There will be some music to go along with the poetry at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event. The Catro Trio will accompany poet Philip Terman, and the program also will feature poet Wendy McVicker. McVicker served as poet laureate of Athens from 2020 to 2022. Her most ...

Bill O’Rly celebrates the release of his debut short story collection with “Under a Steel Moon: A Rust Belt Gothic Experience.” The immersive event blends performance art, music, folklore and speculative fiction to mark the release of “Rust Belt Gothic: Volume I.” Illustrated by ...

There’s a new cop patrolling the beat in Warren … and maybe on televisions everywhere. The first three episodes of “Bando,” a police drama created by 1998 LaBrae High School graduate Ryan Freeman, will premiere Saturday at Boardman Movies 8, and the plan is to have all episodes of the ...

Youngstown Model Railroad Association announces open house The Youngstown Model Railroad Association will have its annual open house for eight days over two months. YMRA has both O and HO scale layouts. The HO layout is adding several new rides to its amusement park area, including a scale ...

Staff report Two classical and two pops concerts will be part of Erik Ochsner’s inaugural season as conductor and music director of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. Ochsner, who has guest conducted the YSO nine times since the death of previous conductor / music director Randall Craig ...

“Fancy Like” launched Walker Hayes into the stratosphere. The show he’s bringing to Packard Music Hall on Saturday takes him back to his roots. Hayes is stripping down his country hits and his back catalog for an acoustic show. Last week, a couple of days before the first date on the ...