Melissa Etheridge is on the “Rise.” In 2024, she released “I’m Not Broken,” a live album recorded at Topeka Correctional Facility in her native Kansas. Along with many fan favorites, the album included one new song, “A Burning Woman,” which was inspired by the letters she ...

Robert Dennick Joki learned a lot going to church Passion Plays growing up. Not all of it was biblical. Those memories, along with performing in musicals like “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Godspell,” inspired the original musical “Jesus vs. the Zombies,” which Rust Belt Theater ...

I love Bob Dylan’s music. The memory is hazy when the fandom started. I certainly had heard “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Like a Rolling Stone” and others as a kid, but I remember hearing the song “Hurricane” on the radio as a teenager and being fascinated by it and the story of ...

Art BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown: “Sally Weber and Craig Newswanger: Entangled Attraction,” through May 4; “Chuck Olson: Paintings from 2010-2024,” through May 18; “Good Vibrations: The Prints of Victor Vasarely,” through July 20. Hours are 11 a.m. to ...

Kent State University School of Fashion will have its Annual Fashion Show April 24 to 26 in Crawford Hall on the Kent Campus. The fashion show features 161 looks from 41 designers whose collections and single-submission garments were chosen by a panel of industry critics and jurors for ...

YSU hosts lecture on school voucher, culture wars Josh Cowen, a professor of education policy at Michigan State University, will speak on “School Vouchers, Culture Wars, and Defending the Public Good” at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday at Youngstown State University. His talk will cover a brief ...