: A Poetic Medley Show,” the creative offspring of Lucy Owens, also known as [...]

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Fairborn Sweet Corn Festival

FAIRBORN SWEET CORN FESTIVAL The Fairborn Sweet Corn Festival, Aug 21-22 in Community Park East, will be the 29th annual fundraising event by the Fairborn Art Association and the Fairborn Lions Club. Featuring 170 booths of handmade arts and crafts, the proceeds support the groups’ programs, charities and scholarships. Kids can enjoy The Big Bounce, [...]

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Summer Fun At The Fair

Miami County Fair Begins This Weekend By Lara Donnelly The 2010 Miami County Fair, which begins this weekend just outside of Troy, promises to help visitors leave behind the hustle and bustle of the city and indulge in a day of down-home country diversions. The fair is well past its 150th year, but that doesn’t [...]

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Miss Maha And The City

Best Bets For August By Maha Kashani Hey Dayton! Hope you had a fun-filled July! I received great feedback for the first edition of this column last month, and look forward to continuing to share my passion with this community. The goal of my column is to get you excited about what’s happening in our [...]

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Party Polynesian Festiki Festival

Surf Ohio Presents Second Annual Festiki While attending Whetstone High School in Columbus, Ohio during the mid-1970s, Ron Kaplan started a joke. His first creation was a bootleg T-shirt he designed for an upcoming Beach Boys concert that had the cryptic message “Surf the Olentangy” incorporated into its monochromatic design. From there, he designed what [...]

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Art On The Commons

Uncommon Experiences In Art By Deborrah Adams Colors, textures, tastes and sounds will infuse Kettering’s Lincoln Park Civic Commons once again when the 21st annual Art on the Commons (AOTC) Festival of Fine Arts and Fine Crafts opens Sunday, August 8. A collaborative effort administrated by the Rosewood Arts Centre with support from the Kettering [...]

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Greene County Fair Begins Next Week

The Greene County Fair to be held August 1st.

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Yellow Springs Street Fair

The sidewalk sale that grew up The Yellow Springs Street Fair returns once more on Saturday, June 12. What began about 30 years ago as the local merchants’ sidewalk sale has evolved into a blowout block party for the village of Yellow Springs according to Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce executive director Karen Wintrow. The [...]

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The Pigmentation of Imagination

An Overview of the History and Psychology of Tattoos “Primitive tribes were certainly convinced that the spirit, having escaped from the body at death, retained a replica of its earthly tenement. They therefore used tattoo marks as a means of identification in the next world and a passport to future happiness.” ~ Ronald Scutt The [...]

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Spotlight

High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]

Forum Right, 6/12

Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]

Forum Left, 6/12

It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]

Forum Center, 6/12

What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]

Forum Right, 5/29/12

Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]

Forum Center, 5/29/12

President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]